Lower-division clubs up against the big boys have their eyes firmly on the prize these days. the prize being financial survival rather than a serious chance of glory. David Harrison reports
Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and… well, Watford actually. The last four of the Carling Cup surely comprised precisely the mix that the sponsors would have ordered up. Three of the self-styled Big Four, plus one of those lovable minnows – lauded and patronised by the media in roughly equal proportions.