Coventry 5-4 Nottingham Forest
Date Played – 28th November 1990

This league cup thriller is arguably the greatest ever match played in the league cup, despite only being a fourth round tie. After only a quarter of an hour, a corner from Mickey Glyn on the left was nodded onto David Speedie, whose powerful header was blocked on the line by Steve Hodge, however Kevin Gallacher hammered home the rebound from point blank range. Only a minute later Gallacher doubled his and Coventry’s goal tally to two. Coventry continued to dominate the match and on the half hour mark a long Coventry clearance was headed on by Steve Livingstone towards Kevin Gallacher who scored his third and Covetry’s third of the match. Coventry continued to play magnificently well and Gallagher was in sparkling form. With five minutes before the end of the half Coventry’s Peter Billing headed the ball forward and Gallacher volleyed through the legs of Brian Laws. Nigel Clough scored one minute later to make it 4-1 and with two minutes left of the half, Steve Hodge assisted the ball to Nigel Clough who scored to make it 4-2. And during injury time of the first half, the comeback was looking really likely as Gary Crosby passed to Nigel Clough who scored an amazing five minute hat trick and now the match was amazingly 4-3 by half time. With ten minutes into the second half, Gary parker leveled the score line with a low strike and it was 4-4. The match amazingly continued at the same pace as an overhead free kick by Cyril Regis was blocked on the line by Laws and Livingstone pounced to head home the rebound from close range and seal the match for Coventry 5-4.

Manchester United 6-2 Arsenal
Date Played – 28th November 1990

In the opening minute of the match, Clayton Blackmore scored with a fierce, low free kick from outside the box to make it 1-0. With two minutes remaining, Danny Wallace dribbled into the area and cut the ball back for Mark Hughes to score and make it 2-0. On the stroke of half time, lee Sharpe scored a stunning strike to make it 3-0 to Manchester united. Arsenal stormed back early on in the second half as Michael Thomas fired in a shot into the net which raced past keeper Les Sealey. Alan Smith scored Arsenals second mid way through the half as he poked the ball home after a corner. With 15 minutes remaining Manchester United took control again as Lee Sharpe headed the ball into the net to score his second of the match. With ten minutes remaining, Lee Sharpe completed his hat trick and Manchester united went 5-2 up.