Quiz! Can you name the last 30 players to score in a League Cup final?

The League Cup has undergone a bit of a renaissance in recent seasons. For a time viewed as an inconvenience, its early position in the calendar has actually helped its profile. While the FA Cup final struggles against the attention given to the end of the league season and the Champions League culmination, the League Cup final has its own spot in late February.

There isn’t any huge distractions in the football calendar, fans are ready for a day out and clubs are eager for silverware; either to set up grander triumphs to come or to provide a high point to an otherwise average season.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.