Jones: We haven't done anything yet March 09 2008
Victorious Cardiff boss Dave Jones insisted the corks remained in the champagne bottles after his side booked a dream FA Cup semi-final trip to Wembley.
First-half goals from Peter Whittingham and Roger Johnson handed the Coca-Cola Championship side a deserved victory at the home of Premier League Middlesbrough and sent the Welsh club back to the scene of their 1927 triumph in the same competition.
That it came at the beginning of a week during which they face a trip to the High Court - with the Bluebirds' existence under threat over a £24million debt - made their achievement on Teesside all the more remarkable.
However Jones, who gained revenge for Stockport's League Cup semi-final defeat at the hands of Boro 11 years ago, was in no mood to allow the celebrations to deflect his players from a crucial league clash with Hull in midweek.
He said: "Honest to God - and you have got to believe me - once tonight is out of the way, we are in tomorrow and we are getting ready for the next league game now because we have a lot of catching up to do.
"But this must give us an incentive now because, man for man down there, they are absolutely elated and they are ecstatic and everything else.
"Someone asked for champagne - for what? We have just got through to the next round.
"We have not done anything yet. All we have done is get through to the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
"We haven't won it, we have not got to the final and we have got to get prepared. Why would we be drinking champagne?
"That's for the staff on the plane going home."
Whittingham blasted the visitors into the lead with just nine minutes gone when he fired expertly past Mark Schwarzer, and Johnson sent the travelling fans into raptures with a 22nd-minute diving header.
Boro rarely looked like addressing the deficit, with Afonso Alves forcing Peter Enckelman into his only real save of the game after 27 minutes and Stewart Downing curling a second-half free-kick inches over the bar.
City looked anything but a club on its knees and Jones insisted the off-field problems had not been a factor for him and his players.
He said: "All I can do is do what I am paid to do, which is the football side, and leave the people who know what they are doing to sort the court case out this week.
"It hasn't had a bearing on us, except that we haven't been able to bring players in. That's the only beating it has had.
"Yes, there are certain things we would have liked during the season, but we couldn't do it until everything was sorted out.
"We have just got on with it. The players know what they have got to do, and they still pick up all their wages, so it has not had an effect on us in that way."
Boro boss Gareth Southgate was as disappointed as he has been during his time as manager at the Riverside Stadium, especially after yesterday's events at Old Trafford and Oakwell which saw Manchester United and Chelsea bow out of the competition.
Southgate said: "It is a huge disappointment for us. We know what an opportunity it was to win something.
"But that is the Cup and that is why I always say you are judged as a team by what you do in the league because the Cup can go any way for you.
"We have had games here that we should have been out of competitions and we have gone all the way to the final.
"Today, we got what we deserved. It's what happens on the day and we didn't deliver."