barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
I love the Cup, it is brilliant. I started watching us as a youngster in 1997, and well, the magic was always there, the excitement of only just winning the cup, and the hunger to get back to Wembley was always apparent on the fans faces, and it really did lift the gloom, even though we'd always end up going out. I remember the sheer excitement of the 1999-2000 run, and Max-Moore scoring, and the place going mental. It really did brighten up a dull moment.
I remember falling out of love when we kept on drawing Chelsea or United, andknowing Moyes would prefer the league, but that 2009 run was magical, Liverpool, Villa, United and Boro all dusted down before losing to Chelsea. I think certain historical clubs like Everton, the cup will always be a magical thing, and the 2012,2013 runs show that.
But being honest, there's a lot of smaller clubs, who are there or there abouts in the Championship, Premier League like Wigan, Millwall or plain crap clubs like Blackburn, who struggle to muster up 6,000 for the cup, whereas the grand historic clubs like Everton, Spurs, Liverpool and so forth really do take the cup to it's heart.
I think the semi finals at Wembley is a disgrace imho. It really does take the gloss off what getting to the final is about imo. When we got to the Semi's in 2009, a lot of the younger blues (myself included), had never seen Everton at Wembley, although i'd been before to see St. Helens, the day was amazing, seeing the blues win and everything, but then we had to go back a month later, it really took the edge off the final for me. Had a great day, but the magic of getting back to wembley for the first time in 14 years, well that'd been and gone.
As for how it frustrates me, i'll use Pompey as the example, they've won at Wembley 3 times, yet only ever won one trophy there, how can that be fair? There's no magic in that.
I remember falling out of love when we kept on drawing Chelsea or United, andknowing Moyes would prefer the league, but that 2009 run was magical, Liverpool, Villa, United and Boro all dusted down before losing to Chelsea. I think certain historical clubs like Everton, the cup will always be a magical thing, and the 2012,2013 runs show that.
But being honest, there's a lot of smaller clubs, who are there or there abouts in the Championship, Premier League like Wigan, Millwall or plain crap clubs like Blackburn, who struggle to muster up 6,000 for the cup, whereas the grand historic clubs like Everton, Spurs, Liverpool and so forth really do take the cup to it's heart.
I think the semi finals at Wembley is a disgrace imho. It really does take the gloss off what getting to the final is about imo. When we got to the Semi's in 2009, a lot of the younger blues (myself included), had never seen Everton at Wembley, although i'd been before to see St. Helens, the day was amazing, seeing the blues win and everything, but then we had to go back a month later, it really took the edge off the final for me. Had a great day, but the magic of getting back to wembley for the first time in 14 years, well that'd been and gone.
As for how it frustrates me, i'll use Pompey as the example, they've won at Wembley 3 times, yet only ever won one trophy there, how can that be fair? There's no magic in that.
