When Swindon, another third division club, won the League Cup two years later the Anglo-Italian League Cup was organised as a way of compensating them for the ruling that prevented them competing in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.
Following Swindon's triumph over a rival third division team in the League Cup two years prior, an alternative competition, the Anglo-Italian League Cup, was created as a means of addressing the restriction that denied them entry into the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.