KARL CONNOLLY says Steve Watkin doesn't get the credit he deserves for scoring the winner in the famous cup victory against Arsenal - but he though it might be him putting the finishing touches on the massive FA Cup upset.

Reds' legend Connolly recently met up with his former team-mates to celebrate the 2-1 third round win over the mighty Gunners at The Racecourse in January 1992.

It is seen as one of the biggest cup scalps of all time with Brian Flynn's Wrexham finishing bottom of the Football League the previous campaign and only avoiding relegation to non-league because there was no demotion in 1990-91, while Arsenal - managed by George Graham - were the defending league champions.

The visitors took the lead just before the break when Alan Smith netted but what happened in the second half has gone down in history.

Time was running out for Wrexham but Mickey Thomas blasted in a brilliant free-kick past David Seaman in the 82nd minute before Watkin slid in front of England international Tony Adams to put the Reds - cheered on by more than 13,300 supporters - in dreamland

The Wrexham players wrote themselves into the history books but many neutrals still believe that Thomas got the winner and not local lad Watkin.

"I feel sorry for Steve because of that," said Connolly, a winger who joined Wrexham in 1991 and made 358 league appearances, scoring 88 goals, before leaving in 2000.

"I always say to people 'do you know that Steve got the winner?'."

However, Connolly felt there was a good chance that Seaman - another of the many England internationals in Arsenal's star-studded side - would save Watkin's shot and he was ready to put the loose ball away.

"If you look back at the video, I was on my own on the edge of the six-yard box waiting for David Seaman to palm it out and ready for a tap-in but Steve scored," said Connolly.

"Poor Steve, he doesn't get the glory which is a shame."

Wrexham upset the odds and Connolly, now aged 54, says the players went into the game with a nothing-to-lose mentality.

"Before we played Arsenal, family and friends said to me 'are you nervous, you are going to be playing against Lee Dixon' because he was the right-back at the time for Arsenal," said Connolly.

"He was an England international but he had a lot to lose and I had nothing to lose.

"It was not going to be on the back page 'Arsenal right-back Lee Dixon kept Wrexham's Karl Connolly quiet' so I had nothing to lose and I just went out and enjoyed myself."

Connolly recalled being ridiculed by David O'Leary, a Republic of Ireland international who made more than 550 league appearances for Arsenal in his glittering career, during the game but he had the last laugh.

"I remember David O'Leary gripping me around the throat calling me a scruffy hill-billy," said Connolly.

"I always used to play with a beard, I had a skinhead and had my shirt hanging out.

"I was like 'whatever mate' and I started laughing because I always laughed.

"And we had the last laugh as we always did during those years."

Connolly helped Wrexham clinch promotion from Division Four in 1992-93 and was part of many more memorable cup upsets during his time at Wrexham.

A regular visitor at The Racecourse, Connolly loves returning to the club.

"It was unbelievable seeing everyone again at the reunion," said Connolly.

"People like Andy Thackeray, Mark Sertori and Gordon Davies who I'd not seen for a while, it was great.

"I love going back to the club."