Holders Manchester City will host Sheffield Wednesday in the third round of the Capital One Cup.

After attending Wembley twice in the past year as a mere bystander, Corkman John Egan is two games away from becoming an active participant at English football’s biggest stage.

Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni is facing a mounting defensive crisis ahead of the start of the World Cup 2014 qualifying campaign after Sean St Ledger was yesterday ruled out of next month’s trip to Kazakhstan.

New signing Brett Holman netted a second-half winner as Aston Villa battled back from behind to beat Burton Albion 2-1 in today's friendly at Pirelli Stadium.

OLE Gunnar Solskjaer admits Manchester United’s performance in their derby defeat at City was not good enough - but the Norwegian does not believe there is any point dwelling on it.

Leyton Orient’s reward for eliminating Fulham is another top-flight opponent from the capital, Charlton, in the fourth round.

Alex Ferguson has pencilled £7m (€10.2m) new-boy Nemanja Vidic in for an FA Cup debut against non-league Burton Albion next Wednesday.

Burton 0 Man Utd 0

Burton 0 Manchester United 0

Half time: Burton Albion 0 Manchester United 0

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was handed his first Manchester United start since May 2004 as Manchester United began their latest FA Cup quest at non-league Burton.

OLE GUNNAR Solskjaer gets his reward for battling through two years of injury hell tomorrow with the chance to play on Burton Albion’s sandpit.

Burton Albion have confirmed they will play their FA Cup third round tie with Manchester United at the Pirelli Stadium on January 8.

Burscough boss Derek Goulding fears for the mental well-being of his players if there are dumped out of the FA Cup tonight.

CONFERENCE club Burton booked their place in the second round of the FA Cup after knocking out League Two Peterborough.