The London Cup campaign began for Icarus back in September 2007 with a 10-0 thrashing of Wandsworth FC. The games became much tougher after this and Icarus just edged out the Civil Service 4-3 in extra time in the next round after having being 2-1 down with just seconds left of normal time.

Icarus then cruised past Chistlehurst Sports FC 4-0 before coming up against the high quality Nottsborough FC in the last 16. After a tough game Icarus triumphed 1-0, Gino Portaluri scoring the only goal. Finally in the ¼ final Icarus defeated Old Thorntonians 2-0, both goals coming in the final 20 minutes of another hard fought encounter.

All this meant that Icarus would face their first cup semi final in many years at Uxbridge on Saturday 23 February 2008. The atmosphere in the Icarus dressing room before the game was good, having come this far, the players were determined that they would see their way into the final. The opposition, Polytechnic FC, were little known to Icarus, but arrived with a young and fit looking squad, but were no doubt intimidated by the stadium pitch at RAF Uxbridge.

Icarus started the game with a quick ball down the left wing with Arnison overlapping Coleman to whip in a fast cross which Hodgkinson narrowly missed connecting with. Polytechnic proceeded to have the majority of the early possession. The central midfield for Icarus were working hard to prevent any kind of meaningful penetration from the opposition, with Ricketts commanding his area well and collecting loose balls. Icarus slowly gained a foothold in the game, with some nice passing movement building from the back four and Griffin just in front of them looking to release the Icarus wingers with probing balls across the Polytechnic defence.

For the first 20 minutes, the game looked to hang in the balance, with neither side able to capitalise on their possession. But then on 24 minutes, Polytechnic got the response they were looking forward. A long throw into the box caused confusion between Ricketts and his defence to allow the Polytechnic striker to sneak in, he struck the ball low to the right of Rickets, who managed to push the ball on to the post unfortunately for it to bounce of the post and strike him in the head and into Icarus net. Polytechnic were unlucky not to double their lead shortly after, but Ricketts did well to parry the shot round the post for a corner. This seemed to awaken Icarus, who began to utilise Martins-Tonks and Coleman on the flanks and for the first time were able to sustain some pressure on the opposition defence.

The equaliser came from an excellent movement down the left wing, with Arnison getting forward on the overlap, holding up the play and playing a neat ball into the feet of Coleman on the edge of the box. Coleman then turned his marker and knocked a clever ball to Schofield who squared the ball across the box to the waiting Martins-Tonks, who drove the ball beyond the keeper into the left side of the goal. An excellent goal and just reward for the hard work thus far, making it 1-1, just 4 minutes before half time.

The second half saw Polytechnic start strongly once again, with Icarus struggling to adapt and get their foot on the ball. The central midfield was working tirelessly closing down Polytechnic's playmaker, forcing them to pass the ball out wide. Neither side were able to create any real chances, despite both defences becoming stretched at times. The break through came for Polytechnic on the 75th minute when an intercepted pass from defence was whipped to the right Midfielder on the edge of the area who drove an unstoppable shot into the top left hand corner of the Icarus goal.

From here Icarus began to chase, hassle and harry the Polytechnic team all over the pitch. Griffin started to distribute the ball out to Turner who made some impressive runs down the right hand side causing Polytechnic all sorts of problems. Again the final ball seemed to fall short for the Icarus team in the final third.

After the goal Icarus had substituted the Martins-Tonks for Bond who immediately pushed up front alongside Hodgkinson as Icarus adopted the 4-4-2 formation. Icarus really threw everything into the game and pushed bodies forward in the final few minutes going close on several occasions, but never managing to produce the elusive equaliser. A well fought match by both sides but a disappointing result for Icarus after such a great cup run.

Team: OC S Ricketts, Flt Lt A Arnison, Flt Lt P Sharp (Flt Lt R Lewis 72), Flt Lt G Shuttie, Flt Lt D Coleman, Flt Lt S Rutherford (Flt Lt G Portaluri), Fg Off A Martins-Tonks (D Bond 75), Flt Lt J Schofield, Fg Off J Griffin, OC D Turner, Flt Lt L Hodgkinson