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