{"id":405749,"date":"2026-01-13T02:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405749\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:51:12","slug":"arthur-okonkwo-wrexham-fa-cup-heros-turnaround-with-good-days-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/405749\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Okonkwo: Wrexham FA Cup hero&#8217;s turnaround, with &#8216;good days to come&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the excitement for a third appearance in the fourth round of the FA Cup in just five years under Parkinson remains at fever pitch, Wrexham&#8217;s immediate focus will return to the league &#8211; where they sit just one point and three spots behind the top six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They welcome strugglers Norwich City to north Wales on Saturday before hosting Leicester City at the Stok Cae Ras three days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having already secured three successive promotions under Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, pundit Phillips feels there are even more great days to come for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Wrexham have sent a message by winning their past four games in the Championship. Teams will fear Wrexham in the fourth round,&#8221; added the former midfielder who played in the club&#8217;s famous 1992 FA Cup win over Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Championship is their bread and butter &#8211; and people were hoping they&#8217;d be able to compete in the top half at the start of the season &#8211; but now teams above them will be looking over their shoulders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re in a very good place heading into the final few months of the season. There are some good days to come here at the Stok Cae Ras.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the excitement for a third appearance in the fourth round of the FA Cup in just five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-405749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}