Barnsley manager Simon Davey has ordered his players to savour Sunday's FA Cup semi-final against Cardiff and forget about the possibility of slipping deeper into the Coca-Cola Championship relegation mire.

The Tykes may have memorably ousted holders Chelsea and Liverpool from this year's competition to reach the last four, but they have been unable to replicate their cup heroics on a regular basis in the Championship.

In fact, Davey's side could find themselves unceremoniously dumped into the bottom three ahead of the club's biggest game in nearly a century.

"I'm going to enjoy it," insisted Davey. "We are going to forget the league.

"For the last four weeks I've been asked questions about the FA Cup when we had the league to concentrate on and now we're in the FA Cup, I'm being asked about the league."

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's memories of his previous FA Cup final appearance haunt him to this day - but that will not prevent him doing his utmost to get Cardiff into another one this weekend.

The veteran Dutchman was part of the Chelsea side that fell to a 2-0 defeat by Arsenal in his one and only final appearance in 2002 at the Millennium Stadium.

However, the result soon paled into insignificance when it emerged a blocked vein could have led him to lose the lower part of his right leg.

Hasselbaink explained: "I played at the Millennium Stadium and came off after 70 minutes or so. I had a bad injury - a vein which was 75% blocked.

"I had a calf scan, and nothing showed - so I thought I was all right. But it was quite bad, and after the game I was out for four months.

"If it had been 80 or 90% blocked I could have lost the lower part of my leg."

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