Second-String Cup Tie Looks First-Rate Contest
by Patrick Barclay (Preview | Telegraph - November 28)
You could call it the pick of the Carling Cup quarter-finals - or the most eagerly awaited reserve match of all time. Either way, I'd know it was a reference to Wednesday's match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford, where Arsene Wenger's fresh faces will confront young men with something to prove to Sir Alex Ferguson. If, as Alan Hansen once asserted, you win nothing with kids, it is bound to end in a draw.
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