25-08-2021, 23:12
Bad night for the youngsters, not much more to do but draw a line under it and move on. Push comes to shove, it's been thirty years since a team outside the top flight last won a major cup, and Championship clubs who field their first team for these ties go on to lose their next league match more often than not. I'll gladly get angry when we do stuff like this as a Prem side with an actual hope in hell of reaching the final, but in this division there's just no point.
On the subject of winning stuff, it was a telling sign of how crap Arsenal have been of late that their fans celebrated their £200m+ international-quality attack beating our teenage third team as if they were bossing the Champions League final. It's not often I end up feeling sorry for a team hammering us, but there's something so cringe about that kind of insecurity and small-time mentality from a club that's actually won stuff in the semi-recent past. God help them if they don't manage a top four finish soon, they'll be singing Piers Morgan's name if he scores past a toddler in the park.
On the subject of winning stuff, it was a telling sign of how crap Arsenal have been of late that their fans celebrated their £200m+ international-quality attack beating our teenage third team as if they were bossing the Champions League final. It's not often I end up feeling sorry for a team hammering us, but there's something so cringe about that kind of insecurity and small-time mentality from a club that's actually won stuff in the semi-recent past. God help them if they don't manage a top four finish soon, they'll be singing Piers Morgan's name if he scores past a toddler in the park.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley