Cup Final, who do ya want to win ?

[max power]

hopefully longford

then next year they can do better in europe after having their first experience already

second actually

[Pablo]

I suppose you can call it tradition.

so how old is Waterford United? as opposed to the other club that used to be in waterford 'waterford'

[yur man]

second actually

sorry

when was the first time?

[eoinh]

second actually

yes, they managed to **** up twice in europe.

[Partizan]

so how old is Waterford United? as opposed to the other club that used to be in waterford 'waterford'

Had an argument about this b4 with another ****ie.

Waterford FC & Waterford U are the same Club but traded as a different company. In 1982 Waterford FC encountered serious financial difficulties. The Board simply shut down the company operating WFC and reformed the following day with a new company with a name change but the Club remained the same. All the old personal etc stayed in place and continued as before.
To give you other examples of this would be Middlesborough FC and Limerick City/United/FC.

To back up my argument, if you look at the bottom of the WUFC Lotto ticket you will see "Rules and conditions subject to Waterford FC".

Also if you read the UEFA, FAI and the official Waterford United sites you will see that Waterford United FC were founded in 1930

[Dillo]

[QUOTE=eoinh]yes, they managed to **** up twice in europe.[/QUOTEWe

We went out in 2001 to the highly rated Liteks Lovech of Bulgaria. We drew with them one all at home (should have beaten them) and went down two nil away, both their goals coming in injury time. Lovech went on to beat four or five teams after us including Aek Athens if memory serves me correct! Not bad for a team just promoted from the EL First Division the year previous!

[yur man]

maybe third time lucky then

[max power]

yes, they managed to **** up twice in europe.

and your fine run in the inter tayo cup was worth what to the league ?? oh yeah f*ck all

[CuanaD]

[QUOTE=Dillo]

yes, they managed to **** up twice in europe.[/QUOTEWe

We went out in 2001 to the highly rated Liteks Lovech of Bulgaria. We drew with them one all at home (should have beaten them) and went down two nil away, both their goals coming in injury time. Lovech went on to beat four or five teams after us including Aek Athens if memory serves me correct! Not bad for a team just promoted from the EL First Division the year previous!

In case anyone doubted - here are the actual results from that year:
Litex Lovech 2001/02
UC Q1: Longford Town (IRL), 1-1* & 2-0
R1: Inter Bratislava (SVK), 0-1* & 3-0
R2: Union Berlin (GER), 2-0* & 0-0
R3: AEK Athens (GRE), 2-3* & 1-1

Longford were beaten by a good team

[Fair_play_boy]

My wish list for Sunday.
1. A good open game of footie, which will advertise the domestic soccer scene and hopefully convert a few Old Traffordites into spending less on flights and more on their local clubs.
2. A good ref and competent linesmen, who tolerate no thuggery, and who allow number 1 above to happen.
3. An early goal.
4. A very large crowd.
5. Good T.V. analysis at half time.
6. On balance, Longford to win, to reward their honest grafting approach as compared with the thuggery which overshadows Waterford's good footballing image.

[Dillo]

In case anyone doubted - here are the actual results from that year:
Litex Lovech 2001/02
UC Q1: Longford Town (IRL), 1-1* & 2-0
R1: Inter Bratislava (SVK), 0-1* & 3-0
R2: Union Berlin (GER), 2-0* & 0-0
R3: AEK Athens (GRE), 2-3* & 1-1

Longford were beaten by a good team

Thanks for that confirmation. Might shut up some of those l@ngers for a while. Get yer facts right ****ies. We didn't fcuk up, we were narrowly beaten by a quality side on our first of many european adventures.

[eoinh]

But remember one of the teams they beat was Longford obviously.

And err Union Berlin didnt play in the top divison of Germany. even bad teams wouldnt lose to a non topflight team. (oh sorry, Longford did!).

So besides yerselves the only topflight team they beat was Inter Bratislava.

[Maz]

id say id be speaking for ALL city fans here by saying


C'MON DE TOWN

just the fans corner, coz i see Pat Dolan has tipped waterford! oh Pat!!

www.eleven-a-side.com

[boots]

Honestly Max, who was the last big club to win the FAI cup?

Yes good point...

1992 Bohemians
1993 Shelbourne
1995 Derry City
1996 Shelbourne
1997 Shelbourne
1998 Cork City
2000 Shelbourne
2001 Bohemians
2002 Derry City

How about the FA cup
2002-03 Arsenal
2001-02 Arsenal
2000-01 Liverpool
1999-2000 Chelsea
1998-99 Man Utd
1997-98 Arsenal
1996-97 Chelsea
1995-96 Manchester United

"Big" club just hate winning these national cups

[eoinh]

Yes good point...



"Big" club just hate winning these national cups

Ere no, they dont hate to win them but the league is waaaay more important

Italian cup results

1996/97 Vicenza - Napoli 0-1 3-0 a.e.t.
1997/98 Lazio - Milan 0-1 3-1
1998/99 Parma - Fiorentina 1-1 2-2
1999/00 Lazio - Inter 2-1 0-0
2000/01 Fiorentina - Parma 1-0 1-1
2001/02 Parma - Juventus 1-2 1-0
2002/03 Milan - Roma 4-1 2-2
2003/04 Lazio - Juventus 2-0 2-1


Usually won by teams in the top division who wont win the league in the year in question. I mean here where are Juventus? The only big italian club to win here is Milan and that year they only scrapped in to CL qualifying in third position and they needed to make sure of europe.

Juve dont even play their cup matchs in Turin anymore - thats how interested they are. One of the last times they played a cup match in Turin something like 74 people turned up.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics!