How interesting it would have been if Hodgson won a cup, that would have made this a very interesting thread!
lol - scary thought, but he wouldn't have...
I'm delighted with the cup this season, but let's be honest, if we win that trophy another 5 times in a row but fail to get close to re-entering the CL the period will have been deemed a failure. And it would have been in the 80s as well. Regardless of how much we love trophies, the league cup was the lesser of them all back in our glory days as well.
Similarly if we get back into the top 4 and don't press on from that to challenge for the league, it is a failure.
People seem to think that the idea is to get back in the top 4 and that's it... forever. It isn't. The idea is get back into the top 4 and then build towards the title. Stepping stones and all that. It's what rafa did and people loved him for it.