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NUFC thread 2021.

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Exile 1968 said:
They'll all be watching and be gutted if we win trust me.

And nothing is more embarrassing than the way they went on about the Saudis begging mass murderers to buy them.

I hope they are f***ing crushed tomorrow when we win, and they will be.

I, for one, will be delighted
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Mags will believe they come out on top no matter how the game tomorrow finishes. If we lose, they will be joyous because we lose and if we win the will laugh because its a tin pot trophy. There is no reason to even give them any attention.
It a damn if you do, damned if you don't-situation for us. Mind like when we battered their kids a while back. They were all hoping they would beut us, when that didn't happen, they were all over the place anyway.
 

Vicham said:
Mags will believe they come out on top no matter how the game tomorrow finishes. If we lose, they will be joyous because we lose and if we win the will laugh because its a tin pot trophy. There is no reason to even give them any attention.
It a damn if you do, damned if you don't-situation for us. Mind like when we battered their kids a while back. They were all hoping they would beut us, when that didn't happen, they were all over the place anyway.
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I remember that. They were convinced their youngins would beat us and sold their allocation and we pissed all over them
 
Football Dinosaur said:
You had to be a city and have an exibition ground to enter. Also if Liverpool qualified for a proper European trophy Everton couldn't get into a tin pot invitational. Barca pulled out at quarter final stage as water to concentrate on proper trophies. All well documentated
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"Barca pulled out at quarter final stage as to concentrate on proper trophies. All well documented"......not the year Newcastle were in please try and get your facts right.....there were some strong teams from uk that year...Chelsea Liverpool Rangers Leeds Hibs Aberdeen
 
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Rosco said:
"Barca pulled out at quarter final stage as water to concentrate on proper trophies. All well documented"......not the year Newcastle were in please try and get your facts right.....there were some strong teams from uk that year...Chelsea Liverpool Rangers Leeds Hibs Aberdeen
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Don't think I ever said they pulled out in 69. But don't let that make it any less true eh. Maybe they were suffering from a poor net spend.
 
Football Dinosaur said:
You had to be a city and have an exibition ground to enter. Also if Liverpool qualified for a proper European trophy Everton couldn't get into a tin pot invitational. Barca pulled out at quarter final stage as water to concentrate on proper trophies. All well documentated
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That isn't accurate. If Liverpool were in the cup winners cup or the European cup, Everton could still have entered the Fairs Cup.
In the very early years of it, when it was played over two years, the qualification process was between cities that had hosted an international trade fair. Hence the Fairs Cup.

By mid 60s it had evolved into a two legged knock out competition with qualification awarded on league placing. Initially the organisers had one club per city rule. Which is why Everton didn't qualify in your example. That rule was done away with not long after, although the FA kept it in place, and even into the 70s when the UEFA cup had taken over from the Fairs Cup.

The circumstances in which Newcastle qualified for the 68/69 competition were mad, but we didn't make the rules.

England had 3 places in the Fairs Cup awarded via league position and one club per city.
It meant that because Man United were defending champions of the European Cup, and Man City had won the league, 3rd place Liverpool took the first Fairs Cup place.
4th place Leeds entered the Fairs Cup as defending champions.
5th place Everton unable to enter due to Liverpool qualifying
6th place was Chelsea who took the second Fairs Cup slot.
7th placed Tottenham couldn't enter because of Chelsea.
8th place West Brom entered the Cup Winners Cup.
9th place Arsenal couldn't enter because of Chelsea.
10th place Newcastle got the last slot.

As I said, the qualification rules were stupid, but that's how the FA decided to keep it for a good while after one club per city was abolished. Still done well to win the thing though.
 
Born Never Asked said:
Which clubs pulled out? And what do you mean by invitational? EFL trophy is exclusive to only the bottom 48 teams of football league. Fairs Cup was open to anybody who could finish in top 10 of football league
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Didn’t Hamburg pull out the year your lot won the invitational cup. Clubs even got byes into the next round due to lack of interest.

Sure I saw Newcastle getting knocked out of the EFL Trophy again this year, albeit it was your under 23’s, but you’d think a Premier league clubs under 23’s should be able to compete with clubs from the lower leagues.
 
Rosco said:
"Barca pulled out at quarter final stage as to concentrate on proper trophies. All well documented"......not the year Newcastle were in please try and get your facts right.....there were some strong teams from uk that year...Chelsea Liverpool Rangers Leeds Hibs Aberdeen
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Try as you might but sadly that cup is in the "Minor trophies" list on honours pages. Just like the pizza cup will be if we win.
 
Mr B said:
Didn’t Hamburg pull out the year your lot won the invitational cup. Clubs even got byes into the next round due to lack of interest.

Sure I saw Newcastle getting knocked out of the EFL Trophy again this year, albeit it was your under 23’s, but you’d think a Premier league clubs under 23’s should be able to compete with clubs from the lower leagues.
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They pulled out due to a backlog of fixtures in the league and german cup, they couldn't fit all their games in so had to forfeit. That happened in the European Cup as well, in the early 70s i think, i forget who it was now.
Byes used to happen in the European Cup also. Liverpool given a bye in 1978 when they won it.
40 or 50 year ago European competition wasn't as well organised as it is now
 
f***ing rattled Rosco P Coletrain. He'll be crying into his Rafa wank sock the morra when we win the Cup. Sad bustard on here at 12pm on a Saturday getting destroyed as per
 
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