It is 25 years since a club from outside the top flight won a domestic trophy.
That was Sheffield Wednesday, 1-0 winners over Manchester United in the League Cup final of 1991.
On Tuesday night, Championship leaders Newcastle United will be bidding to make it to the last four of the same competition when they travel as favourites to Premier League strugglers Hull City.
They are already talking of lifting the EFL Cup on Tyneside and ending their own 62-year wait for domestic honours. Here, Sportsmail looks at four reasons why Rafa Benitez’s Magpies can do just that…
The manager…
Benitez has transformed an entire football club in just six months.