RIGHT, here is a little teaser. Take a deep breath. What have Norwich City, Birmingham, West Brom, QPR, Swindon, Stoke, Norwich, Oxford, Luton, Sheffield Wednesday, Blackburn, Middlesbrough, and Swansea all got in common?
Each and every one of them has won the league cup in its various guises. Meanwhile Newcastle United in 61 years of the competition's history have lifted the pot not once. Indeed they have made only one final way back in 1976.
It is a disgraceful, embarrassing record which was surprisingly not banished to the dustbin during the exciting reigns of Kevin Keegan and Sir Bobby Robson.
