So just on the remote chance that we fail to beat Chelsea.. Do we get Europe for losing in the semi finals if all the the other teams have already qualified?
So in the far more likely event that we beat chelsea and then for some freak reason lose in the final to [team]?
Used to be the case that the FA Cup losing finalist got a trip to Europe if the winner already secured a berth. That changed a couple years ago...we now need to win it outright.
Good time to play Chelsea. Their manager appears to be having some form of breakdown. Mind you, you couldn't blame Mark Hughes either, if he woke up in the night screaming "what have I done?"
At least Mark knows his tenure will be short and no will seriously blame him....though strangely enough he may be daft enough to sign another contract at the end of the season. I want to change my vote to winning the FA Cup as that seems the more likely....and that's a fat chance. I am going away now to try and see if you can actually die by eating too much chocolate. And when I die they will find SFC engraved on my heart.
If we can’t win a league match... I just don’t see how we have any realistic chance of lifting the FA cup :/
Huddersfield won the cup and got relegated. Portsmouth won a cup and went down soon after. I think the team are frozen into immobility with fear, but that lifts in cup matches.
If we win the semi final you can kiss good bye to the Premier League. The players will be looking after themselves to make sure they will be fit for the final as they will need the FA Cup final and the World Cup finals TV exposure to secure their next move. All of the fight for our survival will gone out of them. Remember we lost the chance to win the league title because we had a cup semi final to play.
My fear of relegation is not relegation itself but what it will mean as far as the owners. Will they invest to gain promotion again or will they look to reclaim their outlay. We have no idea and probably neither do they...after all they thought they were buying a safe PL club.
Is this a re-writing of history? My recall is that we had a couple of poor results, but after that semi-final we didn't lose a match, even racking up that 8-2 against Coventry. Saints didn't win the league despite not losing to Liverpool. But Liverpool were the specialists in winning the league without beating their closest rivals. They did it to Ipswich on at least one occasion I remember. What Liverpool did, and Saints didn't, was to make sure they won the games against weaker teams through the season. Circumstances this year don't bear comparison. We have some good players who seem not to want to play.
Yes, in truth Liverpool were always in pole position to win the league all year but we nearly caught them with a terrific run of form at the end of that season.
I give us a bigger chance of staying up, than winning the cup. And that's from someone who has written off our chances of staying up.
I don’t know what the biggest ever defeat is in a cup game at Wembley but if we don’t hold that record after the Chelsea game then I am counting that as a success
We're unquestionably more likely to stay up than win the cup. Current odds have us at 8/11 to remain in the PL, and 31/2 to hoist the trophy...I tend to think that the former is overly favourable and the latter a bit too long, but it's definitely a substantial gap in probability. And both of the remaining matches will be against sides that really don't have anything else to play for...Chelsea's all but nailed on for 5th, and the other two contenders are out of Europe, so no chance of a fixture there holding their attention.
Actually a decent win anytime soon will do, as a start, I don’t mind in which competition that happens
Don't mention pint-sized strikers in blue scoring against our England international centre half and goalkeeper. Only get FLT started, and he's got enough stress as it is. I have come to live with it. Little ****.
