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Manchester United trotted out at center-back the indefatigable Jonny Evans, the first-teamer who drew the short straw on United’s promotional swing through San Diego last summer. It’s not often someone with 379 Premier League appearances lines up for an exhibition next to ten guys who otherwise would have been at prom.
Goalkeeper Nathan Bishop was five-years-old when Evans started his career with the Red Devils, and that inexperience showed when, outside the penalty area and for no reason, Bishop collided with Wrexham AFC’s striker-cum-reality TV star “Super” Paul Mullin, puncturing Mullin’s lung in the process. From then on, the pro-Wrexham crowd jeered Bishop whenever he touched the ball, and they cheered him when he conceded two goals. United got one back just before halftime when Marc Jurado guided home a lob into the box from teammate Álvaro Fernández.
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