New generation hoping to finally bury United hoodoo

Dean Smith hadn't reached the halfway point of his playing career on August 19, 1995, when goals from Ian Taylor, Mark Draper and Dwight Yorke earned Brian Little’s team a 3-1 opening-day win, a result which prompted Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen to survey Alex Ferguson’s youthful visiting line-up and infamously proclaim: “You’ll never win anything with kids”.