General Football Nonsense

[Mac76]

Do you mean the 8-2? That was embarrassing but I don’t think enough was at stake for it to be something which has scarred me. Unlike…

The semi-final in 1991. Gazza etc. It was the first really big game I’d been to. I remember looking through the teams before the game and thinking “we are so much better than this lot”. And then…
I still remember the cheer that went up as I walked into the 6th form common room on the Monday morning

1995 CWC Final. Nayim from the half way like. Ugh

1999 FA Cup semi-final replay. Bergkamp missed the penalty, then that fucking Giggs goal which gets shown endlessly. And they win the fucking treble while we end up with nothing.

Those are the big ones although I remember being incredibly angry when we contrived to draw 4-4 with Spurs at The Emirates having been 4-2 up with a couple of minutes left.

I hate that Giggs goal, I always describe it as a 'tap-in' to wind up Man Ure fans

After all, it basically was because none of our defenders really tried to tackle the f****r at all so he was just running at our goal unimpeded

[IBK]

Do you mean the 8-2? That was embarrassing but I don’t think enough was at stake for it to be something which has scarred me. Unlike…

The semi-final in 1991. Gazza etc. It was the first really big game I’d been to. I remember looking through the teams before the game and thinking “we are so much better than this lot”. And then…
I still remember the cheer that went up as I walked into the 6th form common room on the Monday morning

1995 CWC Final. Nayim from the half way like. Ugh

1999 FA Cup semi-final replay. Bergkamp missed the penalty, then that fucking Giggs goal which gets shown endlessly. And they win the fucking treble while we end up with nothing.

Those are the big ones although I remember being incredibly angry when we contrived to draw 4-4 with Spurs at The Emirates having been 4-2 up with a couple of minutes left.

Good calls all. Can I propose the 2011 League Cup final...losing to Birmingham City

[IBK]

...and of course the CL final...that saw me in tears at Highbury and Islington tube...with people asking me whether I was OK (a drink or two had been taken)

[Letters]

...and of course the CL final...that saw me in tears at Highbury and Islington tube...with people asking me whether I was OK (a drink or two had been taken)

I was lucky enough to be there in 2006, so while yes the result was disappointing I think the excitement of being at a CL Final mitigated somewhat.
Good call about the 2011 League Cup Final. I was at that one too but having been so long since we'd won anything, and facing an opposition who we were clearly big favourites against, that was massively frustrating. I felt then (wrongly, thankfully) that Wenger would never win us a trophy again.
2000 UEFA Cup Final was pretty frustrating too. I was at that one too. Absolutely battered them and then lost on penalties. Sort of the reverse of the Cup Final against Man Utd!

[Marc Overmars]

2011 final was painful because of how we lost it with a calamity at the end but it doesn’t quite register the same as other notable defeats for me. I think my view on where we were heading as a club was dramatically changing at the time, win or lose I don’t think that cup win would have done anything for us. Plus it was the League Cup which is shite anyway, so it’s easily forgotten about.

[Letters]

2011 final was painful because of how we lost it with a calamity at the end but it doesn’t quite register the same as other notable defeats for me. I think my view on where we were heading as a club was dramatically changing at the time, win or lose I don’t think that cup win would have done anything for us. Plus it was the League Cup which is shite anyway, so it’s easily forgotten about.

All true, but it had been so long since a trophy - not by Spursian standards of course, but after the glory years under Wenger it seemed like a very long time.
Then finally, finally we had one put on a plate for us and we just didn't turn up. All hugely frustrating.

[IBK]

Yes of course it was a lesser cup, but in the moment I was angry and gutted by losing to 'inferior' opposition when as Letters says it was there on a plate for us and our fall from grace having been so successful in the first part of the previous decade still hurt...

[Mac76]

Not that he's bitter or anything

Fat bung-taking c***

I love the “‘Go over and ruin that team” bit - has he not been watching how bad it was during the Southgate era? Oh, soz, of course not, he's still too sour at not getting the job, especially when even Big Sam did

https://www.theguardian.com/football...hel-german-spy

[Letters]

He's a dinosaur.

[HCZ_Reborn]

He's a dinosaur.

Of course he is, he’s 78. He’s part of the post war boomer generation that would have associated the Germans with the Nazis . Something we did in this country for some considerable time (Fawlty Towers, Two world wars and one World Cup chant etc) even in the 1990s we had Harry Enfield doing Jurgen the German.

The problem with comments like these from Redknapp, is that in demonising Ze Germans….we lose sight of who has always been the historical enemy of England and that is France.