Manchester United Meet Liverpool

Michael Owen

Manchester United will meet their old adversar­ies Liv­er­pool at Old Traf­ford in the FA Cup Third Round in Janu­ary in the only all Premier League tie fol­low­ing Sunday’s third round draw. Leeds knocked Manchester United out of the FA Cup last sea­son when they man­aged to beat Sir Alex Ferguson´s play­ers at Old Traf­ford in the FA Cup Third Round, while Liv­er­pool were defeated by Read­ing in their FA Cup Third Round Replay at Anfield Road.

The fix­ture between bit­ter his­tor­ical rivals Liv­er­pool and Manchester United is Eng­lish football’s fiercest rivalry and it´s some­times referred to as the North West derby. Former Liv­er­pool goal scorer extraordin­aire Michael Owen, who has always marched to his own drum and was never one to be told what to do, seems to be rel­at­ively untroubled by any of this. After agree­ing a luc­rat­ive two-year con­tract with reign­ing Eng­lish Premier League cham­pi­ons Manchester United at the begin­ning of the 2009-10 cam­paign, the ever­green striker became only the second player since Phil Chisnall to appear for the two clubs.

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