Could you add a poll to this please Mac?
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Could you add a poll to this please Mac?
Done.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Atm i'd say cups but when next season comes around and we arent in the CL after so many years being in it, i'd miss it
Well for a start, it’s worth noting we’re comparing something that is very, very likely to happen for us vs. something that is unlikely to happen for them.
I can’t take these sorts of comparisons seriously, in any case. I don’t see how you can just compare the season in isolation without considering the future or the overall picture. Finishing 7th and winning the FA Cup (and the Carling Cup) doesn’t particularly help our finances or the ability to keep/attract good players. Whether we like to admit it or not, 3rd and setting us up with guaranteed CL football is a major financial advantage which allows us to put big money wage offers on the table for Van Persie or Podolski or whoever. Would Nasri have stayed if we won the Carling Cup last season? No chance in hell. Things like that don’t make much difference. If it's a springboard for future success in the league and in Europe (which we were hoping a Carling Cup win last year would've been) then great. But when all is said and done, money motivates people.
I've quite enjoyed this season. Those extra 10 or so matches where we’ve won (including the thrills of recent late wins and comebacks or Henry winners etc.) - I think many of us have gone into work on Monday morning fairly happy and enjoyed discussing it with others. The high of winning a domestic cup competition would definitely top any of those single events, but does it top all 10 of them combined? Not for me. If Liverpool fans are happy watching re-runs of the penalty shootout against Cardiff, fair enough. Would I want us to swap places with them? No chance in hell. I wouldn’t have swapped seasons with Birmingham last year either. The future looks relatively good for Arsenal and pretty dismal for Liverpool. The league is always the best measure of the quality of a team.
Thats a good point from the Synmeister
Would i swap our season for Liverpools? No
Would i take challenging for 4th and a trophy which Liverpool havent done this season? Probably
I wouldn't swap our season so far with Liverpool's so far.
If they win the FA Cup too then I probably would. It'll be very like our 92/93 season which was a pretty crap, boring season till the last month or so when we went and won 2 cups. Had the finals (or even just the FA Cup one) gone the other way the whole season would have been rubbish. Fine lines. I have very fond memories of the end of that season but I also remember what preceded it.
It has to be remembered that when we did the cup double the league cup had more prestige. It has always been the FA Cup's poorer relation but clubs didn't put reserve sides out for it, it would have been nice to win it last year and we should have but it's hardly open top bus material.
The cup double would be a good achievement by Liverpool. Winning two finals is no mean feat, and the FA Cup is a prestigious trophy. But it'd be tempered. Being that far off the pace in the league is simply not healthy in any respect. That's a team as close to 3rd as to 17th. It isn't just financial - although clearly that is central - but you would have a hard time justifying optimism for the future after that. More chance of meandering than progressing. There would be calls all round for billionaire investment to bridge the gap.
Agree, itf a win both but if a just win the CC then no way 7/8 and the CC is no way a good season for them. If you asked Brum if they haved Swapped the CC for safety im sure all of the fans would.
But i suppose its how both our team build on what we have next season tbh.
As a.one off, Cup double no question. You don't get anything for 4th and in 20 years who Will remember anything from season 2009/10 say?
Bar the invincible & 98, my favourite ever season was 1993 - enjoyed as much as 89, 91 & 02 when we won.
Wembley 4 times in a month, 5 in 3 months and 3 trophies.
No idea if we came 3rd, 6th or 15th in the league that year. For that year, who really cares?
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