Jonas

Wish all the released players all the best. There were no bad attitudes I gather, they tried. Were not talking any Michael Owen's here. Some would either have been released long ago or never here at all were we a remotely professionally ran organisation under the previous ownership so I don't blame them for anything.

Food for thought for the bed wetters when RTG is laughing at them, even if they're effectively laughing at our not re-achieving something they'll never achieve. Definitely in the Peter Reid fan club. Victim of a really funny and catchy chant and line of jokes but definitely nothing personal personally nor detected. Especially considering he's by far the most succesful manager they've had in living memory.

Its also just ignoring how cups work. Its a bit of a pet-hate when people say they fancy a team to win a cup or a manager should deliver one. And if this team gets Man City away in the 3rd round?

Most Premier League winning keepers have been 30 or older, most champions league winning keepers have been 30 or older

Chelsea qualified the same way after losing in 94 and finishing mid-table. It was initially specifically just the Champions League qualifying cup finalist because naturally you wouldn't want to to drop out of that to go in the CWC. *edit guessing they changed it so that a cup final place against a team already qualified for the UEFA Cup got a place around about the time the cup was losing its appeal after Man United sat it out and the CWC was disbanded

Huckerby - Minteh

Were only going to get stronger. This time next year we'll be stronger than we are now. That's all you can realistically expect and ask and all that's in the clubs hands (cup draws, officialdom are in the laps of the gods).

This season has been so 94/95. Because of the historical precedence of what happened then and personally predicting this season would be akin to it, I'm not fussed one way or the other about the conference league. Makes no difference to the direction the clubs going in, certainly doesn't hurt a CL challenge - which is important and on a day where the worst Man United side any of us have seen has just beaten Man City and given we usually get knocked out of Europe by teams we should be beating on paper (OM, Sporting, Bilbao, Partizan, Alkmaar) the idea we'd win the conference league because were favourites is fanciful.

Yeah, Its Manchester City in the FA Cup 01/02 (iirc)

As opposed to the other major leagues that are already concluded mostly at a canter.

Don't normally stay this long when a result goes against them and they're only 2nd in a title race

Yeah but Ginola wasn't modelling them when they were released. It was a team-photo call of the 94/95 team on a grey afternoon early May. Nobody liked the collar in my small circle at the time and the upon closer inspection beige one on the away shirt took some getting used to.

Reminiscent of Andy Gray's computer on a Monday night. Just that was reviewing the weekends games not as an actual game was going on.

It looks like the 01-03 home shirt. Seemed to be reasonably accepted to liked at the time and in retrospect. Being shit hot (to Keegans Export 2nd point) while we had it seemed to cover for me that to me it was a distinct step down from the shirt before and after. The 95/96 shirts were released to reactions of controversial to not impressed and they were pretty much perfection before long. Expected a lot better than this at this point though.

Technically Marseilles won it in 1993 and got relegated

Thought they were pretty good. Norwich were challenging for the title and newly promoted Ipswich turned them over twice in 92/93 and the 94/95 game at Portman Road was interesting because of the rain and how feint the lines were causing all kinds of confusion. Neither of the 93/94 matches were televised and 95 was the last game so feel like thats a pretty good ratio.

Probably a few. Real Madrid finished 5th when they won it in 99/00

I'd go along with that. Its one step up from the intertoto cup. I'd take it but the effect it would have on trying to get into the champions league could be argued to make it exactly a booby prize - unless we win it which the chances are against despite being favourites.

No matter how many other clubs have the same problem and for no matter how long its been the case, after a negative result this topic appears with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season. I've accepted that's 21st century (earlier really) support and that were really comparing things to a few years in the 90s Relative to other games against Brighton in any generation it was probably one of the better ones BUT nobody left early for laps of appreciation in the 90s. Not being able to forgoe catching the first metro or bus and save 20minutes social time away from the pest of having to go to games once a season is shit support and shit attitude in the current circumstances

Cracking day for it. Still braced for Brighton being tricky, as is often the case, and a sting in the tail with it being last (home) day, lap of appreciations, Jonas etc. Any manner of win will do

Despite their apparent hyper-sensitivities and the alleged goal of ensuring financial fair play, the elites see this as just fine. Fancy that.

Kane' is cursed. Real are blessed.

First PL incarnation of this fixture was 6-2

Angie Watts maybe as in Watts the f*ck is he playing at.