City V Sheff Wed (LC) Post match Thread

[Paladin]

Ignore all the nonsense from any ignorant opposition supporters\clubs.

Onwards and upwards City !

At slightly a tangent, and why the League Cup is still a great trophy to win as is any trophy.

Recall the owners targeting 5 trophies in 5 years when Pellegrini started (2 in the bag and hopefully at least 3 more to come in the next 4 years).

I was thinking exactly where we stand as an English club on the all time list of no. of trophies won.

At this time the list I think is:
(includes trophies for League Champs in top division only, FA Cup, League Cup, European Cup\Champs League, Ueafa\Europa League Cup, European Cup Winners Cup, Super Cup, Club World Cup and Charity\Community Shield) :

1) Trafford Rangers - 62 trophies
2) Red scousers - 60 trophies
3) Arsenal the whingers - 46 trophies
4) Chelski - 25 trophies (took off Chelsea winning the Full Members Cup)
5) Blue scousers - 24 trophies
Spurs - 24 trophies
Villa - 24 trophies
8) City - 17 trophies
9) Newcastle - 13 trophies
Notts Forest - 13 trophies
Wolves - 13 trophies
12) Blackburn - 12 trophies
13) Leeds - 9 trophies
Sheff Wed - 9 trophies
Sunderland - 9 trophies
WBA - 9 trophies
17) West Ham - 6 trophies

Would it not be great in at least a decade to surpass Everton, Spurs and Villa. Assuming no other club just below us becomes a major force in that time and we can maintain a position of challenging for every trophy.

Thus all trophies are important.

Good point and interesting post, but...

Why include the Charity Shield? Its not a meaningful trophy. I'm not just choosing to be awkward or pedantic, it simply cannot be considered a real trophy when there are only two teams in contention and its usually played as a glorified friendly. Would be interesting to see the list without it.

The chart for this is on Wikipedia and a United fan at work keeps trotting it out.

Fair points that the Community Shield should be removed from the list of meaningful trophies, as well as the Full Member's Cup, because entry into those competitions were not open to all teams.

By the same token, the World Club Cup, European Super Cup, and maybe some others should not be included as they were not true open competitions. So if you knock all these out of the equation, United fall to the second most successful English club, two trophies behind Liverpool. City can jump a place or two with two more trophy wins.

When pointed out to United and Liverpool fans at work, there was a very mixed reaction.

 

[Ducado]

not sure if this has been posted but wednesday fans did not take that mauling well.
i wonder how they would have felt if we scored the 15 or so we could have done.

LOL. They'll be seriously pissed off when we post a profit in the next few months.

I can't argue about the disparity in wealth between the top clubs in the Premier League and the rest though.
It's just a shame that ourselves and Chelsea always get blamed when we weren't part of the self appointed "Big 5"
who "ruined football". Still it's worked out really well for Spurs and Everton ...

I do genuinely feel sorry for them and all the fans of once great clubs, but it's not our fault all City and Chelsea did was have the audacity to invest in their buisiness so they could sit at the top table, perhaps they should blame the authorities for allowing the league to be so fixed in favour of four teams

 

[jaiguruKun]

Will Pozo now be nominated for young sports personality of the year ?

No.....Giggs has that sewn up already.

Before or after he shags it?

 

[EllisMCFC]

Not sure why we put B squad out their think we should of had our C squad. But happy to get the win at least hope we can retain the title. Although I would like to bring back that FA CUP. I think the EDS(U21) team could have won against Sheffield Wednesday but nice to see a EDS player get a debut goal. Get In Jose Pozo.

There is more than a touch of arrogance about this post.

On the first-half showing, a weaker team might have lost. It was only once we scored that Wednesday collapsed.

And Pellegrini has obviously learnt from Wigan lady season.

No we wouldn't have lost our defense was solid and we could have banged in maybe one or two goals they just sat back and parked the bus(like Stoke). It just a matter of time before we scored and also wigan and Sheffield Wednesday are much different squads and this is a different cup. Wouldn't mind one mind if fielded a strong fa cup side because that's a note worty competition. It's not that I hate the COC it's just we shouldn't put our B squads out their to play. Would like to see some of our younger players play in it and give them a chance to shine.

 

[Wilf Wild 1937]

Not sure why we put B squad out their think we should of had our C squad. But happy to get the win at least hope we can retain the title. Although I would like to bring back that FA CUP. I think the EDS(U21) team could have won against Sheffield Wednesday but nice to see a EDS player get a debut goal. Get In Jose Pozo.

There is more than a touch of arrogance about this post.

On the first-half showing, a weaker team might have lost. It was only once we scored that Wednesday collapsed.

And Pellegrini has obviously learnt from Wigan lady season.

No we wouldn't have lost our defense was solid and we could have banged in maybe one or two goals they just sat back and parked the bus(like Stoke). It just a matter of time before we scored and also wigan and Sheffield Wednesday are much different squads and this is a different cup. Wouldn't mind one mind if fielded a strong fa cup side because that's a note worty competition. It's not that I hate the COC it's just we shouldn't put our B squads out their to play. Would like to see some of our younger players play in it and give them a chance to shine.

Khaldoon has said our aim is to win all 4 trophies that we enter. That's why we have 2 "top" players for every position.
Most of the good kids are on loan. If they do well on loan then they may force their way into the squad at the expense
of one of the "top" players. If we play EDS kids in the LC we go out and a lot of our second choice "top players" eg
Willy, Sagna and MDM don't get game time meaning they get pissed off and aren't match fit when required for league
and CL games.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Rubbish. It was first heard at 0-0 and repeated later. It's the same song thrown at us by every set of fans (except Chelsea and United, maybe a few others) and is now met with either ambivalence or "We were here when we were shit".

and when a few of their ...ahem... "mob" were giving it the big un walking through city square before the game. embarrassing.

I educated them by saying that after 35 years of fcuk all we still got well above 40,000 every season apart from the season under Pearce where most lost the will to live......absolute wankers in City Square that lot,an embarrassment to a great club like SWFC.

My SWFC mates who I met pre match in town know the score but hey they have been watching Wednesday a long time too.

Rubbish. It was first heard at 0-0 and repeated later. It's the same song thrown at us by every set of fans (except Chelsea and United, maybe a few others) and is now met with either ambivalence or "We were here when we were shit".

and when a few of their ...ahem... "mob" were giving it the big un walking through city square before the game. embarrassing.

I educated them by saying that after 35 years of fcuk all we still got well above 40,000 every season apart from the season under Pearce where most lost the will to live......absolute wankers in City Square that lot,an embarrassment to a great club like SWFC.

My SWFC mates who I met pre match in town know the score but hey they have been watching Wednesday a long time too.

Some of the shit I've heard from aminority of bitter Wednesdayites about City and Chelsea ruining football, spending money than everyone else (that's never happened before), about Ciy's "soulless ground on the edge of town" and wait for it..."no English players". Er, hello...James Milner, Lampard, Hart. Soulless ground? No less soulless than Hillsbourough or many other grounds. We've never needed a band, that's for sure. When you put 'em right on these things they go silent and look pig ignorant - pun only intended for them (it's a Sheffield gag).

My two Wednesdayite mates (who've been going 40 plus years) who I travelled to and from the match with (I live in N Derbyshire) and several others I have met or heard on the phone ins have been sporting like their manager and admired the quality of our players - without a mention of money.

As for the twats giving it large in City Square, that would explain possibly why my mates had to go through three lots of ticket checks and at least one body search.

 

[bainy]

and when a few of their ...ahem... "mob" were giving it the big un walking through city square before the game. embarrassing.

I educated them by saying that after 35 years of fcuk all we still got well above 40,000 every season apart from the season under Pearce where most lost the will to live......absolute wankers in City Square that lot,an embarrassment to a great club like SWFC.

My SWFC mates who I met pre match in town know the score but hey they have been watching Wednesday a long time too.

and when a few of their ...ahem... "mob" were giving it the big un walking through city square before the game. embarrassing.

I educated them by saying that after 35 years of fcuk all we still got well above 40,000 every season apart from the season under Pearce where most lost the will to live......absolute wankers in City Square that lot,an embarrassment to a great club like SWFC.

My SWFC mates who I met pre match in town know the score but hey they have been watching Wednesday a long time too.

Some of the shit I've heard from aminority of bitter Wednesdayites about City and Chelsea ruining football, spending money than everyone else (that's never happened before), about Ciy's "soulless ground on the edge of town" and wait for it..."no English players". Er, hello...James Milner, Lampard, Hart. Soulless ground? No less soulless than Hillsbourough or many other grounds. We've never needed a band, that's for sure. When you put 'em right on these things they go silent and look pig ignorant - pun only intended for them (it's a Sheffield gag).

My two Wednesdayite mates (who've been going 40 plus years) who I travelled to and from the match with (I live in N Derbyshire) and several others I have met or heard on the phone ins have been sporting like their manager and admired the quality of our players - without a mention of money.

As for the twats giving it large in City Square, that would explain possibly why my mates had to go through three lots of ticket checks and at least one body search.

I live in Sheffield. I travelled with a few owls. Most have been really balanced. Went on 'owlsline' forum last night - theres a 'ethiad experience thread', which isnt a bad read and probably fairly balanced (eg complaints about a souless plastic ground countered by 'wow wish we had a stadium like that').
what happened in city square?

 

[Tbilisi]

I educated them by saying that after 35 years of fcuk all we still got well above 40,000 every season apart from the season under Pearce where most lost the will to live......absolute wankers in City Square that lot,an embarrassment to a great club like SWFC.

My SWFC mates who I met pre match in town know the score but hey they have been watching Wednesday a long time too.

I educated them by saying that after 35 years of fcuk all we still got well above 40,000 every season apart from the season under Pearce where most lost the will to live......absolute wankers in City Square that lot,an embarrassment to a great club like SWFC.

My SWFC mates who I met pre match in town know the score but hey they have been watching Wednesday a long time too.

Some of the shit I've heard from aminority of bitter Wednesdayites about City and Chelsea ruining football, spending money than everyone else (that's never happened before), about Ciy's "soulless ground on the edge of town" and wait for it..."no English players". Er, hello...James Milner, Lampard, Hart. Soulless ground? No less soulless than Hillsbourough or many other grounds. We've never needed a band, that's for sure. When you put 'em right on these things they go silent and look pig ignorant - pun only intended for them (it's a Sheffield gag).

My two Wednesdayite mates (who've been going 40 plus years) who I travelled to and from the match with (I live in N Derbyshire) and several others I have met or heard on the phone ins have been sporting like their manager and admired the quality of our players - without a mention of money.

As for the twats giving it large in City Square, that would explain possibly why my mates had to go through three lots of ticket checks and at least one body search.

I live in Sheffield. I travelled with a few owls. Most have been really balanced. Went on 'owlsline' forum last night - theres a 'ethiad experience thread', which isnt a bad read and probably fairly balanced (eg complaints about a souless plastic ground countered by 'wow wish we had a stadium like that').
what happened in city square?

Just a few young gobshites walking through kids shouting "where were you when you were shit" in their faces.....as I say I was with some SWFC mates and advised the young gobshites of our support during 35 years of nothing and my mates did the same.They told them to grow up,to be fair the Wednesday lads I was with dont take any shit from anyone & have followed the club for years so the gobshites quickly shut up.

They were only young lads so probably have no idea what happened pre takeover.....as Zaba says,Pig ignorant ;)

 

[moon]

Could we not ask them the same
Hillsborough had plenty of empty seats the last clip I saw on the football league show