Renton

Honestly, of course you'd expect them to be happy, as I was in 2014, I don't want them to win anything. But if the roles were reversed I'd not be gloating, and I doubt we'd be creating threads literally hundreds of pages long. We hate each other, but one of us is progressive, looking forward, wanting the best for ourselves, whilst the other has defined themselves by us. Hence their sign off, FTM. Is there an equivalent of this anywhere else? Nearest I can think of is Ranger's Fuck the Pope but I doubt even any Scottish soap dodgers create threads purely for you sign up to this. It is decidedely bizarre behaviour.

They cheer me up, they're fucking tapped. This is an example of that patheticness. Here's a thread where they queue up to type "FTM". I shit you not, that's the only purpose of the theead. 8 pages 147 FTMs at time of me posting this.

I don't think anyone has the plucky loser mentality. It's a pisser, but what you going to do? I think recognising that this is the start of, not the end of, the journey is key. We'll be back soon and next time maybe will be favourites, and will win a trophy. That's not just cushioning the blow of this defeat, its my objective appraisal of the situation.

I still ♥️ Daveed, you sexy silver 🦊.

100% this, brilliantly put. Probably why, although I'm obviously disappointed and a bit down, I don't feel too bad really.

Front page of the SMB below. That main thread is approaching 4000 posts. And it's the same on their hidden forum. I reckon our match today, where we were a bit unlucky to lose to ManU, has inspired close to 10,000 posts. Brings a new dimension to living your life vicariously. Keep on enjoying life in the lower leagues, you SMB.

Yeah, true on reflection after seeing the second goal. You don't get to be good enough to play in a CL final by being shit.

Btw any mancs on here, like @The Fish and the @greyman wherever he is, your city is a souless shit hole full of walking spice zombies and shit tower blocks that are clad with balsa wood and polystyrene. So there.

Hope Casemiro wats his way into a diabetic coma. Looks like he's half way there.

Didn't it take Man City 5 years to win the FA cup after they were taken over? I know its hard but we have to be patient.

Urghh, sir Les just said they deserved it. Did they fuck.

Yeah, it will. And I'm gonna be there next year when it actually happens.

Can I be the first to say, its only a tinpot cup. Fuck it.

Canny gutted I'm 52 years of age now and haven't seen us score in a Wembley final. Alright we scored in 76 but I don't remember that at all. Was there in 2000 when we scored against Chelsea in the semi before that cunt Poyet spoiled it. We were the better team then as well.

Ahh piss flaps. Just seen our next game is Man City away.

Yeah, in an odd way it has been. The fact we are arguably the better team most this game should give us hope.

Just hope we can recover quickly, we still have a lot to play for in the league.

Good spell here. Shame we don't score from corners anymore.

It shouldn't be goals that count, it should be xG and cleaning up Trafalgar Square afterwards .

Difficult to disagree. When was the last time we cam back from 2-0 down I wonder. Against Everton 4 years ago maybe? Longstaff dropped for Isak, not Wilson. Doesn't make sense to me.

Right, I guess we need to go all out now in the second half. Early goal and who knows?

How's the beef sandwich @Gemmill?

Well at least my anxiety has gone now. Replaced by pure depression.

Truth is Guimares's Needless red in this competition has probably lost us a CL place and Pope's red in the league has cost us this game. Ultimately self inflicted which is what most fucks me off.