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Single table format

I've put back the single table from the older version for a number of reasons:

The nested table version was ugly, with ragged bottoms to the top set of tables, and in particular a big gap under the 2000s table.
Nested tables are have a more complicated structure, so they are harder for people to come in and edit, which is not the wiki way.
We may want to add more columns to the table later, which is easier if the structure is simple adn there is horizontal space to grow in to.
There's no logical reason to keep the decades separate. It is a continuous list of individual seasons.
It has duplicate links in it. That would be annoying in a block of text, but tables are different. If I want to know something about the League Cup winners of 1964/65, I want to be able to look at 1964/65 and click on the link, without having to scan back up until I find the link for Chelsea at 1997/98.

I've also changed "champions" to "winners" throughout. Only league winners are "champions". "Past Winners of the League Cup" is consistent with the FA Cup article (though I admit little else is).

--rbrwr

Em...I just thought that the single table was too long to scroll through and that the nested tables would look better. But nevermind :-)

-- whkoh Thurs, 3 Apr 2003 9:18 UTC

True, that is a disadvantage of a long table. But I still think that the long table is a better solution overall. --rbrwr