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Losing in high stakes cup games is the same no matter what cup you're in.
Most of those 11 FA Cup semi's were the biggest games those squads played in because we were rarely in Europe.
2 of them were lost by almost this exact squad give or take 2 or 3 players.
It's become a recurring theme since the 80's ended that Spurs get to within touching distance and blow it. We never recovered and learned to win when we needed to.
I'm not too fussed, what with Liverpools lack of wins in that period either. 1 European Cup since '84 and none for 14 years, Klopp having lost his last 5 finals. They have no more experience than we do. All we have is the weight of expectation to fail. Everyone outside of the club and some fans expects us to lose. That's a very negative thing and it's built over the decades IMO.
And you also said, and I quote "in most walks of life, the experience you get from failing at something makes you better at it the next time round"
In most walks of life, but not the FA Cup, no?
The point is that they don't have experience of losing 11 FA Cup finals. The fact that people like Jamie Redknapp and Robbie Fowler lost some semi final 20 years ago obviously doesn't give the current team any experience but that's not what anyone has said. Anyway, I can't be bothered to argue about it if you're going to continually just deliberately miss the point.