Having travelled almost 150 miles for Wednesday's EFL Cup tie, Manchester United found out the hard way that hosts Northampton weren't about to go rolling out the red carpet for their Premier League opponents.
Indeed, on the afternoon of the game, the United team were spotted limbering up -- not at Sixfields stadium or at the Cobblers' training group, but in the middle of a local car park.
Welcome to Northampton Manchester united , your training facility is a car park @danielbird3 ufffdufffd pic.twitter.com/wRKaIOVtey
- Lee (@isla2410) September 21, 2016
A jarring welcome to the way things get done in League One.