{"id":394648,"date":"2011-04-24T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/24\/shaun-wright-phillips-reaching-fa-cup-final-shows-how-far-manchester-city-have-come\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:45:00","slug":"shaun-wright-phillips-reaching-fa-cup-final-shows-how-far-manchester-city-have-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/shaun-wright-phillips-reaching-fa-cup-final-shows-how-far-manchester-city-have-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Wright-Phillips: Reaching FA Cup final shows how far Manchester City have come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Laurie Bonne<\/h3>\n<h4>24 Apr 2011 18:45:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.0139285714\">\n<div readability=\"15.1666666667\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shaun Wright-Phillips,Manchester City(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d2a94dba115353_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shaun Wright-Phillips,Manchester City(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"22.9691876751\">Winger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1935\/shaun-wright-phillips\">Shaun Wright-Phillips<\/a> is confident that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a> is on the cusp of landing glory as the club is heading to an FA Cup final against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/717\/stoke-city\">Stoke City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>City have defeated their local rivals 1-0 to secure a place at Wembley and are defending the fourth place on the Premier League table.<\/p>\n<p>With the prospect of competing in the prestigious Champions League next season, the 29-year-old believes that the team is getting closer to bringing back silverware to the Eastlands after a 35 year drought.<\/p>\n<p>He told <em>Key 103 Radio<\/em>: &#8220;The win over United just tells you how far the club has come in such a short space of time and how far it can go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have come to a point where we have beaten them in a semi-final and it is important we maintain this form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just sussed out against United that if we kept going at them we had the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as we played the way we wanted to they found it a bit harder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a lot of self-belief in the team and the back four were tremendous and never lost concentration once.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the main thing for us, keeping a clean sheet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d2a94dba115353_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/24\/2456408\/shaun-wright-phillips-reaching-fa-cup-final-shows-how-far\" title=\"Shaun Wright-Phillips: Reaching FA Cup final shows how far Manchester City have come\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaun Wright-Phillips: Reaching FA Cup final shows how far Manchester City have come<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Laurie Bonne 24 Apr 2011 18:45:00 Shaun Wright-Phillips,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Winger Shaun Wright-Phillips is confident that Manchester City is on the cusp of landing glory as the club is heading to an FA Cup final against Stoke City . City have defeated their local rivals 1-0 to secure a place at Wembley and are defending the fourth place on the Premier League table. With the prospect of competing in the prestigious Champions League next season, the 29-year-old believes that the team is getting closer to bringing back silverware to the Eastlands after a 35 year drought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shaun Wright-Phillips: Reaching FA Cup final shows how far Manchester City have come - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/shaun-wright-phillips-reaching-fa-cup-final-shows-how-far-manchester-city-have-come\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shaun Wright-Phillips: Reaching FA Cup final shows how far Manchester City have come - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Laurie Bonne 24 Apr 2011 18:45:00 Shaun Wright-Phillips,Manchester City(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Winger Shaun Wright-Phillips is confident that Manchester City is on the cusp of landing glory as the club is heading to an FA Cup final against Stoke City . 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