As the League Cup gets underway once again this week, it is clear that year on year not just this but now the FA Cup are increasingly getting devalued.
For a number of years now the League Cup has been seen as the competition for the lower sides, with the bigger ones instead deciding to give their younger stars a run out.
And although over recent years we have seen the likes of Manchester United put out a first team in the business end of the tournament, they have still relied on the future stars to get them to that stage.
It was only in the second leg of the Manchester derby semi-final that Sir Alex Ferguson called upon his senior stars.
Now though we are also seeing the FA Cup follow down the very same road, with the FA selling out this great tradition for the Champions League.
It is known that the more respected of our national cups takes place one week before the finale of Europe's premier competition.
However with the Champions League heading to Wembley for this years final, the FA find themselves in hot water with a Fifa ruling.
That ruling is that no play can commence of the pitch where the Champions League will take place for two full weeks before the Showpiece.
That means the FA have no choice but to move the final of the tournament that encapsulates the heart of a nation, to a week earlier on the final day on the regular Premier League season.
Meaning it will become nothing but another fixture, just like the League Cup final has become over the last decade or so.
The days of the old romance of the cup, and England's footballing world coming to a stand still on final day could be coming to an end.
If this is the case it would be such a shame, let's just hope next season the cup recovers and the FAs sell out doesn't have any major impact.
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