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Steven Gerrard's 'superhuman' performance in the 2006 FA Cup final seemed scripted from a comic book... how the Liverpool legend defied cramp to score a thunderous equaliser and set up an incredible victory

This Saturday it should have been the FA Cup final at Wembley. With the future of this season's competition up in the air, we are recalling some of the classic finals.

In the first of our series, DOMINIC KING takes us back to 2006 and Liverpool's Steven Gerrard-inspired victory...

Before we can recall the goal, the penalties and the meeting with royalty, we must first discuss the cramp and the throw-in.

Back in 2006 Steven Gerrard inspired Liverpool to an incredible win over West Ham

Back in 2006 Steven Gerrard inspired Liverpool to an incredible win over West Ham

He overcame cramp to score an incredible equaliser thatu00a0immortalised him as Super Stevie

He overcame cramp to score an incredible equaliser that immortalised him as Super Stevie

The 2006 FA Cup final — the last of six staged at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium — was contested by Liverpool and West Ham but it now belongs to Steven Gerrard, in the same way that the 1953 final is synonymous with Sir Stanley Matthews.