58 Years of Hurt, in all its awfulness

[TopDeck113]

Could be worse . Wanderers FC won it five times and then nothing since 1878...

[London Villan]

How does our record compare to other clubs of our current stature? Spurs? Everton? Leeds? Man City up until they won the lottery. I'd be surprised if our record wasn't comparable or better than even those four.

[AV82EC]

How does our record compare to other clubs of our current stature? Spurs? Everton? Leeds? Man City up until they won the lottery. I'd be surprised if our record wasn't comparable or better than even those four.

Spurs last won it in 1991, Everton in 1995, Leeds in 1972 and Citeh in 1968 prior to the lottery win.

[London Villan]

How about in terms of finals, semi-finals and quarter-finals. Before we beat ourselves up too much...

[AV82EC]

How about in terms of finals, semi-finals and quarter-finals. Before we beat ourselves up too much...

Haven't a clue and my anorak isn't that big that I give a fuck what that lot did.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Man U (various), Liverpool and this years effort were painful but Wimbledon was the one that felt like the hugest kick in the bollocks.

[not3bad]

How does our record compare to other clubs of our current stature? Spurs? Everton? Leeds? Man City up until they won the lottery. I'd be surprised if our record wasn't comparable or better than even those four.

Spurs last won it in 1991, Everton in 1995, Leeds in 1972 and Citeh in 1968 prior to the lottery win.

Don't forget Newcastle.  1956?

[MarkM]

How about in terms of finals, semi-finals and quarter-finals. Before we beat ourselves up too much...

Its winning it that matters though.

[Jon Crofts]

Man U (various), Liverpool and this years effort were painful but Wimbledon was the one that felt like the hugest kick in the bollocks.

Which one, there are 3 exits to Wimbledon, saw 2 of them first hand, the 0-1 loss at Villa Park when Allan Evans missed a penalty and the Plough Lane replay when Alan Cork popped up deep into extra time to send us home in the rain the bald bastard.

[Godfrey Brian]

Crikey that list is an exercise in masochistic nostalgia.As a kid I was convinced we were going all the way to Wembley in 68/69 having dumped out QPR and Southampton under the doc.And then we got Spurs away and went out narrowly.Bloody Tottenham always ended my dreams in the late sixties early seventies!

[OCD]

How many times do we go out in the earlier rounds because we rest our key players? We had a great run of home games, mostly against lower league opposition and found ourselves in the semi-final against Liverpool and were better than them on the day. This was with Lambert's Villa and a side that would finish 17th. If we can build ourselves over the next few years and take the earlier rounds more seriously we could find ourselves making more appearances in finals - some the opposition won't be quite so good and we can be a damn sight better.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

It will just make it all the sweeter when we win it in 2016.

[Godfrey Brian]

It will just make it all the sweeter when we win it in 2016.

I think that there is such a thing as cup momentum and if we can find a way of maintaining it beyond the first minute of the final there's a chance of winning the thing.If nothing else those remaining from this season's squad now have some pretty unique experience of real cup extremes to draw up on.

[spartacuss]

Straws are for clutching: in the past 21 years we have appeared at Wembley 8 times and won 4 times - 50% success!   How does that compare with our notional equals Newcastle, Everton etc.?

[joe_c]

Man U (various), Liverpool and this years effort were painful but Wimbledon was the one that felt like the hugest kick in the bollocks.

Which one, there are 3 exits to Wimbledon, saw 2 of them first hand, the 0-1 loss at Villa Park when Allan Evans missed a penalty and the Plough Lane replay when Alan Cork popped up deep into extra time to send us home in the rain the bald bastard.

The Villa Park exit was particularly horrendous, Wimbledon being the holders notwithstanding. I can still picture Vinnie Jones swinging at the ball and gently connecting with his studs, it deflecting off off a defender and rolling under Spink's dive.