NICKY BUTT and Ronny Johnsen are ready to return for Manchester United for tonight's fourth round replay against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park.
Midfielder Butt has been out of action with a foot injury since New Year's Day, while Norwegian defender Johnsen missed the last three starts because of a hamstring strain.
Johnsen came on as a late substitute in Saturday's 2-1 win against Southampton and the return of the two regulars eases Alex Ferguson's injury problems. Only David May is out of contention as he recovers from a hernia operation.
But the problem for Ferguson is that he now has a selection headache. Teenage full back Michael Clegg (19) has been outstanding in the last three games and Ferguson admitted he could retain his place.
The United manager rejoined his players in London yesterday after a trip to Spain where he spent his second successive Sunday.
It is understood he was in Bilbao watching Real Betis beat Atletico 3-0, increasing speculation that he wants to buy Spanish international defender Roberto Rios.
Joe Kinnear will have a full squad to choose from for the game and said: "The lads are raring to go.
Wimbledon have looked a shadow of their usual ebullient selves recently as their congested fixture list begins to take its toll, but Kinnear is confident that the tiredness and niggling injuries would be forgotten at kick off.
He said: "Tiredness doesn't come into it. Maybe we didn't have our minds on it on Saturday against Middlesbrough. No one wanted to get injured and it's only natural.
"But we know now that we've got a nine day break after this so it's just a question of pulling something out of the bag."
Arsenal fear Ian Wright will not be around to pick the lock of a Leeds defence, which their former boss George Graham has already secured in an alarming familiar fashion, for their fourth round match at Highbury.
Wright, restricted to just 18 minutes as a substitute when the teams fought out a highly predictable goalless draw in the Premiership at Elland Road on Saturday, is still struggling with a hamstring strain and a touch of flu.
Already at Leeds the dapper Graham's parsimonious style is making its mark, with four consecutive clean sheets making it 10 shut outs in the last 14 games.
Brian Flynn takes his Wrexham giant killers to Peterborough in a delayed fourth round tie, insisting: "This could be tougher than going to West Ham.
Substitute Kevin Russell's memorable last minute winner ditched the hapless Hammers in round three, but Flynn knows that result will count for nothing in the bid to reach a last 16 date at Birmingham City.
"If anything it will be harder at Peterborough because we've lost the element of surprise playing against another team from the second division. And because of their manager Barry Fry's links with Birmingham they will have just as much incentive as us to get through."
Former Peterborough winger Russell's Upton Park replay heroics are unlikely to earn him anything more than another substitute role at London Road where Wrexham will still be without injured Republic of Ireland Under 21 defender Phil Hardy.
Bolton's Jamie Pollock is gunning for an FA Cup "hat trick" when second division Chesterfield stand in the way of the runaway division one leaders' bid to secure a home fifth round tie with Nottingham Forest.
Pollock scored in both third round meetings with Luton and has hit a rich vein of scoring form, with four in as many games and says: "Coming to Bolton has proved a great move. It's taken time to build up my fitness but I have thoroughly enjoyed it here."
Chesterfield, though, are continuing to build solidly in manager John Duncan's second spell at the club. They climbed to seventh in the second division table with Saturday's win at Preston and fancy their chances of another triumph in Lancashire tonight.
