Daily Star Sunday

‘We haven’t won a trophy for a few years. It’s been too long, really, for a club like this. We can only try to do our bit and add to that history’ SAYS LIVERPOOL DEFENDER TRENT ALEXANDER-ARNOLD ANOTHER GLORIOUS CUP RUN

- By NEIL MOXLEY

CONOR COADY treasures the memory of FA Cup glory and has a message for the critics writing off the competitio­n: “You don’t realise how big it is.”

The Wolves skipper, 25 (left) will again try to stop the Jurgen Klopp juggernaut from claiming the Black Country club as yet another scalp tomorrow night.

The latest tussle comes just a couple of weeks after the Reds beat Nuno Espirito Santo’s side 2-0 at Molineux in the Premier

LOW POINT: Trent Alexander-Arnold after defeat at Manchester City

League. Both managers are likely to make changes but the central defender does not want to be taken out of the firing line.

And he says anyone who discounts the relevance of the competitio­n clearly hasn’t tasted success in it.

On loan from Liverpool, Coady was part of a Sheffield United team that was going nowhere in League One until the FA Cup breathed life into their campaign. Defeating Premier League Aston Villa, the Blades also accounted for Charlton and Nottingham Forest as they reached Wembley where they were beaten by Hull City, then in the top flight, in the semi-final.

Coady said: “The FA Cup still matters. It matters to the players and it definitely matters to the supporters.

“What I would say is that perhaps you don’t understand how big it is until you have been

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