Are we the most failed club.....

[Blade56]

.......in current history of football?

Apart from Blackpool who have a strong history we must be the club that has fallen further than any other in the history of football and we are still in reverse. I'm no football historian or statto, are there any other clubs who have fallen further from grace than us?

 

[Rodley]

.......in current history of football?

Apart from Blackpool who have a strong history we must be the club that has fallen further than any other in the history of football and we are still in reverse. I'm no football historian or statto, are there any other clubs who have fallen further from grace than us?

Bit of a strange OP. But Pompey and Wimbledon.

 

[Blade56]

Wimbledon ffs what history do they have? Formed same year as us but amature until 60's

Portsmouth formed early 20th century, 2 league one winners and 2 FA cups.
Vs our one league champions and 4 FA cups. So a contender!

 

[Pierre's PC]

Yes, yes we are because reasons

 

[yorkshirecoast]

Without doubt we are the biggest underachievers in football. But at least it means we are best at something....

 

[Tyler Durden]

Dynamo Berlin, Pro Vercelli, Third Lanark, Belfast Celtic. There's been loads

How does 'current history' work anyway? Is that a bit like the distant present?

 

[Blade56]

How does 'current history' work anyway? Is that a bit like the distant present?

Life time of our living supporters, like the gentleman in The_Green_Man post

 

[Treeton Blade]

Dynamo Berlin, Pro Vercelli, Third Lanark, Belfast Celtic. There's been loads

How does 'current history' work anyway? Is that a bit like the distant present?

Third Lanark then & now, you are right, they have fallen further than us, by some way.

 

[Blade56]

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Third Lanark then & now, you are right, they have fallen further than us, by some way.

If they are in a bad way what about 1st and 2nd Lanark, what happened to them?

 

[Blade56]

Dynamo Berlin, Pro Vercelli, Third Lanark, Belfast Celtic. There's been loads

Initially I was just thinking England. But as you mention it are we in the running as the most failing club in the world?

 

[Jon Bon]

Bit of a strange OP. But Pompey and Wimbledon.

Christ, even Wimbledon fans have had an FA Cup victory at Wembley to cheer in 30 years or so. Even Wimbledon FFS.

 

[Jon Bon]

If they are in a bad way what about 1st and 2nd Lanark, what happened to them?

1st Lanark merged to become Belvedere & Mither (Lanark) Gentlemen's Outfitters and 2nd Lanark 'right sized' themselves down over a number of years and became Osmium - the densest element on the planet.

 

[pommpey]

Fourth Lanark played in the West Highland Wee-Jock-Poo-Pong-McPlop League and won the SFA 'Ploppy' trophy in 1937. Much of their team were enlisted into the 4th Highland Kilters Regiment which saw acton in Monte Casino, Singapore and Govan. After the war they continued to play (twelve of their squad were captured by the Japs and are still in a PoW camp in Burma somewhere) with just six players until they merged with Fifth and Sixth Lanark to form 'Wee Bastards Athletic' (one player and a goalkeeper and groundsman respectively) who played at Tartan Park playing fields until 1942 when the ground was sold to erect tenements and slums for the purpose of telling exaggerated stories and embellishing drink fuelled rants at the English.

The Wee Bastards merged again with the remnants of First Lanark to form Glasgow Rangers, a highly successful and in no way corupt football outfit overseen by some or other ex-Sheff Utd businesman for the purpose of allowing into decline and slump, much to the consternation of hundreds of thousands of Glasgwegians in their native London abodes.

pommpey

 

[mosbolad]

.......in current history of football?

Apart from Blackpool who have a strong history we must be the club that has fallen further than any other in the history of football and we are still in reverse. I'm no football historian or statto, are there any other clubs who have fallen further from grace than us?

What???? Do you mean all the way down to League 3 with crowds of 20,000, a huge budget?

Good grief Blade56 are you a glass completely empty kind of fan?

 

[BushBlade]

Yes, we're shit. We're fucking shit. We were shit yesterday and we'll be shit tomorrow.

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Yes, we're shit. We're fucking shit. We were shit yesterday and we'll be shit tomorrow.

Yes but what about the day after tomorrow?

Our problem is that hope perpetually wins over experience. It's what keeps us coming back for more.

 

[BushBlade]

Yes but what about the day after tomorrow?

Our problem is that hope perpetually wins over experience. It's what keeps us coming back for more.

Yes, I've got a mate who's a Cambridge fan, dedicated too, and if I moaned to him about our predicament he'd just laugh, like I do at my Spurs mates when they moan about Levy.

 

[Treeton Blade]

Got to keep believing though haven`t we?, no logical reason to go week in, week out

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Yes, we're shit. We're fucking shit. We were shit yesterday and we'll be shit tomorrow.

We're more than that mate - we're invisible.

Try looking in any national paper for any article about United, the only mentions are of ex-players.

 

[Latters]

How does 'current history' work anyway? Is that a bit like the distant present?

I always wonder why people feel the need to specify "past history" as well.

What, as opposed to that other history that happened at some time other than the past?

 

[west_yorks_blade]

Any time before sky is obviously the pre-history of the sport. Best forgotten.

As it was when vardy was going for the consecutive scoring record that we still hold.

 

[stringjunior]

Remember how we'd occasionally sing "you're shit and you know you are" to away fans. Well now, that's us that is.

 

[Bladebri]

Are we talking about our expectations on failure or the clubs, I get the impression they don't see it in the same way we do. UTB

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Without doubt we are the biggest underachievers in football. But at least it means we are best at something....

Can we have a new plaque then?

 

[Bladebri]

Can we have a new plaque then?

Here you go.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

All other big clubs that dip into this league have generally had the receivers in at some point or come off second best to the tax man.
Us on the other hand have got into this predicament by "sound financial planning" and a policy of austerity.
Figure that one out?

 

[Ecco1889]

I think clubs like Stoke,Southampton,Leicester etc give us hope that one day it can happen to us...

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I think clubs like Stoke,Southampton,Leicester etc give us hope that one day it can happen to us...

Yes but they bounced back, we always jump into quick sand. They used their lowest ebb as a spring board to better things.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

'Sheffield United', enacted through performance art -

 

[west_yorks_blade]

'Sheffield United', enacted through performance art -

Isn't that the fax engineer?