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Yes, of course, we all want Spurs to win trophies, and winning, say, the League Cup is better than no trophies... but who really cares that much about the domestic cups anymore? Who remembers the teams in the last 10 FA Cup and League Cup finals?
The Cups are no longer what they used to be. There have even been calls for scrapping the League Cup as it lost its prestige a long time ago.
What matters now is the CL and EPL title and qualifying for the CL. That's where the big money lies and that is also where the main attention of players is.
Players have turned Spurs down because they're not in the CL, meaning the CL is a prime attraction for other players...while I have never heard recently any player citing the FA Cup or League being the reason they joined Spurs or any other English club.
It is time to scrap the League Cup – and give the FA Cup a radical makeover | Paul Wilson
Pep Guardiola’s call is well placed and better still would be for a streamlined FA Cup to emerge with the final in Februarywww.theguardian.com
So next season just as ww3 starts/ends. Kane hits the winning penalty against Woolwich to win the pl just as a nuke hits north London.Yeah but we will all be dead
Sounds very plausibleSo next season just as ww3 starts/ends. Kane hits the winning penalty against Woolwich to win the pl just as a nuke hits north London.
The world has changed a lot since then. Its worth keeping in mind. The reality is that today <5% of clubs win anything. And shrinking.The point your missing is that before ENIC we were part of the 10% who regularly did win something.
People love saying this to try and cover up for the fact that we’ve gone an embarrassingly long time without winning so much as a spoon for a ‘big club’. Yes a League Cup or FA Cup win isn’t going to be the reason a big name signs, it isn’t massively going to increase the fame of the club and it is true the prestige of both have declined. But to act like they’re meaningless is stupid. Winning these kind of trophies helps build a winning mentality that this club so fucking desperately needs. And these are the realistic trophies for us too, so it’s v weird that some fans look down upon these trophies. The last time we won one I was in primary school, now I’m going to graduate uni in a few months. How can some think that’s acceptable? For a ‘big club’??Yes, of course, we all want Spurs to win trophies, and winning, say, the League Cup is better than no trophies... but who really cares that much about the domestic cups anymore? Who remembers the teams in the last 10 FA Cup and League Cup finals?
The Cups are no longer what they used to be. There have even been calls for scrapping the League Cup as it lost its prestige a long time ago.
What matters now is the CL and EPL title and qualifying for the CL. That's where the big money lies and that is also where the main attention of players is.
Players have turned Spurs down because they're not in the CL, meaning the CL is a prime attraction for other players...while I have never heard recently any player citing the FA Cup or League being the reason they joined Spurs or any other English club.
It is time to scrap the League Cup – and give the FA Cup a radical makeover | Paul Wilson
Pep Guardiola’s call is well placed and better still would be for a streamlined FA Cup to emerge with the final in Februarywww.theguardian.com
So next season just as ww3 starts/ends. Kane hits the winning penalty against Woolwich to win the pl just as a nuke hits north London.
What's really staggering is that the 9th richest club on the planet has won just 1 relatively minor trophy in a quarter of a century, and nothing at all in a decade and a half.
Why is that? Probably, because as ENIC themselves have confirmed, they only chose to become involved in football to milk it's global popularity. Trophies are of little, if any interest to them.
9th richest doesn't GUARANTEE trophies... Not with the type of money you're talking about...Out of the last 30 pieces of silver ( domestic) they’ve been shared by just 8 clubs Man City way in front with 12….Man Utd one of the wealthiest clubs in the world just 3……it’s very difficult without financial doping if our owners are not going to play ball with resources us winning anything is going to be a big ask+playing like we did last night is not going to help.
This is absolute bollocks Im afraid and typical of a club with a denialist mentality.Yes, of course, we all want Spurs to win trophies, and winning, say, the League Cup is better than no trophies... but who really cares that much about the domestic cups anymore? Who remembers the teams in the last 10 FA Cup and League Cup finals?
The Cups are no longer what they used to be. There have even been calls for scrapping the League Cup as it lost its prestige a long time ago.
What matters now is the CL and EPL title and qualifying for the CL. That's where the big money lies and that is also where the main attention of players is.
Players have turned Spurs down because they're not in the CL, meaning the CL is a prime attraction for other players...while I have never heard recently any player citing the FA Cup or League being the reason they joined Spurs or any other English club.
It is time to scrap the League Cup – and give the FA Cup a radical makeover | Paul Wilson
Pep Guardiola’s call is well placed and better still would be for a streamlined FA Cup to emerge with the final in Februarywww.theguardian.com