It does not matter whom you are playing in cup competition..bottom of your league, lower league lower, lower league this games have extra spice in them. This year we withnessed some giant killing the most notable one was Cyrstal Palace knocking out Manchester United at Old Trafford in carling cup this season. In the final of the carling cup this year Liverpool were taken to extra time and the lottery of penalties by Cardiff City before they can win the carling cup. Last season, Birmingham knocked out the mighty Arsenal out in the final of carling cup last season. Liverpool on many occasions were knocked out of FA Carling cup by lower opponents.This weekend are there any hope giant killing.? Chelsea is facing Leicester at home do we expect any surprise result.? Be it Champion league, Europa league,FA cup or Carling cup competition you underrate your oponent at your own peril. Question: What makes cup competition different from league competition.?
It's one-off most of the time. Put all of your neergy and effort into one go, way way more emotional as well and that has a big effect on the players.
It slike comparing a 'carnal' prison visit and a thursday night regular. The first is a one off, leave nothing in the kit bag experience....The second is going through the motions until a new schedule is set!!
Yeah thats the one, you might remember the final from last year when your club embarrassed themselves by losing to Birmingham.
I really don't get how Arsenal fans WUM us over winning a cup, besides we still have a good chance of winning the F.A. cup too, didn't Sunderland knock them out of that too?
At least we have some silverware this year. The only way you are going to get some silverware this years is if Arsene Wenger signs Sir Lancelot and Sir Galahad and sends them off to find the holy grail. And if they do get close to finding it, they will probably sign up for Man City and it will end up in their trophy cabinet. Then again with all the tools that support your club, you have all the equipment to make your own trophy......You could call it the Bariznakov trophy for pretty football and poor excuses....
Even championship sides dont try in the carling cup as they want promotion Anyway very unoriginal replay. Yes we havent won a trophy in a while. But then again at least we havent dropped our standards and go all out for a cup the other big teams play their youth team in Boring debating this anyway. Done it to death in other threads and liverpool fans get mad. Just pointing out my view that the carling cup doesnt count as a trophy. If you dont believe me then see the sides that us, manure and the chavs put out in it. That says it all. Done with this discussion anyway.
Winning breeds success in my eyes. You have to start somewhere.....Fo rthe past few seasons we had played for just the league and came away with nothing. It has been very refresshing to play every game as important this year and we have now got something to show for it.......I certainly dont remember Man City or Chelsea playing their youth teams against us in this years cup.... Im not one for originality! What i do think though is that people who have nothing to sing about should not try rubbishing the achievements of other clubs. Lets face it, Liverpool are not the best team in the world at the moment. And nor are Arsenal. But we have seen our captain lift a cup this season and this may inspire the team onto greater things in the coming seasons. Id prefer it if we won the league, or fa cup, or champios league, or europa league etc....But id always take something over nothing...And so would you, anyone who says different is lying
since when did you become an authority you prik? now go and put all your efforts into the Emirates cup since you cant win much else...the rest of us have got an FA Cup weekend to look forward to
Arsenal fans are obviously the people who should have the final say when it comes to deciding which trophies merit praise for winning and which don't. They are seasoned veterans in the qualified for the champions league cup. Outstanding achievement by the football club, people will be talking about these consecutive qualified for the CL cup wins for years to come. The day they heroically qualified for the champions league in 2006 was outstanding. A 4-2 win at home against the awesome Wigan Athletic. I get shivers just thinking about that wonderful performance, and game.
I do not accept the premise of the question. I think we find the league matches harder. Otherwise we would do better in the league and we would do worse in the cups. We have won he Carling Cup we are Q/F of the FA cup but we are 7th in the league not having won enough games. So you are wrong.
Cos it's all about one result and one team at a time. Take a lower mid table side like Villa, for example. If they play Utd or City in the league, then a win is worth three points. The exact same three points they get for beating Blackburn, Bolton, or anyone else in the league. So the incentive to put in huge amounts of effort and potentially risk injuries and yellow cards to beat a superior side in the league isn't really there. They tend to play conservatively against the big clubs and hope to maybe get a draw or snatch a win and save their energy for easier games. In the cup, you only have one opponent. You don't turn up in the 5th round thinking "these guys are tough opponents, let's just play for a draw, probably lose, and save our energy for the easy match next week". Cos if you do that there won't be a match next week! You've got to win to stay in, and if you do win then you move that much closer to winning it.
