Date: Sunday 1st March
Venue: Wembley Stadium, London
Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)
Assistant Referees: Peter Kirkup (Northamptonshire), Andy Butler (Lancashire)
4th Official: Andre Marriner (West Midlands)
Match Trivia
-United and Spurs have never met before in a cup final.
-Spurs have failed to beat United in their last 17 encounters.
-Harry Redknapp has become something of a nemesis for Sir Alex Ferguson in cup competitions, knocking United out of the FA Cup while managing Bournemouth, West Ham and, most recently, Portsmouth in 2008.
-The final falls 1 day before Harry’s 62nd birthday. No prizes for guessing what present he would like!
-A goal for either Roman Pavlyuchenko of Spurs or Carlos Tevez of United would make them the leading scorers in this year’s competition (assuming the other doesn’t also score, of course). Both are currently on 6 goals apiece.
-If Spurs successfully defend the trophy they will become only the 3rd team to do so. Forest (twice) and Liverpool (who won 4 in a row) are the only others to have done so to date.
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