article_snippet: The mayor ranks the occasion higher than Noddy Holder receiving the freedom of the borough.
article_snippet: To actually make it to the home of English football is something special.
article_snippet: It has given the club, town, and supporters a real lift and captured the imagination.
article_snippet: Manager Dean Smith (centre) hailed the 'amazing achievement' admitting pride at getting Walsall to Wembley under reconstruction .
article_snippet: It’s an amazing achievement, especially when I think of the calibre of some of the managers who have been here before Davies,Manager Dean Smith (centre)
article_snippet: We’d been to the area final twice before and cocked it up.
article_snippet: There have been some memorable events recently but this will be the highlight whether we win or lose,’ says councillor Pete Smith, the mayor.
article_snippet: The second is when we gave Noddy Holder, a Walsall lad, freedom of the borough.