West Bromwich Albion bow out of the FA Cup with a 1-0 semi-final defeat to Portsmouth.
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See also: Wembley heartache for West Brom
Albion fans board Wembley coaches
West Brom fans head for Wembley
West Brom fans make exodus to Wembley
West Brom 0 Portsmouth 1 - in pictures
West Brom 0 Portsmouth 1 - pictures 2
Albion fans: FA Cup reaction
14.52: Albion fans can give their measured reaction here:Albion fans: FA Cup reaction
14.30: More photos are in: West Brom 0 Portsmouth 1 - pictures 2
14.18: Dalkeith Baggie comments: “Heartbreaker. You did us proud.”
14.10: Final whistle. It’s all over for Albion who must now concentrate on winning promotion to the Premier League
14.00: Albion are pushing for an equaliser. Get full commentary here: Albion 0 Portsmouth 1
13.40: Albion are looking for a way back but Portsmouth are keeping the door firmly shut.
13.38: Photos are in from the first half: West Brom 0 Portsmouth 1 - in pictures
13.30: Albion go behind to a Kanu goal.
13.05: Half-time. Get those comments in, Albion fans.
12.42: It was full of Baggies fans down Wembley Way today. See our video from Wembley and hear from Laraine Astle by clicking on Albion fans descend on Wembley
For the record Laraine has gone for a 2-1 Albion win with Zoltan Gera and Roman Bednar on target.
12.38: There is a lot of love on the comment system today with fans from across the divide sharing their feelings. Longford-Wolf says: “GOOD LUCK TO THE BAGGIES, i was at wembley in 68 when the King” scored great day that was, then for some reason i switched to the Wolves, well i was young 
win or lose have a grand day.”
12.16: Kick off at Wembley. For full match coverage go to: Albion v Portsmouth live
11.56: Peace has broken out between some Wolves regulars on the site and their Albion counterparts. Well, for the next couple of hours at least. Malvern Wolf comments: “I realise that if you win today and again in a few weeks we will never hear the end of it but better you than all those Premier ‘fans’. So to Happy and everyone else I wish you a great day, one that you will remember for ever.”
11.46: More photos for fans to savour as they await kick-off, this time of fans at Wembley stadium: West Brom fans make exodus to Wembley
11.16: An hour to go until kick off and it is swarming with Baggies fans outside Wembley, plenty of Pompey supporters too.
11.08: Paul Robinson says he is ready to take a penalty if it goes the distance today. Portsmouth last cup semi-final ended in a penalty shoot-out defeat against Liverpool in 1992. What price a repeat?
10.55: Dalkeith baggie sends Albion good luck from Scotland. What about other Albion ex-pats? Where are you following today’s game from? Get in touch below.
10.29: Albion keeper Dean Kiely says Tony Mowbray’s “excitement” at today’s game has been rubbing off on the Albion players.
10.19: graham graham has delivered his Baggies good luck message on the comments section below.
He says: “We all deserve a better season this year.
“But if we get the cup it will be our best season in 40 years, and to get promotion as well will be like cream on the cake. GOOD LUCK ALBION”
10.05: Our team of reporters on the road to Wembley this morning report that the traffic is not too bad but there are long queues to park at tube stations on the outskirts of London.
Albion reporter Steve Madeley says: “Wembley is buzzing. Albion and Pompey fans are mixing happily and chatting about the game.”
9.42: We have been down to the Hawthorns this morning where thousands of Albion supporters were waiting for their coaches to the big game, which kicks off at 12.15pm.
We spoke to them. See our video at Albion fans board Wembley coaches
9.30am: The first pictures of fans heading off from the Hawthorns are now online: West Brom fans head for Wembley
9am: The big day is here. Four thousand Albion fans left on 100 coaches this morning from the Hawthorns, setting off from 6am onwards. In total, 33,000 Albion fans will be at Wembley to watch Tony Mowbray’s men take on Portsmouth. Expressandstar.com will be with you throughout the day.
The players went down yesterday: Albion leave for Wembley - pics
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66 Comments
Good luck..Hope you do it!!!! Wish it was us but it would be nice to see a local team do the biz for once..ps Whatever the outcome hope you have a great day..
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we all deserve a better season this year. But if we get the cup it will be our best season in 40 years, and to get promotion as well will be like cream on the cake. GOOD LUCK ALBION
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Good luck my baggies.Will be cheering you on in scotland.
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Well done tesco’s for putting west midlands bilston and wolverhampton on the football map thanks.hope you thrash pompey today.
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A family funeral prevented me from joining in the pre match banter yesterday. I didn’t miss the nasty stuff on both sides but I wanted to wish my Baggie friends all the best for today. I realise that if you win today and again in a few weeks we will never hear the end of it but better you than all those Premier “fans”. So to Happy and everyone else I wish you a great day, one that you will remember for ever.
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Come on Baggies, do it for the Midlands!
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Heartbreaker.You did us proud.
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wot a great afternoon i had
thanks pompey
Haha
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Doing the Double the Mowlury way.
TerryWembleyBaggie as got to change his name now to TerryPlayoffsBaggie.
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DOING IT THE DOUBLE THE MOWBRAY WAY HA HA HA CANT WAIT TIL 15TH APRIL YOU NEVER LOOKED LIKE SCORING BEEN TO WEMBLEY TWICE AND NOT SCORED !TIME TO WAKE UP AND REALISE YOUR JUST A SMALL BUS STOP IN BIRMINGHAM ! UP THE WOLVES
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Terry Walsall Boggie, booooo hoooooooo we saw you crying at wembley Again!!
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That cheered me up, Kanu, haha, what a joy!
Come on you Wolves!
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nevermind baggies, you did well, I was hoping you could go on to win it, it would have been a great FA Cup climax but now it looks like Pompey are gonna grab the trophy.
It would have been terrific if the final was between championship clubs!
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HAVE A HAPPY JOURNEY BACK BOGGIES , I COR STOP LOFFIN
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2 Trips To Wembley..
2 Goals Conceded..
None Scored…
Watching Albion Fans Crying All Over Again… Priceless
Hahaha
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so your doing it the MOWBRAY WAY the double LOL,PLUS WHO WAS WEARING ALL THE RED TOPS AT WEMBLEY ||||||| IT COULD’NT BE ALL THE EMPTY SEATS COULD IT,HA HA HA HA HA HA HA,BOING DING DONG SOBBING ALL THE WAY HOME UP THE WOLVES.
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Proud to be as Baggie today. No tears here. Losing to Premiership Portsmouth by a dodgy goal in a cup semi final is no disgrace. Unlike losing to Morecombe in the League Cup you Dingle boneheads!!
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Firstly….It was a record attendance for a semi final in the fa cup.
secondly, did you watch the game? We outplayed them and lost to a goal that came from a blatant handball.
Thirdly…you were knocked out of the playoffs last season AND the fa cup, yet you mock not seeing the irony that we were much more successful than you.
How mant times did we play last year and how many goals did we score against you?
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Well played Pompey. Deserved victors by any criteria.
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where were all the prolific goalscorers today. even read some of you predicting 3-0 & 4-0. idiots.
enjoy your journey home
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Reminds me of that old terrace song:
Kanu hear the baggies sing? No, No…”
Oh dear, how sad (NOT!)
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tough luck. Good advert from the Championship, just lacked killer punch. Maybe if you had scored 200 goals this season it might have been Diff !!
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Bad luck Baggies.
Again it shows “ou can’t beat a cheat”!!
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KAN-U BELIEVE IT HAVE A NICE JOUNEY BACK,BY THE WAY DONT TELL ME YOU DIDNT WANT THE CUP ANYWAY.
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All those star strikers at tesco and they can not score a goal when they need to,the premier side come good in the end well played pompey.
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18.Your own player stopped Kieley making a good save for the goal.
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You will all be crying when you play the WOLVES aswell.The party is in Wolverhampton tonight.Im waiting to see what predictions you lot come up with now Albion to beat the Wolves i suppose AH AH AH.
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yes you did play a premier club..HAHAHAHA AND HOW CRAP WERE THEY!!!!!!!!!!!
OUT THE CUP..AND NOT GOING UP..DOING THE DOUBLE THE MOWBRAY WAY.
WATCH US IN THE PLAY OFF FINAL..WE’LL SHOW YOU HOW TO WIN AT WEMBLEY..WE’RE STILL UNBEATEN THERE.
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18. First it isn’t about last year it is about this one. Secondly where was the handball? Third and finally sorry seni finally YOU LOST.
Bet Happy, Worcester, Terry, Cyril and all the gang ain’t so blase’now.
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18 A record attendence yeah, but u only had 33,000 tickets & struggled 2 sell them. A big club ha ha !!
Secondly, portsmouth were poor today so u were lucky u didn’t meet em on a good day.
Thirdly, why u keep living on last years results. Getting nervous about april 15th r we.
Wot a great day ha ha !!
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Before any albion fans start moaning, David James had absolutely NOTHING to do.
End of debate.
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yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssss
on the march to the arch properly.IN THE FINAL.
come on you blooooooes
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nice pass gera haha
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S’funny the only time you’ll get to see Wembley is on the telly.
For one, I am proud of the way they played, if you lot can’t see that they played well and held Pompey for most of the game, then you are NOT football fans, just bitter and twisted Dingles.
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28. Wembley? Judging by your record in play off semi finals, you will not get there.
30. Since when did we struggle to sell the tickets? The sale of them was staggered.
No doubt Morecombe were a tougher hurdle to overcome than Portsmouth on an off day.
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Hello Terryweloseagainatwembleybaggie.
Feeling blue?.. wearing blue, lost to blue.
Oh dear
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Psssssss, the sound of hot air coming out of a deflated carrier bag, due to a Nwanko - say no more. You were going where? To do what? One disaster down,one to come!I’ve seen so much twaddle over the past week but now I’ve had it confirmed. Empy vessels do make the most noise. As Kev said, I’m loving it.
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baggies baggies baggies baggies bring on the wolves
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WBA =
Wembley Bottlers Again
Wembley Blank Again
Wembley Blarters Again
A place at Wembley is wasted on your Tesco bags. The sight of one of your players asking the fans to raise the noise 2 minutes from time says it all.
Doing the double the Mowbury way - yeah right. The double bubble burst. Lovin it.
All my cherished memories of Wembley.
1974, 1980, 1988, 2007 and 2008.
Cocky boggies - want some bacon to go with all that egg on your faces.
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31. And Kiely did? End of your argument.
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I Feel sorry for the genuine fans but not for the likes of happy baggie,things in the past have come back to haunt him. and for terry the child baggie and his puppet worcester they might start to grow up.or maybe not.
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For those that continually bore wolves fans with pathetic “you are rubbish, we are ace,” drivel i have no sympathy. For those who have dignity and appreciate a higher plane of banter, my salutations, I as a wolves fan would have loved the opportunity to be there. look forward to our next meeting.
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Yes, we lost against a premiership team but it was a good performance. Yes, we have underachieved this season but it shows that all the dingles have is the fact that we are underachieving. We aren’t doing great but we are still doing better than you. What does that say about you?
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terry whats the score?
terry terry whats the score?
its all gone quiet over there
its all gone quiet over there
its all gone quiet all gone quiet
all gone quiet over there
can you hear the terry sing? no no
can you hear the terry sing? no no
can you hear the terry sing?
i cant here anything
woo hooo sssssssshhhhhhhh
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35 Looks like u struggled 2 get one then. Armchair fan i take it. Great viewing thou ha ha !!
Roll on the 15th !!!!
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Fickle Dingles, not long ago you were calling for Micks head, now you think you’re gonna win the league.
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KANU HERE THE BAGGIES SING? nooonoooo
Gera really is a wolves fan :O lmao
YouLostThereBothTimes
YouLostThereBothTimes…
YouMyOfBeenToWembley…….
… ButYouLostThereBothTimes
LMAO great day
Ur just lucky u didnt meet pompey on a good day… Lost to a team that were nowhere near there best…
You may hav had a record sell out for an FAcup semi final…. But it was at wembley :S Most are at old trafford and aston villa lmao.. MK dons and grimpsy outsold them!!
This amazinin CUP RUN wont even go down in history now.. What a shame
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Shandee, I think most of us would have loved the wolves to have been there. Your comments are just showing you up to be an idiot.
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45. Yes. Armchair fan today. Still enjoyed the Albion outplaying Premiership oppostion for most of the match at Wembley in a match we only had an outside chance of winning. We were a good advert for The Championship. I’m sure that Miserable Mick’s Hoof! merchants would have provided riveting entertainment!!
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who are u to call me an idiot i have my opinions
Ofcours if of loved wolves to be there and im pretty damn sure if wolves had got there and i had been playin my mouth like terrywalsallbaggy i would of got some stick from the baggiez wen we lost…. Its banter like this that makes the black country derby ther best in the country im not offending any1 am i? Leave me alone and Shutup and sit down in ur north bank seat baggy in disguise.
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Tell ya mam, ya mam
To put the champagne away,
Its the Dingles day today,
Tell ya mam, ya mam
Tell ya mam, ya mam
The champagne don’t taste very nice,
When you’ve lost down at Wembley twice,
Tell ya mam, ya mam
FANTASTIC
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Hey - just realised Tesco Town have a 100% record at the new Wenbley.
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35-staggered-what right up until the day before?
sandwell town is very small, been to wembley twice and won bugger all.
Portsmouth were very,very poor and should have still beat you by more goals, so it’s a good job they did’nt play well eh! as for your lot playing well-YOU LOST-AGAIN! just as you did against the rams.
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What is it now?
Doing the SINGLE the Moanbury way!!
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All I can say is that pompey were very poor and a good job for them they were only playing a championship team. A premiership club would have beaten Portsmouth. The baggies didn’t ever look like scoring even in the first half. If Pompey can beat West Brom on a bad day, imagine what they would have done if they played well.
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“you went all that way and you lost”
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Pompey went to wembley baggies did a trembley la la la la la la .WE ARE WOLVES.
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boshock. Nice to see that there are some true football fans who support the wolves.
Great to see that the wolves only chance to celebrate is when the albion lose.
I am albion through and through but if the wolves had made the semis , i would have routed for them to win. I guess we are just different kinds of people.
I also would love to have the wolves in the prem with us next season.
I think you lot are truly disgusting and should hang your heads in shame
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AWWWWWW..TESCO NEED NEW SUPPLY OF TISSUES HA,HA,HA
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Bad luck. You should have had a free kick when Baros handled the ball. Would have preferred Albion to win rather than Portsmouth. Can return to “hating” you a week on Tuesday.
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The baggies saw plenty of the ball but they didn’t do a lot with it. Portsmouth were never in trouble even though they were not at their best.
I’m not gloating, just telling it as it was.
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Thank you God i never doubted you
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You dingles make me laugh. We narrowly lose one - nil to a side 6th in the prem and now you can’t wait to play us because you think we are easy pickings. I seem to remember this confidence coming from the custrad bowl going into last seasons play off semi’s and we all now how that ended. I can’t wait to play you tatters and show you what a real quality side is all about. Baggies crying at Wembley?? Not as good as dingles crying on their own patch………again!!!
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All tesco have gone to church this morning to pray for better luck.
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58. I agree. Not all Wolves fans are Dingles.
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what a wonderful day hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahaha
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