THE Manchester derby is coming and the meeting of Danny Tiatto and Phil Neville is going to be very interesting.

Two years ago City's Tiatto hit Neville with a dirty challenge which infuriated the United camp.

Phil and fellow United players hit out at Tiatto saying it was a coward's challenge. Tiatto is anything but a coward. Stupid maybe but never a coward and the hot-headed Aussie responded by saying if Neville wanted to be hit with a proper challenge he would be happy to oblige the next time they played each other.

Now that's what football's all about - proper challenges I mean not silly grudges - unfortunately Tiatto was not in the side for the return fixture.

As fate would have it the two players have come into the side at exactly the right time to go head to head at Maine Road on Saturday and it should be a tasty little side dish to what will be a rather tame 1-1 draw in which City will take the lead through Marc Vivien Foe, who will finally run out of ways to miss easy chances and hit the target with a header before Ryan Giggs equalises for United.