'Saints will give Arsenal a right go in FA Cup'

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[BBC]Southampton host Arsenal in the FA Cup on Saturday at 20:00 BST [Getty Images]

I was seven years old in 1976 when Southampton won, what is still, our only major honour with an FA Cup win.

That was courtesy of a Bobby Stokes goal against Manchester United, when the whole of my part of the world turned yellow and blue.

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Back then, like now, we were a second division club and this is, of course, the 50th anniversary of that win.

The distance between the top two divisions is much bigger than it was in 1976, so to get to a Wembley semi-final (let's not think about the final just yet) in this anniversary year, would be absolutely huge, both for nostalgic reasons but also for the momentum it would give us for the Championship games to come.

Saints have rightly been commemorating the 50th anniversary this year, playing in yellow in every round (including Saturday I assume), so it was probably more important than usual to have a good cup run when we started back in January.

Doncaster away in the third round was negotiated more comfortably than the 3-2 final score suggests, before a 2-1 home win against Leicester after extra time.

At this point, I thought we had at least done justice to the 50th anniversary but then came a very impressive 1-0 away win at Fulham in the fifth round.

And here we are with Arsenal at home - let's just say that the draw could have been kinder.

At least we're at home against an Arsenal side that will have one eye on the Champions League game they have on Tuesday.

Southampton, of course, have a massive game on Tuesday themselves against play-off rivals Wrexham, and usually I would expect Saints to fully prioritise the league game.

However, with the club being on a 14-game unbeaten run, the 50th anniversary and Tonda Eckert's insistence that we are here to win on Saturday - we will certainly be giving this game a right go.

Should the game start slipping away from us, then I can see thoughts turning towards Wrexham and beyond in the Championship, but until that point the Wembley dream lives on.

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