‘The FA Cup is everything to me’ – Keown backs Man City to break Chelsea hearts at Wembley
‘The FA Cup is everything to me’ – Keown backs Man City to break Chelsea hearts at Wembley For Martin Keown, the FA Cup was never just another competition. It was the dream that first made him fall in love with football. Long before three winners’ medals with Arsenal, before Wembley triumphs and title celebrations, Keown was a young boy sat in front of the television in his parents’ corner shop, mesmerised by English football’s grandest domestic occasion.
“Oh, for me, the FA Cup is everything,” Keown told Hayters ahead of this weekend’s final between Manchester City and Chelsea. “It’s the reason why I came into the game. “As a young boy, my parents had a corner shop and my mum was selling alcohol, Newcastle Brown Ale.
There were fans coming in wanting to buy it. My mum didn’t understand the relationship. “It was the day of Liverpool versus Newcastle and they said to her: ‘Watch today’s Cup final.
It’s all on the television. ’ “So my mum led me to the TV. I think It’s A Knockout was on at 11 o’clock in the morning and I stayed there until 10 to five watching Liverpool win.
Kevin Keegan scored two goals, Steve Heighway got the third, and I said to my mum: ‘That’s me. That’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to play in a Cup final.
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