Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson hopes referee Peter Jones can keep the lid on United's potentially-explosive clash with Leeds at Elland Road on Sunday morning.
All eyes will be on the Loughborough official to see if he can maintain order in the match between these two fierce rivals after the weekend of mayhem.
Players from both sides overstepped the mark on Saturday in a number of unsavoury incidents at Elland Road and Newcastle.
Leeds have been charged by the Football Association as a result of their mass brawl with Tottenham, who are also in trouble with Lancaster Gate.
Ian Harte has been charged separately after he allegedly stamped on Chris Perry, while Lee Bowyer was fortunate to escape with just a booking for his two-footed lunge at Stephen Clemence.
Manchester United also lost the plot at St James' Park and captain Roy Keane was sent off for two bookable offences, while Jaap Stam and Andy Cole were booked for dissent.
"It's going to be one of those passionate games and we just hope that we have a strong referee and strong linesmen because that's important in a game of football. The top games should be refereed by the top people," Ferguson said.
Meanwhile, Keane claims he has no complaints over his sending off during Manchester United's 3-0 defeat at Newcastle. Television replays have revealed that the United skipper barely made contact with Newcastle's Rob Lee in the challenge that earned him his second yellow card at St James' Park on Saturday.
"I'm obviously disappointed with the sending off and personally I think I was slightly unlucky," he said. "I've no complaints. The ref. has a hard enough job to do and you just have to take the punishment when it comes your way."
Ferguson has also reacted angrily to Alan Shearer's jibes that United do not like being kicked, suggesting the Football Association should look into the England captain's comments on TV.
Ferguson leapt to the defence of the treble winners and turned the tables on Shearer. United players' behaviour came under the microscope when the match was shown on Match of the Day.
In one flash-point Dutch international Jaap Stam was seen furiously berating a linesman, standing only inches from the official and bellowing in his face.
But Ferguson said: "Critics have been calling for the FA to look at Stam approaching the linesman. Yet I would have thought the FA might investigate why Alan Shearer went on TV and in the Press, talking about how Newcastle kicked us and how we didn't like it.
"Yet my players never complained about being kicked. We never do."
