No love for the FA Cup.

[SuperElf]

This is the LAST forum in BS to have no posts still. That needs to be rectified. Can't have the "W-Leauge and other lower division American Women's Leagues" forum outdrawing this.

So:

Pick your longshot winner for the FA Cup this year.

In descending order of likelihood and ascending shock value:

West Ham
Man City
Wolverhampton

Discuss.

[Side_Tackle]

Afraid of a little competition from the women are we?....

But that's OK, I still love your he-man-woman-hating ass. :)

[mr magoo]

The mighty Toon army will win the F.A cup ths year whish will be a nice piece of silverware for us to have.

COME ON THE TOON

TOON TOON
BLACK AND WHITE ARMY
TOON TOON

[Doctor Stamen]

Blackburn
Newcastle
West Ham
A-hole
Man Utd

[Peakite]

Unfortunately these days it seems to be the preserve of the title challengers. And really I can't see this forthcoming season being any different. I hope it is. Just can't see it.

[Lowecifer]

Chelsea will win the FA Cup again.

[Clan]

Originally posted by Lowecifer
Chelsea will win the FA Cup again.

Well said that man. :D

[John Boy]

Originally posted by SuperElf


Wolverhampton

Discuss.


I think you're a mad man! :D

[Boro_lad]

quite obviously this is the year that Boro FINALLY win a trophy. It WILL happen this year. Juno who will score the winner in the final and become a bigger legend than he already is!!

[sydtheeagle]

I don't know. Don't really care much, to be honest. Somehow, the FA Cup doesn't have the magic it used to, at least for me. Still, dark-ish horses who might be ready to win something would include Middlesboro and Charlton. Of lower division teams (not that I expect one of them to ever win a major trophy again), Ipswich would be the obvious choice.

[SuperElf]

Originally posted by John Boy



I think you're a mad man! :D

Hey, I'm just rolling the dice. I said "ascending shcok value", then put them after Man City. Wolves are my long, long, long shot. Plenty of RANDOM teams have made it to the last 8 of the FA Cup in the last 5 years or so . . .

I thought it wouldn't be much fun to pick the winner, beacuse everyone would pick one of the top 5 premiership teams. I asked for long shots, and Wolves are nothing else, if that.

[655321]

I see Man City taking it pretty far. They have a good squad (on paper), but I don't seem them doing much in the league. The cup is where they'll succeed.

[Martin Henry]

Originally posted by Lowecifer
Chelsea will win the FA Cup again.

Of course.......

Just like last season?...;)...

[Clan]

Yeah....we had a good run untill we went down to you lot in the final.......oh, wait a sec......

[655321]

Originally posted by sydtheeagle
I don't know. Don't really care much, to be honest. Somehow, the FA Cup doesn't have the magic it used to, at least for me.

Please...if your team gets past the 4th round, I'd be willing to bet you'd be going on and on about the oldest, most prestigious cup trophy around... :)

[American Eagle]

With regards to Wolverhampton, I was wondering when the last time a side that was not in the Premier League (or if before that, the First Division) actually won the Cup. I remember Wimbledon had a run a while back. Also, what is the farthest a non-league side have gone in the last few years?

My pick for the FA Cup Final:

Arsenal v. Spurs? I'd love to say Villa, but at this point only a miracle would get this sucky side to the Millenium Stadium.

Gunners-Spurs. That would be interesting.

[Wide Boy]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by American Eagle
[B]I was wondering when the last time a side that was not in the Premier League (or if before that, the First Division) actually won the Cup.

That would be Southampton, who beat Manchester United 1-0 in 1976

I remember Wimbledon had a run a while back.

Wimbledon won the cup in 1988 (1-0 v Liverpool) but were a First Division side then.

Also, what is the farthest a non-league side have gone in the last few years?

Going back quite a long time, I remember Blyth Spartans getting to a fifth round replay in 1977/78 (v Wrexham (a) 1-1, (h) 1-2). The replay was played at Newcastle, with a crowd of 42,000. Blyth would have played Arsenal in the next round had they won.

The most recent good run I can recall was by Stevenage in 1997/98. They played Newcastle in the 4th round ((h) 1-1, (a) 1-2)).

[Peakite]

West Ham in 81 were the last team from outside the top flight to win. QPR and Sunderland being the only lower division finalists since that I can remember.

Kidderminster back when they first won the Conference got to the fifth round that season, Telford being the previous team to do that.

And the guy playing for Stocksbridge PS in the competition at the weekend, Paul (?) Jackson, will remember it for a while. He hit five goals in each half against Oldham Town (who we struggled to beat 3-2 in the competition a few years back) in a 17-1 rout. Biggest win since 1954, and joint top individual goal scorer.

[Wide Boy]

Originally posted by Luan
West Ham in 81 were the last team from outside the top flight to win. QPR and Sunderland being the only lower division finalists since that I can remember.

You are right about West Ham, Luan.

But (salvaging pedantic pride) wasn't it 1980? I think Spurs won in 1981 against Man City.

[Peakite]

Certainly, my mistake