“You don’t give up on football, football gives up on you,” said one of the Premier League’s smallest ever players. “I still love the game and as long as I can do a job I don’t intend leaving it behind.
“You are a long time retired.”
Wright has seen a lot during a professional career that spanned more then 620 league and cup games and eight clubs over a 20-year period, playing in every division in the Football League.
And, as two of his former clubs prepare to go head to head for the first of a cup double header this afternoon, he stresses the importance of ‘seizing the moment’, with his own cup memories still topping his career high points.
It was almost 14 years ago when Wright helped Villa lift the league cup in 1996 with a 3-0 win over Leeds United.
It was to prove his only major winner’s medal and a memory that will never be extinguished.
Villa and Rovers face each other in the FA Cup third round today but, with a Carling Cup semi final first leg tie against each other at Ewood on Tuesday, Wright accepts both sides will have bigger things on their minds this afternoon.
He said: “I remember the game well still. It was actually a bit of a non event because Leeds didn’t really turn up and we beat them 3-0 and it could have been more. It was a fantastic day.
Liverpool have a good history in the FA Cup although, strangely they didn’t have much success during their Golden Age from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. For me, one of the best FA Cup moments was when Ian Rush’s second sealed a 3-1 win over Everton – a beautiful sweeping move which was started by Rush in his own half and finished in clinical style. The whole atmosphere of that game was great, too. Both sets of fans from Liverpool, a city going through a lot of problems in the 80s with Margaret Thatcher’s government in power, seemed to take the opportunity to make a statement for the city their teams both play in – obviously better for Liverpool who won, but still a great FA Cup afternoon
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