Popular Post Ross 'LCFC' Turner Posted 23 March 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 23 March 2021 I'm an FA Cup snob. As soon as we are out, I completely lose interest in the competition and moan when our games are disrupted because of it. However whilst we are in it, I have absolute cup fever and I cannot wait for the Semi Finals already!! 13 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tickler28 Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 Just now, Ross 'LCFC' Turner said: I'm an FA Cup snob. As soon as we are out, I completely lose interest in the competition and moan when our games are disrupted because of it. However whilst we are in it, I have absolute cup fever and I cannot wait for the Semi Finals already!! Ditto.... wasn't bothered until we beat United....now I'm super bothered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPeakFox Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 6 minutes ago, Ross 'LCFC' Turner said: I'm an FA Cup snob. As soon as we are out, I completely lose interest in the competition and moan when our games are disrupted because of it. However whilst we are in it, I have absolute cup fever and I cannot wait for the Semi Finals already!! 5 minutes ago, tickler28 said: Ditto.... wasn't bothered until we beat United....now I'm super bothered Whilst I get what you mean, I now understand why some fans get very pissed off with this sort of thing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoopid Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 Kind of relieved that fans can't attend for this one. Semi-finals are among the most soul-shreddingly anxiety-provoking occasions you can imagine. Even the triumph of Hillsborough in 69 left me wasted by nervous bouts of copious vomiting before the match. At Old Trafford in 74 I got into a bit of a tear-up with Liverpool fans in the pre-gentrified Salford docks, followed by the heartbreak of the replay at Villa Park. Same venue in 82 saw my piece of crap Cortina MK 3 give up the ghost on the Aston Expressway swiftly followed by the team doing the same in the ground. Very unpleasant atmosphere afterwards, with some drunken Villa fans looking for scalps (hastily assumed brummie accent coming to my rescue). Too much relief and what I see as misplaced optimism at this draw (me included) make this a game I'm so not looking forward to... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paninistickers Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 6 hours ago, worth_the_wait said: In both 1974 and 1982, we drew by far the best team left in the competition of the 3 other teams. In 1974, we drew Liverpool (instead of Newcastle Utd or Burnley). In 1982, we drew Tottenham (instead of West Brom or QPR) So it's "3rd time lucky" with the draw this year. BUT with the obvious caveat, that we mustn't take them lightly and think we just need to turn up to win. (like Villa in the League Cup last year) Southampton have got some good players, and arguably one of the finest dead-ball specialist in the world. Agree. Though there's a meanness about us right now that all good teams possess. That absolute self belief of doing what you do and it should work. No panic if you go a goal down. Just move through the gears and trust the.process. Brighton away. Everton away. Burnley away. Man U equalising against run of play. Only being one up after an hour against a ghastly sheff utd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ric Flair Posted 23 March 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 23 March 2021 This is massive this is. We can claim we aren't that bothered all we like and priorities lie elsewhere in securing top 4 but tell that to the hairs on the back of your neck of your stomach before the game when you're desperate for a pony with nerves. We haven't got this far in 39 years. We've never won it in our history. We have a fantastic chance, with the most equipped squad we've had in decades. It will be a very difficult game and although we have proven we can handle high pressure situations better this season than last it is still a game we are by no means massively certain to get to the final. Southampton on their day are a great team and they have blown any chance of a top 7 finish and Europe via the league so they will be bang up for this. I cannot wait for it, so badly wish we could attend and it will be somewhat of a frustration but this is a huge opportunity and I'm buzzing for it. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpacedX Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 43 minutes ago, Stoopid said: Same venue in 82 saw my piece of crap Cortina MK 3 give up the ghost on the Aston Expressway You've mentioned this before. My Dad had one which looked identical to this... Two litre engine, overhead camshaft motor was actually designed and built by Ford of Europe and carburation was by a single downdraught Weber twin-choke, and the exhaust setup was a semi free-flow system. This meant it had some grunt, with responsive bottom end torque. The sleek curved design was much better than the boxy Mk2 or Mk4/5 and as a kid I thought it looked like some American muscle car off the TV. Loved it. Back on topic...this is unfinished business. The competition was huge growing up, the entire country came to a virtual standstill on cup final day - and that was just the build up. I used to dream of winning it, knowing that the League (old division 1) was an impossibility. There was however part of me that thought, ****, we'll be champions of England before we ever lay our hands on this silverware. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raw Dykes Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 1 hour ago, Stoopid said: Kind of relieved that fans can't attend for this one. Semi-finals are among the most soul-shreddingly anxiety-provoking occasions you can imagine. Even the triumph of Hillsborough in 69 left me wasted by nervous bouts of copious vomiting before the match. At Old Trafford in 74 I got into a bit of a tear-up with Liverpool fans in the pre-gentrified Salford docks, followed by the heartbreak of the replay at Villa Park. Same venue in 82 saw my piece of crap Cortina MK 3 give up the ghost on the Aston Expressway swiftly followed by the team doing the same in the ground. Very unpleasant atmosphere afterwards, with some drunken Villa fans looking for scalps (hastily assumed brummie accent coming to my rescue). Too much relief and what I see as misplaced optimism at this draw (me included) make this a game I'm so not looking forward to... 14 minutes ago, Line-X said: You've mentioned this before. My Dad had one which looked identical to this... Two litre engine, overhead camshaft motor was actually designed and built by Ford of Europe and carburation was by a single downdraught Weber twin-choke, and the exhaust setup was a semi free-flow system. This meant it had some grunt, with responsive bottom end torque. The sleek curved design was much better than the boxy Mk2 or Mk4/5 and as a kid I thought it looked like some American muscle car off the TV. Loved it. Back on topic...this is unfinished business. The competition was huge growing up, the entire country came to a virtual standstill on cup final day - and that was just the build up. I used to dream of winning it, knowing that the League (old division 1) was an impossibility. There was however part of me that thought, ****, we'll be champions of England before we ever lay our hands on this silverware. I don't know if you're interested in car restoration stuff at all, but there's a Youtube channel run by a fella who's obsessed with mk3 Cortinas. He's restored a few. The videos are very long - I found myself skipping through a lot of them. https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteCswampy/featured 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpacedX Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 27 minutes ago, Raw Dykes said: I don't know if you're interested in car restoration stuff at all, but there's a Youtube channel run by a fella who's obsessed with mk3 Cortinas. He's restored a few. The videos are very long - I found myself skipping through a lot of them. https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteCswampy/featured Two wheels myself - but I quite enjoyed some of this. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJB-fox Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 2 hours ago, Ross 'LCFC' Turner said: I'm an FA Cup snob. As soon as we are out, I completely lose interest in the competition and moan when our games are disrupted because of it. However whilst we are in it, I have absolute cup fever and I cannot wait for the Semi Finals already!! In fairness this is the first time in years I’ve had genuine interest in the latter stages of the FA cup. Normally so boring seeing Chelsea Man City Man Utd fill the semi-final and final spaces. Fantastic opportunity for us. Cup fever has arrived! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamble92 Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 11 minutes ago, TJB-fox said: In fairness this is the first time in years I’ve had genuine interest in the latter stages of the FA cup. Normally so boring seeing Chelsea Man City Man Utd fill the semi-final and final spaces. Fantastic opportunity for us. Cup fever has arrived! Yeah I think this is it. It isn't so much us not being in it so I lose interest, its the same old teams time and time again being the last 4. If clubs like ours and Southampton made it more often it would add so much more to it. Especially if we all did so with full strength teams going for it. Man City and Chelsea always getting there with half a team out is just tiresome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJB-fox Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 1 minute ago, Gamble92 said: Yeah I think this is it. It isn't so much us not being in it so I lose interest, its the same old teams time and time again being the last 4. If clubs like ours and Southampton made it more often it would add so much more to it. Especially if we all did so with full strength teams going for it. Man City and Chelsea always getting there with half a team out is just tiresome. The last FA cup final I genuinely enjoyed and remember well as a spectacle was the Arsenal Hull final for the reason you’ve listed. Or maybe Utd palace. The rest have been so boring and easy to forget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamble92 Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 9 minutes ago, TJB-fox said: The last FA cup final I genuinely enjoyed and remember well as a spectacle was the Arsenal Hull final for the reason you’ve listed. Or maybe Utd palace. The rest have been so boring and easy to forget It feels like everything has been geared for the London clubs with it. That Hull game you speak of, from memory I think they made it a 5pm Sunday kick off with no trains back to Hull after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrefelderFox666 Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 17 minutes ago, Gamble92 said: It feels like everything has been geared for the London clubs with it. That Hull game you speak of, from memory I think they made it a 5pm Sunday kick off with no trains back to Hull after. It was a Saturday game but it was a late one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 2 hours ago, tickler28 said: Ditto.... wasn't bothered until we beat United....now I'm super bothered It’s called a defence mechanism. Me too. Thought we’d lose to Manure like usual. Now, though, well, now it’s ON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 Hoping the defeat in last year's league cup semi final, where we were favourites to win, will be a great motivator and we ensure that first FA cup final for over 50 years is secured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 1 hour ago, MGLCFC said: Hoping the defeat in last year's league cup semi final, where we were favourites to win, will be a great motivator and we ensure that first FA cup final for over 50 years is secured. No easy games. Ask Rodgers. You’ve have to turn up to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGLCFC Posted 23 March 2021 Share Posted 23 March 2021 31 minutes ago, ARM1968 said: No easy games. Ask Rodgers. You’ve have to turn up to win. I agree, but I'm hoping the disappointment of losing a semi final last year adds that bit of extra determination to succeed this time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross 'LCFC' Turner Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 If Man City win the league & the FA Cup, who will play them in the Charity Shield at the start of next season? Will it be the runners up of the FA Cup? I'm just thinking there could be another potential trip to Wembley that hopefully more fans could attend ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchsntf Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 On 23/03/2021 at 14:01, Ross 'LCFC' Turner said: I'm an FA Cup snob. As soon as we are out, I completely lose interest in the competition and moan when our games are disrupted because of it. However whilst we are in it, I have absolute cup fever and I cannot wait for the Semi Finals already!! On 23/03/2021 at 14:02, tickler28 said: Ditto.... wasn't bothered until we beat United....now I'm super bothered On 23/03/2021 at 14:08, HighPeakFox said: Whilst I get what you mean, I now understand why some fans get very pissed off with this sort of thing. It places in the Putz & plastic catagory...thats why... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moore_94 Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 11 minutes ago, Ross 'LCFC' Turner said: If Man City win the league & the FA Cup, who will play them in the Charity Shield at the start of next season? Will it be the runners up of the FA Cup? I'm just thinking there could be another potential trip to Wembley that hopefully more fans could attend ..... Would be whoever finishes 2nd in the league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack1993 Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 CAN SOMEBODY DECIDE WHICH DATE THIS IS ON SO THAT I CAN PLAN WHICH DAY TO GET FAR TOO DRUNK ON PLEASE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrefelderFox666 Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 28 minutes ago, Jack1993 said: CAN SOMEBODY DECIDE WHICH DATE THIS IS ON SO THAT I CAN PLAN WHICH DAY TO GET FAR TOO DRUNK ON PLEASE Just back yourself up and plan in both days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack1993 Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 4 minutes ago, KrefelderFox666 said: Just back yourself up and plan in both days. ahh very clever... I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoyleFox Posted 24 March 2021 Share Posted 24 March 2021 37 minutes ago, Jack1993 said: CAN SOMEBODY DECIDE WHICH DATE THIS IS ON SO THAT I CAN PLAN WHICH DAY TO GET FAR TOO DRUNK ON PLEASE I thought someone suggested we'd need to be Saturday so Chelsea v Man City can be Sunday, due to their CL schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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