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Carling Cup
« on: July 20, 2006, 07:30:26 AM »
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The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout (single elimination) basis. Unlike the FA Cup where 674 teams entered in 2005–06, only 92 clubs can enter: the 20 clubs of the FA Premier League, and the 72 clubs of The Football League who organise the competition. Unlike the FA Cup, the semi-finals are played over two legs. The winners qualify for the UEFA Cup, if they have not qualified for European competition in some other way.
Since 1982, the League Cup has been named after its sponsor, giving it the following names:
Milk Cup (1981–82 to 1985–86)
Littlewoods Challenge Cup (1986–87 to 1989–90)
Rumbelows Cup (1990–91 and 1991–92)
Coca-Cola Cup (1992–93 to 1997–98)
Worthington Cup (1998–99 to 2002–03)
Carling Cup (2003–04 to)
The League Cup usually has lower attendances than the FA Cup (the last sixteen stages of the 2005-06 League Cup had a 25 % lower attendance than the last sixteen of the 2004-05 FA Cup) and it is fairly usual for larger clubs to field a reserve or youth team unless they make it into the later stages.
History
During the late 1950s, the majority of senior English clubs equipped their grounds with floodlights. This opened up the opportunity to exploit weekday evenings throughout the Winter. The League Cup was introduced in the 1960-61 season specifically as a mid-week floodlit tournament. In the early years of the competition, many of the top teams declined to take part, and it was only when automatic entry to the UEFA Cup was promised to the winners that the full League membership took part.
Liverpool have won the cup on the most occasions, with seven victories including four successive trophies in the early 1980s. The present holders (2006) are Manchester United, after defeating Wigan Athletic in the final by a record scoreline of 4–0.
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Re:Carling Cup
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2006, 07:39:42 AM »
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Format
Preliminary Round
This is only used when the number of teams in European competition affects the number of byes to the third round and it would not be easier to give a club a bye to the second round. The match(es) involve the eligible clubs who finished lowest in the English football league system last season (normally clubs promoted from Conference National).
The ties are single matches, with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary, with the winners progressing to the next round.
First round
All clubs playing in The Football League (the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League Two), unless they are competing in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup, enter at this stage and join any Preliminary Round winners. Sometimes (depending on the number of clubs competing in Europe, whether or not they play in The Football League and whether a preliminary round would be an easier way to even up the numbers) it is necessary to give one or more clubs a bye to the second round. The clubs would be those eligible to compete in the First Round who finished highest in the English football league system last season (normally clubs relegated from the FA Premier League).
For this round, the clubs are divided in northern and southern sections (though not always equally, so there could be more clubs in one section than another and, strangely, some of the clubs in the northern section are actually located further south than some of the southern section clubs). Half of the clubs from each section are seeded and half are not. First a draw is made to determine whether the seeded club is to play at home or away, and then the club is drawn against an unseeded club from their section.
The ties are single matches, with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary, with the winners progressing to the next round.
Second round
All clubs playing in the FA Premier League, unless they are competing in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup (or took part in the UEFA Intertoto Cup), as well as any clubs that may have been given a bye to this round, enter at this stage and join the First Round winners.
The ties are single matches, with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary, with the winners progressing to the next round.
Third round
All clubs competing in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Cup enter at this stage and join the Second Round winners (making for a total of thirty-two clubs).
The ties are single matches, with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary, with the winners progressing to the next round.
Fourth round
The sixteen Third Round winners compete in this round.
The ties are single matches, with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary, with the winners progressing to the next round.
Quarter-finals
The eight Fourth Round winners compete in this round.
The ties are single matches, with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary, with the winners progressing to the next round.
Semi-finals
The four Quarter-Final winners compete in this round.
The ties are played over two matches (one at each club's stadium) with the aggregate score being used to determine the winners. If the scores are level at the end of the second match extra time is played. If the scores are still level at the end of extra time the club who has scored the most away goals goes through. If the number of away goals is level a penalty shootout is used to decide the winners.
Final
The two Semi-Final winners compete to win the cup.
The tie is a single match played at a neutral stadium (currently the Millennium Stadium but usually Wembley Stadium), with extra time and a penalty shootout if necessary.
Current campaign
The draw for round one of the 2006-07 competition has been completed. Fixtures start on the week commencing 2006-08-21. Current holders Manchester United will join the competition at the third round.
Winners
Club Winner Last win Runner-up Last losing final
Liverpool 7 2003 3 2005
Aston Villa 5 1996 2 1971
N'ham Forest 4 1990 2 1992
Chelsea 3 2005 1 1972
Tottenham 3 1999 2 2002
Leicester 3 2000 2 1999
Arsenal 2 1993 3 1988
Manchester City 2 1976 1 1974
Manchester United 2 2006 4 2003
Norwich 2 1985 2 1975
Wolves 2 1980 0 N/A
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Ruud paid for reaction to Carling Cup final snub
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2006, 10:17:52 PM »
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Sir Alex Ferguson has cited Ruud van Nistelrooy's reaction to being dropped for last season's Carling Cup final as the major reason behind his Manchester United exit.
Van Nistelrooy joined Real Madrid in a £10.3million deal last week claiming his relationship with Ferguson had completely broken down.
Despite scoring 150 goals in an amazing five-year spell at Old Trafford, Van Nistelrooy found himself overlooked for the latter stages of last term after losing out to Louis Saha in the battle to face Wigan in the showpiece final at the Millennium Stadium.
At the time, Ferguson claimed Saha deserved his place because he had played in most of the earlier rounds.
But it now transpires that not only was Van Nistelrooy upset by the move, the 30-year-old allowed his resentment to linger.
Ferguson said: 'The big difference with modern-day football is that now we have squads of players.
'It makes it difficult for a manager because every time you come to pick a team for a major game there are two or three players you are hesitant about telling they are out of the team either because they are great players, they have been great players in the past or you have a certain relationship with them.
'All you can do is hope they will agree with the reasoning behind your decision.
'Of course, sometimes a player doesn't agree. I am happy with that.
'But it what happens after that, how they adapt to it is different with every player. Ruud was different in that way. That is exactly what happened.'
Ferguson's comments, his first on Van Nistelrooy since the end of last season, emphasise why he made a veiled observation that the forward was becoming a disruptive influence in the dressing room.
Ironically, Ferguson delivered his verdict sat barely five yards from another Dutchman who left Old Trafford in acrimonious circumstances in Jaap Stam.
Now back in Holland with Ajax, whom United will face on Saturday in their second game of the prestigious four-team Amsterdam pre-season tournament, Stam was widely assumed to have been booted out by Ferguson because of controversial comments the defender made about some of his former team-mates in an autobiography.
Both parties were at pains to stress no hard feelings remain from the fall-out in 2001 which led to Stam joining Lazio.
'Jaap was a great player for me,' said Ferguson. 'He won the European Cup with me. But business is business. Sometimes, you get an offer you cannot refuse. That is the way it was.'
For his part, Stam insisted he bore no hard feelings towards his former manager and distanced himself from comments which suggested he retained a grievance about the way his departure was handled.
In fact, as he readily agreed, the deal probably worked out better for Stam given, unlike United, he has played in another Champions League Final since leaving England.
'The discussion about me leaving United has gone on for five years now,' he said.
'Sometimes, when a club gets an offer for a player, they accept it. That is the way it goes.
'Of course, maybe straight away you are not happy but you have to move on. I had three great years at Lazio and another two with AC Milan.
'I have no hard feelings. You could say it worked out well for me. I have had a good few years since leaving United.'
Stam's performances since quitting the Premiership have proved Ferguson was wrong to believe the defender's legs had gone and it has taken a long time for United to construct a defence which looks as formidable in his absence.
Ironically, Ferguson is currently facing the same problem attempting to cover Roy Keane's departure.
Michael Carrick, who is likely to make his debut against Porto tomorrow, has already arrived in a £16.8million move from Tottenham.
And, while he would not confirm a deal for Villarreal's Marcos Senna is near completion, the Scot did admit another new arrival is pencilled in for next week.
'We are looking at signing other players,' he said. 'Hopefully, something will happen next week.
'There is interest in Senna but there is interest in other players as well.'
Ferguson confirmed neither Cristiano Ronaldo, Mikael Silvestre nor Louis Saha had made the trip to Holland after only returning to training on Monday following their World Cup exertions.
In addition, Gary Neville is nursing a groin injury, while Gabriel Heinze and Nemanja Vidic are absent with knee problems.
'Gary and Gaby should be okay for the start of the season but I don't think Nemanja will,' said Ferguson.
'We will have to monitor the three lads who have just come back to see how they go.'
Source: ESPN
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Re:Carling Cup
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2006, 11:30:13 AM »
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