'The supporters made it' - Sheffield United's four goal hero remembers thumping FA Cup win over Wrexham
“We were doing a radio interview up in the stands afterwards and I told him ‘This is the closest you’ve got to me all day’ before it got going,” Edwards tells The Star. “I thought I’d get that in then because he was one hell of a big lad and if he hadn’t hit me already then I reckoned he wasn’t going to do it now. To be fair to him, he took it really well. He took it the right way. It was just football banter.”
Forty years after Ian Porterfield’s side thrashed their opponents from north Wales in the first round of the competition, the two clubs are preparing to meet again; this time at the fourth round stage. The last and indeed only clash between them saw the visitors record an emphatic victory over their hosts at the Racecourse Stadium. Time has faded Edwards’ memory of that contest, in November 1983. “Do you know what, I can’t actually remember any of my touches.” But one aspect of the game, other than Kevin Arnott’s “absolutely superb” effort after Phil Coleman had replied to the first of his amazing quartet, is still uppermost in Edwards’ mind.