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Originally Posted by Lex Blimey! We are cynical aren't we!  There are only 3 or 4 trophies that any club can compete for - if you think that two of them aren't worth winning then where does that leave the game of football  |
Does anybody give a hoot about either of those trophies bar the clubs that reach the final? Nope. Years ago I would have agreed wholeheartedly Lex, but then I've been to games with gates of over 50,000 to see leauge cup matches, in the days when you played a full 1st team from round three. Nowadays they don't even play a full (or even close) 1st team in the semis.
If I'm cynical it's because the clubs have made me that way.
Even (as the excellent article in WSC pointed out this month) the FA cup has been undermined and undervalued to the point where it's gone from being a very close second to winning the leauge, down to probably less merit than the leauge cup had twenty years ago.
The only trophies the clubs care about now are those that attract the money. Ie the Prem and Champions leauge. To my great regret, having seen and been to some classic cup finals, everything else has been devalued down to nearly worthless.