Remembering Wembley - 10 years on
Monday 22nd February, 2010
By Richard Ault

When Tranmere kick-off against Brentford at Griffin Park this Saturday, you may excuse any Tranmere fans who allow their mind to wonder.  For ten years ago to the very day, the club was enjoying one of its proudest moments a mere seven miles up the road.

A far cry from the position we find ourselves in now, and to that of recent years, heroes like Gareth Roberts, Andy Parkinson, Dave Challinor, Nick Henry and, of course, David Kelly were wearing the clubs colours with pride beneath the twin towers of Wembley Stadium.  It was the last ever League Cup Final to be staged at the 'old' Wembley, and although the result eventually went against Rovers, the majority of fans look back with understandably proud memories.

Nobody will ever take that momentous cup run away from us.  The mauling of Coventry at Prenton Park, the wonder goal that had Middlesbrough's international stars stood aghast at in the Quarter Final, or of course that mullering of Bolton at Prenton Park.

To celebrate the memories of that run to Wembley, and of course the day itself, we're going to publish a number of articles this week.  Starting tomorrow, we will bring you some exclusive new content and features, around the usual schedule of League One articles.

Some of the highlights to come:

• Courtesy of our good friends over at Radio City, we have sound clips of the Bolton semi-final, the final and more
   

• Exclusive new interviews with two of the stars of the run to Wembley
   

• Where are they now? special, a quick look at where the starting eleven from that day are now
   

• Bishop's blog - Club Historian, Author and regular cowsheds columnist Peter Bishop writes a special cup final blog.

WE ALSO WANT YOUR HELP!

This feature will remain on the website forever more, giving you somewhere to visit to reminisce of Wembley 2000 whenever, wherever you like.  We want YOUR pictures and YOUR memories of that day.

We will probably not be able to publish photographs of the match itself due to all the copyright laws, but we are going to try and get as many non-match pics up as possible.  We have a lot in our old Roversrearguard.com archives that will be salvaged and re-published, but as always we want more!

If you have photos of your journey down to Wembley, around the stadium, walking up Wembley way or in the stadium itself, then feel free to send your photos over to editor@thecowsheds.co.uk

You can also send your stories and memories to the same address, or post them on the comment form below and they will be published later this week. 

Did you travel on official club transport to Wembley or make your own way, or maybe even travelled from the other side of the world to be there?  Perhaps you couldn't make the game itself but have fond memories of what the day entailed?  Whatever the day held for you, let us know.