UP FOR THE CUP?
With the quarter-finals looming, now is around the time of year that fans who aren’t generally fussed about Fizzy Cup start getting mildly excited about their team’s chances of winning it. While it may be English football’s fifth most high-profile competition after the Premier League, FA Cup and both transfer windows, this season it offers fans of several teams whose trophy cabinets resemble Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard a realistic chance of seeing their team lift silverware, or at least the opportunity of a rare day out at Wembley to see a more famous club presented with it. The eight teams left in this season’s Fizzy Cup have won it 22 times between them, an impressively high number that remains exactly the same if you remove Crystal Palace, Brentford, Newcastle and Southampton from the equation, what with none of them ever having won it at all.
