Liverpool Classics: Millennium magic as Owen and Gerrard write names into FA Cup folklore with performances for the ages

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Liverpool fans used to call Wembley 'Anfield South' given the amount of journeys their side used to make to the national stadium in the 70s and 80s. But for a number of Reds supporters, they hold just as fond memories of the trips that teams managed by Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez made to the Millennium Stadium at the turn of the 21st century while Wembley was being redeveloped. Two games stand-out in particular and given they celebrate their anniversaries this week, what better time to take a trip down Memory Lane for a double-header edition of our Liverpool Classics podcast. As not only do Guy Clarke and Dan Kay reminisce about the Michael Owen-inspired 2-1 victory over Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup final, they also cast their mind back to the 2006 showpiece success over West Ham United in which Steven Gerrard produced a performance so good, and so talismanic, that the game will forever be remembered as 'the Gerrard final'. Enjoy.Welcome to the Morning Bulletin, rounding up the big headlines from overnight concerning Liverpool FC. Today, Matt Addison joins Paul Wheelock to reminisce about the famous 4-0 win over Barcelona, one year on, before discussing the return of the Bundesliga, one of the big hurdles the Premier League must overcome if they are to follow in the footsteps of the German top-flight; a report linking Liverpool with Werder Bremen attacker Milot Rashica, and the lowdown on a Reds youngster who could be pushing for a place in Jurgen Klopp’s first-team squad once football returns in this country.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/ Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriber Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	After the demolition of Wembley Stadium at the turn of the Millennium
0:12.6	Liverpool took little time in acquainting themselves
0:15.4	with the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff,
0:17.3	winning four trophies in the Principality,
0:20.0	including two FA cups in the space of just five years.
0:25.0	I'm Guy Clark and here on Red Memories on the Blood Red Podcast,
0:28.8	we are going to look back on those victories in 2001 and 2006 against Arsenal and West Ham United
0:36.7	respectively joining me to do that is at one and only Dan Kaye Dan these are two fantastic cup finals to look back on the first
0:46.7	of which of course was the first that was to be played at Cardiff. Yes it was and that really kind of added to the whole kind of luster of the
0:57.7	occasion really I was looking enough to have it was the second I think at
1:01.5	final I attended but the fact that it was
1:04.0	somewhere different and it was the first time at Cardiff just made it feel like an
1:08.2	even an even bigger deal really and there was a nice parallel that the second game we're going to get
1:15.9	talk on who was the final one so Liverpool really in many ways kind of bookended
1:19.8	the Cardiff era obviously along with a couple of League cups and charity shields as well, but it was, I think any local support of that, you know,
1:28.0	travelled to South Wales during that era, will have very, very fond memories of card if not just because we won most of the
1:35.1	matches we played there the whole setup was was just brilliant that the people
1:40.0	are so welcoming the ground ground, the city centre, and you know it's I think a lot a lot
1:46.3	of reds will tell you that Wembley just doesn't compare. You know there's a certain
1:50.8	historical heft that Wembley maybe has to it but I think most
1:55.7	where would you are to watch the final Cardiff or Wembley I reckon ninety-oddart
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