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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 18/19

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Rocksuperstar

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a 6ft 10 black woman?

We had this young lad joined our team for a few months, born and bred in the home counties, pracitcally came out wearing a barbour wax cotton, very formal, very quiet ginger kid, pale as a ghost and barely ever said a word in an office where banter can sometimes degrade into "bants".

He would write out motivational post-its when he heard phrases he liked, stuff that would appear on /r/getmotivated, so mostly stomach churningly positive stuff, but it got a bit out of hand and he had about 20 of them all over his desk.

One late shift, I was stuck in the office with the other dude who's about my age and almost as childish, decided that there's no way he reads these things every day, he probably doesn't read them again after he sticks them up, so I changed a few. My favorite was, "I am stong, confident and proud", which got changed to "I am a strong, confident, proud & sturdy African woman".

As suspected, he didn't notice.

No-one noticed when I took down a historical "Fun fact" thing from the wall one evening, it was about one of the founders of the International charity I work for, scanned it in and potatoshopped an extra line on the bottom that declared he later left the movement to become one of the founding members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Kinda feel like my efforts are wasted, but I'm happy, keeps me amused, so yeah...
 

SpartanSpur

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How many spurs fans say we were the first english club to win a european trophy?

Fair, but back then the UEFA Cup was a lot more respected trophy than the current Europa League. European Cup was still the big one but it was a much bigger deal.

These days the Europa is 2nd tier whatever way you look at it. The best 16 teams in Europe aren't allowed in it. Winning it awards participation in the superior competition. Any major club that qualifies has done so by failure in the CL group stage or by league performance in their previous season.

Edit: Looking back some of the teams in the inaugural UEFA CUP included Real Madrid, Milan, Juventus, and Porto.

Edit 2: Showing my youth but the our first (and England's first) European trophy was indeed the Cup Winners Cup in 1963. A competition at the time that was very prestigious and by no means as 2nd tier as the current Europa League, much like the UEFA Cup we also went on to win twice.
 
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rawhide

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Fair, but back then the UEFA Cup was a lot more respected trophy than the current Europa League. European Cup was still the big one but it was a much bigger deal.

These days the Europa is 2nd tier whatever way you look at it. The best 16 teams in Europe aren't allowed in it. Winning it awards participation in the superior competition. Any major club that qualifies has done so by failure in the CL group stage or by league performance in their previous season.

Edit: Looking back some of the teams in the inaugural UEFA CUP included Real Madrid, Milan, Juventus, and Porto.
Had to explain the UEFA Cup to my teenage son, who wasn’t aware of it. It used to be really difficult to win as you often had the current league leaders of the main leagues (when, you know, the same team didn’t always win the league) meaning it had the teams in form in it.
 

Rocksuperstar

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Had to explain the UEFA Cup to my teenage son, who wasn’t aware of it. It used to be really difficult to win as you often had the current league leaders of the main leagues (when, you know, the same team didn’t always win the league) meaning it had the teams in form in it.

Do you still occasionally get confused when the league cup is on and in a fluster trying to remember the sponsor go through, "You know, the Rumbelows cup... Worthingtons... Milk cup? The Coca-Cola cup?" etc?

Carabao - who the hell knows. Sounds like some sort of chew you feed to your dog to keep it's teeth clean.
 

rawhide

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But Liverpool never won it did they, so we'll never know and even more to the point, you're guessing and basing it on your obviously massive hatred for Liverpool :p

I don't like Liverpool but blimey, you got it so bad you need antibiotics or something ;)

I'm not sure why people give a fuck about whatever narrative is supposed to be, the press are mainly full of enough shit anyway, complaining about what you're guessing they'd have said isn't even adding a turd to the top of the pile.
Stop flapping your pro-Liverpool gums and open up the ITK forums...

I actually don’t mind Liverpool, it’s the media who constantly focus on them that grinds my gears. I’m sure that if Everton won the league the headline would be “Liverpool’s neighbours win the League”
 

rawhide

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Do you still occasionally get confused when the league cup is on and in a fluster trying to remember the sponsor go through, "You know, the Rumbelows cup... Worthingtons... Milk cup? The Coca-Cola cup?" etc?

Carabao - who the hell knows. Sounds like some sort of chew you feed to your dog to keep it's teeth clean.
Nah, that’s just the League Cup (I predate sponsorship. I’m old)
 

SpartanSpur

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Had to explain the UEFA Cup to my teenage son, who wasn’t aware of it. It used to be really difficult to win as you often had the current league leaders of the main leagues (when, you know, the same team didn’t always win the league) meaning it had the teams in form in it.

My memories of football start around the time the PL and CL came in so I know little else unfortunately, aside from researching our history. It's such a shame that the Champions League has taken so much of the sheen off of the UEFA Cup and FA Cup (and League Cup) in the modern era, as they are such a huge part of our history and were much more valued and respected when we won them. I've heard people say the FA Cup Final was one of the biggest events of the year that every boy dreamed of playing in, don't see that now sadly.

Winning the CL on 1 June would go a long way to rectifying all that stuff however!
 

dannythomas

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Lol. You talk about them being obsessed by us yet watch aftv?

Agree it's petty and i sometimes watch aftv for the laughs. But lets not be hypocritical.

There’s a difference between watching it for laughs and actually finding it more important that we lose than them winning. I’m not going to lose any sleep if they make it to the CL .

On a slightly different note I think it’s wrong that 2nd place in the CL doesn’t get you into next year’s CL. Academic now but it’s much more of an achievement than winning Europa.
 

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true on both counts. the UEFA Cup and the CWC were both worthwhile tournaments until the Champions League started bringing in clubs that had won nothing, which watered down the others.

… but this may not be the optimal time for me to pursue that point. :unsure: carry on. :whistle:
 

fletch82

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The cup winners cup was great but then because of your cash cow clubs it would have become the cup finalist participants cup.
The dippers would have loved it the coming second cup :cautious:
 

punkisback

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To me in order of prestige, top was Champions league, then Cup Winners Cup, then Uefa. Taking away the cup winners cup in a weird way made the UEFA cup seen less prestigious.
 

Tucker

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To me in order of prestige, top was Champions league, then Cup Winners Cup, then Uefa. Taking away the cup winners cup in a weird way made the UEFA cup seen less prestigious.

The trouble is, the uefa cup and cup winners cup were completely undermined by more than the champions of each country going into the European cup. Domestic Doubles used to be a lot rarer too, so like others said the cup winners cup became a competition for finalists, and in some cases semi finalists.

The uefa cup was eventually further undermined by allowing the 3rd place group teams from the CL in.
 

chinaman

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To me in order of prestige, top was Champions league, then Cup Winners Cup, then Uefa. Taking away the cup winners cup in a weird way made the UEFA cup seen less prestigious.

I would think the old European Cup, in which only national league champions could participate should top the list; followed by the Cup Winners' Cup. The CL in which 4th or 5th place also rans can participate only ranks 3rd.
 

davidmatzdorf

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A Chelsea mate of mine just posted a meme on FB that says:

"BREAKING: Madrid police have raised concerns that Tottenham fans may take flares to the stadium on 1 June. Because that's what they wore last time they were in a European final."

Not sure if he remembers the 70s, but I would have thought he was mainly on the coke by 1984.

I replied:

"Perhaps Chelsea fans were still wearing flares in 1984. Certainly not Spurs fans."
 

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I would think the old European Cup, in which only national league champions could participate should top the list; followed by the Cup Winners' Cup. The CL in which 4th or 5th place also rans can participate only ranks 3rd.

The old EUFA Cup used to be tough to win as it had the teams who finished second and third in it who often went on to win their own leagues that season as few teams manage back to back league wins
 

riggi

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Liverpool St station after the game yesterday, I witnessed a group of around 6 teenagers, must’ve been about 16 yrs old. A spurs fan walked past them and one of the group (let’s call him Dave) started singing ‘we scored the first goal, in your shithole, we scored the first goal, in your shithole’. So I figured they were West Ham fans. Except one of Dave’s mates then punched Dave straight in the face, bringing a reasonably loud cheer from passer by’s and causing Dave to aggressively rant at his mate whilst simultaneously trying not to cry. The Spurs fan just carried on walking past and was laughing at what he’d just seen.

Then a massive black guy who must’ve been about 6ft 10 carrying a child in his arm walked up to them all and said pretty much word for word ‘firstly, you didn’t score the first goal there, we did, and secondly, is it really a shithole though? Is it? Sing shit songs, get punched in the face mate’. And then he just walked back to the bench he was sitting on. Glorious.

It was so surreal. I can only assume Dave’s mate was a Spurs fan who had just had enough of Dave’s shit. Then the way Dave looked at the 6ft 10” guy was beautiful. Pure, genuine fear in his eyes.

Some random guy in a Spurs scarf then went up to Dave’s mate and high fived him. Dave kept his mouth shut. Dave learnt his lesson.

Typical really, we’re playing Everton and it’s a West Ham fan causing all the shit.

I’m 6ft 1 actually.
 
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