I know where youre coming from,my feelings are it would be great to progress but we can at least concentrate on the league if not.I know that doesn't make much sense given we are already in the very competition that gaining fourth or above would ensure us next season.....but given that will be the beginning of a fantastic new era,this campaign,regrettably......doesn't really bother me a great deal.Had nervous shits all day for the United semi, Stoke final, 1-0 Derby, Newcastle game and QPR - nothing today.
Next season doesn't exist yet. If come August we happen to be in the Europa Lg sobeit, our best ever transfer window to date (Summer 2010, Yaya Silva Balotelli Boateng Milner) was when we weren't in the CL so it's not like EL won't attract players as it has in the past.My concern is that Pelle is going all out for th CL, nothing wrong with that as this may well be his best chace in his career.
However if we progress I am concerned we will then forgo the league and battle for the top 4 which we just can not afford to do.
You virtually sound like you want us to lose, which I'm sure you don't.My concern is that Pelle is going all out for th CL, nothing wrong with that as this may well be his best chace in his career.
However if we progress I am concerned we will then forgo the league and battle for the top 4 which we just can not afford to do.
I wonder if the QPR game would have been as significant if we'd steamrollered them. Zabaleta gets the first, we get a second early in the second half then 2 or 3 more.
Obviously winning our first Premier league title was hugely significant but was it the means rather than the end which made it so much more so?
Two games since the takeover that stand out for me are the FA Cup semi final against the rags, where we really established our superiority over them for the first time. Then 4 weeks later we beat Spurs 1-0 to get a CL spot for the first time.
Gillingham was obviously important but I reckon the three consecutive away games we won in 2006/7 (Boro, Newcastle & Fulham) were so important to us. Our financial situation was poor at that point and had we only got 5 points out of those games rather than 9, we'd have been relegated. That would have almost certainly meant no Thaksin and possibly financial disaster.
The outcome might well have been that the Supporters Trust would have got hold of Sky's shares and allied with Bernstein, Franny Lee and possibly Mark Boler. There would have been nasty boardroom battles as both Bernstein and Lee were looking to settle some old scores.
The 1-0 win at Newcastle on March 31st made sure we avoided relegation following the 2-0 win at Boro two weeks earlier and saved us from all that.
No far from It, I think there is no reason we couldn't win the whole thing but we need to make sure we are still fully committed to getting the top 4 as well for when Pep gets here.You virtually sound like you want us to lose, which I'm sure you don't.
True.Spot on. People like the narrative that we'd have gone to the wall, but it wouldn't have happened.
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However, Gary James has suggested that we might not have got the stadium or the permanent capacity would have been smaller if we'd stayed dow. Sport England weren't keen to put in the same level of funding for a facility with a tenant in the third tier. That might have had implications for takeovers in later years, but the 'we'd have gone bust if Gillingham had beaten us' story is overly romanticised.