While fans dream of silverware, fixture congestion is weighing heavily on some clubs. Vale manager Jon Brady offered an unusually blunt assessment following their historic win, saying: "It's a bit of a pain in the bum, to be honest!" Brady was referring to their ongoing fight against relegation.
He expanded on the difficulties, adding: "It is really because what it's doing for us is adding to our fixture list and as you saw we lost one of our best centre-halves, Cam Humphreys, and we haven't got the size of the squad to cope with the amount of games at the moment." Despite this, they will relish the Stamford Bridge test.