Unless the club captain Marc Richards is deemed fit to start, Buchanan will lead the League One side out at a packed Sixfields for their EFL Cup third-round tie with United. It caps a 13-month period of giddying twists and turns, and it is a case of second time lucky, too. I’m 30, and it’s the first time I’m going to step out on the pitch against the team I support. “People who don’t know what the football club was like when I first came here can’t really understand,” he says. “Deep down a few of my friends do want Manchester United to win,” he says.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2016 14:48 UTC