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McCann’s Doncaster Rovers have drawn Everton in the League Cup second round just in time for him to tick Goodison Park off his list in what is due to be its last season. Given that Rovers have not played there since 1985, there will be plenty in the away end ticking it off too.
For the players there is a different excitement, pitting their wits against Premier League players.
And McCann and coach Lee Glover can catch up with old friends in Toffees manager Sean Dyche and his assistant Ian Woan.
But last year’s game between the sides at the same stage – not to mention th e problems Dyche is wrestling with – show Doncaster should be there for more than a day out.
Then, hosts Rovers were bottom of the Football League, their only win at Hull City in round one. But it took the introduction of £30m debutant Beto after a half-time which saw the visitors booed off to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win.
Everton, wrote Leon Wobschall in The Yorkshire Post, “were in grave danger of adding to their litany of embarrassing cup upsets” as Doncaster “significantly worried them and unhinged them.”
Go one better this time and Rovers might even be rewarded with a trip to Tottenham Hotspur in Wednesday’s complicated third-round draw so McCann can complete a set.
“It’s a great game, a great occasion for our fans to go to a very nostalgic stadium,” says the former West Ham United midfielder, now 44.
“I’ve actually never been there myself. I’ve been to most Premier League grounds but I haven’t been to Tottenham’s or Everton’s so I’m looking forward to it.
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