“That’s a biggie,” Donald Trump said when he drew Manchester United to face Leeds United in the quarter-final of the 1991/1992 Rumbelow's League Cup. Little did the future president of the United States know he had just sentenced the two rivals to a trio of meetings that would go down in history.
In brilliant archive footage shared by ITV on their YouTube channel, Trump joined Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves in drawing the teams for the fifth round. Leeds and United came out as the final pair, with former Tottenham man Greaves joking 'Oh Donald. You don’t realise what you’ve done there!'
What Trump had done was arrange the last of three meetings across all domestic competitions within 18 days, truly re-igniting a rivalry that has run hot through both sides of the Pennines ever since - and will do so again when they meet twice within five days this week.
