WIN 'N TONIC!

Cupsets have been refreshing change

- with JEREMY CROSS

IT FEELS like English football has had an injection of life pumped into it.

A break from the status quo. Unpredictable things replacing predictable ones.

Like Crystal Palace beating Manchester City to win the FA Cup. The first major trophy in the club's history.

Or Newcastle beating Liverpool to win the League Cup, ending a wait lasting almost seven decades for a domestic prize.

Even Liverpool winning the Premier League title this season was something few people predicted.

No-one in the blue half of Manchester will thank me for saying this, but City's astonish-ing collapse has been as good for the game as those triumphs of the clubs mentioned above.

Make no mistake, City have been one of the greatest teams in the history of English football.

But the same one winning four league titles on the spin is as boring as it is brilliant.