Bangersbc
Well-Known Member
FF seems swarmed with gleeful lurkers this morning. Either that or disappointment has stripped some of all of their senses.
Stories of individuals players not pulling thier weight, to the crowd energy, to the wholes team performance being a let down.
Let me remind you:
- we were not the fancied team in this game for a reason.
- we have had to endure far more knockout football than our opponents had this year.
- our players kept us in this game in roasting hot consitions, having got us to a final that none of us had any right to expect and against all odds.
- had Tav's freekick or Kent's late chance gone in, there would be literally no crisitism of the team at all today. Quote the opposite. It would rightly have gone down as our greatest ever achievement.
- after 120 minutes, both teams had shown enough to win the trophey. Penalties is effectively a coin toss.
- the penalties were excellent quality from both teams. Bar the obvious one, theyw ere really top quality. But their Japanese boy had massive luck going in off the post. Millimeters from advantage us at the time. Had that gone wide we would likely have seen a very different story at the end of the night. And even had we won on penalties, no-one would have dared criticise the boys the next morning for bring home a cup.
My point: our boys did everything needed to bring that trophy home.
it may have gone home with another team, but this was literally by the finest of margins.
Whilst we are all naturally disappointed by having come so close, we should all be immensely proud of our boys.the Frankfurt players were no more deserving of the trophy than our lads, and they will be hurting more than us.
Let us not forget also. Our boys picked up European medals last night. Runners up perhaps, but more than we could ever have dreamed of over the last few years. And we will look back on this campaign soon with immense joy and pride. No team can come closer to silverware than we did last night (without lifting it yourself).
So to the detractors and blamers. Stop making a full of yourself today. We were millimeters from glory. The only "disgrace" is your reaction.
Stories of individuals players not pulling thier weight, to the crowd energy, to the wholes team performance being a let down.
Let me remind you:
- we were not the fancied team in this game for a reason.
- we have had to endure far more knockout football than our opponents had this year.
- our players kept us in this game in roasting hot consitions, having got us to a final that none of us had any right to expect and against all odds.
- had Tav's freekick or Kent's late chance gone in, there would be literally no crisitism of the team at all today. Quote the opposite. It would rightly have gone down as our greatest ever achievement.
- after 120 minutes, both teams had shown enough to win the trophey. Penalties is effectively a coin toss.
- the penalties were excellent quality from both teams. Bar the obvious one, theyw ere really top quality. But their Japanese boy had massive luck going in off the post. Millimeters from advantage us at the time. Had that gone wide we would likely have seen a very different story at the end of the night. And even had we won on penalties, no-one would have dared criticise the boys the next morning for bring home a cup.
My point: our boys did everything needed to bring that trophy home.
it may have gone home with another team, but this was literally by the finest of margins.
Whilst we are all naturally disappointed by having come so close, we should all be immensely proud of our boys.the Frankfurt players were no more deserving of the trophy than our lads, and they will be hurting more than us.
Let us not forget also. Our boys picked up European medals last night. Runners up perhaps, but more than we could ever have dreamed of over the last few years. And we will look back on this campaign soon with immense joy and pride. No team can come closer to silverware than we did last night (without lifting it yourself).
So to the detractors and blamers. Stop making a full of yourself today. We were millimeters from glory. The only "disgrace" is your reaction.