Blackburn Rovers 0 Millwall 1 match report: Blackburn misery complete as Danny Shittu seals Wembley date Time for Millwall to dust out their favourite banner again. It carries the words, legendary to their fans, which gave them a piece of television history in Only Fools and Horses. "Your dad always said that one day Del Boy would reach the top," Granddad declares. Then again, he always said Millwall would win the Cup. Wonders never cease. It's been a remarkable relationship between the club from south-east London and the FA Cup and nine years after Manchester United and Ruud van Nistelrooy destroyed them in the 2004 final at the Millenium Stadium, they will believe that victory in a Wembley semi-final against Wigan Athletic is within their power. There is even Wembley history between those two sides, who met in the 1999 Auto Windscreens Shield Final and lost to a goal by a Wigan journeyman Paul Rogers, in the days when that club had many of them. That they should be there again is testament to the quiet man Kenny Jackett, the sixth longest-serving manager in England who has engendered a real spirit. In contrast, there was no better measure of the diminution of a once fine Premier League club under its Indian ownership than the empty streets an hour before kick-off. The stadium, where there are rarely more than 14,000 these days, was barely a quarter full for the game which put Arsenal's conquerors 90 minutes away from Wembley, no less. There were pleas for some noise in the match programme but to no real avail. A club which was once a byword for prudence and husbandry of limited resources, and where respected chairman John Williams agonised over the best course, has been taken apart in the space of two years. Those who govern football have been powerless to do anything about it. The home side's line up seemed designed to make sure the precious few in situ had their eyes open, with Martin Olsson, the left back, and his twin brother Markus, the left midfielder, swapping their customary positions. The team-sheet had misspelt Markus" name, just to develop the puzzle. He only made it as far as half time. There wasn't much to chew on than that for most of a first half in which David Dunn - who deserves to have something named after him having hung around, despite everything, in the town he loves - provided the only spark of Lancastrian light, latching onto a corner Scott Dann laid back and curling a few inches wide 20 minutes in. Millwall did not offer much in that period either, though they at least resembled a team and it was four minutes before the interval when they broke the deadlock and an obduracy which had made Rovers the only club, Manchester City apart, not to have conceded in this year's competition. Dany N'Guessan had just had a strong penalty appeal turned down - Dann seemed to have handled - when Danny Shittu's powerful header in the six yard box from Chris Taylor's corner did the business. The corner had seemed questionable - Taylor's shot had ploughed, undeflected, straight into the side netting - but no one seemed to have the heart to complain as the sides trooped in at half time. Nuno Gomes appeared for Olsson after the break and Leon Best almost equalised, running through to fire a shot which Shane Lowry cleared impressively off the line. It was an indomitable back four Michael Appleton's side faced though with Shittu, whom the professionals will tell you is one of the most awkward - if basic - defenders you'll come up against, standing firm. There were at times four to a man when danger loomed, suffocating what space Rovers might create. Rovers pushed until the end but a breakthrough never looked likely and it was Taylor, running onto a ball lad into the area for him, who skied the big chance of the closing stages. Blackburn, whose defeat was greeted with derisory boos, return to a Championship campaign in which relegation is a more realistic outcome than the promotion they had so craved. If results go against them they could enter the bear pit of an east Lancashire derby with Burnley only three points of the drop zone on Sunday. Millwall are a point below them in the table but, from here, like Grandad, they will believe that anything could happen. Blackburn Rovers (4-4-2) Kean; Lowe, Dann, Hanley, Markus Olsson (Gomes, 46); King (Forrester, 75), Dunn, Pedersen, Martin Olsson; Best, Rhodes. Substitutes not used Sandomierski (gk), Givet, Rekik, Goodwillie, O'Sullivan. Millwall (4-2-3-1): Forde; Dunne, Shittu, Beevers, Lowry; Smith, Taylor; Keogh, Trotter, N'Guessan (Abdou, 66); Hulse (Marquis, 85). Substitutes not used Taylor (gk),Tyson, Smith, Osborne, Saville. Referee M Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear).