40 years of following Stoke and it just does not get better than that. Atmosphere at Wembley was awesome and credit to Bolton fans who took defeat in good humour. It must have been an awful day for them and they were in great spirits on the way back considering.
Defensively we were fantastic and I can't remember a day when we never for one moment looked like conceding. Shawcross has had a mixed year for me but was bang on yesterday and looked top quality.
Wheelan-where has he been all season-if he can perform like that regularly then we would not need a ball playing midfielder.
Out wide we destroyed them at times and up front Jones bullied them all day.
Shooting-how may times do you see three from outside the box.
By far the best I have ever seen a Stoke play in a big game and that includes the 72 final.
The only downside for me was that I had a Club Wembley ticket and was above the Bolton fans behind the goal and would have loved to have been in the Stoke end. Mind you my brother and I more than made up for it with the noise we made. Can't say we were the most popular people around with many glum Bolton fans sat next to us, but after a while even they laughed at the joy and incredulous looks on our faces as goal after goal went in.
Still in dreamland and am waiting for someone to wake me up.
Defensively we were fantastic and I can't remember a day when we never for one moment looked like conceding. Shawcross has had a mixed year for me but was bang on yesterday and looked top quality.
Wheelan-where has he been all season-if he can perform like that regularly then we would not need a ball playing midfielder.
Out wide we destroyed them at times and up front Jones bullied them all day.
Shooting-how may times do you see three from outside the box.
By far the best I have ever seen a Stoke play in a big game and that includes the 72 final.
The only downside for me was that I had a Club Wembley ticket and was above the Bolton fans behind the goal and would have loved to have been in the Stoke end. Mind you my brother and I more than made up for it with the noise we made. Can't say we were the most popular people around with many glum Bolton fans sat next to us, but after a while even they laughed at the joy and incredulous looks on our faces as goal after goal went in.
Still in dreamland and am waiting for someone to wake me up.
And I feel exactly the same, this morning I was delirious with happiness, the weird thing is, I didn't even go to Wembley I watched it in a pub, by ma sen with my parents, with NO sound on, and I still regard it as the best day of my life.