At least we don’t have to play in the Papa Johns Trophy anymore. 700 at Grimsby and 1445 at Lincoln last night, barely worth the costs of putting the game on but the EFL desperately want to keep their pointless sham cup going.
The Premier League are basically subsidising it for their B teams.
Not that it concerns us anymore but I’ve always said it should be scrapped and the League Cup should be for EFL clubs only (ie no PL). The PL managers are always moaning about too many fixtures anyway.
Again, the EFL can’t afford this. The TV contract for the EFL matches also includes the League Cup and without those games, there’s no way Sky are paying anything like the current sum. I seem to remember that during the Covid shutdown, Sky tried to renegotiate the value of the contract and it was clear they valued the League Cup much higher than any amount of Football League matches.
