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All the Teams who have won a major trophy since Newcastle?

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Peter123 said:
While the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is recognised as the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, it was not organised by UEFA. Consequently, UEFA does not consider clubs' records in the Fairs Cup to be part of their
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However, FIFA does view the competition as a major honour.

Pffft. Fifa my arse.
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We all know how corrupt those bastards are :evil:
 

Just for a bit clarity, Uefa took over the Fairs Cup in 1971 because it was such a big competition, our FA continued the 1 club 1 city until 1974 despite it being abolished by the Fairs Cup some years earlier. The Fairs Cup was founded in 1955 (just a year after the European Cup) by a committee including Uefa officials, including the Vice President.

The Cup Winners Cup was not started until 1960 and was an inferior tournament with many European leagues not having a domestic cup and others where the domestic cup was held in low regard. In 1968 Uefa decided that the Cup Winners Cup would come second after the European Cup in an attempt to give it more prestige over a competition that wasn’t theirs; the European domestic leagues widely recognised the Fairs Cup as the better competition with 64 teams in it and Uefa took over the Fairs Cup in 1971 but would not lose face by changing the ranking. Given that Uefa abandoned the Cup Winners Cup tells you which was the more prestigious competition in real terms.

This is a great piece and encapsulates what the Fairs Cup meant.
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Friendly Fire said:
Just for a bit clarity, Uefa took over the Fairs Cup in 1971 because it was such a big competition, our FA continued the 1 club 1 city until 1974 despite it being abolished by the Fairs Cup some years earlier. The Fairs Cup was founded in 1955 (just a year after the European Cup) by a committee including Uefa officials, including the Vice President.

The Cup Winners Cup was not started until 1960 and was an inferior tournament with many European leagues not having a domestic cup and others where the domestic cup was held in low regard. In 1968 Uefa decided that the Cup Winners Cup would come second after the European Cup in an attempt to give it more prestige over a competition that wasn’t theirs; the European domestic leagues widely recognised the Fairs Cup as the better competition with 64 teams in it and Uefa took over the Fairs Cup in 1971 but would not lose face by changing the ranking. Given that Uefa abandoned the Cup Winners Cup tells you which was the more prestigious competition in real terms.

This is a great piece and encapsulates what the Fairs Cup meant.
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On the way to winning it Newcastle beat Feyenoord, Sporting Lisbon, Real Zaragoza, Vitoria Setubal, Rangers and then Ujpest Dozsa. Teams clearly took it seriosly as it was European football. The way it's derided on is here is only because Newcastle won it and the qualification format was a bit different.
If anything, finishing 10th and then going on to win it is even more of an achievement. Be like West Brom or Bournemouth winning the Europa League this season
 
What A Waster said:
On the way to winning it Newcastle beat Feyenoord, Sporting Lisbon, Real Zaragoza, Vitoria Setubal, Rangers and then Ujpest Dozsa. Teams clearly took it seriosly as it was European football. The way it's derided on is here is only because Newcastle won it and the qualification format was a bit different.
If anything, finishing 10th and then going on to win it is even more of an achievement. Be like West Brom or Bournemouth winning the Europa League this season
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From Wikipedia:

"The competition was initially only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs and where these teams finished in their national league had no relevance. Early competitions also featured a one city, one team rule. After 1968, it was sometimes referred to as the Runners-up Cup, with teams now qualifying based on league position."

So it was referred to as the 'Runners up Cup' yet the Competition ended up with a club that came 10th in their domestic league win the thing? Hardly comes across as a prestigious trophy. The fact they beat Ujpest Dozsa in the final also supports that.

The most prestigious club winners of the Fairs Cup were Barcelona, Valencia, Leeds, Roma and Arsenal.

Compare that to the Cup Winners Cup where you have Barcelona, AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Man United etc. Or the UEFA Cup, which didn't allow 10th placed sides to enter the competition: Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich.
 
EFC said:
From Wikipedia:

"The competition was initially only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs and where these teams finished in their national league had no relevance. Early competitions also featured a one city, one team rule. After 1968, it was sometimes referred to as the Runners-up Cup, with teams now qualifying based on league position."

So it was referred to as the 'Runners up Cup' yet the Competition ended up with a club that came 10th in their domestic league win the thing? Hardly comes across as a prestigious trophy. The fact they beat Ujpest Dozsa in the final also supports that.

The most prestigious club winners of the Fairs Cup were Barcelona, Valencia, Leeds, Roma and Arsenal.

Compare that to the Cup Winners Cup where you have Barcelona, AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Man United etc. Or the UEFA Cup, which didn't allow 10th placed sides to enter the competition: Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich.
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Rattled
 
Mackemed said:
I'm going to rinse a Mag I know online and remember there was a stat knocking around a few years ago about this (aye I'll post it online or you all to see).

Only issue is I can't actually find the stat :evil: It's pretty embarrassing and contained teams like Wigan, Swansea...Sunderland (which as we all know, they won't admit, but really hacks them off). Fwiw this is a Mag who lived in Newcastle for a few years and didn't even bother his arse to go to the games even when they were trying to stay up on the last day of the season. He's one of those 'obsessed small club mentality' types so definitely doesn't fit the description of 'decent Mag'.

He loves to call us obsessed so I'm going to pull him up on their attempts to come to our stadium, pay into our club, and celebrate our relegation...again.

Any help lads and lasses? ;)
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But but but, they won the Texaco cup in 74 ish ?
 
KittenMittens said:
Never seen it but...

Coventry
Wimbledon
Wigan
Bolton
Ipswich
Portsmouth
Swindon
QPR
Stoke
Wolves
Wednesday
Swansea
Luton
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See, the problem is all those have won since our last honour too, except the two in bold who don't even qualify for the thread, and Stoke.

White city Boy said:
I know mate I was there and went to every game home and away bar the 1st round against hull on route to the final , we took 45k that day to Wembley
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Which bus did you take?

EFC said:
From Wikipedia:

"The competition was initially only open to teams from cities that hosted trade fairs and where these teams finished in their national league had no relevance. Early competitions also featured a one city, one team rule. After 1968, it was sometimes referred to as the Runners-up Cup, with teams now qualifying based on league position."

So it was referred to as the 'Runners up Cup' yet the Competition ended up with a club that came 10th in their domestic league win the thing? Hardly comes across as a prestigious trophy. The fact they beat Ujpest Dozsa in the final also supports that.
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On the other hand, Panathinaikos, Bruges and Malmoe played in the supposedly superior European Cup final in the 70s.
 
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Funnily enough it always raises the point I make when Newcastle fans go on about how they are a bigger club than us - in the 90's in which was one of their best periods in history they hadn't won a carrot whereas the 90's which was one of the our worst periods we still won a trophy.

Shades of the 90's Newcastle in Spurs imo - good entertaining side with a top quality centre forward yet no trophy to show for it - im thankful when we had our time in the 80's I atleast got to see us lift the league title/win a few pots.
 
EverBlue86 said:
Funnily enough it always raises the point I make when Newcastle fans go on about how they are a bigger club than us - in the 90's in which was one of their best periods in history they hadn't won a carrot whereas the 90's which was one of the our worst periods we still won a trophy.

Shades of the 90's Newcastle in Spurs imo - good entertaining side with a top quality centre forward yet no trophy to show for it - im thankful when we had our time in the 80's I atleast got to see us lift the league title/win a few pots.
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Should have been playing in the 2nd Division though.
 
Mags falling over themselves here trying to convince us they haven't been shite for sixty years. :lol:

Just accept it lads, we are shite now we accept it, stop trying to pretend you are/have been some sort of force in football, you haven't, you're shite.

You've won nothing of note since the fifties, we, along with many others have won a major trophy since then. We can argue all we like about six in a rows, European nights, second place finishes, relegations, cup final appearances etc, but that is a stone cold fact.
 
Sneech said:
Mags falling over themselves here trying to convince us they haven't been shite for sixty years. :lol:

Just accept it lads, we are shite now we accept it, stop trying to pretend you are/have been some sort of force in football, you haven't, you're shite.

You've won nothing of note since the fifties, we, along with many others have won a major trophy since then. We can argue all we like about six in a rows, European nights, second place finishes, relegations, cup final appearances etc, but that is a stone cold fact.
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That maybe so, but if you offered me your F.A. Cup and then your history that followed until this day. Or our history from our cup and our history. I would choose ours.
I have seen us play in the champions league, compete for the title of our highest league, in the finals of the F.A. Cup. In all honesty it's been quite good being a Newcastle fan in my lifetime (admitted I grew up not long before the invention of football in 92) but I have enjoyed loads.
 
The Fish said:
My point? This is a silly thread, so I'm being silly, no point really.

We also won this prestigious international competition fairly recently, the Trofeu Internacional de Futebol do Guadiana and got this snazzy bridge suspension trophy.
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In fact we're the only English team to have ever lifted it.
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The funny thing is if newcastle have that on display people will be asking why they have a model of the new bridge at sunderand in the trophy cabinet.
 
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