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The Anfield Wrap

The Future Of The League Cup: TAW Unwrapped

The Anfield Wrap

The Anfield Wrap

Music, Sports, Soccer

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Unwrapped looks at the relevance of the League Cup in the modern game and how it  pertains to Liverpool specifically… Josh Sexton hosts Keifer MacDonald and Paul Senior Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Mickey could try to sell his car privately.

0:04.0

Or get it sold today with weed by any car.

0:08.0

He could spend days on end trying to sell to a bunch of time wasters.

0:14.0

Or selling a flash and head to the fun fair with the kids.

0:18.0

Proper gutted.

0:25.4

Or proper impressed. To get a quote in 30 seconds, enter your edge number now at we by any car.com. Hi there it is Tor on Rapptime and Josh Sexton. I'm joined

0:32.6

today by two very handsome lads, Paul Senior and Kiefer MacDonald to talk about a not so handsome cup tie

0:38.5

coming up for the Reds, but potentially handsome things to come in the future with the League

0:42.9

Cup. Paul, I feel like every time we're going into another League Cup campaign, there's always

0:48.1

a bit of a conversation about, you know, priorities and things like that. Listen, Liverpool

0:51.7

have got far bigger priorities in the League Cup. I think that's always fair to say. It always feels like it's the lowest on the list of priorities. I don't know where you stand on the competition in general though and whether there's any need for sort of reform around it, I guess, because it's going to be low on the list of priorities for most of the big clubs ultimately.

1:11.1

Do you think that's a problem?

1:12.1

Do you think it's not a problem?

1:14.5

It's a problem.

1:15.4

I think you only learn when you see the fixture list.

1:19.4

I was thinking about this in advance of the show really is I've sort of over the last

1:24.0

couple of years grown to love the league cup more than the FA Cup.

1:32.6

I would say, and I think my reasons for that are quite often where the ties for when the final is. And the idea is when you're in title races and Champions League, races of

1:38.4

FA Cup semi-finals, going to Wembley or whatnot, doesn't feel that important but where the league

1:45.5

cup comes and you've sort of done the business quite easy and early if you if

1:52.1

you can catch a decent run of draws early in the competition you can almost

1:55.8

start find yourself in a in a semi-final without really thinking about that you've

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