This isn’t the final, it’s merely the beginning nufc
I’ve struggled to get excited for this Newcastle United weekend and Carabao Cup Final.
I think part of the reason I’ve struggled to get excited for this game is sheer jealousy that I won’t be able to enjoy it the way many others will. It’s our first chance of silverware and I won’t be there. I know many others are in the same situation, but I won’t even be in the vicinity of a Geordie and that is sad for me.
Not to worry though, the following season we were at it yet again. Before the semi final against Chelsea I had no doubt we would win. We were the cup specialists. I was going to watch this team in black and white lining up at Wembley / The Millennium Stadium every season for the rest of my life. Chelsea beat us that day and we haven’t seen a final since… until this season.
Astonishing really, nearly a fifth. We won 11% of the FA Cups over that time. If we just look at the FA Cups played since we first won the trophy in 1910, we won six of the 36 which accounts for 16% of them. Imagine that, winning a sixth of all the FA Cups over a 36 year period. Sounds alien, doesn’t it? We’d have won another 12 and a bit FA Cups by now if we’d kept that ratio up.
Up against the last team to beat us in a final. The team that pulled back a 12 point deficit to shatter our best chance of winning the Premier League. A team that has consistently belittled and battered us down the years. A team that has even stolen our name. They live in the conscious of many a neutral simply as ‘United’. Well out of the two of us, we are the true United in every way.
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