FA CUP ( what does it mean to your team )

Sgoater1 wrote:The chance of a first trophy in over 30 years ! (Thomas Cook trophy not included obviously)

If Arsenal don't win it, I hope you do

Roger Hunt wrote:Big clubs win

the Double
at least 10 top division trophies
at least 3 European Cups/ Champions Leagues

and don't play in Scotland or Portugal.

10 top division titles? Tons around europe

3 European cups? You only have 5 clubs that won it at least 3 times:
Real madrid 9, Milan 7, Liverpool 5, Bayern de Munique 4, Ajax 4

No Scotland and Portugal clubs only? Do tell why Portugal are out, just because Porto is dominating at the momment that rules them out? What about Lyon in France? PSV in Holand? or others?I though the criteria was silverware/fans/tradition.

Considering Porto, since we are one of the 6th with 2 wins in the CL i guess that means only five clubs are big. Strange criteria.

Not really bothered until it reaches the latter stages.

Eliminate the $h!t competition...

To be honest...Porto are in a big club category...so are teams like Lyon, Marseille, Fenerbahce etc...

People have different criteria for big clubs...I think it's too general overall to just say "big club" You have massive clubs...big clubs...average clubs...tiny clubs etc...

Porto are ace

debaser wrote:

Jesus wrote:Hey one lucky goal who knows
We have Scotty Rendall, Leo Fortune West ( who can't do f@ck all but get in the way of stuff )Danny Potter one of the best keepers in the conference

ah big leo. what a dude. i have very similar memories of his time at shrewsbury. he pissed off a lot of defenders, tapped in the odd 2 yarder and punched chester city's chairman. he's a cult hero in these parts.

haha all he does for us is head the ball, sometimes he scores, but he;s just the usual scary black mother fucker
I think Shrewsbury swapped a player with Cambridge, so we could get him.
Also Dave Kitson used to play for Cambridge back when we were in League 2 or 1 ( when there was like League 1 League 2 and League 3 )

The media and bbc in particular are trying to make out it's got the magic back again etc etc. But to be honest i don't think many people care about the f.a cup anymore. Hardly any upsets, most small clubs know they're getting nowhere, even if they meet a big team that team will play it's 3rd choice team. I want to win it, but it's not that big a cup anymore.......
I recently saw highlights of the man u arsenal semi in 99, and it seemed to matter a lot more then. Now...would you get such a delighted crowd for winning an f.a cup match? i doubt it


Leo Fortune West, top man

debaser wrote:it means a 3rd chance each season to get runover by man utd.

woo.

lol, lol, and lol again

I'm still gonna put a few quid on just in case we win today.

Remember a few seasons ago when we were winning at home and then the Mancs invaded the pitch (Doug gave them half the stadium).

We lost in the end lol.

Jago wrote:

debaser wrote:it means a 3rd chance each season to get runover by man utd.

woo.

lol, lol, and lol again

I'm still gonna put a few quid on just in case we win today.

Remember a few seasons ago when we were winning at home and then the Mancs invaded the pitch (Doug gave them half the stadium).

We lost in the end lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-t8rkTPqw

Was a great game. The atmosphere was fantastic for such a match. I love the celebrations after each goal

Kitson's an idiot. In 30 years times no one's gonna remember Reading for Premiership survival. I'm sure winning the cup would be more memorable.

Anyway, the Cup still feels special to me. Going up on the train, seeing fans from everywhere at Euston, much more away fans than usual. Having a chat with fans from somewhere like Blackpool. Probably losing but who cares? Can't wait till Watford Palace.

L r d wrote:

Jago wrote:

debaser wrote:it means a 3rd chance each season to get runover by man utd.

woo.

lol, lol, and lol again

I'm still gonna put a few quid on just in case we win today.

Remember a few seasons ago when we were winning at home and then the Mancs invaded the pitch (Doug gave them half the stadium).

We lost in the end lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-t8rkTPqw

Was a great game. The atmosphere was fantastic for such a match. I love the celebrations after each goal

urgh that was horrible. our defence

schmeichel and mellberg gift them the first and then they just collapse.

really hated our kit that season too. they forgot the blue.

Liverpool reject Luton's approach to let them have all the gate receipts...Luton are in administration, and have serious cash problems...

Nice to see the bigger clubs helping out eh?

I'm sure other teams have helped clubs in similar ways, by ground switching etc...

Matthew Upson wrote:Liverpool reject Luton's approach to let them have all the gate receipts...Luton are in administration, and have serious cash problems...

Nice to see the bigger clubs helping out eh?

I'm sure other teams have helped clubs in similar ways, by ground switching etc...

Why should we though? There is no need to come out in Public at a bad time for Liverpool and humiliate them further

Why on earth should Liverpool help Luton out ?

It's nothing major isit? Kenilworth Road holds 10,200...the share of the gate receipts isn't much...

@Luis...is a few thousand punds much to Liverpool? No...Gerrard earns more in a week than Luton will earn from today, when clubs like Luton go out of business and football starts to become nothing then perhaps someone will do something about the financial mess.

Matthew Upson wrote:It's nothing major isit? Kenilworth Road holds 10,200...the share of the gate receipts isn't much...

@Luis...is a few thousand punds much to Liverpool? No...Gerrard earns more in a week than Luton will earn from today, when clubs like Luton go out of business and football starts to become nothing then perhaps someone will do something about the financial mess.

So how is that our responsibility? just because we're playing them? why don't West Ham give them money or better yet Roman Abromavich should give them the money he wipes his arse with after using the toilet

Who said it was your responsibility? You are playing them...they asked, would've been a nice gesture to say yes. If we were playing Luton and they asked us, I'd be disappointed if we said no. Can only be about 2,000 tickets FFS...

Matthew Upson wrote:Who said it was your responsibility? You are playing them...they asked, would've been a nice gesture to say yes. If we were playing Luton and they asked us, I'd be disappointed if we said no. Can only be about 2,000 tickets FFS...

I personally couldn't care less about Luton to be honest, nothing personal, just we have more important things to be worrying about rather than giving a bit of our money to some club in the championship

c**ts

Chasetown are beating Cardiff.

Sheffield gunner wrote:Chasetown are beating Cardiff.

Sheffield gunner wrote:Chasetown are beating Cardiff.

awesome. they'll struggle to hold on, but it'd be a stunning win if they did.

Why is there only one game on tv and it's a 5 o clock kick off? they should have made one of the carling cup semi finalist's play an early game today and put it on tv

Cardiff equalise just before half-time.

Luis wrote:Why is there only one game on tv and it's a 5 o clock kick off? they should have made one of the carling cup semi finalist's play an early game today and put it on tv

they should've put chasetown on tv, really.

Matthew Upson wrote:Liverpool reject Luton's approach to let them have all the gate receipts...Luton are in administration, and have serious cash problems...

Nice to see the bigger clubs helping out eh?

I'm sure other teams have helped clubs in similar ways, by ground switching etc...

Why should we help them out? We are not a fucking charity mate. Luton stand accused of a series of charges relating to irregular payments to players & agents.

And yes they should have asked to switch the game to Anfield.

And to the orginal question, yes the FA Cup still means a lot espcially for the fans.

This weekend, sums up why we all love football with the all the drama, passion etc etc.

Well today we learned that Liverpool are really stingy twats.
Also Cambridge lost 2-1 to Wolves.
The rev was pretty $h!t, their number 3 was constantly jumping onto Rendells back and we got got naff all.
We got a soft penalty and were 1 nill up, we dominated the first half, but Mick must have said somthing because in the second half Wolves played alright and kinda took the game to us, they made a sub and brought on kyle who went on to score, then with 2 minutes left they scored from a free kick.
But overall they didn't deserve to win, a draw would have been the right result methinks.

Dave Kitson supports Spurs

We need to win one of the domestic cups to get back into Europe & to get back on level terms with Le'Arse for most cup wins, so yes, It's very, very important.