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SPORTEvening Echo Rooney faces

a battle to getstarting placeWAYNE ROONEY can-not be certain of his placein the Manchester Unitedstarting line-up againstTottenham tomorrow, letalone his status as pen-alty taker.The England striker

failed from the spot forthe second time this sea-son on Wednesday whenhe blazed a second-halfeffort over in the FA Cupwin over West Ham.It led to former skipper

Roy Keane claiming theresponsibility would betaken away from him bymanager Alex Ferguson,with 21-goal Robin vanPersie the most obviousreplacement.However, having only

just recovered from theknee injury he sustainedin training on ChristmasDay, and with Fer-guson aware he usu-ally needs a fewgames to recovermatch fitness,Rooney hasno guaran-tees abouteven start-ing atWhite HartLane.“We have

to think

about it,” Ferguson toldMUTV of the penaltyconundrum.“I am not going to

make a rash decision.“We will see how

Wayne has come throughfirst. He will be involvedat Tottenham but whetherhe starts or is on thebench, we have to makethat decision.“Once we do that we

will know who is going tobe taking the penalties.”That sounded very

much like Rooney beingon the bench this week-end, as even if he played,Van Persie surely will be-come the favoured pen-alty expert.Having already won

at Liverpool, Chelseaand Manchester

City this season,United arelooking toclaim anoth-er notableaway win.Nothing can

be taken for gran-

TOMORROWSpurs v Man United,Sky Sports, 4pm

CONTINUEDON P50

Munster A 15Plymouth Albion 0

MUNSTER completed the first part of adouble last night at Temple Hill when theyovercame Plymouth Albion in the B & ICup to qualify in the top eight for an awayquarter-final in the competition.

The second part comestomorrow at 12.45 whenthe senior side face Ra-cing Metro in the Heinek-en Cup as they bid tomake the last eight of thecompetition.

Munster A coach IanCostelloe, who is also avital part of the seniorbackroom team, was de-lighted with the win.

“From our point ofview there’s two big res-ults needed from theweekend and we’ve doneour bit for the squad.

“We needed a result to-night and we got it andhopefully that gives a bitof a boost to the wholesquad and Sunday is go-ing to be a massive occa-sion and we’re all look-ing forward to it,” he saidlast night.

“A lot of these boys (inthe A side) will play Raboover the next couple ofweeks so it was import-ant for those guys to getin a performance whilethe internationals areaway and a lot of themput their hand up for se-

lection for those fourgames.

“Everything is aboutSunday though. It’s greatfor us and it’s a big gamefor all these boys but theclub needs to go out anddo a job tomorrow andit’s going to be a massiveoccasion and if we gotthe two results out of thisweekend we’ll be prettyhappy on Monday.”● See P52 for more.

RUGBYBy SEAN McCARTHY

Munster coach RobPenney at last night’sgame. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

Follow thatA team bags first part of potential Munster double

Munster A’s Corey Hircock celeb-rates his try with Danny Barnesagainst Plymouth Albion in lastnight’s British and Irish Cup gameat Temple Hill. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

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