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Amid FA Cup controversy, a shock result for Coventry-Manchester United can deliver magic
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Coventry City manager Mark Robins will face his former club Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-finals on April 21.
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Mark Robins was the young striker without whose goal the modern Manchester United would not have happened the same way. At least, that’s the myth.
Without Robins’ January 1990 header at Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, it was widely reported, Alex Ferguson would have been sacked as manager. Without Ferguson, no two decades of glory for English football’s biggest club is the logic.
