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TAYLOR'S MEMORIES OF
2000/2001 (Friday 11th May 2001)  Player of The Season Martin Taylor
looks back on the 2000/2001 FA Cup run as being the highlight of his career and like many Wycombe fans, singles
out the game with Wimbledon at Selhurst Park as being an emotional evening.Speaking in his interview with The Wanderer magazine he said "The actual game itself wasn't the best, I don't think that after we equalised with Davie's goal there was really a lot happening until ten minutes to go. We didn't look like losing but then we didn't look like winning either. When the penalty went against us you'd think that we'd have gone out there. I saved the penalty which sometimes happens. I just went the right way and then extra time had everything. Our fans on the night were magnificent and probably kept the lads going and helped get the equaliser in the last few seconds. The penalties were about who kept their nerve on the night." Taylor played down his heroics during the spot-kicks. "Well penalties don't often get down to the goalie. In practice you have to go for the first one as after that you're second guessing them and they're second guessing you. If he puts the first one in the left corner will he put it in the same place again? Penalties is about hero's. If they'd scored the one I saved then he'd have been the hero, no-one would have said "Martin nearly saved it" but he didn't and I had the chance to become the hero but don't get me wrong it WAS a TEAM performance." The Quarter-Final tie against Leicester gave Taylor the chance to banish earlier disappointments in his career where he had lost at the same stage with Derby County. After the final whistle Taylor was seen in tears in the dressing room. "That's because of what I'd been through. That's losing a play-off final, being badly injured and losing two quarter finals. That game and the one's at Wimbledon and Lincoln were probably the first time I'd won a football match where we'd really had to win. The one at Lincoln was a different kind of pressure. Things had gone our way and we'd won so the emotions just came pouring out and that was what happened against Leicester, everything just came flooding back." The Semi-Final saw Taylor put in a stunning display against Liverpool, producing a number of saves that brought wide acclaim from the national media. "For Wycombe to be in the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup is unbelievable. Derby hasn't been in a semi-final since 1976, Leicester hasn't since 1982. It doesn't happen very often. Ok! Man United are there every other year and Arsenal and Tottenham are there every five or six years but in general there's a lot of big clubs that are in the Premier League that haven't got to the quarter finals let alone the semi's." You can read the full interview with Martin Taylor in Issue 34 of The Wanderer. This will also be reproduced in full at a later date on the WWISC website. Taylor - Player of the Season 2000/2001 - interview part 1 >>> Return to News Desk >>> |
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