"Just as a matter of interest how did you fair in the domestic cups?"
As a matter of fact, with my game to Liverpool which I took to 2018, the league cup was more often than not a problem even in the early rounds, Aston Villa featuring strongly to about 2010 when they faded to an 8 year battle between me and United, Chelsea always starting bad almost every season for the first 5 or 6 games, when we were both going unbeaten. (Arsenal always a remote threat but all their good players seemed to get snapped up). The European cup I would win two in every three years, Chelsea always did well in Europe and I beat them in the final quite a few times. Spurs got to the semi final one year (knocked out 4 or 5-0 by A C Milan). Even with a lot of success Villa were always hard and West Ham would often get a result. | 
