Thommo's perm » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:25 am wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:37 pm wrote:i havent got a very good feeling about this game tbh, it`s not just our recent poor form that i`m concerned about but the law of averages, we`ve already beaten them twice this year and it takes some doing for a team to play another prem side and to beat them 3 times in 3 games.
plus all the recent big games have tended to go our way (semi final in 77, league cup final 84, f.a cup final 86, f.a cup final 89), that crowd might just be due a result against us.
hope i`m wrong.
I have mixed feelings
I would love to beat them (Ive calmed down now) and go on to win the cup, but I cant help feeling its a bit of a sideshow. I care more about our league form and our reputation rather than getting another victory over those pathetic tw@ts.
Yes its great to have the bragging rights and how wonderful would it be to get the treble over them in one season. Add on to that they would be out of the cup and would spend yet another year without a trophy. Great stuff, but my concern is getting further up the league by performing better as a team. Of course I would love both but Im doubtful that we can do both.
If you could only have one choice, which would you rather have: knocking them out of the fa cup, or finishing above them in the league?
the league is a write off mate, obviously we want to improve our form but there`s nothing we can do now in the league that would salvage our season, anything outside of the top 4 is seen as a faliure anyway and finishing above everton might of meant something in the 80`s but these days it`s just a minor local squabble.
if we manage to win the league cup and the f.a cup in the same season that will be some achievement, it wont mean that we havent got problems in the league but what it will mean is that despite the $h1te league form, despite the storm over suarez and despite going through our worst run of results in 60 years etc that this season will go down in the history books as a successful one, in 10 years time all the $h1te parts will be forgotten and only winning the trophies will be remembered.
look at when we won the f.a cup in 65, the previous year we won the title but the year we won the f.a cup we finished halfway down the league, we were beaten at home in the league 4-0 by everton and 3-0 by west brom, united beat us 2-0 at anfield and 3-0 at old trafford, chelsea tonked us 4-0 at stamford bridge, we lost 5 of our first 8 games that season, and out of the next 8 games we lost another 3 and drew 3, but who remembers all that now?
65 is seen as one of the great seasons in our history, 2011/2012 will never go down as one of the great seasons in our history but if we manage to win the 2 domestic trophies it will be remembered as a decent one. thats the best we can hope for now.
mind you out of the 4 clubs through to the semi`s we are probably the outsiders to win given our current form so talking about winning the f.a cup is a bit premature at the moment, we dont even look like we can win an argument never mind a game or a trophy.