LONDON — It will be a small start but Arsene Wenger knows it is not enough.

Arsenal's six-year wait for silverware could — should — end Sunday when it meets Birmingham City at Wembley in the League Cup final.

The League Cup is the last of the priorities for English football's elite, almost a consolation prize but at least it will get rid of the statistic that has grown annually since 2005 when the Gunners won the F.A. Cup. Since then, only Wenger's insistence that his way — producing a team rather than buying one — is best. He's right but fans who have feasted on success do not like famine.