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The Carabao Cup: England's Shortcut to Wembley Nobody Takes Lightly cover

Jeremy Floyd

Sep 8, 2026

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Jeremy Floyd

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The Carabao Cup: England's Shortcut to Wembley Nobody Takes Lightly

There are trophies in English football that arrive with champagne, confetti and months of planning.Then there is the Carabao Cup.It arrives with midweek football, rotated line-ups, exhausted managers, surprise results and the occasional lower-league club wondering why it suddenly looks capable of ruining somebody's season.And that is precisely what makes it …

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