What would you rather have won?

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What would you rather of won?

  • Premier League 2016/17

    Votes: 35 48.6%

  • Champions League 2018/19

    Votes: 37 51.4%
  • Total voters
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Premier League for me, because that team at that point was ten times better than it was when we got to the CL final.

I was still in love with the whole era back then, where as by 2019 I had a lot of negativity towards a few players and Poch. The poison had already set in.

I think 2016 would have been one of those legendary PL winning teams, considered one of the best in this country’s history.
“Pochs Spurs“ would have been talked about for decades, even rivals would have to concede we was one of those teams, where as most people last year would have just said we were shit and didn’t deserve it.
 
sammyspurs said:
No idea what that’s about
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For me it has to be the London Enterprise Architecture best new stadium build award for 2019. Granted, not much competition - but it looks amazing on our trophy shelf.
 
Arteta about to win a trophy in half a year of managing.
Is this really their 3rd cup since we’ve been “better” than them?
Kind of takes the shine off finishing above them when they keep winning FA cups. Wasn’t that our trophy once?
 
FightingIllini said:
Yeah, no shame for beating whoever they put in front of you, but part of the CL excitement is the opportunity to take on foreign global megabrands with the Messis and Ronaldos of the world.
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We also survived a pretty tough group.

Battering Ronaldo's mob the year before was indeed a lot of fun though.
 
I wouldn't swap the best training ground trophy or moral premier league champions trophy for any other silverware in world football
 
skywalker68 said:
If we had been in the final tonight the team wouldn't have found a way to lose it anyway.
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Gooners will be all over us now spurs can't win fuck all and it's true.
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Well how can we? We have a set of players who spent five years under a manager who’s attitude towards this cup was “where are Wigan now”......just an ego isn’t it?

Well a shit Woolwich team are now three FA Cups better off since he came and left.
At least we lost the big one though eh, blinding...
 
docomospur said:
With that truly stirring backs-to-the-wall run up to the CL final, I'd have to pick that but only by a hair. Sigh, what could've been :pochcry:
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I'm actually starting to change my mind, the previous disappointment of 16/17 probably would have made 18/19 even more special. Still fuming we didn't even get to even enjoy the experience of being in a CL final properly because we conceded a pen (that looking back shouldn't have been a penalty) 20 seconds in.
 
Champions league just pips it for me. Even though we've not won the league since god was a lad, we have actually WON it. Champions league would have completed the set of every major trophy won and major European recognition. Also Woolwich have never won it and likely never will, so we'd always have that against those cunts.
 
This thread title breaks my heart by reminding me of two golden opportunities we allowed to slip through our fingers. It also puts me in mind of the programme Bullseye when the contestants would be heartbroken at missing out on the mystery jackpot only for Jim Bowen to pull back the curtains and say "Let's see what you would have won".

Europa League next season followed by the league title 21/22 season, let's do it !
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I voted Champions League, but it was a very tough decision. The team from 2016-17 was obviously better than the team that got to the CL final in 2018-19. As sammyspurs sammyspurs says that team would have been talked about for years as one of the teams in PL history - if we had won the CL after the run in 2018-19 the narrative would have been we were shit and didn't deserve it.

I give it to CL though because: i) it's the bigger prize; ii) every player really wants to win it; iii) bragging rights - Woolwich have never won it, nor Man City, and you could argue Man United over the years have under-performed. It would raise us a notch as a club.

Much enjoyed reading the thread btw, even the wind-up comments. I do think though we were 90 mins away from a CL trophy, but the season we finished league runners-up it was never really that close: even with our amazing end of season form Chelsea still won the league fairly comfortably, not as if it was by a point or two.
 
AussieYiddo

AussieYiddo

Two massive trophies which we came so close to winning - both still haunt me that we were actually so close, but what would you rather have won?

To me it's really hard - you've got:

The Premier League, haven't won it since 61. Our last season at WHL, our best team in my lifetime, would have pipped a Chelsea team full of wankers to the title after the Battle of the Bridge the season before, winning it over 38 games rather than a few cup games

OR

The Champions League, the biggest prize in club football, we've never won it, the manner of the run with the Ajax and City games, Pochettino's final season, a one off game to win it so you get that big celebration, only a few weeks after moving into the new stadium, beating Liverpool in the final, the Poch era finishing with the trophy he and that squad littered with club icons such as Vertonghen, Eriksen, Alderweireld etc deserved, Woolwich have never won it and lost in a UEL final a few days before

To me it is on a knife edge but I think I have to go Prem - thoughts?
 
I'd have to say the PL. We've won cups in my lifetime but never a league title. That's the ultimate. The 2016/17 team was as close as i've ever seen us get so it's still disappointing we didn't get over the line.

Plus the way we played and the fact we did it without breaking the bank and being outspent massively by our rivals (Leicester apart) would have made it taste even sweeter.
 
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