Will Manchester United win a Quadruple? No. Are we above ranking all the sort of Quadruples that have previously happened because clicks? Also no...
Manchester United’s Carabao success has prompted all manner of daft Quadruple talk and we’re honest enough with ourselves to acknowledge that while we think that’s a daftness we’ll cheerfully hoover up any clicks we can get from combining the words ‘Manchester United’ and ‘quadruple’ before they f*** it up against West Ham tonight.. That’s not a criticism, it’s just a statement of fact. Quadruples – proper ones – pretty much never happen.
Unfortunately, that does mean no place for Celtic, whose 1966/67 Quintuple contains all the proper ingredients as well as a Glasgow Cup which, given the nature of Scottish fitba, is at least as good as a League Cup probably. But if we included them, we’d have gone down a long, arduous yet inevitable road that leads directly to Linfield’s 1961/62 Septuple and madness. So we haven’t. Soz.A Quadruple containing neither European nor domestic league glory? F*** all the way off, you cheeky scamps.
The Trophee des Champions sounds much better than ‘Community Shield’ and less deceptively bombastic than ‘Super Cup’ but amounts to the same thing. It’s just a glorified friendly between league winners and cup winners, and PSG have won nine of the last 10 of the buggers. This is a Quadruple built around a Domestic Treble and therefore not too tinpot, but inevitably loses some points because farmers.
And, sure, a lot of that was because it’s City and people in general still don’t care about City the way they do United or Liverpool or even Arsenal. But it wasn’t entirely that. Quadruple obsession had rendered Trebles meh. Ludicrous. Still, though. Whack in the good ol’ Community Shield, and you have a Quadruple. And with three proper pots in a league where that never happens it remains one of the better ones. And you can’t really blame anyone for coming off second best to Spurs.
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