United Away To Scunny? Get In

Gone are the days when many Manchester United fans hope for a home draw in the cups. With it essential for season ticket holders to purchase Champions League and FA Cup tickets, it’s nice not to get rinsed for another £40 for a cup game. If you want to stand a chance of going to aways, you also have to purchase League Cup tickets, meaning by the end of the season, you can spend a few hundred quid on top of the basic season ticket price, particularly given how far United tend to go in cup competitions.

So United face Scunthorpe in the League Cup, away from home and I’m pretty chuffed. This lot just escaped relegation from the Championship last season, finishing in 20th, and this season have lost two of their three games so far.

The only downside is their ground only holds 9000 fans, meaning there is going to be much of a red presence come match day.

All in all, a good draw for us. Here are the rest:

Brentford v Everton
Portsmouth v Leicester
Stoke v Fulham
Chelsea v Newcastle
Aston Villa v Blackburn
Tottenham v Arsenal
Millwall v Ipswich
Wolves v Notts County
Burnley v Bolton
Birmingham v MK Dons
Liverpool v Northampton Town
West Brom v Man City
Sunderland v West Ham
Peterborough v Swansea
Wigan v Preston

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14 Comments

Costas August 28, 2010

Plus, with this game being away from OT, it will be a good test for the young players that will play.

DEVILisRED August 28, 2010

spura vs arsenal, that have to be the stand out draw. look out for wenger's whinging!

mig78 August 28, 2010

off topic - MB Diouf just scored against the Goners. Haha. I love the boy.

mama diouf is on a roll boy!

willierednut August 28, 2010

STR - You're just a tight arse lol.

Diouf is our most prolific striker right now, lol.

Jorgen August 28, 2010

Hopefully are the days when United were prone to mess things up against inferior oposition gone too:)
Many interesting draws there, Chelski VS Barcodes f. ex. Hopefully Barcodes will be really inspired at the thought of competing for a trophy, Chelsea could be in for a surprice here! And Arse VS Tottenham, another golden opportunity for Whingers men to miss out on a trophy and I think they will, 6 trophyless years and counting! I have a weak spot for Tottenham I must admit... So I dont mind at all them thumping Arse. Liverfools VS Northampton Town is not easy to predict. As the scousers are off to their worst start in many a year in the PL and the fact they have just lost Mascherano to Barca, means that morale is low, Torres and St. Gerrard disillusioned, finances are at an all time low and the once proud Liverpool could be scrapping for midtable this year! SWEEEEEEEEEEET:) It is of course not very realistic to begin fantazising about Liverpool and relegation but once Gerrard is out, Torres is in Spain, Kuyt back in Holland, the club bankrupt and Carragher has retired who knows??

FletchTHEMAN August 28, 2010

I hope Arsenal take the Toffies and Newcastle take care of Chelski.
We do very well against Arsenal in recent years. Don't much care about the rest.

Hope we can give a good showing for the youngsters.

bchilds August 28, 2010

I can imagine the same terrific aay support that we got at Barnsley (minus the trouble hopefuly!)

Gudjohnsen August 28, 2010

This will be a good game for the younger lads to participate in. Looking forward seeing Macheda, Cleverley, Da Silva twins and more (possibly Bebe) get their chance to impress.