Salford City and their Class of 92 owners have been handed a huge draw in their first Carabao Cup outing after pulling Leeds out of the hat during
Salford achieved their dream of making the Sky Bet EFL last season and one of their rewards is a first inclusion in the Carabao Cup, and they couldn't have been handed a bigger draw.
The likes of Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs had a few running battles with old enemy Leeds during their Manchester United days, and they'll now lock horns with their new team in the stand out draw of the first round.
With the draw split into a northern and southern section to lower travel times, the pick of the south ties came with Wally Downes' AFC Wimbledon drawn to face bitter rivals MK Dons, such matches proving there were more reasons to host the draw at Morrison's.
Former winners Ray Parlour and John Barnes were the star attractions for the Carabao Cup first-round draw at a Morrison's supermarket in north London.
The pair posed for pictures with shoppers alongside the trophy and Barnes, who won the competition with Liverpool in 1995, also interacted with customers over the store's public address system.
After one angry shopper had demanded to know why she could not leave by her usual exit, the draw took place behind a partition screen, at the correct time and with no glitches in the matrix, giving weight to the claims of Barnes and the organisers that this draw was for the good of the fans.
Almost every ball was cheered or booed by those who had gathered to watch, with the number of Liverpool shirts on show suggesting Barnes was a bigger attraction than the draw itself - even if some tasty ties came out of the pot.
Carabao Cup first round draw
Northern Section
- Tranmere v Hull
- Grimsby v Doncaster
- Wigan v Stoke
- Port Vale v Burton
- Nottingham Forest v Fleetwood
- Bradford v Preston
- Blackpool v Macclesfield
- Blackburn v Oldham
- Mansfield v Morecambe
- Accrington v Sunderland
- Scunthorpe v Derby
- Rochdale v Bolton
- Huddersfield v Lincoln
- Middlesbrough v Crewe
- Shrewsbury v Rotherham
- Sheffield Wednesday v Bury
- Salford v Leeds
- Barnsley v Carlisle
Southern Section
- AFC Wimbledon v MK Dons
- Oxford v Peterborough
- QPR v Bristol City
- Plymouth v Leyton Orient
- Wycombe v Reading
- Charlton v Forest Green
- Gillingham v Newport
- Stevenage v Southend
- Luton v Ipswich
- Walsall v Crawley
- Bristol Rovers v Cheltenham
- Brentford v Cambridge
- Coventry v Exeter
- Swansea v Northampton
- West Brom v Millwall
- Portsmouth v Birmingham
