Shows you how hard it is to win the Cup when a team finishing in the top 2 7 years out of 10 (65-74) only wins it once, and the team who has dominated the current decade hasn't won it since 2004.
Such 2nd division luminaries as Sunderland, Southampton and West Ham have all won it since we have, as have so-called small clubs like Wimbledon, Coventry, Portsmouth and now Wigan. While I can understand Wenger ranking CL qualification above the League Cup, surely after 8 years without a pot he needs some sort of trophy to define the Emirates half of his tenure. Al Sent from my iPhone On 15 May 2013, at 12:39, John Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Much I can agree with there Al. Our last 8 years have been pitiful in > comparison. Some realism needs to come into the expectations of all Leeds > fans - should we go up in the next couple of years, we would need an enormous > cash injection to get into the top third of the Prem. Premier League this > year has been weak, so if that continues we stand a chance of re-establishing > ourselves, but the odds are stacked against us, unless we have a junior team > with Batty, Speed, Strachan and MacAllister, and they've all been time-warped > back to 16 years old :-) > > How we only ever won 1 FA Cup is beyond me?? > > From: Alan Edgar <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:27 > Subject: [LU] Non-LU : Wigan > > > > Bet they'd happily relinquish the Cup to avoid relegation. > > I wouldn't, if I were in their shoes, and here's why. > > They are in the history books for ever as winners of the FA Cup (a trophy the > mighty LUFC have also won precisely ... once) having beaten the stinking rich > reigning Prem Champs with an injury time winner - it won't get any better > than that for a club of their stature. > > So what if they got relegated ? > > They might be back next year - Hull haven't taken long to return. > > Sure, they might never get back, but then again if they'd stayed up this year > then they'd only be favourites to go down next year, especially as Martinez > is almost certain to leave (and would have done so even if they'd stayed up > as he has to move onwards and upwards career wise now). > > They've earned (not been given, like Stoke 2 years ago) a place in Europe for > the first time, and even if they don't last long, they will enjoy the ride. > > Instead of carping at them because they get smaller crowds than us, we should > be looking to emulate them, both in the over-achievement of 8 years of Prem > football (while we've scratched our ar$e in League 1 and the Championship) > and the style of football they play. > > Al > _______________________________________________ > Leedslist mailing list > Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > > MARCHING ON TOGETHER > > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
