Routledge goal at Reading, knew from that moment we would go up Radio 5 comentator describing Adel's goal at vicarage road, followed shortly after by Tommy's In a diy store when heard about no points deduction Seeing Adel lift the lovely league trophy 35 years after Gerry should have lifted it and lastly, beating that lot down the road
Did not realise that Waterford Utd beat Cork City last year. I take it from the comment above that you don't like the langers from lee side then
To be honest I have never really seen Spurs win anything significant in my lifetime so it's hard to answer, same with West Ham. As for Arsenal, the only time it hurt me to see them win anything was when they were in direct competition with us i.e FA Cup final 2002. What hurt me most of all around that time was our failures to make the most of what we had, overspending on average players, beating United 5-0 one week and then losing to Derby or Coventry the next etc. It is difficult to draw comparisons with Celtic and Rangers because they are in direct competition with each other for every competition they enter, let's be honest it is a 2 team league so it would be naturally understandable for Rangers to hate Celtic winning things and vice versa irrespective of the deep hatred. As for United, bar the 70s, United have always won things, I am sure City fans are used to it. United fans would hurt far more seeing City win things. Sorry for going off topic btw I think you are being a little oversensitive. I am not being condescending, it just slightly perplexed me as to why finglas would feel hurt seeing Chelsea win things, I personally wouldn't like to see Arsenal, Spurs or West Ham etc win things but it wouldn't "hurt" me, I suppose everyone is different though As I've said in the past I like to go on other boards to broaden my knowledge of other fans thoughts and views on the game. The club I support should be irrelevant, at the end of the day we are all football fans and we may have different club allegiance but we all share the same passion for the game, I would hate to see the day where football fans can just discuss... football.
Walking down loftus road before the Leeds game with my son. Hearing the news that no points were being deducted and just feeling a mass of emotion, shedding a tear and giving my boy a hug and feeling proud he was experiencing a bit of glory at last at Rangers!
You know exactly what was meant and you also know, or you should after that hostile game at Loftus Road, how much most Rangers fans dislike Chelsea. You say things in an innocent way, pretending to miss the point. Subtle....but condescending nevertheless!!
With all due respect in return it doesn't. I can't speak for finglas but for me the sight of our noisy neighbours having the greatest spending power in world football and still winning the sum total of sweet fa is ummm...sweet. [video=youtube;Tb0Cc4u4b_k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb0Cc4u4b_k[/video] Chelsea Edit to say "go on District Line click the link you know you want to".
best moment of 2011 after beating chelseahehe qpr then went on to beat man utd 3-2 taarabt scoring the winner in the 15th min of extra time
I get that QPR dislike Chelsea and the atmosphere was hostile, we get that at most grounds I just don't see why it would bother anyone seeing us win things. Maybe I just look at things from a different angle, we are all football fans and we all experience the highs and lows, that's why it pleased me to no end that Birmingham won the Carling Cup last season and Portsmouth winning the FA Cup a few years back. There were Villa fans I know that were happy for Birmingham fans when they beat Arsenal in that final, and I would say that is probably one of the top 5 most intense derbies in the UK, we are all football fans at the end of the day. I still don't see what was wrong or condescending about the question I asked but sorry if you took offence. A cup is a cup I suppose but the League Cup has been massively devalued in recent years sadly. Spurs winning that hurt just because they were in direct competition with us, it's never nice losing to anyone at Wembley particularly your arch rivals, but fair play to them they were the better team on the day and deserved to win and knocked out the two teams they hate most on the way to Carling Cup success which made it sweeter for them.
NUTS - LOL, Waterford couldn't beat a egg at the moment!! Perhapes i should be more specific and say "that lot from the kings road"
I think the operative word in your reply is "now". For over half a decade you enjoyed - if that's the word - unparalleled spending power over every other club in world football. Money was literally no object.
Real Madrid, Barca, Inter Milan, Juventus, AC Milan were all the same hence why all are in a bad financial predicament. Football never has and never will be a level playing field as far as spending power is concerned, that's just life.
OK here's where you need to define "bad financial predicament" and tell me how ,exactly, it relates to spending power. See this: http://soccerlens.com/the-football-debt-league-top-10-most-indebted-clubs/50035/ No mention of Milan, Juventus or Inter. To be fair Real and Barca are there, but both with debts less than half of yours. My point stands. It doesn't hurt me to see a financially-doped "big club" like yours win, so in that regard I agree with you. I would expect nothing less considering all the money thrown at your "project". But I will laugh my arse off when it all goes pear-shaped, and it will time and again. It's the nature of Abramovich, your patron (Victorian concept no?) and curse. My views on your benefactor and his managers who, by default, know much more about this game than he does can be summarised thus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog Call it schadenfreude if you like (and it is), but every time your dreams go whistling over the edge of a cliff like Wile E. Coyote to land with a dull thud on the canyon floor I'll be there laughing. [video=youtube;_d8ROhH3_vs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8ROhH3_vs[/video] Chelsea .
