Carling Cup
The league cup (or Carling Cup as the sponsors would have it) is often derided by top sides as a competition for the reserve sides, but it still important for a host of reasons, not least of which is the fact that it is a source of revenue and exposure for most clubs outside the top tier of the Premiership, and perhaps their only real chance of silverware. You can also watch the Carling Cup live.
Also see: Carling Cup Fixtures | Carling Cup Statistics.
Can Liverpool or Arsenal stop Manchester City?
If you’re a football fan, there’s a lot to look forward to in the remainder of November, as we will see some of the game’s biggest names go head-to-head on multiple fronts over the next week-plus.
Carling Cup Third Round Draw: Manchester United Away To Leeds
Chelsea host Fulham in one of several all-Premier League ties in the third round of the Carling Cup. Manchester United are away to Leeds while Liverpool, who seem to be taking the Carling Cup very seriously this season, are away to Brighton. Other domestic cup title contenders include the likes of Manchester City and Arsenal,…
Carling Cup 2nd Round Draw: Liverpool away to Exeter as Everton host Sheffield United
Liverpool were drawn away to League One side Exeter in the second round of the Carling Cup, while city rivals Everton will host Sheffield United. Meanwhile, Doncaster host Leeds in a Yorkshire derby, while Sunderland face a long trip south to Brighton. Macclesfield will travel to Premier League side Bolton, while fellow giant-killers Northampton will…
Poor Arsenal are no Chokers
A day before the Carling Cup final, an Arsenal fan told me that Arsenal had requested permission for Cesc Fabregas to lift the Carling Cup trophy if Arsenal were to win at Wembley. The conversation turned to the merits of Carling Cup success vs the damage a defeat would have, and both of us reached…
Carling Cup Final Preview: Can Arsenal End The Drought?
Arsenal vs Birmingham Carling Cup Final Wembley Stadium, London Sunday 27th February, 2011 16:00 BST By kick-off on Sunday afternoon, five years, 9 months and 6 days will have passed us all by since Patrick Vieira clipped his winning penalty past Roy Carroll‘s despairing fingertips - a calm stroke of the Frenchman’s right boot that…
Arsenal v Birmingham Preview – Carling Cup Final
Arsenal vs Birmingham Carling Cup Final Wembley Stadium, London Sunday 27th February, 2011 15:00 BST By kick-off on Sunday afternoon, five years, 9 months and 6 days will have passed us all by since Patrick Vieira clipped his winning penalty past Roy Carroll‘s despairing fingertips - a calm stroke of the Frenchman’s right boot that…
FA Vow To Probe ‘Dark’ Violence After Birmingham Derby
Judging by the considerable hike in both steward and police presence at St. Andrews (over 500 West Midlands officers were drafted in for the occasion), it’s pretty clear that the relevant authorities were envisaging a bit of a feisty affair between second city rivals Birmingham and Aston Villa in the Carling Cup last night –…
Newcastle 0-4 Arsenal – Silverware guaranteed?
With both starting elevens full of fringe players and youngsters, the match promised to be full of entertainment from the beginning and it did just that. Newcastle came close first, with Ranger taking the ball past Szczesny only to hit the ball against the Koscielny’s leg. Moments later Alan Smith, captaining the side this evening,…
Time For Michael Owen To Accept The Inevitable?
Some footballing headlines are just so unfathomably inevitable that they may as well remain unreported, with the masses left to just assume that Occam was right about his razor and that parsimony has indeed prevailed. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that, despite being pencilled in to return to action against Wolves in the…
Clear Signs That Arsene Wenger Is Getting Desperate
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has vowed to abandon his policy of blooding members of his ever-burgeoning creche during the early rounds of the Carling Cup, in lieu of making a concerted effort to actually win something this time out – thus ending the club’s five-year spell of ultimately pointless dry-humping. Whereas in the past Wenger…
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