Sky Sports are hyping up Sunday’s Carabao Cup Final as the game that is “17 years in the making.”
It is a reference to the last time Chelsea and Liverpool met in the climax of the then Carling Cup in 2005, but it’s a bit of a stretch to suggest fans have been counting down the days ever since to a League Cup final rematch.
It would be more accurate to describe it as a rivalry that’s 17 years in the making, because prior to that final there was little history of antagonism between the two clubs.
