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Watching Soccer Saturday and the panel are discussing Newcastle. Some of them believe that the fans would be happy to win the cup and go down. Le Tissier said ‘ask Wigan fans if they would swap that day’.
So….would you?
If we could turn back time and stay up, but not win the cup. Would you?
Not at all.
Would we now be able to say “wow, remember when we finished 17th in te Premier League”? :) :) :)
No.
The FA Cup win was and will always be a historical occasion as was getting in the Premier League initially.
We stayed there for 8 seasons and it was great, but it would have ended eventually and was getting harder and harder as time went by.
Winning the FA Cup was momentous and one of the greatest days of my life and will take a lot of beating.
We have made a new start now, and hopefully we will build ourselves back up and and get another chance to push for a place in the top league, and at the same time we will still have the Cup competions to have a go at.
Who knows, we might have the same debate again one day with a bit of luck.
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I always thought watching my team in Europe was a pipe dream. The FA Cup win allowed us that not to mention the greatest day in any true supporters lives.If you don’t ‘do’ or ‘get’ football you’ll never understand that I would take the FA Cup run and then win over staying in the Prem ….any day. One of my best days ever, followed by Bruges and Maribor. I can look at photos and You Tube clips time and again, and never get bored … recounting a stunning experience.
The excitement of the game and the second of silence when the ball went in and the echo of disbelief as everyone said ‘its gone in’, and then utter blinkin mayhem.
Another really great memory is how wonderful and congratulatory Man Citeh fans were in defeat. That also made for the brilliance of the whole experience.
If, and only if we were still in the Prem every decent result would still be a relief, but the delight was always immense. Only thing is that of course games these days are fun, but they don’t have the ‘sense of event’ about them.
FA Cup for sure. A day those of us there will never forget.
We were bound to get relegated eventually; we rode our luck a couple of times on the last day! No pundit gave us a cat in hell’s chance of staying up more than a season and we proved them wrong, every one of them. In 8 seasons we beat every team who were in the Prem all 8 seasons with us.
Yes we got lucky with the draw, but we took advantage of it and produced the big performances when needed ie Everton away and the final. I’ll always remember sitting in a bar in Albufeira watching the Everton game with 2 Liverpool fans…we were all happy.
Our name on the trophy for all time…”There is a new name on the trophy and that name is Wigan Athletic….”
Clive T summed it up perfectly….we have never seen a greater day :lol:
Blimey .. Yes the Everton game … I remember exactly where I was …nearly in a car crash with Ali. my wife, and I know exactly whereabouts in town I was when it nearly happened!!
There is only one winner – the one that to this day & to the day i die will always live long in the memory – 11 may 2013
I didn’t watch this so I don’t know on which side of the fence Le Tissier was sitting. Sky has effectively devalued this competition to the point where PL clubs regard it as an unwelcome intrusion into the business of avoiding the real possibility of financial oblivion. Le Tissier is old enough to understand the significance of the FA Cup so I hope he was suggesting that we would rightly have taken winning the cup over relegation.
At this moment Newcastle fans would take staying in the PL above winning the cup. Their perception is that Newcastle is a PL club and that is where they should be. They’ve won the cup before so to win it again doesn’t carry the same significance as a team, from such a humble background, winning it for the first time.
So I pose another question. At the start of that season if you were offered winning the FA Cup but being relegated and losing the manager to an established PL club and you took that option then it is shameful hypocrisy to then criticise the subsequent actions of the manager that made it possible.
Le Tissier was on our side Sammy. He said as a fan of a football club he’d want to win trophies. The rest be-littled us and seemed to think we would choose Premier League. It is the best league in the World after all.
I didn’t watch this so I don’t know on which side of the fence Le Tissier was sitting. Sky has effectively devalued this competition to the point where PL clubs regard it as an unwelcome intrusion into the business of avoiding the real possibility of financial oblivion. Le Tissier is old enough to understand the significance of the FA Cup so I hope he was suggesting that we would rightly have taken winning the cup over relegation.At this moment Newcastle fans would take staying in the PL above winning the cup. Their perception is that Newcastle is a PL club and that is where they should be. They’ve won the cup before so to win it again doesn’t carry the same significance as a team, from such a humble background, winning it for the first time.
So I pose another question. At the start of that season if you were offered winning the FA Cup but being relegated and losing the manager to an established PL club and you took that option then it is shameful hypocrisy to then criticise the subsequent actions of the manager that made it possible.
Take your tie off Samantha and take a day off! Put something casual on and go for a pint or a walk or something! :)
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