Carling Cup Final preview

Everything you need to know about the Carling Cup Final

Probable line-ups, statistics and the latest betting odds

Carling Cup Final Wizard

The nation’s least favourite cup competition will reach it’s heady conclusion on Sunday afternoon, when Tottenham will try not to lose their Carling Cup title to Manchester Utd.

If you’re betting on the game, [...]

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Futurology

Mark Lawrenson sticks his scraggy old neck out

The BBC’s most bitter pundit reckons Birmingham are going to have their way with Arsenal. Agree?

Mark Lawrenson

The BBC’s very own Nostradamus of football, mystic Mark Lawrenson, has had his palms crossed with silver again, and after placing his enormous jewelled turban squarely on his head, has issued [...]

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Recommended Viewing

Warning: the Six Nations are completely unavoidable

The best sports on the telebox this weekend

Recommended viewing

In a bid to cling on to the sports they still have the rights to show, the BBC’s premier channel will be showing nearly six-and-a-half hours of Six Nations action on Saturday. The Beeb are trying their [...]

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Chelsea/ Tottenham

The Carling Cup – no longer the trophy that nobody loves

Carling Cup Final 2008

After years spent enduring the humiliation of being the trophy no one could pick out in an identity parade, suddenly there’s interest in the Carling Cup, and not just from fans eager to find out whether new Wembley is just as much [...]

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