Norwich City are a huge 20/1 with some bookies to win at Old Trafford on Saturday and, while it may seem a tall order, history is on the Canaries' side.Paul Lambert's City side are chasing a superb third win on a row in the Premier League, while United have had a pretty poor week judging by their incredibly high standards.
They've dropped Premier League points for the first time at Stoke, let a 2-0 lead go at home to Basle and lost the services of Wayne Rooney and probably Javier Hernandez for the game.
Sure it's going to take one of the most amazing performances in Norwich City's history to return from Old Trafford with all three points, but it can happen.
Norwich have won at Old Trafford four times before and the first of those came 22 years after the end of the Second World War.
In February 1967 City pulled off a famous 2-1 win at Old Trafford in the fifth round of the FA Cup, the first time the teams had met since a rather more famous City v United cup clash in 1959.
It was 22 years later that City won for the last time at Old Trafford and that came early in the season with City winning 2-0 in a game that Gary Pallister made his United debut.
United started that 1989/90 season with an impressive 4-1 win over Arsenal (it was the game when potential new owner Michael Knighton juggled the ball on the pitch).
That was actually Norwich's third win in four league games against United, they also won in 1986/87 and 1988/89.
So, Norwich won at Old Trafford in 1967 and 22 years later in 1989. Add on another 22 years and here we are in 2011.
It might not happen, it could be a comfortable home win, but history says, we are due to win at United this year - and that means Saturday.
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