United must show bottle after City’s Toure de force

MANCHESTER CITY’S thrilling and enthralling victory over bitter rivals United in Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley has not only signalled the possible start of a new era in Manchester football but also left the season on a knife edge.

The bragging rights belong to the blue half of town following Yaya Toure’s deserved winner that set off remarkable scenes of celebration in one of the most thunderous atmospheres Wembley has ever experienced.

On the face of it, of course, it has at the very least cost Alex Ferguson’s side their Treble dream and denied goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, in his final season as a professional, a chance to win the FA Cup for the first and only time.