Cup was the only live soccer on broadcast television, giving it an outsize importance in the public consciousness). Ascribing guilt to the greedy Premier League titans, though, tends to frame the issue in a specific way. The riches on offer in the Premier League blind everyone to the fact that the game is about glory. No, at heart, the problem with the domestic cups — across Europe — is not money, but meaning. (The Carabao Cup, regardless of its sponsor, has never really mattered, if we are all honest.)

Source: New York Times January 31, 2020 16:30 UTC