Fair play to them

Hmm, long after Eusébio then.

 

You didn't have to win anything to qualify for the fairs Cup though did you? The fairs Cup had about as much credibility as the Texaco or Anglo Italian cups, so doesn't really count..

 

Of course you didn't have to win anything to qualify. At the time the League Winners qualified for European Cup and FA Cup Winners entered the Cup Winners Cup. It's no different today when you don't have to win anything to qualify for CL or Europa.

Simple fact is that we qualified via the rules in place at the beginning of the season and the Fairs Cup was a FIFA sanctioned competition. UEFA don't include it on their list of winners as it wasn't run by them but by another organisation, as has been said many times within the authority of world footballs governing body.

 

By the later 60s, teams qualified for the Fairs Cup through league position. It had long since stopped being an invitational tournament. It had become so important on the European football scene that in the end it was taken over by UEFA and relaunched the following season as the UEFA Cup.*

*Source: uefa.com

 

So what you are saying is that it actually gained credibility after you had won it!!!

 

While your acknowledgement of the stature we add to a tournament is touching, I don't want you to be drawn into a deluded view of how big a team we are. Just because you like us (and our board) so much doesn't mean you should credit us with giving credibility to a competition taken seriously by teams like Barcelona, Juventus, Benfica, Ajax and many more. At best we can claim to share the honour of adding credibility.

 

We're not really big are we? RAW had me convinced that we weren't.

 

We're big to Whitey. That's why we occupy so much of his time and why we secretly quite like him. He wants to be one of us - he just doesn't know he wants to be one of us.

 

He should listen to his heart.

 

Wondered when Whitney would surface.
Lol.