After being turfed out of the FA Cup yesterday, Saints fans now need to put their prejudices aside and back the top clubs to win the cups.
Saints ultimate aim this season now is realistically a European place, there is a great chance for that being the Champions League, but if we are overhauled then we still want to qualify for the Europa League.
Therefore to give us more chance of ending the season with a place in Europe we need the top clubs to win the Capital One Cup and the FA Cup.
In the Capital One Cup the Europa League spot does not go the runner up if the winner has qualified for the Champions League or indeed the Europa League by league position, therefore we can only root for one winner out of the four teams in the semi's and that is Chelsea, if the Blues win the competition they are virtually assured o's a Champions League spot and that means that the Europa League spot will revert back to the Premier League, that will man that the club in sixth spot would get it.
In the FA Cup its more complicated in that the loser gets the spot as we found out to our benefit in 2003, that being the case its hard to predict what team we want to win it, but truth is that if two out of three from Arsenal, Man United and Liverpool contest the final then on current standings assuming West Ham can't sustain their form then that could help us.
Personally I will it very difficult to cheer on the likes of Chelsea and Man Ute, but if the ultimate result is that it helps Saints get into the Europa League then I will grit my teeth.
On a final note before some get on and indignantly ell me that it won't be a problem and that we will finish in the top four so it doesn't matter, of course ideally this will happen however history tells us (Not just ours but that of the Premier itself) that it is more likely we will not be in the top four than in it come the end of the season, so I am just putting forward what "Could" be vital o us at the end of the season rather than being negative.