Must be a long time since

[anfield11]

The last eight in the Carling Cup were all from the Premier League

[Falconhoof]

It'll be a great advert for English football.

[TheLa]

Hardly suprising though. The (finacial) gap between the Premiership and the footy league is getting bigger and bigger every year. Now teams like City and Portsmouth are spending s*** loads on players, they've got to back that spending up by winning trophies, so fewer premiership teams will be treating this competition as the Mickey Mouse Cup.

[Des]

Winners and runners up in the last five years: us v Mancs, Boro v Bolton, Chelsea v us, Mancs v Wigan, Chelsea v Arsenal. Even this comp is being fenced off from teams outside the top 4. It can't be healthy.

[Nebraska Red]

maybe they should excuse all of the teams that qualify for European tournaments, not just from the early rounds, but from the whole thing.

[RP]

Best trophy to win - gets you into Europe before anyone else.

 

Well in the old days it was the best trophy to win.

[anfieldgaz]

When is the quarter final draw?

[Frosty Jack]

It'll be a great advert for English football.

 

Indeed, a proud day.

[growler]

all teams in group stages of CL cannot play senior players maybe?

[Cobs]

When is the quarter final draw?

saturday lunchtime

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

we"ll get the blueschyte

[Cobs]

i'd quite like the opportunity of revenge v the Arsenal youth next round

 

a chance to smash Everton twice in the semis

 

then beat Chels in the Final