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Swansea City Fan View: Remembering the League Cup fondly
As Swansea City prepare to take on Man United at the Liberty Stadium in the Fourth Round of this season’s League Cup, Swans fans aren’t expecting much. Can you blame us?
But, in an attempt to keep spirits high, here are three memorable League Cup matches to reminisce over…
vs Tottenham Hotspur (Second Round replay), 6 September 1978
It’s a game now immortalised in the official Swansea City song – the ’78 League Cup match against Spurs. It was certainly a landmark game for John Toshack, who had only taken over at Swansea a few months before.
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Spurs were an impressive force at the time, with stars including World Cup winners Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa. However, Swansea had already shown they weren’t pushovers, holding onto a 2-2 draw in the first round at the Vetch to force the replay at White Hart Lane.
In the replay, Toshack wanted his players to dominate the aerial game – and it worked. By half-time the Swans were 2-0 up through goals from Tosh himself, and Jeremy Charles. Villa nabbed one back for the home team in the second half, but a knockout blow was dealt by Alan Curtis in the 71st minute, as the Swans legend – then only 24 years old – scored with an awesome volley.
vs Cardiff City (Third Round), 23 September 2008
It had been almost a decade since the previous South Wales derby, but they say good things come to those who wait. Swansea hadn’t faced Cardiff in the league or a major tournament since 1999, so when the two were drawn in the League Cup third round it was always going to be a case of making up for lost time.
Both Dave Jones and Robert Martinez picked their strongest sides, with the likes of Garry Monk, Ashley Williams, Leon Britton, Ferrie Bodde and Jason Scotland all turning up for Swansea. The match was a heated affair, living up to all expectations, including a red card for Stephen McPhail, who had been asking for one all night.
The only goal of the game came from a beautiful direct free-kick from Jordi Gomez, in the 57th minute. The Spaniard knocked it over the Cardiff wall from 18 yards out to send the Liberty Stadium into meltdown. It ended 1-0, with bragging rights firmly on the right side of the M4.
Fantastic.
vs Bradford City (Final), 24 February 2013
We only went and won the bloody thing! Even though the two semi-finals against Chelsea were arguably the better games, it’s hard to ignore the final against Bradford at Wembley. On a freezing evening, Michael Laudrup’s Swansea City put five goals past the Bantams, with no reply.
The goals came from Nathan Dyer and Michu (who else that season!) in the first half, followed by another one from Dyer and two from Jonathan de Guzman in the second to give Swansea their first major trophy.
The game was also notable for the curious argument between Dyer and de Guzman, who both wanted to take the penalty for Swansea’s fourth goal. Even though de Guzman won the penalty, it was Dyer who was on his hat-trick at the time. De Guzman won the argument, although Dyer ultimately claimed man of the match.
