How did Inverness get here?published at 13:37 British Summer Time 30 May 2015
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Inverness win Scottish Cup for first time
Inverness CT 2-1 Falkirk
ICT defender Carl Tremarco sent off
Watkins for ICT; Grant heads Falkirk level. Vincent nets winner
John Hughes hails 'remarkable' victory
Thomas McGuigan
Graeme, Inverness: Good luck to Falkirk today. from an Inverness Clachnacuddin fan.
@AlexNat38 tweets: , external as an East Fife supporter, I'm nervous. I want our record to remain thanks.
@Clark63George sums , externalit up: Feeling excited, happy, scared, hopeful, pessimistic, optimistic, proud yes above all proud#TogetherNess
@heiderthespider tweets, external: Absolutely ecstatic. Us Falkirk fans are on our way #COYB
Over on the BBC Sport Scotland Facebook page...
Allan Woodward posts: See y'all at Hampden Park, well, see a lot of you at the pub before hand. I'll be the one with a flag draped over me and my face in blue red and white.
Richard Smith says: COME ON ICT
Inverness CT skipper Richie Foran will be cooling his heels at Hampden today. The Irishman is sidelined through injury, but insists he won't be "doing a John Terry" should his side lift the Scottish Cup.
"It's not for me," said Foran when asked about the suspended Chelsea skipper's infamous Champions League final celebration after beating Bayern Munich.
"I won't be going near the Cup. I don't feel I've done enough this season to go up and lift the Cup so I'll leave that to a couple of other players who deserve it, in particular Graeme Shinnie who has been unbelievable.
"He's improved so much this season, he's been a great captain and a great leader while I've been off, and credit to him. He deserves to lift that cup but not me, not in my mind anyway."
Pictures the scene: you're en-route to Hampden for the Scottish Cup final on a supporters' bus. The driver puts on his latest playlist CD, which song blasts out?
Starship's Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero
Talking Heads' Road To Nowhere
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Chris McLaughlin
BBC Sport
Scottish Cup final programme...
"People think that referees come on a Saturday and put their kit on, referee the match then forget about it until the next Saturday or next appointment comes in," says the 36-year-old.
"That's far from the truth. I can tell you on a Saturday or Sunday night whenever I've rewound the clip a hundred times, my wife is a wee bit fed up with that and my kids can't watch their cartoons.
"We take it very seriously. We are always trying to improve.
"We try to dust ourselves down from the mistakes, look at the mistake, see how we're going to improve on it.
"It is always important to learn no matter if it was a game without many mistakes or a major error.
"But, the old adage, we're humans and we always make mistakes - that's just the reality of refereeing."
What's your favourite/worst Scottish Cup memory?
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The Scottish Cup is the oldest competition in association football and is also the oldest national trophy in the world.
This afternoon, however, new heroes will be made on that famous Hampden turf...
Sportscene is getting under way on BBC One Scotland and you can set your radio co-ordinates for Sportsound for all the pre-final thoughts and analysis from our battalion of pundits.
For some reason the day just feels different.
At the beginning of each season, football supporters up and down the country hope their respective clubs will embark on the rocky road to Hampden... and reach the final in May.
Inverness CT and Falkirk fans have the pleasure this year. Coaches, buses, cars and planes have been spiriting supporters in their thousands to the Hampden showpiece in, what at the moment, is sun-kissed Glasgow.
Good afternoon and a warm welcome to our live text commentary of today's Scottish Cup final.