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I would love to win the FA Cup. I still think of it as a major trophy. And it would give the team a taste of being winners and give them even more hunger to win bigger.
I bet you go full kit. Shin pads an everything.I wear my spurs top in the gym. Where else you supposed to wear it?
Actually most pundits have been saying the "League" for a while. Yes, a trophy of any kind is good, but everything I have heard is that the best players will eventually leave unless we are competing for and winning league trophies.Indeed. And you know, if we were to go and win the FA Cup, for all the talk of us needing to win just 'a trophy', it won't be long until that win would be seen as minor and we will then be scrutinised for not winning a league with the team we have.
I can just see it now so clearly, the morning after winning the FA Cup, on that Premier League morning talk on SSN, 'yes they've won the FA Cup but now they need to win the league'.
The same people who say we need to win 'a trophy' will probably be the same people that will be quick to disregard it and say we need to win bigger things.
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I would love to win the FA Cup. I still think of it as a major trophy. And it would give the team a taste of being winners and give them even more hunger to win bigger.
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1st 2 posts are opening post to the thread, I left out a bit on past matches.
Yip but I like the idea of you being down to 9 men after 30 minutes
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This forum is full of rabid weirdos - but enjoy as loads aren't going and some want a loss as all want Wenger Out. There's a funny story in there too about a sulky Arse fan at a gym.
Actually most pundits have been saying the "League" for a while. Yes, a trophy of any kind is good, but everything I have heard is that the best players will eventually leave unless we are competing for and winning league trophies.
The League Cup is a side show (and in my opinion should be ditched - no other league in Europe has two domestic knock-out trophies) and the Fa Cup for the top teams is a nice to have, but only League and UCL matter anymore, unfortunately. And why?
Money.
Winning and the revenue that comes with the win and the tv/marketing.
I wear my spurs top in the gym. Where else you supposed to wear it?
Yeah it seems to be who is on, what is being discussed... big league games analysis seems to focus on winning the league, but certainly BBC pundits tend to talk about trophies more in general than say Sky, etc...The narrative is that we need to win a trophy I thought, Alan Shearer for example has been pretty critical about us and the lack of trophies in particular being knocked out of the League Cup. As always though the media and other fans follow a narrative, the narrative is that Spurs will be legends/underachievers until they win a trophy...if we win the League or FA Cup, it will be Spurs will be legends/underachievers if we don't win the league, it's very very predictable.
None of this happened
Dates and job interviews? No? Just me?
The League Cup is a side show (and in my opinion should be ditched - no other league in Europe has two domestic knock-out trophies)
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I’d rather win the Europa league than an English tin pot.Actually most pundits have been saying the "League" for a while. Yes, a trophy of any kind is good, but everything I have heard is that the best players will eventually leave unless we are competing for and winning league trophies.
The League Cup is a side show (and in my opinion should be ditched - no other league in Europe has two domestic knock-out trophies) and the Fa Cup for the top teams is a nice to have, but only League and UCL matter anymore, unfortunately. And why?
Money.
Winning and the revenue that comes with the win and the tv/marketing.
I’d rather win the Europa league than an English tin pot.
It gives the media a simple topic to talk about year on year, hence why they say it about the six big clubsI'd rather win anything and I don't understand being choosey.
I also don't understand the media mentality of "must" win something this season. There are only 3 domestic trophies and 6 clubs that get labeled as teams that "must" win trophies each season plus finish top 4. They can't all do it.
When you add the European trophies to that and the pressure on other sides to do the same and its a ridiculous expectation. Surely competing to win should be the expectation?
Don't forget these beautiesI bet you go full kit. Shin pads an everything.
I'd rather win anything and I don't understand being choosey.
Actually most pundits have been saying the "League" for a while. Yes, a trophy of any kind is good, but everything I have heard is that the best players will eventually leave unless we are competing for and winning league trophies.
The League Cup is a side show (and in my opinion should be ditched - no other league in Europe has two domestic knock-out trophies) and the Fa Cup for the top teams is a nice to have, but only League and UCL matter anymore, unfortunately. And why?
Money.
Winning and the revenue that comes with the win and the tv/marketing.
It's not about being choosey, it's about having no choice but to prioritise certain competitions. It's not possible to field full strength teams in the league cup and still be able to compete with the other top sides in the League and CL. The league cup and even the FA cup now are about trying to get through the early stages as economically as possible player wise even for the likes of City and Yanited. Luck of the draw is as important to the top sides as it is to the lesser ones in the early stages now.