It’s safe to assume that a Wembley showpiece has never been of less interest to a pair of football club owners than Sunday's League Cup final is to Tottenham Hotspur’s Joe Lewis and Manchester City’s Sheik Mansour.
These are the individuals who sanctioned their clubs casting the English game adrift and sailing off into the European Super League.
So a competition which takes its name from a Thai soft drink and which, from this season, offers qualification into Europe’s new, third-ranking Conference League rather than the Europa League? Thanks but no thanks.