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They keep telling us the FA Cup doesn’t matter. Piece by piece they try to strip it bare. But then it goes and gives us this. The best of sport, maybe even the best of life, squeezed in to one three-hour parcel of beautiful, impossible, unrepeatable drama. Does it actually matter who won? Well yes, and no, all at the same time.
Having seen team-mate Simms strike the underside of the bar just minutes earlier, Wright broke one final time down the left in the 120th minute and crossed low for the Dane Victor Torp to poke the ball in. The greatest turnaround of all time was complete, or so we thought. In the posh seats near the press box, a middle-aged Coventry fan and his two young sons cried tears of joy as United’s wretched troops lay flat out on the field.
VAR saved United, though. Wright had been offside by about half an inch. All of you who wanted technology in our game, this one was for you. That’s where the search for perfection has taken us. Too late to cry about it now.
The glory and the honour here at Wembley goes to the FA Cup – kicked around the corridors by the powers that be once again this month – and indeed to magnificent, awe-inspiring Coventry City.
Down and out at 0-3 after being outplayed and dominated by their Premier League opponents for 70 minutes, Coventry’s comeback to take this semi-final into extra-time and on to penalties was perhaps the greatest and most remarkable Wembley has ever seen. I have written about football in these pages for almost 25 years now. Have I seen anything quite like this? I am not terribly sure I have.
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