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Cynics that believe in revenue and overheads and boring, financially-sensible things like that would say that both Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Town need a run deep into the FA Cup like a hole in the head. But there’s Champions League qualification/Premier League survival to fight for, one might hear a chief executive shout, somewhere.
Those that believe in glory and winning-at-all-costs and silverware and making trophy-starved fans happy might beg to differ. Margaret Thatcher was still prime minister when Nottingham Forest last won a major trophy (the 1990 League Cup) 35 years ago. Ipswich haven’t won a thing since 1992, the Football League Second Division title, and not a major trophy since the 1980–81 Uefa Cup.