Greatest Single Moment?

[tom27111]

On the anniversary of us winning the Cup, a simple, but maybe strange question. 

 

What felt better?

 

I've seen people describe the Cup win as the greatest day of their life, but surely winning the League was a better achievement?

 

For me, winning the League was the most incredible achievement in the history of sport. 

 

But...it was stressful, it was a real possibility from February onwards. 

 

The Cup was 90 minutes. Winner takes all.

 

For me, it felt better winning the Cup, the outburst of emotion was greater, sheer joy at finally lifting a trophy that we could realistically win and had failed at so many times.

 

Winning the league was harder, don't get me wrong, but to do something over 90 minutes, rather than 38 games just gave me that emotional burst.

 

Almost like winning a sprint over a marathon.

 

A nice problem to have! 

[Tielemans63]

FA Cup was incredible- something I never thought I'd see but it doesn't even come close to the title win. Still can't believe it happened 6 years later! 

[Webbo]

Hard to say really. The cup came down to 1 match, the league took a season. 

[tetly]

The great escape was very special. I loved our fight that season.

[Stadt]

League.

 

Only possible reason the cup win could be described as better is we won it ourselves rather than waiting in the result of a different game.

[CUJimmy]

Has to be the league just because it came out of the blue.  Even when it came down to the last couple of games I couldn’t help thinking that it would be snatched away from us, probably by a piece of dodgy refereeing.

 

With the FA Cup we might have been underdogs but I don’t think many people were particularly surprised that we won.

 

Both in the top 5 days in my life though.

[whoareyaaa]

League without a doubt

[HybridFox]

The league win was built up over a period of time and we started to believe it as the season drew to a close. Also wasn't confirmed on our own patch. I always felt had we scored a winner at home to seal the title, there would have been absolute limbs. 

 

The FA Cup was huge on a personal level. It was the one dream growing up that I'd get to go to a Wembley final to see us win it. Even when in the championship, it was still a possibility with the luck of the draw. The Premier League title was out of the question, the impossible..but it wasn't my dream.

 

Having gone a year without football, been in lockdown longer than anyone else in the country, to being at Wembley for the first FA cup final Leicester had been in my lifetime having never won it before, nothing could ever top that. 

 

That Tielemans goal will never be beaten in my opinion as a single moment. It was special

[Bert]

They’re both amazing achievements and both very special in their own rights. To be there to witness winning The FA Cup was something else and to finally tick off the one English trophy that had alluded us since our existence after life being put on hold for nearly two years was very special. But to win the league over 38 games by 10 points after pulling off the greatest escape the league has ever seen will never be topped for me. 

Edited 15 May 2022 by Bert

[Jattdogg]

League, any day, all day. 

 

Fa cup is doable again for clubs like us. The league against the uber rich clubs likely no chance.

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

League. Once in a lifetime. FA cup is possible every year.

[Raj]

Single moment as in a one off its gotta be the FA Cup as it was us and we were there.

 

Gotta bear in mind that the Premier league win was throughout the season with some extraordinary  days and nights BUT inevitably  it was the Chelsea win giving us the title(Even thigh we would have done it later anyway).

 

One off single moment=FA Cup(Did I mention theres a documentary about it!!!!)

[stripeyfox]

Great questioon Tom

 

The Cup Final was an incredible day out and I was lucky to be able to get a ticket. I always dreamed we'd win the Cup one day.

 

I never even conisdered for a moment that we'd ever have the remotest chance of winning the league but that season was amazing - it was bloody stressful though towards the end but the sheer pride I felt from winning the league was incredible. I know we've mentioned this before but I love it when you chat to fans of other clubs (particularly clubs outside the "Big 6") and you hear how much they loved us winning. 

 

I think in the end, I'd have to come down as "League" being the best moment, but the Cup Final day out was amazing. Consider how lucky we are to have witnessed both in the space of a few years!
 

 

[Vlad the Fox]

The league for me. I think why you’re asking is that bang moment, the moment of explosive joy. While the league win was a gradual build up of let’s get 40 points to mid table security to europa league to champions league to oh my ****ing god we’re going to win it. I think the tension built up that night when chelsea did spurs was so intense as that season was probably going to be our one chance of claiming the title so that when hazard levelled I exploded, a few decades of dreaming becoming a reality just blew me away. Shame it wasn’t done in front of our fans at home (earlier so we could still enjoy the title lift day as it was) but at that point I would have taken it however it came.

 

Standing behind that goal when Tielemans rocket broke the net was insane and to finally have the FA Cup was truly magical but there wasn’t that fear that we may never have this chance again. 

Edited 15 May 2022 by Vlad the Fox

[tom27111]

Thanks for the responses and the votes, and especially those who have explained. 

 

It's a tough one. League is winning by a mile. No doubt that's the greatest achievement, that was never in question.

 

The League win built up and I thought I'd break down to pieces if/when we won it. I didn't. Took ages to sink in.

 

The Cup win, I hugged my step-son (first time ever, no homo) then sank to my knees in tears.

 

That one moment felt better. Even though it was the lesser achievement.

[tom27111]

3 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

The league for me. I think why you’re asking is that bang moment, the moment of explosive joy. While the league win was a gradual build up of let’s get 40 points to mid table security to europa league to champions league to oh my ****ing god we’re going to win it. I think the tension built up that night when chelsea did spurs was so intense as that season was probably going to be our one chance of claiming the title so that when hazard levelled I exploded, a few decades of dreaming becoming a reality just blew me away. Shame it wasn’t done in front of our fans at home (earlier so we could still enjoy the title lift day as it was) but at that point I would have taken it however it came.

 

Standing behind that goal when Tielemans rocket broke the net was insane and to finally have the FA Cup was truly magical but there wasn’t that fear that we may never have this chance again. 

Exactly, mate.

 

And how some have said the cup final was the best day of their life, only for people to put them down saying "we won the league"

 

No right or wrong answer.

 

There are about 88 professional football clubs who would kill for this conversation. 

[ParkerPen]

the FA cup was something we always wanted, and (as a top flight team at least) was totally achievable.

 

winning the top flight, from the 80's onwards was just the stuff of dreams, it was geniunely silly odds, it just doesnt happen.

 

has to be the league.

 

 

[SemperEadem]

League

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Weird one but Cup for me. Big difference though as I was on my own when we won the league and I was with 30 of my mates when we won the cup. 

[RumbleFox]

Anyone who voted FA Cup needs banning. 

[Guest ttfn]

I have not had a better moment watching football than the split second after Tielemans’ shot hit the back of the net.

 

It wasn’t just that we’d gone ahead in the FA Cup Final and our player of the season had banged in an all-time classic FA Cup Final strike. But this came after 14 months away from football grounds, 14 months when all of our routines had been disrupted and part of many of our lives had been completely taken from us for that time. 
 

The league was a slow burn but the moment that ball hit the back of the net was incredible, like nothing I’ve felt in the 500+ matches I’ve been to.

[tom27111]

2 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

Anyone who voted FA Cup needs banning. 

Come on man, it's how you felt in those moments.

 

Like I say, no right or wrong answer, both euphoric.

 

We all know what the greatest achievement was.

 

The question was prompted by people saying the Cup final was the greatest moment their life.

 

It was lockdown, if you had a ticket, it probably can't be beaten.

 

 

[phoneticerror]

51 minutes ago, Stadt said:

League.

 

Only possible reason the cup win could be described as better is we won it ourselves rather than waiting in the result of a different game.

That reason is why the FA Cup win felt more gratifying in the moment. League win was obviously a bigger achievement.

Edited 15 May 2022 by phoneticerror

[SemperEadem]

League thinking about it was even sweeter without any bullshit var moments and pauses.

[phoneticerror]

8 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

Anyone who voted FA Cup needs banning. 

Alright Adolf 😂