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[Football] League Cup Final









kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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The elephant in the room, which no-one has dared mention in the massive media love-in, is that Newcastle United are funded by the Saudi state.
 




ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
15,470
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
Fair play to Dan Burn winning a trophy with them the week he gets an England call up. When you think of some of the other world class Geordie players such as Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Beardsley, Alan Shearer and Barry Venison never won a trophy with Newcastle, it puts in perspective.
 




Milano

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Aug 15, 2012
4,300
Sussex but not by the sea
Fair play to Dan Burn winning a trophy with them the week he gets an England call up. When you think of some of the other world class Geordie players such as Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Beardsley, Alan Shearer and Barry Venison never won a trophy with Newcastle, it puts in perspective.
But at no point in that time was the club funded by a COUNTRY, they were a smallish club in northern England.

They’ve spent half a billion to win this cup and the media are acting like they’re Wimbledon 88.
 


A1X

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Sep 1, 2017
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Deepest, darkest Sussex
Working out the permutations is a fool’s game for now IMHO. We’re 6 games unbeaten in all comps, European qualification is in our hands through two routes, let’s beat Villa and Forest in the next couple of games and we’ll be right in the mixer regardless of permutations. I think we can do it too.
 


Kit Napper

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Aug 25, 2024
103
Fair play to Dan Burn winning a trophy with them the week he gets an England call up. When you think of some of the other world class Geordie players such as Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Beardsley, Alan Shearer and Barry Venison never won a trophy with Newcastle, it puts in perspective.
Yes I feel the debate on this board as to whether Dan Burn is good enough to face the might of Albania and Latvia was conclusively settled today 😅
 






ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
15,470
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
But at no point in that time was the club funded by a COUNTRY, they were a smallish club in northern England.

They’ve spent half a billion to win this cup and the media are acting like they’re Wimbledon 88.
They're acting like they're Wimbledon 88, Coventry 87, Luton 88 all rolled into one with Swindon in 69 as the cherry on the top. All of whom, as have others, won domestic trophies in the intervening 70 years since Newcastle last did. Still, it reduced Ant & Dec to tears and Alan Shearer demonstrated a better celebration then he ever did as a player.
 
















Birdie Boy

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Jun 17, 2011
4,573
Working out the permutations is a fool’s game for now IMHO. We’re 6 games unbeaten in all comps, European qualification is in our hands through two routes, let’s beat Villa and Forest in the next couple of games and we’ll be right in the mixer regardless of permutations. I think we can do it too.
7...
 


dwayne

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Jul 5, 2003
16,767
London
Just for simplicity.

We only need to worry about Newcastle taking a European spot off us if we finish 7th and they finish out of the top 7?

The other question. If we finish 6th and they finish 7th ..we take the Europa place and they get conference? Right?

*Taking fa cup out of equation at the moment.
 


Hometownglory

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Jan 12, 2014
925
The scope for boasting must surely be limited given it's the Carabao which is hardly the Champions League.
I tend to agree. Whilst I would obviously love the Albion to win it, anything. It doesn't hold the same gravitas as winning the Prem title, a European cup of any level or the FA Cup. For a club the size of Newcastle, it won't hold much weight for long. I mean, every year it's put forward for this cup (name after an Thai energy drink) to be scrapped to allow players more rest time...
 








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