The League Cup remains real, competitive sport and 8,000 fans will watch breakaway wannabes Manchester City and Spurs

OK, so where are we now? What version of the current deranged timeline is this? From serfs of the billionaire overclass on Monday, to Stone Island Bolsheviks capering down the Fulham Road on Tuesday, English football’s week of insurrection has cast a strange, disorientating light across everything in its path.

During the brief lifespan of the European Super League Sunday’s Carabao Cup final had already begun to look like, if not the most sickly, putrid, disfranchised occasion in the modern history of English football, then certainly one of them.

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