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What the FA Cup means to me........

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coolhandfox

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As a City fan I never dreamed of winning the league because it was so unrealistic.

 

But I did dream of winning the FA cup, it was a unreal feeling when we won it, I was much more emotional than when we won the league.

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The FA Cup win was huge to me.  Massive.  The realisation of a long held distant dream.

 

Today,'s game however means nothing.  We are not going to win it as a Championship club and we have bigger fish to fry.  I just want us to get back to winning ways in the league.

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44 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

As a City fan I never dreamed of winning the league because it was so unrealistic.

 

But I did dream of winning the FA cup, it was a unrealistic feeling when we won it, I was much more emotional than we we won the league.

Completely agree. 
 

The league win was unbelievable, but something I’d never even thought about because it was just so unbelievable. But like you I had dreamed about winning the FA Cup so somehow it felt so much more emotional when it finally happened. Even though the league win is a bigger achievement. That’s football I guess. 
 

 

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9 minutes ago, murphy said:

The FA Cup win was huge to me.  Massive.  The realisation of a long held distant dream.

 

Today,'s game however means nothing.  We are not going to win it as a Championship club and we have bigger fish to fry.  I just want us to get back to winning ways in the league.

Absolutely. I watched the Man City v Spurs game last night. We’d get annihilated.

rn9013

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11 minutes ago, murphy said:

The FA Cup win was huge to me.  Massive.  The realisation of a long held distant dream.

 

Today,'s game however means nothing.  We are not going to win it as a Championship club and we have bigger fish to fry.  I just want us to get back to winning ways in the league.

We’re a better squad than Wigan of 2013. I get it, chances are slim, but dreams are there to be lived. May as well give it a go. 

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1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

Don't understand why some fans are quite sticking their noses up to the competition now because the club have finally won it.

It we got to the qtr or semi you would see a change.

 

We you consider the last team to win it outside of the top division was West Ham in 1980 some 42 years ago.

 

It's hard for fans to believe we cam do well in it.

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23 minutes ago, rn9013 said:

Completely agree. 
 

The league win was unbelievable, but something I’d never even thought about because it was just so unbelievable. But like you I had dreamed about winning the FA Cup so somehow it felt so much more emotional when it finally happened. Even though the league win is a bigger achievement. That’s football I guess. 
 

 

100% This. Always wanted to win FA Cup since 1963. Every time the trophy was won by another club I would look at it and think beautiful but with regret and another season gone by. Winning the League was fantastic but the lack of the FA Cup was still there. When the goal went in the feeling was out of this world and just wanted the game over. When the final whistle went after the Kasper saves and VAR moment then all the waiting was over. Blissful 

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The FA Cup, to me, is the 2nd best achievement in domestic football. It is immense. 
 

However, promotion to the Premier League is, financially, the most lucrative achievement in ALL football. 
 

An interesting equation. 

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I never thought we would ever win a Premier League title but I always believed we had a chance of winning the FA Cup. The cup was very glamorous in years gone by and, Leicester, as a city was usually swept up in cup fever,  especially in the 60's. I can remember joining long early morning queues around Raw Dykes Road which snaked all the way to the turnstiles at Filbert Street to buy cup tickets. The cup draw was always at lunchtime live on the radio and, as kids at Anstey Martin School, we would crowd round a pocket size transistor to listen to the draw. The magic is not quite the same but try telling that to Maidstone fans today.

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22 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

The FA Cup, to me, is the 2nd best achievement in domestic football. It is immense. 
 

However, promotion to the Premier League is, financially, the most lucrative achievement in ALL football. 
 

An interesting equation. 

It doesn’t have to be an either or…. I’d be pretty content with both!

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1 hour ago, murphy said:

The FA Cup win was huge to me.  Massive.  The realisation of a long held distant dream.

 

Today,'s game however means nothing.  We are not going to win it as a Championship club and we have bigger fish to fry.  I just want us to get back to winning ways in the league.

Be sure to free up your ticket to final should we make it seeing as it means nothing ;)

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What I love about the FA Cup are the early stages where teams you've barely heard of get good ties.

 

Teams like Arsenal playing away at stadiums with scaffold built stands etc.

 

Once it gets to the latter stages, with the same old teams, I never watch it. Can't remember watching the final many times besides when we reached it.

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When we won at Wembley in the play offs twice I was ecstatic, especially beating Derby.

When we went to three League cup finals and won two of them, I was over the moon.

When we won the League  I could not believe it, that day was special, that entire season was a dream.

Still remember saying after winning the league, I'd love to see us winning the FA cup, it would be unbelievable.

Then we won it and the Community shield.

All in my lifetime, supporting the club.

 

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2 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

As a City fan I never dreamed of winning the league because it was so unrealistic.

 

But I did dream of winning the FA cup, it was an unreal feeling when we won it, I was much more emotional than we we won the league.

Interesting view. The cup win wasn’t nearly as big to me, didn’t go to a single game due to lockdown then missed out on a ticket to the final. Sitting at home watching us lift the cup on tv will prob soon be forgotten. However with the league win living and breathing it every weekend will be memories that will never leave me 

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The greatest day of my footballing life. By some distance. 

 

The league win had a slow build and tbh, felt inevitable from about Palace, Watford onwards. It also had the consolation of CL football if we blew it. 

 

FA Cup was all or nothing. It was magical. 

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coolhandfox

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3 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Interesting view. The cup win wasn’t nearly as big to me, didn’t go to a single game due to lockdown then missed out on a ticket to the final. Sitting at home watching us lift the cup on tv will prob soon be forgotten. However with the league win living and breathing it every weekend will be memories that will never leave me 

Yeah I can see that.

 

I was lucky to get a final ticket, but I could have felt the same as you if I was at home.

 

I think maybe the dramatic nature of the final at the end played a part.

 

I also think different ages groups of fans see it differently to older fans seem to lean towards the FA cup being more special then maybe younger fans. 

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I was lucky enough to be at Wembley in 2021. Now, I want tens of thousands of us to be able to experience that same feeling.

 

For that reason alone, we should always take it seriously whatever our situation in the league.

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