Miss Ballantine's Salmon, caught October 7th, 1922, can be seen and admired at the Perth Museum. Source.
St Johnstone host Morton at McDiarmid Park. The stadium is named for the farmer who donated the land and was opened in 1989 as the first all-seater in the UK. The Challenge Cup final has been played there ten times. It's Morton's first visit since 2020.
St Johnstone have been in the Premiership since 2009. Morton have not got a win off them since 2006 and have never beaten them in a League Cup match. Craig Levein, formerly head of the Scottish national team, is manager.
Morton have been in the Championship since 2015 and have not once played a Premiership club at Cappielow in the group stage. This is due to the structure of the League Cup: in the group stage a Pot One (Premiership) side is always at home to the Pot Two (Championship) side. It's just like Round Two of Emperor's Cup, where the J1 club is always the home side. Is it right? No, it is wrong.
So far Morton have a win and a loss for 3 points. If they hope to advance to Round Two they must beat St Johnstone today. (Which would be easier to do at Cappielow.)
St Johnstone's Josh McPake played for Morton in 2020-21. Nobody on the Morton squad has played for St Johnstone. The last Morton player to score against St Johnstone was Denny Johnstone on October 27th, 2017.
[St Johnstone 2 - 0 Morton.]
Also:
Brechin [1 - 3] Alloa
These two have played 11 League Cup matches in Scottish history. Alloa have 6 wins, Brechin 4 wins, and there was 1 draw.
East Fife are off.
Group F standings after today's matches:
St Johnstone 2 2 0 0 0 4 1 +3 6
Alloa 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 +2 5
East Fife 2 1 0 1 0 3 0 +3 4
Morton 3 1 0 0 2 1 5 -4 3
Brechin 3 0 0 0 3 2 6 -4 0
Other matches:
HFX Wanderers 3 - 1 Valour (July 18)
Goals by Nimick (2) and Loughrey. Halifax moved out of eighth place.
Haddington 1 - 4 Civil Service Strollers (friendly) (July 18)
Þór/KA 0 - 2 Víkingur (yesterday)
Largs Thistle [3 - 1] Petershill (friendly)
Greenock Juniors [3 - 1] Carluke Rovers (friendly)
Nairn County [2 - 3] Dyce FC (friendly)
Civil Service Strollers [0 - 5] Musselburgh (friendly)
Rangers [0 - 2] Manchester United (friendly)
DC United [0 - 4] Celtic (friendly)
North York [1 - 4] Scrosoppi
FC Isle of Man are hosting a Summer Festival of Football:
FC Isle of Man 2 - 5 Chester FC (yesterday)
Radcliffe FC [4 - 1] Lancaster City
ReinMeer Aomori [0 - 1] Kochi United (tomorrow)
Chester FC [4 - 1] Lancaster City (tomorrow)
FC Isle of Man [3 - 3] Radcliffe FC (tomorrow)
Spanish Future Stars [0 - 3] Serbian White Eagles (tomorrow)
Ipswich Town U21 [1 - 1] Middlesbrough U21 (in Moncton tomorrow) [Source.]
HFX Wanderers U21 [2 - 0] NB Selects (in Moncton tomorrow)
FAI Cup, R2 (tomorrow):
Gorey Rangers [0 - 4] UCD
UEFA Europa League, 1QR, second leg (July 18):
Pafos (Cyprus) 2 - 5 Elfsborg (Sweden)
Elfsborg advance.
UEFA Conference League, 1QR, second leg (mostly July 18):
Derry City 2 - 1 Bruno's Magpies (Gibraltar) Magpies win on aggregate.
St Joseph's (Gibraltar) 1 - 1 Shelbourne Shelbourne win on aggregate.
Linfield 3 - 3 Stjarnan (Iceland) Stjarnan win on aggregate.
Connah's Quay Nomads 0 - 2 Bravo (Slovenia) Bravo win on aggregate.
Paide Linnameeskond (Estonia) 1 - 1 Bala Town Paide win on aggregate.
Crusaders 3 - 1 Caernarfon Town (3 - 3 on aggregate. Caernarfon Town win on PK.) (July 17)
Caernarfon Town and Shelbourne advance. Bala Town, Connah's Quay, Crusaders, Derry City and Linfield are out.