Is the Carling Cup Still worth winning?

Well well, well, what a night!!

Liverpool and Chelsea 'doing a spurs' and getting embarrassed at home while Man City faced a long trip home from the Hawthorns knowing it's one less trophy they can try to buy this year.

In fairness, well done to West Brom and  Newcastle and especially Northampton (Sorry can't help but laugh every time I think about it) but it did make me wonder is the Carling Cup still a cup worth winning? Sure for the teams mentioned above who can only dream of a European place then it's another big trophy but is it worth the effort for the so called big boys? Arsenal fielded a team that was undoubtedly stronger than Arsene usually chooses but still made 9 changes from the team who started in the league, Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool all sent out weaker teams even Newcastle rested the likes of Nolan, Carroll and Barton, Should Premier league clubs even bother entering the competition that they obviously only see on par with the
reserves league?

My personal opinion is "Hell yeah, I want to win it"  but that may be our 5 year drought talking but surely a cup run that ends in a day out at Wembley for the players and fans is worth fighting for. If nothing else Arsenal need to get used to winning trophies and I see the Carling cup as the perfect opportunity for our players to start their addiction to winning especially as the only team left in the competition that Arsenal should be wary of facing is Man Utd and the fact that their manager couldn't even be bothered to turn up to his team's game shows how much he values the competition.

What do you think? Would you be happy winning ONLY the Carling Cup this year?

Anyway, in other news, Carlos Vela has been banned from the Mexican international scene for 6 months for having a party after Mexico's friendly win against Colombia. I feel sorry for the kid but in a selfish kind of way I'm just happy that it's one player we can guarantee won't get a needless injury in a stupid friendly.

Also Gibbs' injury has been described as only keeping him out in the "short term" which I think is good news, or Arsenal are just getting better at putting a positive spin on Injury news, either way I hope he's not out for long, he could be in line for a very good season.

Wenger has also apparently come out again and said he'll stay at the club until the end of his contract which some blogs have taken as him saying as "as soon as my contract ends I'm outta here!!" But the fact is Arsene Wenger has always honoured his contracts and when the end of that contract is approaching he looks at his options and makes a decision then. Nothing to worry about Gooners!!

Right, I'll look at getting a match preview up tomorrow, until then........

Goonerfish.