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Some of our proudest records could all go this season

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Bkk Andy said:
I don't want to go down so I guess that those records mean something but I don't care about the others. To be honest, I feel like our history has become a millstone around our necks. It's led to complacency as we keep referring back to how we're historically a big club whilst we've ignored the fact that we've been getting smaller by the year. It's been 4 decades since we won a league title. 3 since we won anything. Those aren't the 'records' of a big club.

If losing records makes us focus on the present and plan for the future I'm all for losing them. Except being in the top flight, obviously.
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DanB90 said:
Dead proud that someone scored a shed load of goals in a season nearly 100 years ago. Before any of us were even born and before the introduction of the offside rule.

Clinging onto stuff like this is one of the reasons our board have ran us into the ground.

We should aspire to be a competent football club, not a museum.
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He was just a goal hanger.
 
johnjoeefc said:
So the potential is there that we could lose our record of being an ever present in the Premier league.

We could lose our 70+ year consecutive top flight status.

If we take a while to get promoted again our record of team who has played the most top flight seasons in England could come under threat.

If City win the league they will go joint on 9 league titles with us as the 4th most successful domestic team In English history.

And to cap it all off Haaland could potentially break Dixie Dean's unbreakable goalscoring record.

Everton that
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Well Moshiri did say he didn't want us to become a museum
 
Gareth Gibson said:
It's great being the 4th most successful club in English football history, but being the 5th is hardly the end of the world.

Also, we would have to be down in the lower leagues for a good while for Arsenal or Liverpool to catch our 119 seasons in the top division.

What matters this season is avoiding the disaster of relegation to simply preserve our club's very existence.

History is important but what we don't want is to become a footnote in history. And relegation would do that. We simply cannot afford to go down.
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Those records are nice and all but they're pretty meaningless when we've not a thing in some fans lifetimes.

"119 seasons in the top flight, you'll never sing that..."
 

Can’t compare eras.

60 goals when offside and fouls were completely different to today.

Haarland would have been in hospital half the season back then. Today’s footballs are like balloons compared to then.

Dean would have been sent off most weeks today. So would most defenders.

63 goals in 40-odd games was phenomenal. So is 51 this season for Haarland.
 
johnjoeefc said:
So the potential is there that we could lose our record of being an ever present in the Premier league.

We could lose our 70+ year consecutive top flight status.

If we take a while to get promoted again our record of team who has played the most top flight seasons in England could come under threat.

If City win the league they will go joint on 9 league titles with us as the 4th most successful domestic team In English history.

And to cap it all off Haaland could potentially break Dixie Dean's unbreakable goalscoring record.

Everton that
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He can't break Dixie's record unless he scores 15 against us which is possible I guess
 
Jeff Jones said:
As good as he is, there's very little chance of Haaland breaking Dean's record.

35 goals in 31 games is a million miles from 60 in 39 games, or even 42 games.
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Makes you realise how prolific Dean was, Haaland has seemed ridiculous this year, on the score sheet every time you look and he is still nowhere near the level Dean was slotting them.
 
johnjoeefc said:
So the potential is there that we could lose our record of being an ever present in the Premier league.

We could lose our 70+ year consecutive top flight status.

If we take a while to get promoted again our record of team who has played the most top flight seasons in England could come under threat.

If City win the league they will go joint on 9 league titles with us as the 4th most successful domestic team In English history.

And to cap it all off Haaland could potentially break Dixie Dean's unbreakable goalscoring record.

Everton that
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What a year!!

sigh
 

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