If you have to choose...

Cup all day long. CL is a financial shot in the arm, but in little more than 5 years no fucker will remember we finished behind Shakhtar Donetsk and Lille in a qualifying group.
 
My wife asked this the other day and my response similar to the above.

Need to win the cup to get the monkey of our back and complete the set. It is the one we all grew up dreaming of winning. The League title was not even on our radar.

Doesn't mean I
don't get how important CL is in terms of the club's development in attracting and retaining players, stadium expansion etc.
 
We had a similar thread weeks back and I said Cup all day long. I still stand by this.

Everything logical points to CL qualification - the prestige of the tournament, the money, the fact that it’s where all young lads want to ply their trade because of computer games, but unlike the BCC‘s who see qualification as a trophy in it’s own right (Spurs for example) I want us to win a trophy. Especially this one which has eluded us for our entire existence as a football club.
 
I completely understand why people are choosing the FA Cup. It's a competition that I've been desperate to see us win all my life. I am nervous as hell about tomorrow. I'll be ecstatic if we win and devastated if we lose.

Yet if I were forced to choose, I would pick qualifying for CL because I think that will do more for our long-term future. I want us to be one of Europe's top clubs and I believe that is within our grasp. Qualifying for the CL will help us to achieve that; an FA Cup win, however much it matters to us, won't have the same impact.

But I still really, really, really want us to win tomorrow.
 
FA Cup.

Everyday and twice on Sundays.

A relative "newbie" in Roofer terms compared with some....I have dreamt of this for 46 years since I first entered Filbo's hallowed gates.

Just once in my lifetime....just once. Please!!!
 
FA Cup. No question. For me, to see City in an FA Cup final is a dream come true. CL can wait until we can actually go.
 
FA Cup for me, dreamed of winning it as a nipper in 69, went to both semi finals in 74 as a school kid, went to the 82 semi final as a drunken gobshite, watching the final down my local tomorrow... 🏆👍💙
 
Yep. FA Cup. A miserable journey home in 1969. The way things are now, a "top four" with Top is more likely each season than what can sometimes be the lottery of a cup win.

And could someone please explain "BCC". Ta.
 
i understand the arguments about CL qualification improving our future - but for two years now we've been established in the top four, without needing the CL revenue or 'pull'.
so - if i must choose - i'll happily wait one more year to qualify for CL and live forever knowing i've seen us lift all the domestic honours.
 
I shall be gutted if we ‘lose’ either of ’em - I started supporting Leicester because of the 69 final and an FA cup win use to mean as much as a league title - unfortunately it’s just not like that anymore. CL means greater stability in the grand scheme of things. As I said, lose either and I’ll be heartbroken, in these troubled times, my passion for all things LCFC have kept me just on the positive side of sane.
 
FA Cup for me, for a simple reason.

I refer to the Rats in the Shed thread posted by Mac. In the story a boy tries to impress his dad by listing all winners of the cup since 1946. Kids remember winners. Ask a kid to name the English teams that have qualified for the Champions League in the last ten years and they wouldn't be able to do it. Winning the cup puts you in the history book (or Wikipedia page - you choose), qualifying doesn't. Our qualification in 2016-17 isn't mentioned on the UCL Wikipedia page.
 
shropie_blue said:
FA Cup for me, for a simple reason.

I refer to the Rats in the Shed thread posted by Mac. In the story a boy tries to impress his dad by listing all winners of the cup since 1946. Kids remember winners. Ask a kid to name the English teams that have qualified for the Champions League in the last ten years and they wouldn't be able to do it. Winning the cup puts you in the history book (or Wikipedia page - you choose), qualifying doesn't. Our qualification in 2016-17 isn't mentioned on the UCL Wikipedia page.
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right i am at work alone and i just had a Eureka moment. i hate he CL and all it stands for. i dislike the PL. I am Oldskool. the FA CUP has been a constant in my life : from crying when we lost in 1969 to my first fa cup game in 1974. FROM THE LATE 70'S TO THE 1990,S I never missed a fa cup game home or away. we might make more money by getting in to the CL but its the FA cup, a real competition (just).
 
shropie_blue said:
FA Cup for me, for a simple reason.

I refer to the Rats in the Shed thread posted by Mac. In the story a boy tries to impress his dad by listing all winners of the cup since 1946. Kids remember winners. Ask a kid to name the English teams that have qualified for the Champions League in the last ten years and they wouldn't be able to do it. Winning the cup puts you in the history book (or Wikipedia page - you choose), qualifying doesn't. Our qualification in 2016-17 isn't mentioned on the UCL Wikipedia page.
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Shropie that’s easy, it’s the 6 BCC’s and us. It.’s so incredibly hard to bridge that gap.
 
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