The five things you REALLY need to know about the Battle of Old Trafford

Arsenal travel to Old Trafford this weekend to take on Manchester United in what is their next biggest game of a potentially historic season.

Mikel Arteta's side are running out of games if they are to win their first Premier League title since 2004, but must keep winning if they want to oust the seemingly undeniable Manchester City.

Next up is a United side at rock bottom, going into the game on the back of a 4-0 humiliation against Crystal Palace at the start of the week, but with nothing to lose.

Defeat in Manchester would almost certainly spell and end to any title hopes. And Old Trafford isn't an easy place to go - as least historically.

The Gunners will be confident of a result, just like they were 20 years ago. It ended 0-0 that day, but it was a game that has lived long in the memory of one player in particular that played in the game.

VAR would have changed the penalty decision

Mail Sport's Martin Keown is somewhat the poster boy of that day, for better or for worse. Having given away a last-minute penalty, Ruud van Nistelrooy missed from the spot for United, triggering ecstatic scenes from the Arsenal players.

Keown had fouled Diego Forlan late on in the game, and celebrated in Van Nistelrooy's face when he missed the kick. At full time, a number of Gunners players surrounded the Dutchman. All may have been avoided had it been for VAR, however.

The forward was involved in the red card earlier in the game that saw Arsenal's Patrick Vieira sent off for a clash with Van Nistelrooy. It wasn't a situation the away players took too kindly to.

'If you look back at the challenge, I can see that anyone who plays the game, you can see that Van Nistelrooy, when he goes up to challenge, he is leaving all sorts on Patrick,' Keown