Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
Is that true?

The last time fans were able to attend games, the crowds for the quarter finals of the EFL Cup were as follows:

17,342 - Middlesbrough v Burton Albion
24,644 - Leicester v Manchester City
40,432 - Chelsea v Bournemouth
59,016 - Arsenal v Tottenham

Those attendances don't suggest to me that nobody gives a shit about the League Cup any more.

It's always been a competition that has sat below the league and the FA Cup in the pecking order for most fans, but I don't think things are any different in that respect to how they were ten or twenty years ago.
Certainly by the time you reach the latter stages people care about it, over the years the early rounds seem to have become a little less important.

I'm sure that teams at this level never used to play so many reserves in the EFL games - some of the bigger premier league clubs yes, but that was it - but perhaps that is my poor memory.
We even saw West Brom sending the reserves out against Arsenal the other day.