city versus Arsenal FA Cup

Originally Posted by Mr Kaboom

Pack up your treble in your old kit bag and smile, smile , smile

The days of special tokens. Turning up to random reserve games in case one was issued, then going in and out several times to secure a few. The effort paying off when tickets went on sale for semi finals and finals. Sticking them on a token sheet with sellotape and hoping the black marker pen didn’t spoil before it got stuck on another….

Milk and flour to make a paste to stick em on

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

Given we’re six years without a trophy, I’d say the league and fa cup have become more important to us than any time since 1990.

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

Given we’re six years without a trophy, I’d say the league and fa cup have become more important to us than any time since 1990.

Then you'd talk shit. Our first double in 94, a historic second double in '96, with Ian Rush's last touch for Liverpool setting Eric up and a part of the treble in '99.

Without the FA Cup win in '16, saffers would have been even more unbearable about Mourinho as well.

Originally Posted by 92ToBury

Then you'd talk shit. Our first double in 94, a historic second double in '96, with Ian Rush's last touch for Liverpool setting Eric up and a part of the treble in '99.

Without the FA Cup win in '16, saffers would have been even more unbearable about Mourinho as well.

If we didn’t win those, we’d have still won the league. We’d have had successful seasons. They’re part of historic seasons, of course, but we didn’t need them as much then as we do now. The longer we go without a trophy, the more important they become. That’s the point.

Originally Posted by Spock

It's certainly a lot less important than it was tbf. 76 and 77 were enormous. In those days Cup Final day was the biggest in the football year for me (likely cos we weren't winning the league etc) up with the larks and TV coverage used to start mid morning from memory with the players leaving the hotels getting on the coach etc. Whole day of it on TV

FA Cup editions of Its A Knockout

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

Milk and flour to make a paste to stick em on

I used to cut the numbers out of spare tokens to make up the ones we were missing. Like making a 22 out of a 21. It worked a treat