{"id":131928,"date":"2010-01-03T13:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iqranews.com\/u-s-news\/2001-fa-cup-final.htm"},"modified":"2010-01-03T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T18:02:57","slug":"2001-fa-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/131928","title":{"rendered":"2001 Fa Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cYou don\u2019t give up on football, football gives up on you,\u201d said one of the Premier League\u2019s smallest ever players. \u201cI still love the game and as long as I can do a job I don\u2019t intend leaving it behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a long time retired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018seizing the moment\u2019, with his own cup memories still topping his career high points.<\/p>\n<p>It was almost 14 years ago when Wright helped Villa lift the league cup in 1996 with a 3-0 win over Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p>It was to prove his only major winner\u2019s medal and a memory that will never be extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI remember the game well still. It was actually a bit of a non event because Leeds didn\u2019t really turn up and we beat them 3-0 and it could have been more. It was a fantastic day.<br \/>\nLiverpool have a good history in the FA Cup although, strangely they didn\u2019t 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\u2019s second sealed a 3-1 win over Everton \u2013 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\u2019s government in power, seemed to take the opportunity to make a statement for the city their teams both play in \u2013 obviously better for Liverpool who won, but still a great FA Cup afternoon<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/onlywire.com\/btn\/button_3793\" title=\"2001 Fa Cup Final\" url=\"http:\/\/iqranews.com\/u-s-news\/2001-fa-cup-final.htm\"><\/script><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?&amp;linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fiqranews.com%2Fu-s-news%2F2001-fa-cup-final.htm&amp;linkname=2001%20Fa%20Cup%20Final\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iqranews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Save\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/iqranews.com\/u-s-news\/premier-league-maddest-2009-2010.htm' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Premier League Maddest 2009-2010'>Premier League Maddest 2009-2010<\/a> <small> Premier League Maddest 2009-2010 Schedule and All Game Between&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/iqranews.com\/u-s-news\/arsenal-vs-aston-villa-live-2009.htm' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Arsenal Vs Aston Villa Live 2009'>Arsenal Vs Aston Villa Live 2009<\/a> <small>Watch Arsenal vs Aston Villa live stream: Where to watch&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/iqranews.com\/u-s-news\/fa-cup-preview-2010.htm' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fa Cup Preview 2010'>Fa Cup Preview 2010<\/a> <small>The big four clubs in England reclaimed their grasp on&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Related posts brought to you by <a href='http:\/\/mitcho.com\/code\/yarpp\/'>Yet Another Related Posts Plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t give up on football, football gives up on you,\u201d said one of the Premier League\u2019s smallest ever players. \u201cI still love the game and as long as I can do a job I don\u2019t intend leaving it behind. \u201cYou are a long time retired.\u201d Wright has seen a lot during a professional career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}