What’s your favourite League Cup moment?
MATT LAWTON
I ENJOYED Burnley’s run under Owen Coyle in 2008. First they beat a young Arsenal side and then won at Chelsea on penalties, Brian Jensen’s two shoot-out saves proving to be the beginning of the end for Luiz Felipe Scolari. Wonderful theatre.
MATT BARLOW
JOHN SHERIDAN’S goal for Sheffield Wednesday (then in the second tier) to clinch victory against Manchester United in the 1991 final, back in the golden age when it was the Rumbelows Cup.
JEFF POWELL
DON ROGERS (right) scoring the two extra-time goals against mighty Arsenal at Wembley to win the 1969 League Cup for Swindon, the homely club for whom he remains their finest ever player.
IAN LADYMAN
BACK in the early eighties the Milk Cup (strange sponsor, that) seemed to mean more to the top clubs. Ronnie Whelan’s curling winning goal in the eighth minute of extra time as Liverpool beat United 2-1 in 1983 remains an iconic Wembley moment.
NEIL ASHTON
A CLASSIC Mid week sports special action as Lee Sharpe’s hat-trick at Highbury destroyed George Graham’s side — Arsenal 2 Man Utd 6 — en route to the 1991 final. The next day Sharpe was splashed across the back pages of every newspaper and soon posters of him dancing by the corner flag were on teenagers’ bedroom walls.
LEE CLAYTON
RAY STEWART’S cool as a cucumber penalty past Ray Clemence at the last knockings of the 1981 Final to take mighty Liverpool to a replay. And then practising the same technique as Stewart (above) in the park outside our house (and missing regularly).
PAUL NEWMAN
WATCHING Spurs defeat Chelsea on TV in the middle of the night in a New Zealand bar in the 2008 final and then having my friend and his Spurs crew sing drunken songs down the phone to me as I drove to Dunedin afterwards to watch England play cricket.
LAURA WILLIAMSON
PHIL JEVONS’ stunning 35-yard extra-time winner for Grimsby, then in the second tier, at Anfield in 2001. Liverpool were the holders and Jevons was a boyhood Everton fan. It doesn’t get much better than that.