MUTE your televisions, put down your smartphones, take off your headphones after 9.30pm tonight and you might just hear the sound of a football club going to Wembley.

Swindon will be overwhelmed with an eruption of cheers if its football team successfully finishes the job against Sheffield United in the SkyBet League One play-off semi-final this evening.

In front of what is expected to be a 14,000-plus sell-out crowd, Swindon Town’s players will defend a one-goal advantage after their 2-1 victory in South Yorkshire on Thursday night.

Finish ahead on aggregate tonight and the town will decamp to the home of football in London on May 24 to compete for a first taste of second-tier football in 15 years.

Supporters will wake-up this morning(MON) full of optimism, nerves, hope and expectation – but they will have their own part to play when 7.45pm arrives.

Andy Rowland, who played more than 250 games for Town in the 1970s and 80s, said: “The Swindon supporters, they can get behind their team, but quite often the fans need the team to get them going.

“As I remember it, playing in the 80s, they do need the team to get them going.

“If they can get them going, I’m sure once they do get involved it would be like an extra man.”

“We could well be on the way to Wembley. Hopefully we go about it with the right approach and in the right way about it. We can’t afford to sit back and invite pressure.”

Roger Bunce, chairman of Swindon Town Supporters Club, said: “It’s all to play for now. It’s a huge, massive game in the context of the whole season.

“There were probably a lot of people waiting for Thursday night’s match to decide what they were going to do on Monday.

“Had we lost 4-0, there would’ve been no-one heading down to the ticket office. That result has meant we couldn’t ask for any more reason to go.

“Sheffield will bring a few. It would be disappointing if we don’t have more than 10,000 in the home end.

“Everyone will be hoping for the trip to Wembley, but the last two visits haven’t been so exciting.

“I’m really up for it. In the overall position of the football club the money will be a benefit, but hopefully we get people believing again.

“They deserve better gates than what they are getting.”

Steve Mytton, chairman of Swindon Town Supporters’ Trust, said: “I’m optimistic after the result on Thursday.

“After that we are all feeling positive we are going to take the next step and get to Wembley. It would be a brilliant way to cap the season.

“We’ve got to do it this time. I don’t want to come back from Wembley with a sad face.

“The Bristol City game had an amazing atmosphere, but the County Ground on a night game is one of the best grounds I have ever been to.

“I have been to some of the best grounds in the world, but our little County Ground is right up there.

“With the crowd behind the team and the supporters so close to the pitch it can be so intimidating for the opposition.

“I just hope every person that goes along shouts their head off. These things don’t happen very often. We must all try and play our part.”

The match will also be broadcast live on Sky Sports Two from 7.30pm.

Get all the team news and build-up then live updates with sports reporters Tom Bassam and Harry Abbott from 6.45pm at www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport