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We all know that its been a  good while since Town have had any notable success, unbelievably looking up to the Scunts for many years and now  seemingly the Gimps look like overtaking us as well, so i got to thinking exactly what  makes us  the bigger club than either of these two and in these fairly stale years, to celebrate some of our achievements over the past 30 years or so.
Of the the top of my head, without any research, we have beaten the following current Premier league clubs in league or cup games:
Liverpool (League cup holders)
Leicester City  (League cup holders)
Everton (twice)        
Man City      
Chelsea
Tottenham
West Ham
Burnley
Fulham
Huddersfield
Bournemouth
Wolves

We haven't beaten Manure or Arsenal and not sure on Cardiff, Southampton or Brighton (perhaps someone could enlighten me) but
a pretty impressive tally that few, if any other lower league clubs could equal.
Going a long way further back we finished 5th in the  top league,  FA cup semi finalists in which us and Wolves still hold the all time record Old Trafford attendance and have had many full internationals wear the famous black and white stripes.

I know the usual suspects on here will say all this is irrelevant and IT IS, buts its the measure of our club and why we are, always
have been and always will be the pride of Lincolnshire.  UTMM

I saw Town beat Brighton  5-0  

One of he oldest clubs in the league (140 this year). One of the most promoted and relegated clubs in the four divisions. Spent many seasons in the top 2 tiers, albeit a long time ago now. Have a strong core of regular supporters who have stuck with the club through lean times. Great away support, again given that we haven't had a lot to get excited about for a while. Played at Wembley on numerous occasions. Played some of the most exciting attractive football i've ever seen. Produced some wonderful local players.

We may be behind the other two local clubs at the moment, but i wouldn't swap our history for theirs. What goes around comes around, and one day we will rise again, but if we don't, then we don't, I'll still have the memories.

Quoted from petethemariner

We haven't beaten Manure or Arsenal and not sure on Cardiff, Southampton or Brighton (perhaps someone could enlighten me) but
a pretty impressive tally that few, if any other lower league clubs could equal.

We have certainly beaten Man United and Arsenal back in the day (1930s and 40s)

I've seen us beat Brighton in recent years (early 2000s) at the Withdean (Darren Barnard scored and Alan Pouton had a goal disallowed) and I remember we beat Southampton at BP in the early 1960s in a long cold winter. We must have beaten Cardiff and we've certainly beaten Newcastle who aren't on your list

Another one to add to the list then Pete!
I forgot to add that we have also beaten 2 European Cup winning clubs in Forest and Villa.

Quite right  Welwyn, forgot about Newcastle, broke Keegans 100% start with Dobbins 30 yarder and Dave Beasant in goal.

We have beat Palace

Also Crystal Palace (several times but most recently the time Bradley Allen put away the big punt that bounced over their back line -maybe 199; Fulham play off final at BP in 1998 and then again in 1999 when they had Stan Collymore playing for them; and Burnley (again several times)

Quoted from Welwynmariner

We have certainly beaten Man United and Arsenal back in the day (1930s and 40s)

I've seen us beat Brighton in recent years (early 2000s) at the Withdean (Darren Barnard scored and Alan Pouton had a goal disallowed) and I remember we beat Southampton at BP in the early 1960s in a long cold winter. We must have beaten Cardiff and we've certainly[/b] beaten Newcastle[b] who aren't on your list

Yes that Jim Dobbin to stop Newcastle winning start to the season, was it 10 straight wins.

Correct Brazilnut - i think i must have Alzheimers!

I reckon we must have beaten every team in the current Premier League in one competition or another.

Quoted from ginnywings

I reckon we must have beaten every team in the current Premier League in one competition or another.

We must have beaten nearly every side in the 4 divisions haven't we?  Perhaps not MK Dons. There may be one or two others but not many.

But everyone has beat us too  

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

We must have beaten nearly every side in the 4 divisions haven't we?  Perhaps not MK Dons. There may be one or two others but not many.

We even beat those cnuts once

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

We must have beaten nearly every side in the 4 divisions haven't we?  Perhaps not MK Dons. There may be one or two others but not many.

Fleetwood is one I believe, are there any others?

I seem to have been told years ago we hold Man U s biggest aggregate defeat over a season , we beat them Xmas day and boxing day in the 30s each time by something like 4 clear goals ? Sure I will be corrected ?

Quoted from petethemariner

We all know that its been a  good while since Town have had any notable success, unbelievably looking up to the Scunts for many years and now  seemingly the Gimps look like overtaking us as well, so i got to thinking exactly what  makes us  the bigger club than either of these two and in these fairly stale years, to celebrate some of our achievements over the past 30 years or so.
Of the the top of my head, without any research, we have beaten the following current Premier league clubs in league or cup games:
Liverpool (League cup holders)
Leicester City  (League cup holders)
Everton (twice)        
Man City      
Chelsea
Tottenham
West Ham
Burnley
Fulham
Huddersfield
Bournemouth
Wolves

We haven't beaten Manure or Arsenal and not sure on Cardiff, Southampton or Brighton (perhaps someone could enlighten me) but
a pretty impressive tally that few, if any other lower league clubs could equal.
Going a long way further back we finished 5th in the  top league,  FA cup semi finalists in which us and Wolves still hold the all time record Old Trafford attendance and have had many full internationals wear the famous black and white stripes.

I know the usual suspects on here will say all this is irrelevant and IT IS, buts its the measure of our club and why we are, always
have been and always will be the pride of Lincolnshire.  UTMM

Have to correct you there. We have played and beaten every team in the league. A proud record. In the thirties we played Man Utd twice in two days and smashed TEN goals passed them! The Daily Telegraph published a table of all Man U opponents and their record against them. We have the best record in the league against them.Mind you, we played them during their worst period in their history, but so what.

Quoted from we will return

Fleetwood is one I believe, are there any others?

Burton?

Quoted from we will return

Fleetwood is one I believe, are there any others?

Fleetwood are the only team of the current 92 we've never played in a league game.
In my time watching Town I think the only other teams we have never beaten that we've played in league games are Burton and Maidstone.

Quoted from Townee82

I seem to have been told years ago we hold Man U s biggest aggregate defeat over a season , we beat them Xmas day and boxing day in the 30s each time by something like 4 clear goals ? Sure I will be corrected ?

Yes you will The scores were 7-3 and 3-1.

I can remember Town beating Cardiff 6-3 at BP in the mid '80's.

It was probably the last time we actually played them.

I also remember Town winning 1-0 at The Goldstone Ground not long after that too.

Think i slightly clouded the thread by starting off with 'the last thirty years or so' and then referring to cup semi finals and league position in the thirties! I honestly knew we had beat them 7-3 once but didn't  know we had beaten them twice in  2 days.
Does anyone know if we have ever beaten Arsenal? When we were a top flight club in the thirties they were nigh on unbeatable.
Also , have we beaten Wycombe? Probably have but for some reason  i cannot remember it

Quoted from petethemariner

Think i slightly clouded the thread by starting off with 'the last thirty years or so' and then referring to cup semi finals and league position in the thirties! I honestly knew we had beat them 7-3 once but didn't  know we had beaten them twice in  2 days.
Does anyone know if we have ever beaten Arsenal? When we were a top flight club in the thirties they were nigh on unbeatable.
Also , have we beaten Wycombe? Probably have but for some reason  i cannot remember it

I've definitely seen us beat Wycombe at their place 1-0. I think Nathan Jarman scored it. Fantastic away support that day.

We beat them 3-1 at BP in 03/04 too. Darren Barnard scored a free kick.

Quoted from Abdul19

We beat them 3-1 at BP in 03/04 too. Darren Barnard scored a free kick.

They are definitely one of our bogey teams. We've won two out of 20 games against them.

We've beaten Arsenal on numerous occasions but they're ancient history, unfortunately. Last time we played them in the league, in 1948, we got hammered 8-0. Last time we beat them was in 1939.

Quoted from tanga_the_indestructible

We've beaten Arsenal on numerous occasions but they're ancient history, unfortunately. Last time we played them in the league, in 1948, we got hammered 8-0. Last time we beat them was in 1939.

But wasn't that when they had the greatest dribbler of all time- Charles 'Charlie' Charles?  

Quoted from ginnywings

But wasn't that when they had the greatest dribbler of all time- Charles 'Charlie' Charles?  

.....not sure about that but it was a good job that we had our greatest-ever goalkeeper
playing that day to keep the score down.

Quoted from ginnywings

But wasn't that when they had the greatest dribbler of all time- Charles 'Charlie' Charles?  

Was that the game when Mr Cholmedly-Warner was commentating with Grayson as summariser?