Cups won in tournaments that include teams from tiny hamlets in the EL...hard to imagine this rates as satisfying.
Cups won in tournaments so unimpressive teams deploy their entire back bench........If the teams don't care why should I? Or any mediot for that matter
The UEFA Cup.........aka....the best loser in Europe..... I'd cash the check and tell EUFA to keep their cup
Sure, I'm an outsider with no real sense of the importance of these add-on tournaments to the teams and their fans.
For me, only 2 trophies prove a team's worth...... CL & PL ....and everything else is just canned pie filler.
Best in Europe
Best in PL
In that order....but that's me.
It is you and it's the sort of mentality that has the mancs on their 5th coach in 5 years. As for "tiny hamlets", there's lots of them in the EPL as well. Bournemouth, Burnley, Huddersfield etc.
Mourinho's first trophy in England was the League Cup. Guardiola's first trophy in England was the League Cup. Klopp's first European final was the UEFA Cup, beating Dortmund and the mancs along the way. And people have the nerve to say that's not good enough.
We've won 1 trophy in 12 years. We are not in any position to say this trophy is great, and that trophy is not. I want to try and win everything we enter, because at least we might win something then. It's all silverware at the end of the day.
This year is the 30th Anniversary of the event that surrounds this club. I want us to win the FA Cup this year for them, even if it means beating a "tiny hamlet" team along the way. And if we do win it, nobody will ever convince me that it's just "canned pie filler".
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