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Semi-Finals
Saturday 5 April & Sunday 6 April 2008
Wembley Stadium
Winning clubs will receive £900,000 from The FA
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Simon Davey's Barnsley are one win away from appearing in an FA Cup Final - and it's been a long wait for the Yorkshire club.

The Tykes actually featured in two Finals inside three years...but that was in 1910 and 1912, long before the original Wembley was built.

History was made at Goodison Park when Barnsley lost 2-0 to Newcastle United in a replay of the first of those Finals. It was the 39th FA Cup Final but the first to have a penalty kick.

By all accounts it was a rough match. Barnsley 'keeper Fred Mearns was flattened by Newcastle striker Sandy Higgins, a Scottish international, and had to be restrained by team-mates as he sought swift revenge. Then Tykes right-back Dickie Downs was taken off after being kicked in the stomach. But it was Barnsley, for so long on the receiving end, who conceded the penalty seven minutes into the second half.

Higgins had been tripped in the box and Albert Shepherd put Newcastle 1-0 up from the spot.

The Yorkshire side made the Final again two years later and this time they won The Cup. The only goal was scored after 208 minutes' play, i.e. two minutes from the end of extra-time in the replay with West Bromwich Albion at Bramall Lane after a 0-0 draw at the old Crystal Palace.

Harry Tufnell went on a long dribble through the Albion ranks, finally evading defenders Pennington and Cook to fire a low shot past 'keeper Pearson.

The same two clubs could be lining up at Wembley in May for a Final re-match after a gap of 96 years.