Luton Town boss Nathan Jones hopes tonight's Carabao Cup tie with Manchester United can become a regular fixture.

Jones' No2 Mick Harford, now 61, was part of Town team who spent a decade in the old Division One during the 1980s and early 1990s, when Town regularly went toe-to-toe with the best teams in the country.

In fact, Harford was on target the last time two teams met at Kenilworth Road, netting an equaliser in a 1-1 draw on April 18, 1992, earning a point after Lee Sharpe had put United in front.

The two teams now go head to head again this evening in the Carabao Cup third round some 18 years on and when asked if Harford he had mentioned the goal prior to the fixture, Jones said: “Once or twice. What a side they had then.

“We've got a squad of players here that will go down in Luton's history, but that was a special group with Mick and a lot of the players they had there, with Fozzy (Steve Foster), the Stein brothers, Ricky Hill, Kingsley Black. I could name a load that are etched in the history here.

“It was a wonderful team and then they were on an even keel with Man U.

“Mick scored and beat them so it's a wonderful history, but we have to embrace a little bit of that spirit as well.

“We've got Mick at the club, he's a very humble guy, Mick, but he'll drop the odd one in just to make sure that you know he scored.

“We're in a good place but it's a wonderful occasion.

"We want to win and make a good account of ourselves as it's a massive thing, but it's a great game for us to have.

“We would like these to be week-in, week-out occurrences.

“When we took over we always had that end goal in sight and we're probably two steps closer than what we were when we took over.

"It's a big task to play against them as any Premier League side would say but we're going to relish the opportunity and hopefully we can give our best account of ourselves.

“This used to be a regular fixture in the top-flight, now it's not so regular.

“So, what we have to do is go into it with eyes open, that we're prepared to learn from it, so we can get better so that, eventually, Man U-Luton is a regular league fixture."