Clarets and Canaries clash in cup for first time

Last updated : 04 December 2011 By Tony Scholes

There have been two previous meetings in the League Cup. The first of them came in the second round in the 1977/78 season when Tony Morley, Peter Noble and Billy Ingham scored in a 3-1 home win which set us up with a tie against Ipswich Town.

Ten years later and we were paired again in the same round, this time a two legged affair. We drew the home game 1-1 after George Oghani had given us the lead, but lost 1-0 in the second leg at Carrow Road.

Our more recent games against Norwich have been in the Championship and they'll recall that, in their promotion season a year ago, we took four points from them and it really should have been six. We drew 2-2 at Norwich, despite holding a 2-0 at half time with two Martin Paterson goals, and in the return at Turf Moor we won 2-1 with Dean Marney and Jay Rodriguez getting our goals.

This tie, at Carrow Road, is likely to be played on Saturday 7th January 2012.

The full draw is;

Middlesbrough v Shrewsbury
Nottingham Forest v Leicester
Manchester City v Manchester United
Dagenham & Redbridge or Walsall v Millwall
Crawley v Bristol City
Doncaster v Sutton or Notts County
Bristol Rovers v Aston Villa
Tottenham v Cheltenham
Sheffield Wednesday v West Ham
MK Franchise v QPR
Hull v Ipswich
Coventry v Southampton
Brighton v Wrexham
Fulham v Charlton
Birmingham v Wolves
Norwich v Burnley
Arsenal v Leeds
Derby v Crystal Palace
Fleetwood or Yeovil v Blackpool
Swindon v Wigan
Barnsley v Swansea
Chelmsford or Macclesfield v Bolton
Newcastle v Blackburn
Everton v Tamworth
Sheffield United v Salisbury or Grimsby
Liverpool v Southend or Oldham
Gillingham v Stoke
Chelsea v Portsmouth
Watford v Bradford
Peterborough v Sunderland
West Brom v Cardiff
Reading v Stevenage