Article: New-age Stones to play live at Anfield; Non-League Wealdstone face Liverpool in the FA Youth Cup at Anfield tonight and their coach, former Crazy Gang star Francis Joseph, has told them to use all his old tricks to even things up. Raoul Simons reports.

Byline: RAOUL SIMONS

FROM the club that gave us Vinnie Jones and Stuart Pearce comes a new generation of footballers with attitude. Ryman League Wealdstone's Under-18 side have defied the odds to book a clash with Liverpool in the third round of the FA Youth Cup.

Tonight's Anfield trip is just reward for Wealdstone's domination of the non-League youth scene in recent years, but the manner of their success will hardly please the purists.

As befits a former Wimbledon striker, youth-team manager Francis Joseph preaches the Crazy Gang rather than Corinthian spirit and has evolved a ruthless strategy for the encounter.

Joseph, who also ...

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