Sorry to be selfish, but red door for me as I carry my 1973 cup final ticket with me in my wallet to remind me of that great day
The only thing that would make me go for the blue door would be if the other team in the cup final would be the mags.
Easy answer for me. Looking back at over 70 years of supporting SAFC, what is my most abiding memory. One of the many promotions. No Not even watching players like Hurley and Shack. It is 5th of May 1973.
Red door, financial security which is what KLD is striving for then cup after cup while staying in the PL.
Definitely the red door for me, consolidating and building on the solid foundations that we've been doing since Kyril arrived, then we can dream about cups when the time's right, and hopefully showing the likes of 'City and the skunks how to do things without cheating
I’ll go for the blue door. An FA Cup win would last, in the memory, forever. Promotion would be exciting until the next season started then it would be a fight to stay up for at least half a season. The club is continually evolving and everything that was wrong being put right … … we're not there yet but it’s coming.
I have to admit, I'm baffled by just how many people have said they'd rather have promotion than the trophy. For me, promotions and relegations are going to happen as part of being a football fan for the vast majority anyway. Even being a very well ran club is not a shield from that these days with the money being spent in the top flight. On the flip side, trophies are harder than ever to win. There's no formula that guarantees one when you're a stable club. Here are the last English trophies won by selected teams outside of the key teams: Aston Villa - 1996 League Cup Everton - 1995 FA Cup Newcastle - 1955 FA Cup Nottingham Forest - 1990 League Cup Wolves - 1980 League Cup West Ham 1980 FA Cup Tottenham - 2008 League Cup The most recent English trophy for any of them teams is 16 years ago but for the vast majority, it's between 30-50 years ago. The likelihood is that we'll never win a cup in most of our lifetimes. I'm surprised so many people would forego that experience of seeing your team lift the FA Cup for nothing more than a guarantee of being in the Premier League for 2 seasons.
Not sure how many promotions I've seen. Nine or ten maybe. There will be others down the line if I remain above the sod long enough. Only one FA Cup win though. And it is fresher in the mind than any of the promotions by miles. We've won it once in 92 years Easy choice. FA cup every time. I'd especially want it for those who can't remember '73 or who weren't around then. That was a feeling that cannot be described and in all honesty puts any promotion in the shade. Sooner or later, we'll go up again, especially if this set up stays, but it's 52 years and counting for the Cup
I started off reading this thread as a red door but I'm now thinking blue door. I remember the 73 cup run the final and it's still talked about now. Promotions aren't really talked about much. There's then the European adventure where thousands and thousands of mackems descend on Milan. . Another song wiped out.
Blue door, winning a trophy is what football is all about. Football is getting ruined by money imo, it should be about winning trophies so I take the guaranteed cup rather than staying in the PL for 2 seasons People think the PL and it's money is the be all and end all but us winning a cup will stay with us all forever. I was born in 1986 and still got told all about 1973 when growing up I would love to see us win a big cup in my life time
Anyone saying the red door needs there head examining for me. I get it's hypothetical and people will argue it's better for the club long term but imagine winning the FA Cup. That lasts forever across the course of a lifetime 1 promotion means nothing we've already done it 5 or 6 times in my lifetime.
We are going to get back in the Premier League at some stage, that’s certain. A cup and its lifelong memories isn’t. Seldom few of us were around in 73
That is why I will always say the Cup. We could get promoted this year and do okay, stay up and somehow hold our own or then maybe even do a bit better. There is though, a ceiling in the PL now, put there by those who live above it and, unless it becomes an adjunct of a country, a club can only do so much. That is why the PL to me is almost poison, although I do see the paradox in also wanting us to win every game left this season and storm up! But, sooner or later a club makes some bad decisions. It gets a bit of bad luck maybe, gets the best player injured in early Feb, or sacks a manager and gets the wrong one in etc. Result; relegation and start again. No one else really notices, and we all just get over it and support the next phase. Us lot have been doing that for decades now. But, as someone who is old enough to remember can say, winning the cup is very different. It is noticed by everyone, even now and it is a mind altering, spine tingling experience. I was still at school in '73 and with a bit still to go, but man, we walked around all summer and longer with a grin on our faces, feeling like the kings of the world. I've felt that and I can still remember how it felt. Maybe it doesn't feel like that if you support City for instance, who will know that they have went to the shops and have essentially just bought the thing, but back then, and as it would be for us now, it was an incomparable feeling. Other worldly. I want others to feel like they are the kings of the world for a summer. I want that more than anything for Sunderland and it's supporters. FA Cup every time!
