Manchester United v Leicester: FA Cup fourth round – live

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“Is the United job too big for Amorim?” wonders Gerry Scott. “I can understand that it is hard to turn a failing club around and even that things might get worse before they get better. His approach seems to have just torpedoed the team however, with no sense as to when it ever might improve. He just seems unready for the demands of managing at such a big team.” He certainly seems to have been surprised by the pace and relentlessness of the Premier League. But to be fair, he has done all right in the cups – seeing off Arsenal in the third round, winning all his games in the Europa League so far, and losing only to Spurs in the Carabao, when he went overboard with the rotation.

Correction! Jake Evans, whose selection was announced by Ruud van Nistelrooy yesterday, is not on the team sheet after all. So, just the one GCSE student for Leicester – Monga, the 15-year-old left-winger. Still, it’s quite something. At the risk of making you feel old, I am obliged to report that Monga was born in July 2009.

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