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Liverpool have not won the League Cup for a decade. There was a time they seemed to be in the final every year
By Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog
Liverpool have the chance to win the League Cup for the first time in a decade when they face Chelsea at Wembley in the final on Sunday. For anyone growing up in the 1980s, the thought of Liverpool going 10 years without winning the League Cup would have been unthinkable, such was their dominance of the competition.
The club initially had a troubled relationship with the League Cup. Despite winning multiple league titles, FA Cups and European Cups in the 1960s and 1970s, success in the League Cup proved difficult to come by. After 20 seasons of the competition, a controversial defeat to Nottingham Forest in the 1978 final was the closest they had come to winning it. But you wait ages for one League Cup to come along and then four arrive at once.
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By Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog
Liverpool have the chance to win the League Cup for the first time in a decade when they face Chelsea at Wembley in the final on Sunday. For anyone growing up in the 1980s, the thought of Liverpool going 10 years without winning the League Cup would have been unthinkable, such was their dominance of the competition.
The club initially had a troubled relationship with the League Cup. Despite winning multiple league titles, FA Cups and European Cups in the 1960s and 1970s, success in the League Cup proved difficult to come by. After 20 seasons of the competition, a controversial defeat to Nottingham Forest in the 1978 final was the closest they had come to winning it. But you wait ages for one League Cup to come along and then four arrive at once.
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