Up bright and early to head off to Cardiff to see Arsenal v Chelsea in the Carling Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium. The traffic was awful, and it took far longer to get there than it did a few years back when we drove up for the FA Cup Final (also against Chelsea). Leaving a short time later can get you into Cardiff a lot later than you might hope.
Anyway, unlike many poor souls including those stuck on trains, we did at least make it to the game on time, where we discovered our tickets were in the second row level with the edge of the penalty area behind one of the goals. Apologies for some of these photos – I didn’t take my good camera on the basis that they might not have let me in with it (I’m getting quite fussy about the quality of my photos now).

Arsenal’s kids were completely dominant in the first half with Walcott scoring his first club goal.
You can read match reports elsewhere, but there was a bit of a scare with John Terry who was stretchered off to hospital but proved to be OK. Shortly after that Drogba scored and leveled the game. He then took the lead, and with lots of injury time to play, it all kicked off.
Here’s my record of the incident. You can see Mourinho lead his people onto the pitch:

And here’s the melée a few seconds later:

Anyway, it all upset Alan Green terribly. We made a bid for a quick escape, and it was a painful journey out of Wales until the motorway cleared up and we could head home.