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Redknapp: Is eager to win the Carling Cup this season
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp says that he cannot understand why some sides do not treat the Carling Cup seriously, and has set his sights on lifting it with Spurs this season.
Spurs begin their cup campaign on Tuesday when they take on Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium but will make several changes to the side that beat Liverpool 4-0 in the Premier League on Sunday.Redknapp, though, will include the likes of William Gallas, Sandro and Heurelho Gomes in his team in an effort to progress further in the competition that he has high regards for."I can't understand how teams that are mid-table and not going to get in to Europe just don't go for it," said the Spurs boss. "I don't know why they don't care about it."Birmingham won it last year. What a great day for them that was. Tottenham had a great day when they beat Chelsea to win it (in 2008).Winning the Cup"I want to go all the way to Wembley in it if I can. I will do it by juggling my team around if I can because we are in Europe but I will go there tomorrow with a team that I feel can win the game."We'll be looking to have William Gallas, Sandro, Vedran Corluka, Sebastien Bassong, Roman Pavlyuchenko. That's not a bad team, is it? Once we push on in the competition I will be looking to win it."Redknapp also has an idea of how to make the Carling Cup more attractive - giving the winners a guaranteed place in the Europa League group stages and ditching the idea of teams being able to qualify for Europe via the Fair Play League."We should do away with the Fair Play place," Redknapp said. "Fulham got that last year and they tried to do everything they could to get out of it."Read more http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_7189847,00.html
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