The Carabao Cup final takes on extra significance than just a day out at Wembley for two proud clubs and their fans
final, a match with genuine significance for both teams, and around the edges a swirl of subplots and macro forces. Five years in, this thing has finally begun to fizz and spurt and pump the metabolism, to glow with its own migraine-inducingly vibrant colours.
And beyond these wider forces there are, of course, more human-scale reasons why this feels like an unusually fascinating final. At both clubs there is something reassuring in the fact the most interesting part of their recent progress is still the internal architecture, the fine-point coaching and management that has brought the best out of some parts that were already in place.Erik ten Hag
Ten Hag has been a transformative presence at this basic level, and not just because of United’s fine form, with one defeat since November. This is more about the feeling of Ten Hag, a one-man reminder that even inside an institution where not so long ago Cristiano Ronaldo was being wildly praised as a leader of men for making people feel bad about eating cake, it is still possible to apply a decisive edge of emotional intelligence.
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