Wahay great chance for Terry and he baloons it miles over.

Wow, I'm on the edge of my seat right now. Come on Barnsley.

Fans run on pitch before its over.

FULL TIME

BARNSLEY 1-0 Chelsea

WOW

This means a top 4 side wont win the FA CUP

Great stuff!

Thoroughly deserved as well. Cudicini is a fool and Carvalho is a downright barsteward!

Brilliant!! Barnsley does it!!

a small team will win the FA Cup this year

Haha, this makes me feel slightly better about earlier. Absolutely fantastic from Barnsley, I was actually very nervous for them in that closing stage. I just wanted them to win for that kind of performance. Well done.



Want to retract your statement about the FA Cup losing it's magic?

Barnsley favourites now by anychance? Glad to see that them scumbags wont be winning anything this year

Well, it's a different kind of magic.

The football has still been utterly poor with poor officiating and Motson's commentating.

But results like this are greatly entertaining and magical in their own way.

Portsmouth are favorites now. They were moved up earlier today behind Chelsea, but now with Chelsea out, I don't see why Portsmouth won't be moved up to favorites.

But wow ...

Portsmouth
Barnsley
Middlesbrough v Cardiff City
Bristol Rovers v West Bromwich Albion

Definitely something new this year. It's exciting.

Exciting!

Que the phrases 'Cup Magic' and 'This is whats the FA Cup is all about'....

What a game! Pure cup magic, that. That's what the FA Cup is all about!

Motson has used both those phrases 15 times each and more to boot.

I can't believe Barnsley have knocked out two of the best teams not just in England but in Europe that is amazing completely unexpected and that is exactly what the FA Cup is about expect the unexpected. I can't believe that there may only be one Premiership team in the semi-finals that is if Boro lose to Cardiff i wonder what sort of odds you would of got for that at the beginning of the season and also for that team to not be one of the top 4.

No doubt Aliadière will win the FA Cup now.

Taxi for Grant


Guess "the quiet one" will be leaving for London during the summer. Apaarently Avram can't get to israel to sit his coaching license....i think come the summer he will have plenty of time to turn his attention to learning his trade.

absoloutly bloody fantastic result football has so desperatly been needing a season like this for years when we can finally get a real cup final for the fans .

Well done Barnsley. Jose will be loving that result

Any one but Boro for the cup!

So what will be said about Grant now?

No doubt he will get slated, even more than Benitez after the defeat to Barnsley, but what did he do wrong?

His team selection was nearly the strongest available, so it's not like the team he fielded didn't have the quality to absolutely batter Barnsley.

Lampard and Cech were both injured, the only two midfielders who often feature that missed out were Mikel and Makelele, but it's not like he can be criticised for leaving them out. Mikel has been in poor form, and is one of their weaker central midflieders anyway, and Makelele isn't as good as he once was, and is also well down in the pecking order. The only player that maybe should've played is Drogba, but it's not like Anelka isn't capable, and it's these sort of games that most would rest players like Drogba to give the next signing games.

So who's to blame?

I think the players.

Grant doesn't have the team unified in the locker room. He's not a leader like Jose. And apparently he doesn't have the ability to motivate his players. He's also not very good tactically.

But I agree, his team selection isn't the issue (this time around), and the players are to blame for not performing to their standards.

barnsley deserve the FA cup.they dont fear anybody.

I thought it was Haik Ten Cate's job to motivate the players?