Chelsea face Luton, Spurs get Charlton in Carabao Cup second round draw

The Carabao Cup second round draw, completed Tuesday, quietly reveals the hierarchies and humiliations of English football's recent past — Chelsea and Tottenham, absent from Europe after disappointing league campaigns, enter early and receive the relative comfort of home ties against lower-league sides, while West Ham, freshly relegated, face a Championship rival on the road. The cup, indifferent to reputation, offers both opportunity and reckoning: a stage where the fallen may rediscover themselves, and where the ambitious may announce their arrival. Matches begin the week of August 24, befor