In a season we finish embarrassing 8th? It will be ok if we finish Top 4 and qualify for CL too. Where is the standards?
FA Cup open top bus celebration.
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Done a parade in 2013 for number 20 I went it pissed it down
Did it for 2011 as well. I don’t remember it in 09, 07 or 03 though. 08 there obviously would’ve been one but Rangers fans fecked the City up during the Europa final.
It was always done in the past and as far as I am aware it is still the most famous and best domestic Cup competition in the world so it is a shame.
And in 2011.
I really think there should have been one this year with both our FA Cup winning teams.
It would have put the past couple of City parades to shame.
Back in the day both winning and losing finalists had a parade.
Remember the 76 one after losing to Southampton the Doc promising to bring the cup back the following year, And he did.
Agree it would have been great to see a joint parade with the women's team.
Remember the 76 one after losing to Southampton the Doc promising to bring the cup back the following year, And he did.
Agree it would have been great to see a joint parade with the women's team.
Should have had one with the women's team.
Even if it was only to show how shit City's parades are.
Even if it was only to show how shit City's parades are.
Ideas like that is why you should be working at OT.
Weird throwback for me, I remember finishing late at work in the Arndale offices and the security staff barricading the place. Quite surreal watching through the glass doors as hundreds of people yeeted things at riot police. I just wanted to get home, changed my old firm allegiance after that
Baffles me why they haven’t done it. Would have been great PR and amazing to bring the two teams together.
Give me a job Ratters! I demand to WFH hybrid though.
Because we're manchester united. with whats happened in recent times an fa cup win feels great, but the reality is an fa cup win is the bare minimum for this club.
Should have done a joint one with the Women's team, that would have been cool.
Bare minimum? We've won it 13 times in about 130 attempts. Three times this century. It's a major honor.
I don’t think we did one when we won it in 2018. We didnt do one for the Europa League win in 2019 either now that I think about it. I would have liked parades for those but I just think people don’t rate them as high anymore. They’re seen as nice trophies to win but nothing overly special that warrants huge celebrations.
A parade, the F.A Cup in a season where we finished 8th? Yeah, its the suits, sure. Perhaps you've mistaken Manchester United for Wigan Athletic.
I suspect that having an open-top bus when you've finished 8th in the league and looked hopeless for 95% of the season might leave a bad taste. Enjoy the trophy but let's not get silly.
Having a parade in our worst ever pl season because we won the fa cup is incredibly small time. Glad we didn't do it. The women's team should get one for winning our first ever women's fa cup but the men don't deserve it.
They have. We're laughing our arse ofr
Because the competition is often treated as an after thought when youre competing for the major trophies.
ferguson regularly fielded weakened teams. just winning an FA cup for a major club is the bare minimum for a successful season.
just because your standards have dropped, the clubs shouldnt.
My standards haven't changed at all.
The club won two FA Cups this season. Yes, every other competition was beyond poor, but for some of our younger (better) players, this was their first major trophy and it's come very early in their careers - after just one or two seasons in the first team. Are they not to be allowed to take part in a joint celebration with both the men's and women's teams? To see how more victories may feel in the future and give them a taste of it now?
Saying we can't enjoy and celebrate our hard earned success at a time when our neighbours are flaunting their purchased titles seems petty and narrow minded to me.
We usually shouldn't be having the parade for winning the Fa Cup but given that Women's team won it as well it would've been cool it if happened.
Wanna see the crowds if it happens just to laugh at city
Only in more recent times with the advent of 4 CL places, prior to this it was seen as a massive thing winning the FA cup, I'm still bot sure why it isn't treated with more respect there are only 3 domestic trophies to win in a season for PL teams winning one of them is better than winning feck all
I don’t think sir Alex ever disrespected the fa cup even that farce in 2000 when then fa decided united didn’t have to enter because of the world club thing sir Alex refused to put a youth side in like the media wanted him to because it was disrespectful
For a lot of people open top bus rides for any prize, now has a more 20th rather than 21st century feel in terms of a spectacle.
In the past any silverware winners parade use to give families, in particular those who cannot afford match day tickets, an opportunity to see their heroes in the flesh. Today however, there is so much coverage of events and build ups on TV etc. that finding a place to park, struggling through the streets, finding a decent vantage point, getting a five minute glance (if your tall enough) in the pouring rain, tends to dull the enthusiasm of many cash- strapped families.
They are therefore now held for only very special occasions; however I think the fact both the women (first time) and the men won the respective FA Cup competitions this year, would have been a good excuse.... never mind the poor league finishes
In the past any silverware winners parade use to give families, in particular those who cannot afford match day tickets, an opportunity to see their heroes in the flesh. Today however, there is so much coverage of events and build ups on TV etc. that finding a place to park, struggling through the streets, finding a decent vantage point, getting a five minute glance (if your tall enough) in the pouring rain, tends to dull the enthusiasm of many cash- strapped families.
They are therefore now held for only very special occasions; however I think the fact both the women (first time) and the men won the respective FA Cup competitions this year, would have been a good excuse.... never mind the poor league finishes
Different era. The FA cup was looked at as a lot bigger trophy back then. Wall to wall TV football demeaned the FA cup spectacular.
I am old enough to remember in those days you started watching the build up including 'its a knockout', shows, interviews, old footage etc, from 11am. It was an all daty event.
Same here.
The build up started on the Friday night on tv and on Saturday it was as you say a whole day event.we had BBC in one of the team hotels with ITV in the other(watching them play golf etc. then follow the team bus to the stadium).
great days.
We should have done it. When was the last time, 2013? Far too long
To be fair, that was the last time we won the Premier League. We haven’t won a “properly” big trophy since. We definitely should have done a combined men’s and women’s teams parade considering that both won the FA Cup.
Indeed. We should've done it. We're in a new era, get the fans onside.
What all this comes down to is: "I don't think we should celebrate winning the FA Cup against our local rivals because some weirdos on Twitter might laugh at us and call us small-time"
I don't think it would've been appropriate with the mood around the club. We didn't even know if Ezza was staying.
Maybe we could do it if we win 2 or 3 in a row
Maybe we could do it if we win 2 or 3 in a row
Wasn't that long ago that winning the FA Cup was as prestigious as winning the league title. Bringing the cup back to Manchester in 1963 was one of the highlights of my young life.
We were so starved of football in those days. One live game on Sunday, without the build up, 30 mins of football focus on Saturday lunchtime, the saint and Greavise show and highlight on sports night on Wednesday nights (30 mins max). So it was probably about 4 hours a week of football on TV.
Imagine that now? You get 4 hours just previewing a game nowadays. That's why the FA cup was so special back in the day. You have 5 hours of football on your TV. It was gold dust!