by LaFraise92 » Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:34 am
UlversToon wrote: ↑Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:06 pm
Don't forget we won the Anglo Italian Cup in 1973 by beating Fiorentina. Quite an achievement really considering Swindon Town, Blackpool, Notts County and the mighty Sutton United were the only other English clubs to win this prestigious trophy.
There's a "tier" system of trophies we've won IMO:
Tier A: Top division titles, FA cups, Fairs Cup
Tier B: Charity Shields, Intertoto Cup
Tier C: Second division titles
Tier D: Texaco Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup
The Fairs Cup and the Intertoto Cup are tricky competitions to categorise. By 1969 the Fairs Cup was definitely the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, even if it isn't UEFA-sanctioned, but a Fairs Cup win in say, 1955 was very different than the way we won it. The Intertoto changed formats so often that it's difficult to pin down, and even then a trophy you win 'by default' (as we did) is a strange one - like a trophy for winning a group stage rather than a knockout.
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Don't forget we won the Anglo Italian Cup in 1973 by beating Fiorentina. Quite an achievement really considering Swindon Town, Blackpool, Notts County and the mighty Sutton United were the only other English clubs to win this prestigious trophy.
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There's a "tier" system of trophies we've won IMO:
Tier A: Top division titles, FA cups, Fairs Cup
Tier B: Charity Shields, Intertoto Cup
Tier C: Second division titles
Tier D: Texaco Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup
The Fairs Cup and the Intertoto Cup are tricky competitions to categorise. By 1969 the Fairs Cup was definitely the predecessor to the UEFA Cup, even if it isn't UEFA-sanctioned, but a Fairs Cup win in say, 1955 was very different than the way we won it. The Intertoto changed formats so often that it's difficult to pin down, and even then a trophy you win 'by default' (as we did) is a strange one - like a trophy for winning a group stage rather than a knockout.