To me major would be EPL (or Div 1 in old money), FA Cup and European Cup or UEFA Cup/Europa League/Cup Winners Cup/I have no idea what it used to be. Were Swindon top flight '69 as I thought it was for the teams in the lower leagues and smaller top flight teams. I could be well wrong of course.
Wiki says 1969 (when Swindon won) was the last season with opt-out. Manchester United were the only team to do so, though, having won the double the previous year.
Hardly, it's just a fairly famous cup-killing, up there with Hereford, I'd say. Arsenal being humiliated is always funny. I don't remember the match, not being alive and all, but when I was a lad (in div 3). there was always talk of "if they could do it, maybe us".Do you pseudo-support Swindle or something?
Nah, just Shaun Taylor being a legend, if he was playing for United I'd of wanted them to win. Ling was decent for us too, I notice he's in the betting for managing your lot along with big violent Ronnie Jepson. A ginger you wouldn't mock, to be fair.
Can exclusively reveal that that's bull****.
Touchy.
Pretty sure Geordies won the Wafer/Fairs Cup in 1969. Def a major honour for mine.
The season before they'd finished tenth, so their entry was a tad arbitrary. (Presumably there was a limit to one club per city, so Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal were excluded.)
It's usually bracketed with the Wafer, so I've always assumed it was the forerunner of it and of similar standing.
