Obviously this competition is our only realistic chance of winning a trophy this season, and it got me thinking about how crazy and actually disgraceful it is that we haven’t won it for 32 years
When we last won it in 91, we became the top winners of the oldest football competition in the world. It was our 8th time. Since then, united and Arsenal have far surpassed us and Liverpool and Chelsea drawn level with us.
Spurs used to be synonymous with the fa cup as I was growing up in the 80s.
We’ve had our chances since 91 though. Some good sides, Jols team, Harrys teams and Pochs team all more than good enough to win it. Indeed in those 32 years we’ve reached 7 semi finals - and ballsed each and every one of them up !!
So the question is, will Anges new positive “do or die" style give us a good chance this year? If we get decent draws who knows? Hopefully he will take it seriously with team selection
The FA Cup
posted on 5/12/23
comment by Marching On To Victory!! (U23115)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Where is the history rewriting there?
2020 is recent.
They are both in the title race and in Europe.
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Don’t worry about, because I didn’t lick Levy’s feet, Devon will find fault with what I have said - it’s his m.o.
posted on 5/12/23
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 41 minutes ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 1 minute ago
So much to do with the draw and timing of injuries and suspensions.
Arsenal or Liverpool won't even get passed the third round.
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But both have won it recently and will be fighting on other fronts. We have nothing else other than Levy’s dream of another CL place finish
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You do like to re-write history dont you.
Arsenal won the FA Cup last in 2020 and ended 8th in the league.
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So 3 years ago isn’t recently??? Spurs weren’t in a CL final recently??? - i don’t think you can count that as rewriting history.
If you offered me 8th and an FA cup win right now I would snap your hand off and suspect most posters on this site would
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Funny how you'd accept 8th but moan like hell that we dont have a complete squad yet.
Issue with fans like you is that you see this as a transition season when we are building towards something, we have a great start, get done by injuries and susepnsions and you start moaning, as if you suddenly expected us to have kept up a title challenge, and now you say you'd accept 8th.
You are feckin all over the place with your flip flopping expectations. I aint sticking up for Levy, i'm just calling out your BS!
posted on 5/12/23
It is disgraceful. It'd be something if we even just made a final. Looking at the list of teams that have reached a final since should make you embarrassed.
There can be no cutting corners when we approach this cup. A tricky tie already against a fellow PL club.
posted on 5/12/23
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 41 minutes ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 1 minute ago
So much to do with the draw and timing of injuries and suspensions.
Arsenal or Liverpool won't even get passed the third round.
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But both have won it recently and will be fighting on other fronts. We have nothing else other than Levy’s dream of another CL place finish
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You do like to re-write history dont you.
Arsenal won the FA Cup last in 2020 and ended 8th in the league.
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So 3 years ago isn’t recently??? Spurs weren’t in a CL final recently??? - i don’t think you can count that as rewriting history.
If you offered me 8th and an FA cup win right now I would snap your hand off and suspect most posters on this site would
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Funny how you'd accept 8th but moan like hell that we dont have a complete squad yet.
Issue with fans like you is that you see this as a transition season when we are building towards something, we have a great start, get done by injuries and susepnsions and you start moaning, as if you suddenly expected us to have kept up a title challenge, and now you say you'd accept 8th.
You are feckin all over the place with your flip flopping expectations. I aint sticking up for Levy, i'm just calling out your BS!
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We left ourselves a CB short - that’s been my only criticism other than rotating ourselves out of the cup at Fulham - please point out anything else.
I would be faaacking giddy if we won the FA cup - giddier than you when you open up your present of Daniel Levy Pajamas on Xmas morning.
The problem with fans like you is that you see yourself as a true fan who backs the people in charge regardless and thinks it’s a good thing. When in actual fact your blind devotion to Levy is part of the reason why we don’t compete for trophies, you ask for patience towards a man that’s been here 23 years and get huffy when others point out his failings.
You admittedly don’t flip flop, your Levy devotion is consistent, but it’s also BS and part of the reason we’re not successful
posted on 5/12/23
Levy has ripped the heart and soul out of this club, he doesn't give a flying shiete about winning the FA Cup, it's all about league position and the revenue it brings. If there was £25m prize money available for winning the Cup, Levy would tell his managers to take it seriously.
posted on 5/12/23
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 hour, 10 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - There used to be a football club... (U18109)
posted 41 minutes ago
comment by montleeds (U18330)
posted 1 minute ago
So much to do with the draw and timing of injuries and suspensions.
Arsenal or Liverpool won't even get passed the third round.
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But both have won it recently and will be fighting on other fronts. We have nothing else other than Levy’s dream of another CL place finish
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You do like to re-write history dont you.
Arsenal won the FA Cup last in 2020 and ended 8th in the league.
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So 3 years ago isn’t recently??? Spurs weren’t in a CL final recently??? - i don’t think you can count that as rewriting history.
If you offered me 8th and an FA cup win right now I would snap your hand off and suspect most posters on this site would
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Funny how you'd accept 8th but moan like hell that we dont have a complete squad yet.
Issue with fans like you is that you see this as a transition season when we are building towards something, we have a great start, get done by injuries and susepnsions and you start moaning, as if you suddenly expected us to have kept up a title challenge, and now you say you'd accept 8th.
You are feckin all over the place with your flip flopping expectations. I aint sticking up for Levy, i'm just calling out your BS!
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We left ourselves a CB short - that’s been my only criticism other than rotating ourselves out of the cup at Fulham - please point out anything else.
I would be faaacking giddy if we won the FA cup - giddier than you when you open up your present of Daniel Levy Pajamas on Xmas morning.
The problem with fans like you is that you see yourself as a true fan who backs the people in charge regardless and thinks it’s a good thing. When in actual fact your blind devotion to Levy is part of the reason why we don’t compete for trophies, you ask for patience towards a man that’s been here 23 years and get huffy when others point out his failings.
You admittedly don’t flip flop, your Levy devotion is consistent, but it’s also BS and part of the reason we’re not successful
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I havent "backed the people in charge regardless". I have been plenty critical of the ownership and like you said, they are part of the reason why we have not won more. Just because I am not ENIC Out, does not mean I back them unreservedly.
Difference is that i do not see them as the only reason.
It's a disgrace that we havent won anything for ages and a source of great embarrassment but it deserves greater investigation than simply laying everything at the door of the owners.
I don't see myself as a true fan, I just apply some perspective to my expectations. We have no divine right to be challenging or winning anything. In the natural order of things, were probably the top 6th club in the land, both financially and historically. Fans dont like to hear that and we should always be striving to achieve more than that, but its the facts.
Our cup drought, which has effectively lasted since the mid 1980s, is embarrassing but goes way deeper than Mr Levy and precedes ENICs ownership.
posted on 5/12/23
Whenever we’ve rotated the team, we’ve lost!
This just proves that our squad, bar one or two, aren’t good enough.
Unless we strengthen the squad player situation, we won’t win anything!
posted on 5/12/23
we just drew with City without Romero VdV Bentancur Maddison and Sarr.
We need more depth of course, but what we have also proven this season is that with out best 11-13 on the pitch (the usual XI plus Bentancur & Richy), we have not been beaten.
So we will need a bit of luck with draws and also injuries going forward, but actually the likes of Davies and GLC have also proven they can step in and contribute positively.
We are crying out for a CB but they should only come if they are good enough for the long term. No point panicking and getting someone who in a years time we feel is not good enough to rotate into the team, then we're left with another Dier situation and finding it difficult to move on
posted on 5/12/23
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 hour ago
we just drew with City without Romero VdV Bentancur Maddison and Sarr.
We need more depth of course, but what we have also proven this season is that with out best 11-13 on the pitch (the usual XI plus Bentancur & Richy), we have not been beaten.
So we will need a bit of luck with draws and also injuries going forward, but actually the likes of Davies and GLC have also proven they can step in and contribute positively.
We are crying out for a CB but they should only come if they are good enough for the long term. No point panicking and getting someone who in a years time we feel is not good enough to rotate into the team, then we're left with another Dier situation and finding it difficult to move on
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Well here’s a change - if the manager feels players need rotating then let’s rest a few in the league and so we’re even more prepared for the cup matches.
I don’t buy into us needing rest, we just need to play the strongest team we have available regardless of the competition this season.
Next year if we’re in one of the secondary Euro comps then the group stages we can rotate u til our hearts are Content
posted on 6/12/23
comment by The Hybrid Postecogdoos (U10416)
posted 23 hours, 3 minutes ago
comment by The Mighty Tottenham Hotspur. (U7858)
posted 5 minutes ago
It’s all about the luck of draw
Seem to remember 1 year arsenal won it without playing outside of London
Would rather with the FAC this year snd miss out on Euro footy again next season tbh. Break that hoodoo
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Winning it would put us in Europe
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Oh!!!