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Article: Football: United humbling is 'staggering' to delighted Clough; COCA-COLA LEAGUE ONE/FA CUP.(Sport)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2006
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Byline: BY SIMON STONE
BURTON manager Nigel Clough hailed his part-time side's "staggering" FA Cup draw with Manchester United - then wrote of their chances at Old Trafford on January 18.
Saul Denney's last-gasp save to deny Richie Jones ensured Burton emulated fellow Conference outfit Exeter's achievement of 12 months ago by booking a third-round replay with the 11-times winners, and an estimated pounds 500,000 payday.
It was the least Burton's part-timers deserved as they humbled a United side, who could not find a winner even after Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo had been introduced just before the hour mark.
"It would have been ...