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I guarantee you right now that the FA cup in 1987 was a bigger and much harder trophy to win than the Europa League of 2025 (Az Alkmaar, Bodo, Frankfurt and 16th placed Man United as a run!) is.
We won in 1991 with Gascoigne. We lost in the final in 1987.

In 1991 we beat Woolwich in the semifinal that was a massive win. Otherwise we beat Portsmouth, Notts County, Nottingham Forest… let’s not exaggerate.

Even if the FA cup then is equivalent to the Europa League last season… that doesn’t change the fact that hes pining for a time where the results were identical to the last four seasons.

Now compare how he feels about those two periods…
 
We are one of the richest clubs in the whole world and yet anytime were remotely linked to a top calibre player whats the general feeling about us signing them?

I tell you what the feeling is, laughter. Laughter at the thought of them possibly wanting to sign for tottenham.

That should say everything you need to know about tottenham the football club under the current ownership.
 
We won in 1991 with Gascoigne. We lost in the final in 1987.

In 1991 we beat Woolwich in the semifinal that was a massive win. Otherwise we beat Portsmouth, Notts County, Nottingham Forest… let’s not exaggerate.

Even if the FA cup then is equivalent to the Europa League last season… that doesn’t change the fact that hes pining for a time where the results were identical to the last four seasons.

Now compare how he feels about those two periods…
There’s no equivalence between the FA cup and the Europa League. To win the FA Cup, you have to win six games? To win the Europa, you not only have to get through that tournament, but play well enough for the entire season before, to even get to play for the thing.

It’s not even close.
 
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I was lucky and old enough to see that team play !

Seems like yesterday
 
There’s no equivalence between the FA cup and the Europa League. To win the FA Cup, you have to win six games? To win the Europa, you not only have to get through that tournament, but play well enough for the entire season before, to even get to play for the thing.

It’s not even close.
Totally agree.

I was happy to concede it because it did nothing to affect my argument.
 
You can’t start with “totally agree” and have “but” as your next gambit.

And you can’t say “we’ll never win anything with this model”, when we have, and then claim to be “stating the facts”.

As I said, if you or anyone else wants to bang on constantly about how much they hate the horrible bald man, crack on. Free country and all that. I generally just end up ignoring most of those who do this, but that shouldn’t be an issue. My point is that constantly baby whining on here is not, has never been and will never be, anything close to “calling out the club”.

People acting like their drivel on here is somehow worth anything is embarrassing.
It must be worth something because you are always having a paddy about it.
 
There’s no equivalence between the FA cup and the Europa League. To win the FA Cup, you have to win six games? To win the Europa, you not only have to get through that tournament, but play well enough for the entire season before, to even get to play for the thing.

It’s not even close.

Lmao "get through the tournament" playing the backwater of Europe FFS - your average championship team could get through a Europa League "league" stage.

Guess what mate? To win an FA cup you likely have to actually beat a good prem side a city, chelsea, liverpool etc, teams miles too strong for the Europa League. To win the europa league you have to beat ... the 16th best team in the prem after beating a Norwegian team in a semi final.
 
And you can’t say “we’ll never win anything with this model”, when we have, and then claim to be “stating the facts”.

***Never win anything of worth that the actually elite teams of Europe have their focus on.

Of course we can win the Europa League. We've always been able to win the Europa League, some insanely average teams have won it .. it's the fucking europa league, by its very nature it excludes the very best teams in Europe.
 
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