Swansea City put on a show for the full house at Wembley, completely outclassing Bradford City 5-0 on their way to the Capital One Cup title, their first ever major trophy.
A brace apiece from Nathan Dyer and Jonathan De Guzman along with a goal from Michu helped the Swans to a comfortable victory as League Two Bradford's dreams of capping off a remarkable cup run with the title ended in despair.
"To lift the trophy is great," Swansea manager Michael Laudrup said. "But the way we did it says a lot about our performance.
"We all know what Bradford have done this season. It is absolutely outstanding.
"This final will remain in the history books, a small part because of us, a large part because of Bradford.
"That is why I am so happy with the way we did it."
Right from the word go, the game panned out as expected, with Swansea having the majority of the possession and Bradford sitting deep looking for that opportunity to spring on the counter.
However, those Bradford plans were shot down quickly as they came under fire from some brilliant play by the English Premier League side.
Dyer opened the scoring in the 16th minute, latching onto a rebound from a Michu strike, which Bradford goalkeeper Matt Duke did well to get a hand on.
Michu was the standout player yet again for the Welsh side, grabbing a second five minutes from halftime with an astute finish into the bottom corner, which this time Duke could do nothing about.
Dyer then put the game to bed two minutes after the restart, curling one into the back of the net after a neat one-two with Wayne Routledge.
There was a moment which Laudrup will want to forget soon after though in the 56th minute, when De Guzman was brought down by Duke, who got a straight red card, and a penalty was given.
De Guzman stepped up to take the spotkick, but had to fight for the opportunity to do so with Dyer, who wanted to complete his hat-trick in a cup final.
The duo argued for a few minutes as Bradford made a substitution, taking off Nakhi Wells for reserve goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin, with De Guzman standing firm on taking the penalty, which he duly converted. Dyer was far from happy and had to be calmed down by his teammates, with the winger finally congratulating his teammate after the penalty was dispatched.
"I haven't scored for a while, so to get two goals today... I obviously wanted the hat-trick with the penalty," Dyer told Sky Sports. "I thought I should have got the ball, but it wasn't meant to be and I passed it on. That's the way it went."
Laudrup took the blame for the confusion, saying he had forgotten to assign a designated penalty taker. "There was no designated penalty taker, I forgot," he said. This was our 36th game of the season and it was our first penalty, so it is my fault because I didn't say who was going to take it if we got one.
"I thought we would go through the whole season without getting one!"
De Guzman added a late goal in stoppage time as the Swansea fans celebrated their team's greatest ever triumph.
