Virtual Trophy or Actual Trophy?

[STLgooner89]

We will finish 5th this year but we will still qualify for the champs league next year by winning the whole thing just like chelsea did last year. Have a strong feeling this will happen. Spuds will be the 4th place finishers that get knocked out again as well.

[goonersid]

We will finish 5th this year but we will still qualify for the champs league next year by winning the whole thing just like chelsea did last year. Have a strong feeling this will happen. Spuds will be the 4th place finishers that get knocked out again as well.

Crazy Yanks

[BedfordshireGooner]

FA Cup for me. I'm bored of the CL now and failing season after season to give any sort of serious challenge in terms of winning the competition.

FA Cup trophy and some new opposition in the Europa for a season suits me fine.

[SteveO 35]

Some good points made by Quartz especially regarding Wembley.

I think one of the things that makes me want a real trophy instead of Wenger's NeverNeverLand 4th placed trophy is so that the current generation of fans can experience what's it like. We remember Wembley with big terraces and 100,000 people in it......the truth of the matter was that it was a shithole then....but when I was jumping up and down celebrating Charlie Nicholas's double in 1987 I couldn't have given a shit. What mattered was being there watching Arsenal win something, in the flesh. It was the League Cup - admittedly taken more seriously back then but still the least important of the trophies on offer, but it felt fantastic.

The Champions League diet is being fed to kids these days as if it is the be all and end all. Well for my first 27 years of Gooner following we hadn't played in the thing and I didn't give it a second thought when we were winning those cups.

My eldest lad will be 13 this year and can just about remember the 2005 FA Cup win. I would love him and thousands like him to experience seeing us win a cup. You'll be surprised how much it means to kids still to win something. Isn't that what football's about?

[goonersid]

Some good points made by Quartz especially regarding Wembley.

I think one of the things that makes me want a real trophy instead of Wenger's NeverNeverLand 4th placed trophy is so that the current generation of fans can experience what's it like. We remember Wembley with big terraces and 100,000 people in it......the truth of the matter was that it was a shithole then....but when I was jumping up and down celebrating Charlie Nicholas's double in 1987 I couldn't have given a shit. What mattered was being there watching Arsenal win something, in the flesh. It was the League Cup - admittedly taken more seriously back then but still the least important of the trophies on offer, but it felt fantastic.

The Champions League diet is being fed to kids these days as if it is the be all and end all. Well for my first 27 years of Gooner following we hadn't played in the thing and I didn't give it a second thought when we were winning those cups.

My eldest lad will be 13 this year and can just about remember the 2005 FA Cup win. I would love him and thousands like him to experience seeing us win a cup. You'll be surprised how much it means to kids still to win something. Isn't that what football's about?

Ahhh you old romantic, not at Arsenel, it's about 4th and profits.

[QuartzGooner]

SteveO

Yes it would be great to win a Cup, and I would celebrate of course.

But personally it would be through gritted teeth, say if we won the FA Cup but knew that the next season we would be in the Europa League.

I would be very worried for the future, not that I am not worried now!
I would be watching the Final in May wondering which players would still be with us in September 1st.