"Runner up just means you are the best loser"
Lombardi
"Runner up just means you are the best loser"
Lombardi
Yes it will but how long will that be?Originally Posted by LDG
Stop making the same mistakes season in and season out
If we continue to be trophyless after that then fair enough, we should just accept it
Not atm though
Hmm. Being a football fan, and a Gooner. Next season. Hopefully.
We'll see.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
True. Do you think We need to win the league or A few cups would be ok for now.
We expect to challenge for trophies, not just give it the poor man act whining about how much other teams spend and laud how sensibly our club is run, sensible enough for the likes of Bendtner, Almunia, Denilson, Vela, Chamakh, Arshavin, Park aand countless others to be attached to us like liver spots on a geriatric because of our insistence on paying them a "fair wage" i.e a wage that is far in excess of what they merit or are likely to get anywhere else.
We expect that considering we pay some of the highest ticket prices in Europe that we get some respectful answers from the club, not just them getting Hill-Wood out of his coffin once a year so he can waggle a finger at us and tell us Harold McMillan style that "we've never had it so good". What he means of course is that they've never had it so good because although the trophy cabinet is empty finishing third and fourth every season must look very good on the balance sheet. But this isn't the 1950s anymore that when a Toff remonstrates with us we doff our cap and say "yes guv, sorry guv!"
We expect the Manager to be scrutinised for failing to win a trophy for seven years, the longest silverware drought in thirty years....and to learn from his mistakes and not just try and dismiss us with pre-programmed bullshit about the "quality" of the team.
We expect not to spend every Summer asset stripping like a club in Administration because we have failed to give our more ambitious players assurance of any meaningful strengthening of a deficient squad.
We expect that if we do finish a season empty handed, that the team will have put every sinue of effort into winning every game not just passing the ball about maladroitly in anticipation of something happening.
I just hope we can have an open top bus to celebrate a trophy in the future, I remember missing the 04 one :/
Seeing City yesterday just made me wish that we could win it, been a long 8 years now.
I'm seeing hope that things will be better. But even if we do get max effort out of our players - can we match the consistency that money can buy. Half of us are speculating that we would be better off without our manager but for all his faults is AW over-achieving with the resources at his disposal. Are we thinking that we should be achieving Invincibles standard when the football world has moved on?
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
Is there a written rule that says you have to win a trophy before you can have an open top bus parade?
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Interesting the way Dalglish gets summoned to the US and given a hard time apparently, despite a season where he wins one cup and gets to another cup final - all in his first full season. Contrast that with the way our board behaves towards Wenger - not putting him under pressure at all. They have no ambition for success.
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