Wembley Videos

The atmosphere builds outside the turnstiles as City fans queuing to enter warm up the vocal chords and let Wembley know that "With our Little Pick and Shovels, We'll Be There!"





The Welsh National Anthem

One of the things I had most been looking forward to before the game, was the chance to sing "Abide With Me" as one of the great FA Cup Final traditions. Sadly this was taken away from me and the other 90000 fans there, and ruined what should have been a very special moment. Firstly the two "singers" Kathryn Jenkins (who was not as bad) and Lesley Garrett (truly awful) decided to scream the lyrics as loud as they could, and then, despite it happening in practice, the microphone and speaker system failed just three lines into the song, so we were left with vaguely hearing Lesley Garrett screeching out the two verses at the top of her voice.

Fortunately they managed to sort the technical problem out for the anthems, and so we had Kathryn Jenkins to accompany the Cardiff fans for "Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau". This sounded wonderful, as I hope you will agree, though my only gripe about these events, is the professional singers always try to sing far to slowly, rather than keep up with the natural pace of the crowd and the band.

Anyway, I hope you will enjoy our version here.