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So, as you well know our first competitive game is coming up soon when the Mighty Owls will travel to Boundary Park to take on Oldham Athletic in the newly-named Capital One Cup.
I’m not going to go shouting my mouth off about how we have an outside chance of winning this tournament, I mean come on, we know we don’t really. However, what I did want to do was have a little chat about the English cup that changes it’s title as regularly as Claudio Ranieri changed his Chelsea line-up.
Interestingly the ‘Whichever Name Cup’ is the only trophy that Wednesday have managed to win in the last 25 years, and consequently, the only one that we’ve won in my lifetime. Granted, I was only a year and three months old in April 1991 when we lifted the Rumbelows Cup, but I still count it anyway.
Despite being an ugly little baby in ’91, I’ve still spent many an hour happily watching John Sheridan smash one past Manchester United’s Les Sealey in the 37th minute before watching the boys hold out for the rest of the game thanks to some epic defensive work from captain and Man of the Match, Nigel Pearson.
Honestly, Wednesdayites both young and old, still regard the photo of Sheridan with the lid of the ‘Electrical Retailer Cup’ on his head to be one of the most iconic in the club’s history, and he went down in legend for that goal.
Anyway, since then we’ve seen English sides lift the Fizzy Drink Cup (Coca-Cola), the Old Man’s Beer Cup (Worthington’s) and the Crappy English Lager Cup (Carling) from years 1992 through to 2012 and now it’s the Credit Card Cup’s turn.
It was announced in June that Capital One were the new sponsors of the English Football League Cup, and that that the new deal would be running through until at least 2016, when the name will once again be up for sale.
Don’t get me wrong, I know that the sponsorship is important to the Football League and that a good cup run can be a crucial money maker for non-Premier League clubs like ourselves, however the £100,000 prize-money is dwarfed by the £2,000,000 that an FA Cup winner gets.
Anyway, despite my criticisms of the name changing, the Capital One Cup is definitely a worthy one. Wednesday are privileged to be one of only 22 teams to have lifted the trophy since its inception back in 1960, and, with the state of cup football these days the number of different winners doesn’t look like it’s going to grow too quickly.
So, with a game against the Latics just around the corner and the start of an exciting season on the horizon, I’m very interested to see how the blue and white wizards do in this year’s ‘Highest Bidder Cup’ and do you know what? You never know…
The year that we last won the League Cup was the same year that we got promoted back to the Premier League… More of that this year please boys!
Oh, and as a side note, I’m dead chuffed about the signing of Rhys McCabe, that one could be quite a coup for Dave Jones, and, more importantly, it looks like we’re on the verge of sealing the deal with Michail Antonio, but we’ll just have to wait and see won’t we!
Come on Wednesday!
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