BLUES' FA Cup quarter final win was news all round the globe.

Keith Blagbrough of the Official Supporters club was interviewed for ten minutes on Monday by an Australian radio station based in Perth, while Icelandic chairboy Jon Goodmanson listened to the whole match live.

He rang a friend in Wycombe and got them to put the telephone next to the radio so he could hear the elevenSEVENTY commentary.

The BFP was also in demand with editor Steve Cohen interviewed by the BBC and our quarter-final supplement receiving rave reviews on Sky Sports.

Blues boss Lawrie Sanchez admits he loves the FA Cup and its ability to shock.

He said: "The FA Cup is about heroes. Over the course of the season the best team gets promoted and the worst gets relegated but cup games are different. Sometimes strange stories happen.

"Your best chance of beating Premiership sides is one-off. I knew our best chance was to win here and we kept the pressure going and luck favoured the brave at the end of the day."

Wanderers will wear a brand new quartered blue kit for the semi-final with the words FA Cup semi-finalists 2001 woven onto the players shirts.

The club hope to have replica jerseys of the shirt, made by Pro Star, on sale next week.

Cup hero Jason Cousins praised boss Sanchez for his motivational skills after Saturday's win.

He said: Eight years ago we were playing the likes of Runcorn. On paper we had no right to win here. It should have been a convincing 3-0 home win but we rolled our sleeves up and got on with it.

The gaffer is unbelievable, there was no way he'd let us turn up at Leicester just for a day out. He wouldn't let us believe this was our cup final, he wanted us in the semi-final and he genuinely believed we could get there and it rubbed off on us."

Long-serving Cousins also paid tribute to the Blue Army.

He said: "The fans have played their part in this cup run. They were superb at Wimbledon and it was as though there were 30,000 of them today.

At the end my initial reaction was to run over to the fans before I had hugged any of the players."

Wanderers will be selling their own range of souvenirs for the semi-final as they bid to paint Villa Park blue.

A range of novelty souvenirs such as blue and white wigs, car ribbons and blue hairspray go on sale tomorrow with more items such as special flags, scarves, t-shirts, polo shirts and rosettes in stock when the tickets go on sale next week.

Assistant sales and marketing manager Claire Ramsden said: "We want to turn Villa Park into a sea of blue."

Manager Sanchez will be presented with his third managerial award of the season tomorrow.

Blues' victory at Leicester won him the League Managers Association Performance of the Week following earlier tributes as a result of the victories over Grimsby and Wimbledon.

Rogue traders have been cashing in on Wanderers' cup success by selling couterfeit Blues souvenirs outside Filbert Street and Adams Park.

Wanderers called in the police and trading standards officers to investigate and have reminded fans that buying from these traders does not help the club.

Dannie Bulman reflected on how far he has come after the quarter-final victory.

He said: "Before Wycombe signed me I was working on a building site. Getting paid to play football is fantastic but to be in an FA Cup semi-final is unbelieavable. It hasn't sunk in yet."

Leicester's former Wycombe winger Steve Guppy admitted his old club deserved their moment of glory.

He said: It was a fantastic performance by Wycombe and I think they should have had a penalty as well, so in some ways the scoreline flattered us.

They thoroughly deserved it and I wish them all the best for the semi-final because they are there on merit.

It hurts at the moment. I wanted to play in a semi-final but it is Wycombe who are going on instead and if they play like they did against us, they have got a great chance.

Paul McCarthy's amazing goal-scoring feats in the FA Cup continued last Saturday.

He claimed his fifth goal of the campaign to set up a semi-final against his boyhood heroes Liverpool.

McCarthy, who played in the same boys team as Manchester United's Roy Keane, said: The goals just keep on going in for me in the FA Cup.

"I cant believe it myself. It is such a great achievement to be in the semi-final."