It's Doswell v Wenger - and only one of them has ever won the Wessex League!

It is a tie which shows that the world’s greatest knockout club tournament can still capture the imagination of a nation like no other.

Here, the Daily Echo compares and contrasts the non league heroes with their Premier League counterparts.

MANAGERS

Arsene Wenger is one of the most revered managers of his era and, by far, the current longest-serving Premier League boss, having taken charge in August 1996.

Since then, he has led the north London club to three Premier League titles (1998, 2002 and 2004), six FA Cups (1998, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2014, 2015) and six Community Shields (1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2015).

But Wenger, whose Emirates future is now the subject of huge speculation following Wednesday’s Champions League capitulation in Munich, has never won the Sydenhams Wessex League title - unlike his Sutton counterpart Paul Doswell!

Doswell’s appointment as Eastleigh manager in the summer of 2002 was the catalyst for the meteoric rise the Spitfires have since enjoyed.

Under Doswell, the club romped to the Wessex League title in 2002/03 - the season when Doswell persuaded Saints legend Matt Le Tissier to turn out for the club.

Twelve months later, Eastleigh finished fourth in the Southern League Division One East. They were beneficiaries of the FA’s restructuring of the non-league pyramid, and were elevated to begin 2004/2005 in the Premier Division of the Isthmian League.

A new stand - opened by then Saints chairman Rupert Lowe in July 2004 - was constructed in time for the Isthmian campaign, which Eastleigh finished with a run of 14 unbeaten matches.

That was enough to earn the Spitfires a play-off berth, which they capitalised on fully.

Victories over Braintree Town (2-0), and Leyton (1-0) ensured that Doswell had taken his team from Wessex League to Conference South in the space of three amazing years.

He resigned as Eastleigh boss in late 2006, moving ‘upstairs’ to a director of football role with Jason Dodd taking over as manager.

Doswell left Eastleigh the following year - his place in Spitfires folklore already assured.

He was appointed Sutton manager in May 2008 and has taken them up two divisions in that time, from the Ryman League to the National League.

ATTEDANCES

Sutton’s National League average at Gander Green Lane is 1,562. That might not sound a lot, but it’s 49.76 per cent up on last season’s 1,043 average during the club’s Conference South promotion winning campaign. The club’s best home league crowd this term is the 1,951 who watched fellow London club Dagenham. The lowest was the 922 who turned up for Braintree’s visit.

Away from home, Sutton have been watched by crowds of 372 (at North Ferriby) and 371 (at Boreham Wood).

Arsenal, it’s fair to say, regularly appear in front of larger attendances.

The Gunners are averaging almost 60,000 for Premier League games at The Emirates this term. They possess the second highest average in British football, behind Manchester United. This has been the case ever since Arsenal swapped Highbury for The Emirates in 2006.

FA CUP HISTORY

Arsenal have won the most famous knockout cup of them all 12 times - in 1929–30, 1935–36, 1949–50, 1970–71, 1978–79, 1992–93, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2013–14 and 2014–15. They have also been losing finalists seven times.

Sutton, in contrast, have never previously been beyond the fourth round.

They first reached that stage in 1969/70, losing 6-0 at Gander Green lane to Don Revie’s all-star Leeds United side - Allan Clarke scoring four times and Peter Lorimer twice.

Sutton were back in the fourth round in 1988/89 after famously slaying 1987 Cup winners Coventry 2-1 at Gander Green Lane in the third round.

That run ended with a thrashing as well - Robert Fleck firing a hat-trick as top flight Norwich coasted to an 8-0 fourth round win at Carrow Road.

Sutton had only got to the third round stage on two other occasions prior to this record breaking campaign - in 1987/88 and 1993/94.

TRANSFERS

Arsenal are no strangers to spending eye-watering transfer fees to land some of the world’s hottest properties. They forked out a club-record fee of around £42million to capture Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid in September 2013, while they are believed to have paid more than £30million for Alexis Sanchez, Granit Xhaka and Shkodran Mustafi.

Several of Sutton’s current crop, including some of the players who downed Leeds in the last round, moved to south London on a free or after being released from other clubs.

One such player is ex-Arsenal trainee Roarie Deacon. He dropped into non league football to sign for Sutton last summer after spells with Stevenage and Crawley.

Midfielder Craig Eastmond is another ex-Arsenal academy product, and was part of the team that won the FA Youth Cup and Premier Academy League double in 2009.

Among his Gunners colleagues that season were Bournemouth and England midfielder Jack Wilshere, Henri Lansbury - who has recently left Nottingham Forest to join Aston Villa for over £2m - and Kyle Bartley, who is currently on loan from Swansea to Leeds (but who didn’t play at Sutton).

Doswell has also utilised the loan market.

Southampton-born teenager Adam May has been on loan to Sutton from Portsmouth since last October. The 19-year-old, who had a loan spell with Gosport Borough last season, played the whole 90 minutes against Leeds.

EUROPEAN SUCCESS

One thing Arsenal and Sutton DO share in common is they have both won a European trophy.

Seriously, they have.

Arsenal have twice been successful in Europe - winning the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969–70 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1993–94.

They were also runners-up in ECWC in 1979–80 and 1994–95.

On the first occasion, they lost on penalties to Valencia - current AFC Portchester boss Graham Rix missing his spot-kick in the shoot-out.

On the second occasion, ex-Tottenham midfielder Nayim famously scored from virtually the halfway line to give Real Zaragoza victory against the holders.

Less famously, Sutton won the 1979 Anglo Italian Cup.

Selected to play in the tournament by the FA, Sutton made it all the way through to the final after winning two and drawing another of their four group matches.

At the time, the competition was purely for non league clubs.

The only defeat Sutton suffered was in their final qualifying match against Chieti, who ironically were their opponents in the final - this time on Italian soil.

Being a professional outfit, Chieti were red-hot favourites, but Sutton - wearing the England kit which the FA had given them just for the final - produced a stunning 2-0 victory watched by around 200 of their fans in a crowd of 8,000.

To show it was no fluke, Sutton reached the Anglo-Italian Cup final for the next two seasons as well - losing on both occasions.