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[Football] Biggest club never to have won a major trophy



Brian Fantana

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Oct 8, 2006
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In the field
I highly doubt anyone in the club hierarchy puffs on a cigar.
Why not? Smoking is still not that uncommon. Martin Perry used to be partial to the odd cigar - indeed I witnessed him smoking one during the League One title celebrations.

Given how much of a prolific smoker RDZ is, I wouldn't be surprised if he indulged in a cigar from time to time either.
 




Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Why not? Smoking is still not that uncommon. Martin Perry used to be partial to the odd cigar - indeed I witnessed him smoking one during the League One title celebrations.

Given how much of a prolific smoker RDZ is, I wouldn't be surprised if he indulged in a cigar from time to time either.
Given there is a no smoking policy throughout the Amex and Lancing, it would be confined to non working areas like his home or the street.
 


Brian Fantana

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Oct 8, 2006
7,512
In the field
Given there is a no smoking policy throughout the Amex and Lancing, it would be confined to non working areas like his home or the street.
This is something of a rabbit hole that I didn't really intend to go down from a throwaway comment, but I didn't say 'puffing on a cigar whilst sitting in their office at the Amex or the training ground'.

In all honesty, I find this a really weird thing to pick up on.
 


Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
This is something of a rabbit hole that I didn't really intend to go down from a throwaway comment, but I didn't say 'puffing on a cigar whilst sitting in their office at the Amex or the training ground'.

In all honesty, I find this a really weird thing to pick up on.
Why not? I find it weird to denigrate something the club has won and celebrates in its players area.
 


Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,915
Surrey
This is something of a rabbit hole that I didn't really intend to go down from a throwaway comment, but I didn't say 'puffing on a cigar whilst sitting in their office at the Amex or the training ground'.

In all honesty, I find this a really weird thing to pick up on.
It is bafflingly odd. I mean you make the point that nobody at the club is feeling pleased with our 1910 Charity Shield success with a passing reference to smoking, and the next few posts seem to be a feeble attempt to discredit your point by suggesting nobody at the club smokes. I mean, why would you bother posting such crap?
 






Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,915
Surrey
Why not? I find it weird to denigrate something the club has won and celebrates in its players area.
Well counteract with something relevant then, rather than trying to discredit his point with some shite about nobody smoking.
 


stewart12

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Jan 16, 2019
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whilst I don't doubt it was a big achievement at the time and one that the club should be proud of, the Charity Shield has never been, and never will be, a major trophy.
 




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BrightonCottager

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Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
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Goldstone
No sane person has ever considered it a significant trophy.

The Charity Shield in those days was more like that trophy handed out in rugby league to the winners of the NRL and Super League champions.

I don't claim to know better, it was 113 years ago - but how do you know what people thought of it back then?
 


ALBION28

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Jul 26, 2011
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DONCASTER
On the Charity Shield 1910 win. My grandfather was a Brighton fan at that time and would tell of when we were Champions of England. The Charity Shield was the decider of which professional club were the number one in the land. Remember there was the professional leagues North and South. The northern one arrogantly called itself ' The football league' rather than what it actually was, the Northern and Midland league. It did at that time tend to be slightly stronger due to wealth from being more industrialised rather than the agricultural poorer south. Northern clubs tended to develop earlier in the professional game. The south was more focused on Cricket the southern wealthy preferred that sport. We plough and sow and reap and mow and all that. As the Southern football developed there came the challenge of who was top dog and the Charity Shield was the important decider up to the first world war. At the time a major trophy. That and the FA Cup were it. No European competition no League cup. Certainly no premier league. History should always be judged in the context of the time. My grandad was particularly peeved that negotiations to amalgamate the professional leagues in 1920 allowed the northern league to trap Southern teams in a lower league only allowing one promotion spot up to 1958. That allowed them to hold exaggerated numbers of trophies and left the likes of Brighton et all frustrated and under developed.
 


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