The 2007 season of the National League Cup is sponsored by Northern Rail as was the previous years. Various teams from the National leagues of England compete. The winners are usually National league One teams. This was evident as Widnes Vikings won the competition in 2007.
Famous quotes containing the words northern, rail and/or cup:
“‘What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky;”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)
“For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)