Terrace Talk - Man City: After week of ESL talk, Blues take most quintessentially English prize

Manchester City's Rodri celebrates with the trophy after winning the Carabao Cup. Picture: Adam Davy

The year may have a one in it, but, by the end, the hallowed number turned out this time to represent how many shots on goal Tottenham had managed.

The Carabao Cup, better known to Legacy Fans as the good old "League Cup", has become a threadbare thing in modern times, but it is a competition that is quintessentially English, the cup of the Football League no less, Beleaguered and battered, it represents 61 years of midweek struggles, two-legged semi-finals and an assortment of memories great and desperate. That this year's final of the most homespun of English trophies was an encounter between two of the Disreputable Six brought plenty of puzzled looks as to how we were meant to confront the occasion.