A Rag mate of mine (I know, I know...) sent me a text, after last years CS game, asking "On a scale of 1 to 10, how disappointed are you, now?". Funny thing was, I wasn't that arsed about losing the thing.
I replied that I would be a hell of a lot more disappointed if we weren't competing for it next year.
And I suppose that sums up the way that I feel about it. It's the only piece of silverware in English football that it's more important to qualify to compete for it than it is to actually win the darn thing.
Completely Off -Topic Footnote Alert:
Of course, he never let it go and whenever we'd meet up in the boozer, he'd ask 'was it eight or nine out of ten?' etc etc. Then, of course... one famous derby day, I got to send him a text asking him, "on a scale of 1 to 6 how disappointed are you now?" I read it out to my son before I sent it. He instantly put it on the Facebook page of one of his college pals and before you know it, the slagging of two old farts, who still taunt each other like we're schoolchildren, went viral and everybody was using it.
