These fellas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Italian_Cup Abandoned 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_Cup Abandoned 1981. They were done and dusted before I was old enough to see them. You could conceivably have any number of international participants, England and Ireland or England and France for example. I feel like the modern game has a lot of focus on player recovery and talk of players often being fatigued due to the amount of matches played, so maybe this is a non starter, but do you think there could be any scope for a competition like this at some point in the next few years? How many English teams get to test themselves against foreign competition outside of pre season friendly games? Probably about 8 teams in a league system with 92 teams.
Was just thinking about bringing the home nations back but I think there's too much football happening ATM so it would be a no from me
We never got as far as the Italian stages IIRC. Always ended up losing at home to the likes of Grimsby or Port Vale
I think we played some Italian sides in the 70s, in its original format. I think it only lasted 5 or 6 years back then. I'm only old enough to remember the rebooted version in the 90s and I think you're right, we never got far enough to play an Italian side. It would only have been Serie B teams anyway then. The reboot was pointless- it only happened as a replacement for the Full Members Cup which was, itself, only created to make up for the European ban from 1985. Wasn't the Anglo-Scottish cup just a summer friendly tournament? Maybe we should resurrect the Football World Championship of the Victorian era (not to be confused with the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, famously won by West Auckland twice, which was a later invention). English Champions v Scottish Champions. We're joint second record title holders in that (equal with Villa), 1 title behind Queens Park.
