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Trophies worth winning
Posted by Red Umpire on 12 August 2011 - 10:11am.
I realise that I'm on a hiding to nothing here posting a black and white picture of an Arsenal squad with some actual trophies, but either these boys are tiny, or those are bloody big shields!
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By 'eck
Now that's what I call a trophy. I'll tell you something though. Wenger is now so synonymous with Arsenal, that it feels odd somehow that he isn't in the picture.
Is that Herbert Chapman with his arms crossed
in the front row? Looking like he got his fingers jammed under the thing trying to lift it.
They also seem to be posing on some sort of outdoor ballroom dancing venue?
The players were a lot smaller
in those days. Poor diet and less scientific training...
Couldn't have been that weak
As they also appear to have also won the (real) League Championship trophy and the Charity Shield, as well as "Come Dancing".
Are Arsenal also Home Countries North?
Pictures of
very small footballers with very large trophies are always good.
Claim to fame
I've held that trophy. Unfortunately not aloft to a sea of adoring fans, but nevertheless...
Wee trophies: I used to own the Subbutteo European Cup
and F.A. Cup (with removable lid for placing atop bonce). I was smaller then but still looked silly hoisting them aloft, although probably no more so than the England cricket captain holding up the Ashes trophy...
Here's one
Little Steven from Merseyside. An absolutely diehard blue by the looks of it. Wonder what became of him?
That is strangely weird...
That both of those trophies are also in the original Arsenal picture. Find it unsettling somehow: the permance of objects when set against the temporary nature of life.
Probably also the closest Gerrard will get to a League Championship trophy.
Hard to win the Football League Championship...
...when you're playing in the Premier League.
I will draw your attention Mr Meccano to my use of...
"A" league chsampionship trophy.. not "the".
"Case of Meccano V Cues collapses, courtroon in uproar, legal documents thrown skywards, Bernie carried from room on shoulders of admiring jurors"
Ah.
I thought by using the phrase 'League Championship' you were referring to the League Championship specifically, and not the 'League' generally.
My mistake.
Gerrard
I've heard elsewhere that that picture is of Anthony Gerrard, cousin of Steven, currently plying his trade at Cardiff City.
Not that it bothers me - Carra was an Evertonian.
Gah!
Has the internet lied to me again?
A lot of boyhood Everton fans ended up playing for Liverpool. Rush, Owen, Fowler, McManaman …
Yeah
It happens a lot, which makes it doubly unlikely that Gerrard would lie about it. Similarly, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was Liverpool-mad as a youngster, and kept his supporters club subscription alive during his time at Man Utd!
Billy McNeill is 6ft 1 and a half ins tall
So the cup must be about 3.5 feet in height itself.
Might have posted the wrong picture
There's one somewhere of a very small Celtic player holding a very large European Cup.
Just about anyone else in Celtics European Cup winning team
Would have conformed to the stunted Scottish stereotype.
The past Arse...
That is an extraordinary photo.
I think I'm right in saying...
that was the last time they won a trophy.
Naïveté
And there was me naïvely thinking that by starting my post with the words "I realise that I'm on a hiding to nothing here posting a black and white picture of an Arsenal squad with some actual trophies" we'd avoid those kind of comments...
Stanley Cup
Having seen the Stanley Cup (Ice hockey) in Toronto, it is quite a weighty bauble
Before I forget
Here's my favourite women's golf trophy.
The Schneider Trophy...
...famously won by the Spitfire's ancestor the Supermarine S.6B, is in the Science Museum.
It's about five feet tall. I'd like to see someone waving that around on an open-top bus parade.
Bloody he'll. That's a thing.
I've never seen the actual trophy. It is rather stunning and, given all the historical provenance, just how much might that reach if it went up for auction? Many many millions, one would imagine.
Serious question...
... why a cup? Or a shield/silver plate for that matter? Was it carrying on a tradition of some sort? I've always wondered.
I think you'll find ...
... the large one is the Woolwich and District Marrow Growers Shield. It was won by the groundsman in 1895 and they brought it with them to North London. Made the trophy cabinet look better.
Sol Campbell used it in later years to hide behind.
1913
Arsenal moved to Highbury in 1913, Johnny.
Are you still angry about the way Western Turkey was partitioned after the end of the first Balkan War that year too...?