Rio to start for United
Alex Ferguson kept faith with Rio Ferdinand as Manchester United sought to go top of the Premiership against Tottenham this afternoon.
Ferdinand was given an eight-month ban on Friday for his failure to take a drugs test and it was not clear he would be in the right frame of mind to play at White Hart Lane.
But the £30m (€42.8m) defender took his place in the starting line-up as United aimed to take over from Arsenal at the top of the table.
Tottenham v Man Utd teams
Tottenham: Keller, Carr, Taricco, Gardner, Richards, Anderton, Dalmat, King, Konchesky, Kanoute, Keane.
Subs: Hirschfeld, Postiga, Doherty, Poyet, Ricketts.
Man Utd: Howard, Gary Neville, O’Shea, Ferdinand, Silvestre, Fletcher, Keane, Phil Neville, Giggs, van Nistelrooy, Scholes.
Subs: Ronaldo, Butt, Carroll, Forlan, Fortune.
Referee: R Styles (Hampshire)
