No apology necessary.
I'm sure we would happily take Crawley in the Cup. Only, this time it would be 9-0 (hat tricks each for Knight, McPhee, and, in the last ten minutes having come on for a tired-because-he-was-endlessly-chasing-the-ball McPhee, Robinson). ;)
Your memory serves you wrong. We were already out of the League Cup by that point that season (to Brentford). Indeed, we have never played Liverpool in the League Cup at home.
Were you thinking of the following season's game against ManUre (att. 16649)?