Tonight's game against League 2 side Rotherham United provides us with a great chance to reach the quarter finals of the League Cup for the first time in over two decades. Although the big 4 are still involved, is it really believing too much to think that we could actually win the Carling Cup?.
Tonight we are provided with the ideal draw, statistically the weakest team left in competition at home. Our Premier League performances have shown we can beat anyone at the Britannia Stadium, so another home draw in the quarter finals, providing we beat Rotherham, would give us a fantastic chance to reach the semi finals and just one step away from a Wembley final in a major cup competition. We've never lost at Wembley, and as Tottenham proved last season, anything can happen in a final.
In recent years Stoke's League Cup performances have been painful, with regular 1st round defeats to League 2 opposition such as Darlington, Mansfield and Rochdale among others, and heavy defeats when we have negotiated the first few rounds, such as the 8-0 reverse against Liverpool.
These results will mean no Stokie will be taking tonights opponants lightly, but a victory tonight might just start talk of a Wembley return around the Potteries, and who knows maybe our second major trophy is on the horizon.
