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Beware of Pride before a Fall.....Portsmouth, FA cup winners....finished 20th in the League next season

No need for the negativity, as others have said! Portsmouth were in an entirely different situation on and off the pitch. We are a sensibly run, well managed football club. Probably one of the few clubs in the world that actually gets the sustainable model right. Even if key players leave this summer, which I doubt since we are in Europe, replacements will absolutely be lined up already. I trust that Steve Parish, Glasner, the recruitment team etc all have a plan to build on this momentum properly.

Let me put a positive spin on this - I think we will have a crack at the League Cup next season. If we use all of this as a springboard, who knows what could happen?
 
Unless Leeds spend alot of money, I can only see the 3 that come up, going back down again.

We should looking at this historic day, as springboard to better things. We have this major trophy monkey off our back now.
 
You know what i really don't care what comes next. Our name is on the trophy and that can never be taken away. Yeah it would be great to have a good follow up season and European jaunt, but that's just a nice to have. I'd take The FA Cup and relegation next season over never winning anything ever. Alas I don't think that will happen so long as we keep our manager
 
The Heath Eagle said:
Gaydamak who "owned" Portsmouth at the time was a crook who asset stripped the club and bought players with money they didn't have. Then the world recession came along and bankrupted a lot of people, including eventually Simon Jordan.

Parish is on another level. We are very well run. It's NOT going to happen.

Now be happy FA Cup winner
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This!
 
And i would like to use this thread to send a postcard to all the Pompey fans. They visited Selhurst in 2010. And chanted "fv.ck all, you never won fv.ck all, you never won fv.ck all" . Which was particularly hurtful cos it was bleedin true.

Well, we beat them that day. They soon after got relegated again. And today both teams have an FA cup win ( us via Millwall) and WE are in the Prem.

Who the fv.ck is laughing now ?
 
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PalazioVecchio said:
2008 FA cup winners. Then relegated to the Championship ( worst team in the Prem) , and relegated again to League One soon thereafter with acrimony, points-deductions and a financial shyte-Show....scary but true.

Enjoy the party tonight Eagles. Tomorrow we awaken with a hangover and new problems reinforcing the old adage of it being 'tough at the top'.

Maximum love to all the heroes at the CPFC family today. And to the many departed personnel who also got us up the ladder to be the mighty force we were today.
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A more recent example would be United 2024 cup winners and saved from relegation by the fact that the three promoted teams were so ill-equipped. The gap between the Premier and Championship has grown so much that it would be surprising if we did not finish above Burnley, Leeds and whoever
Just checking the Portsmouth run that year and, like us, they only conceded one goal, in a 2-1 win over Plymouth. All their other victories were 1-0
 
If you want to cite a cautionary tale at least mention Leicester. Won the League 10 years ago, did well in the ECL a year later and won the Cup only 4 years ago.

OK, this club moves at a glacial and uber-cautious pace to arrive at where it to wants to be. It has impatient fans ranting about an absence of cheque book deployment and ambition. However, it is this approach that will lead us next season to a top half finish and surviving in the Europa League to the post-XMas fun bit. That is realistic and sustainable progress.

I doubt we will seek to stretch our relatively limited resources any further provoking the usual howls of missed opportunity. But that is what separates us from the likes of Pompey who were not adapt at existing within their means.
 
silvertop said:
If you want to cite a cautionary tale at least mention Leicester. Won the League 10 years ago, did well in the ECL a year later and won the Cup only 4 years ago.

OK, this club moves at a glacial and uber-cautious pace to arrive at where it to wants to be. It has impatient fans ranting about an absence of cheque book deployment and ambition. However, it is this approach that will lead us next season to a top half finish and surviving in the Europa League to the post-XMas fun bit. That is realistic and sustainable progress.

I doubt we will seek to stretch our relatively limited resources any further provoking the usual howls of missed opportunity. But that is what separates us from the likes of Pompey who were not adapt at existing within their means.
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Sorry disagree. 15 years since Parish took over and we were battling going down to league 1 that season. It took only 2 years to get up to the premier league where we have stayed and become regulars. The stadium is being redeveloped and now have won our first major trophy. Some glacial pace! We have been steadily improving and taking the odd risk, like trying out de Boer then Vieira. Taking on any new coach is a risk, but then you get a Glasner.

How many everpresent Championship or "yoyo" clubs can say any of this? OK Leicester, with some rather questionable practices going on in the background (search for doping Leicester and see what you find). They are an outlier really and have just been relegated, again.
 
Teddy Eagle said:
It's not our fault no one thought it mattered. Did it have any more cache when it was the Simod Cup? Probably not...But more impressively Palace were also Evening Standard London 5 a Side champions in both 1959 & 1969.
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I used to watch that on telly. What was the midweek BBC sports show called?
 
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