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True - and by the same token if you qualify for the Champions' League you deserve to qualify for the Champions' League. A few wins in a Cup competition shouldn't be allowed to take priority over your performance over 36 or whatever league games. My point was that those who want to offer a CL...

:) That's the point - they'd ALL have to take it seriously!

Ideally I'd agree with you. But the timid clubs don't take European competitions seriously either. (Although as you've implied UEFA must shoulder some of the blame for killing the ECWC and make adding a group stage to the UEFA)

Oh it was big. In the old days an FA Cup fixture between two teams in the same division would get a much higher crowd than the same fixture in the League. . Interestingly at the weekend it was the big clubs (Man U , Liverpool, Spurs etc) that had the big crowds and the timid "Let's concentrate...

Well you could argue it's a 'chicken and egg' situation, but ultimately it's the fans who are killing the cup with disinterest. Every year we have these 'not interested in the Cup' posts by people to whom league position is the be-all and end-all. Premier League fans aren't interested because...