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Burnley will be paired with two other teams in one league with the other three teams in a second league. They will play each other and that means two games for each with the league winners meeting at the end of the evening in the North West Final and moving on to the Grand Final at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on 6th September.
Tonight's winners will take the last place in that final with Middlesbrough, Wolves, QPR, Tranmere, Celtic, Leicester and Barnsley. Three ex-Clarets are already in those finals. John McGreal is in the Tranmere squad, Wayne Biggins is playing for Barnsley and the Leicester goalkeeper is our former loan keeper Gavin Ward.
There is also one other former Claret playing tonight, potentially lining up against Burnley. David Eyres features for Oldham.
It all gets underway at 8:00 p.m. at the MEN Arena with all the action live on Sky Sports 2.
Tonight's squads:
Manchester United: Fraser Digby, Simon Davies, Russell Beardsmore, Clayton Blackmore, Lee Martin, Giuliano Maiorana, Andrei Kanchelskis, Lee Sharpe, Keith Gillespie
Manchester City: Eike Immel, Paul Simpson, Keith Curle, Alan Kernaghan, Ian Brightwell, Peter Beagrie, Nicky Summerbee, Mike Sheron, Carl Griffiths
Bolton: Simon Farnworth, Tony Kelly, Scott Green, Michael Johansen, Simon Charlton, Julian Darby, Richard Sneekes, David Lee, Allan Johnston
Blackburn: Darren Collier, Richard Brown, Gary Croft, Mark Atkins, Keith Hill, David Mail, Craig Skinner, Andy Kennedy, Per Pedersen
Oldham: Andy Rhodes, Mike Flynn, Darren Sheridan, David Eyres, Mike Milligan, Lee Duxbury, Tommy Wright, Andy Liddell, Neil Tolson
Burnley: Chris Pearce, Ian Cox, Andy Farrell, Roger Eli, Ashley Hoskin, Gary Parkinson, Liam Robinson, Andy Cooke, John Francis