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Date: Sat Aug 07 09:31:59 GMT+00:00 1999
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This Issue:
1. KEANE TALKS DRAG ON
2. Sky Don't Want United Games (Mirror)
3. Masterfan Reminder: Fancy Yourself on TV?
4. Gary Neville - The Times
5. Why Bosnich said no to Juve
6. FOOTBALL: THE GROWING PAINS OF MARK BOSNICH
7. Fergie's book - Final part (long but superb)
8. Kidd Slams Fergie (Mirror)
9. United face uneasy defence of world title
10. Gary Neville - The Times
11. New Man United Tribute Twin track CD
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Daily MANCHESTER UNITED NEWS Saturday 7th August 1999:
Barry Daily Comment:
We were asked
"is it is possible to purchase a copy of Sir Alex Fergusons Autobiography on line?"
Bill answered: Yes you can! In fact, I am considering it myself.
You can get it at www.whsmith.co.uk and it's on sale too! £7.60 ! (+ delivery etc.)
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*** PREM FIXTURES TODAY ***
Arsenal v Leicester City
Chelsea v Sunderland
Coventry City v Southampton
Leeds United v Derby County
Middlesbrough v Bradford City
Newcastle United v Aston Villa
Sheffield Wednesday v Liverpool
Watford v Wimbledon
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Everton v Manchester United
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NEXT MANCHESTER UNITED MATCHES
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08-AUG-1999 [16:00] Manchester Utd. vs Everton (FA Premier League, AWAY)
11-AUG-1999 [20:00] Manchester Utd. vs Sheffield W (FA Premier League, HOME)
14-AUG-1999 [15:00] Manchester Utd. vs Leeds U (FA Premier League, HOME)
22-AUG-1999 [16:00] Manchester Utd. vs Arsenal (FA Premier League, AWAY)
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ALL FIXTURES at: http://www.red11.org/mufc/fix992000.htm
Subject: First Team Fixtures 1999/2000 [All dates/times subject to change]
Dates of possible cup ties also shown
Date Opposition Score Pos. Attend.
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15/07/99 Melbourne Australia 11.00 pre-season W 2-0 60,000
18/07/99 Sydney Australia 06.00 pre-season W 1-0 78,000
21/07/99 Shanghai Shenhua 12.30 pre-season W 2-0 80,000
24/07/99 Hong Kong South China 08.30 pre-season W 2-0 40,000
1/08/99 Arsenal Wembley Charity Shield L 1-2 70,185
3/08/99 Omagh Town aid of Omagh Bomb Fund W 9-0 7,000
4/08/99 Wigan Athletic friendly at JJB Stadium. W 2-0 ?
8/08/99 Everton away 16.00 Live on Sky
11/08/99 Sheffield Wednesday home PL 20.00
14/08/99 Leeds United home PL 12.00
22/08/99 Arsenal away PL 16.00 Live on Sky
25/08/99 Coventry City away PL 20.00
27/08/99 Monaco - Lazio ESC 19.45
30/08/99 Newcastle United home PL 13.00
11/09/99 Liverpool away PL 11.30 Live on Sky
15/09/99 ? EC
18/09/99 Wimbledon home PL 15.00
22/09/99 ? EC
25/09/99 Southampton home PL 15.00
29/09/99 ? EC
3/10/99 Chelsea away PL 16.00 Live on Sky
*11/10/99 Sir Alex Ferguson's testimonial OT [Cantona + Schmeichel]
13/10/99 ? WC 3
16/10/99 Watford home PL 15.00
20/10/99 ? EC
23/10/99 Tottenham Hotspur away PL 15.00
27/10/99 ? EC
30/10/99 Aston Villa home PL 15.00
3/11/99 ? EC
6/11/99 Leicester City home PL 15.00
20/11/99 Derby County away PL 15.00
24/11/99 ? EC
27/11/99 Sheffield Wednesday away PL 15.00
30/11/99 Tokyo Palmeiras WCC 20.00
1/12/99 ? WC 4
4/12/99 Everton home PL 15.00
8/12/99 ? EC
15/12/99 ? WC 5
18/12/99 West Ham United away PL 15.00
26/12/99 Bradford City home PL 15.00
28/12/99 Sunderland away PL 20.00 Live on Sky
3/01/2000 Middlesborough home PL 20.00
***** 5-14 /01/2000 Brazil WTC ***** [3-4 games]
12/01/2000 ? WC sf i
15/01/2000 Leeds United away PL 15.00
22/01/2000 Arsenal home PL 15.00
26/01/2000 ? WC sf ii
5/02/2000 Coventry City home PL 15.00
12/02/2000 Newcastle United away PL 15.00
26/02/2000 Wimbledon away PL 15.00
27/02/2000 ? Wembley WC f
1/03/2000 ? EC
4/03/2000 Liverpool home PL 15.00
8/03/2000 ? EC
11/03/2000 Derby County home PL 15.00
15/03/2000 ? EC
18/03/2000 Leicester City away PL 15.00
22/03/2000 ? EC
25/03/2000 Bradford City away PL 15.00
1/04/2000 West Ham United home PL 15.00
5/04/2000 ? EC qf i
8/04/2000 Middlesborough away PL 15.00
15/04/2000 Sunderland home PL 15.00
19/04/2000 ? EC qf ii
22/04/2000 Southampton away PL 15.00
24/04/2000 Chelsea home PL 15.00
29/04/2000 West Ham United away PL 15.00
3/05/2000 ? EC sf i
6/05/2000 Tottenham Hotspur home PL 15.00
10/05/2000 ? EC sf ii
14/05/2000 Aston Villa away PL 15.00
24/05/2000 ? EC f
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Subject: KEANE TALKS DRAG ON
Martin Edwards insists Manchester United will do everything to keep Roy
Keane but warned contract negotiations could drag on into the New Year.
Keane has one season left on his present United deal and the club want him
to sign a new four-year agreement.
Despite weeks of negotiations Keane has refused to commit his future to the
Treble winners because United are not prepared to meet his wage demands.
The United skipper could walk out of Old Trafford next summer on a free
transfer and he has said he will go if he does not get the contract he wants.
United chairman Edwards claims talks are continuing and club director and
solicitor Maurice Watkins spoke to Keane's lawyer and adviser Michael
Kennedy today.
Edwards is anxious the saga, which almost surpasses the Nicolas Anelka
affair in longevity, will be settled soon.
"We would obviously like to settle it now and give him a four-year contract
so we can forget about the negotiations," he said on MUTV.
"If we can't then negotiations will drag on into the New Year so clearly we
would like to wrap it all up now.
"We want to keep Roy Keane and we will do everything we can to try and keep
him.
"We either will or we won't. These are negotiations and he's got to be
happy with what he wants and we've got to be happy with what we are
prepared to pay him. We will either resolve it or we won't."
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Subject: Sky Don't Want United Games (Mirror)
FOOTBALL: UNITED ARE A TURN-OFF
SKY last night announced they will not be bidding for the rights for
Manchester United's World Club Championship in Brazil - opening the door for
the BBC.
Broadcasters so far have been put of by the pounds 10million price tag for
the rights in the UK.
For that money United are only guaranteed to play three games unless they
progress through to the semi-finals.
And the other draw back is that the matches will be screened at 1am unless
the kick-off times can be altered for the benefit of European TV.
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Subject: Masterfan Reminder: Fancy Yourself on TV?
From: Barry Leeming
Paul is starting this seasons Masterfan this Monday Night!
Fancy "your" chances on TV?
Lets have soime more list members entering! This would be great
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Subject: Gary Neville - The Times
Desire for trophies burns on
THE achievements of last season seem a long way away now. It was absolutely
wonderful at the time but really, it rarely gets a mention at Manchester
United training these days. The new season is here and you have got to put
Barcelona and the rest of it to the back of your mind.
I have heard it said that maybe we will be complacent this season because
we won the treble but, in a way, the fact that we have been so successful
can only make us compete even more intensely. As we won everything last
season, everyone will want to put one over on us - and we can't afford to
let that happen.
I can still remember the season before last when Arsenal won the Double and
that was a horrible feeling. If you are part of a top team and you are not
being successful, you always get the feeling that you are being laughed at.
When you win trophies, you just want to do it again and again and again. If
you think about the European Cup final, you would give your right arm to go
and have another night like that. You can't get enough of that kind of
feeling.
We won't be able to do the treble again this season, of course, because we
will not be in the FA Cup but I don't really understand why the club seems
to have been slaughtered over this.
The FA Cup is a special tournament and we are always desperate to play in
it but if the club had said they would not play in the world club
championship to help England to try to win the right to host the 2006 World
Cup, can you imagine what the reaction would have been? It seems to me that
the club could not win.
Some people still seem to be suggesting that we could compete in Brazil and
in the FA Cup but I can tell you now from bitter experience that something
has got to give. It is largely because of the mounting number of games that
clubs play that I have developed a wear-and-tear injury that has been
affecting my pelvic bone and I'm going to miss our opening game of the
season against Everton.
The injury is really as a result of the volume of games I have played over
the past four or five years. In all that time, I think I have only missed
about five matches but the most rest I had ever had during a summer was
three weeks. Players really need at least six, but that is becoming almost
impossible now when you take international matches into consideration.
The manager reminded me a lot last season of the need for rest but I always
told him I wanted to play. With the games we had during April and May, I
just felt I could not afford to miss a match. The physios then decided I
needed at least six weeks off so I missed England's games against Sweden
and Bulgaria and I didn't go on the club's pre-season tour to Australia and
the Far East. I played for about an hour in Omagh on Tuesday night but I
began to feel the pain again, so I came off. I suppose this is my body's
way of telling me to calm down a little bit.
Because of the injury, I wasn't even allowed to do any jogging during the
summer. I just had a quiet time. I had a week or so on holiday in Malta and
I went to two weddings. The first was that of Chris Casper. He plays for
Swindon Town now but I know him from our days in the United youth team.
A few weeks later, I was the best man at David Beckham's wedding in
Ireland. That was a magical day, one of the best I have ever had. It was
such an honour and it was fantastic to see your best mate walking down the
aisle.
I was pretty nervous, though, mainly because Becks had been teasing me for
two or three months about the contents of my speech. In the end, it went fine.
I have got some great memories from this summer but the season is about to
start and I'm not really thinking about anything else now. It is going to
be very close in the Premiership, and it is up to us to make sure our
standards are every bit as high as they were last season.
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Subject: Why Bosnich said no to Juve
By Graham Hunter and John Edwards
Saturday, August 7, 1999
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Bosnich came within hours of joining Juventus, but took a
nervous gamble on Manchester United wanting him this summer.
United's only signing of the close season was almost lost to them because of
a concerted attempt by Juventus earlier this year to capitalise on the
goalkeeper's out-of-contract status at Aston Villa.
The Italian giants made Bosnich a lucrative financial offer and put the
player through a rigorous 48 hour medical which he passed with flying
colours.
His signature on that contract would have almost doubled his wages but the
player first hesitated and then refused to sign for the Turin club.
Juventus were shocked to find that Bosnich, who still had no firm indication
that his future would be at Old Trafford, was willing to turn them down in
the hope of being rewarded with a return to United.
Even for one of Ferguson's former pupils, and an Australian who loves the
Premiership, the risk of turning down one of the most successful, powerful
and wealthy clubs in Europe was a gesture of loyalty to United.
The news will help to strengthen the bond between the Old Trafford faithful
and the man bought to replace departed favourite Peter Schmeichel.
The taunting of Alan Shearer at Old Trafford stems from his refusal to sign
for Ferguson during what the United manager has revealed was a 'surly'
conversation, while the adoration which Ole Gunnar Solskjaer enjoys, even
before scoring in the Champions League Final, is based on his refusal to
leave for another club despite being considered as no more than a squad
player.
Bosnich was so close to moving to Juventus that the Italian club halted
their search for Angelo Peruzzi's replacement in the belief that they had
secured their man.
But the Australian's gamble started to repay him almost instantly when
Juventus opted for Edwin van der Sar of Ajax, who was Bosnich's only rival
for the United goalkeeping position.
Bosnich said: 'I spoke to several clubs when it became clear I was leaving
Villa, but my opening line to every one of them was that United were my
first choice.
'I would not commit myself until I knew whether United were going to take me
on at the end of last season. That put quite a few clubs off, but so be it.
'As soon as Peter announced that he was not going to be around for another
season, there was only one club in my heart.'
Bosnich hails his predecessor at Old Trafford as the greatest goalkeeper in
the world and described how subjecting himself to the closest scrutiny on a
weekly basis was the spur for choosing United ahead of a host of other top
clubs.
'People are bound to make comparisons, no matter how unfair that may be,'
continued Bosnich. 'I have taken the ultimate gamble.
'It is glory or bust and I could easily have settled for safer options that
would also have been more lucrative. But I wouldn't have been able to look
at myself in the mirror if I had rejected a challenge of this enormity. That
was the attraction.
'Schmeichel won games for United on his own and some people think I'm mad
trying to follow in his footsteps. I am ambitious and that means taking on
the big challenges in life and seeing how you fare.
'True, it's always possible it might end in failure - but there is only one
way of finding out.'
Bosnich makes his Premiership bow as Schmeichel's successor before a
capacity crowd and worldwide television audience against Everton at Goodison
Park tomorrow.
Yet, he knows and readily admits that his Old Trafford career began for real
some weeks earlier in surroundings that may not have been subject to prying
eyes but were every bit as daunting.
Bosnich still shudders at the memory of being called to account by Sir Alex
Ferguson over spending a night in police cells after his stag night with his
United contract barely 24 hours old.
He could only nod in silent contrition as he looked forlornly across the
desk in Ferguson's office and listened to a warning that could scarcely have
been blunter.
Though choosing not to divulge the exact wording, he conceded that it went
along the lines of: 'Any more misdeeds and you are finished as a United
player.'
Barely a month on, all the signs suggest that the United manager's
admonishment had the desired effect. Ever the extrovert, the Aussie keeper
laughed and joked his way through an interview about his new sponsorship
deal with Umbro but turned deadly serious when the topic switched to the
misdemeanours that have blighted his career.
There have been enough of them, too, from the Nazi salute that so enraged
Spurs supporters at White Hart Lane to the late-night scuffle with a
photographer that led to his arrest and subsequent dressing down from his
new manager.
In between, he figured in a sleazy kiss-and-tell story on the front page of
a Sunday newspaper and was charged with misconduct by the Football
Association following allegations of an abusive gesture to Everton fans at
Goodison Park.
As he prepared to return to Goodison with United, he described the shame of
his frequent lapses. 'The magnitude of everything connected with Manchester
United is 10 times what it was at Aston Villa and that has been brought home
to me in the last few weeks,' he said.
'I am not proud of the scrapes I have been in, even though I would argue
that they have been down to spontaneity rather than any malicious streak in
my nature.
'I don't always think as clearly as I should when situations present
themselves. I just act on the spur of the moment, and I'm afraid it has
landed me in trouble more often than I would like.
'I certainly accept now that I have a responsibility as a Manchester United
player that I simply dare not abuse. That has been spelled out to me by the
boss, and, believe me, I have taken it on board.
'He was not too happy about the incident with a photographer the day before
my wedding, even though I was only acting out of fear because I felt
cornered.
'I bitterly regretted the timing, so soon after signing for United and he
pointed out to me in no uncertain terms that it must never happen again.
'I am fully aware now that unless your performances are up there alongside
Pele, people will not tolerate such indiscretions off the pitch.
'In many ways, I have been stupid and immature. I look back on what happened
at Tottenham and can only put it down to signs of immaturity.
'I decided then that I ought to channel all my efforts into being a
goalkeeper and leave the clowning to others. Now this sharp reminder from
the manager has concentrated my mind even more.
'If I want to be taken seriously, it will have to be because of my
performances on the pitch, not off it or by the side of the goal, where I
got into trouble at White Hart Lane.'
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Subject: FOOTBALL: THE GROWING PAINS OF MARK BOSNICH
STUPID, embarrassing, immature. Mark Bosnich starts Manchester United's
title defence with those warnings about his character.
But when the withering words come from the likeable Aussie's own lips then
Old Trafford can stop holding its collective head in its hands and breathe
more easily.
Bosnich has a "no worries" attitude towards life and football, in direct
contrast to the intense, calculated control of his predecessor Peter
Schmeichel.
The idea that the Great Dane would blow kisses to the fans, give a Nazi
salute to his tormentors or have his blood rise above freezing point is
impossible to imagine.
Bosnich admits that he is different. And the Bosnich who is United's one and
only major signing of the summer is also a changed man - or so he says.
Gone are the crazy moments that made him football's answer to Mel Gibson
re-enacting a bad day at the Thunderdome and behaving like a Barry Humphries
creation.
Instead Bosnich wants to show the world that his talents outweigh his
tantrums. Where better to start than at Everton's Goodison Park tomorrow,
where he was accused of abusing fans - and cleared - on the opening day of
last season.
Bosnich wants to put the record straight. He has quite a record to put
straight, too. Few people join United fresh from a night in police cells
after a clash with a photographer.
The handsome face went serious as Bosnich said: "People look at me and
wonder about the things I have done. Call it stupidity or lack of thought or
temperament.
"I've been like that in my life in the past. That's just been me. I play in
a way where I react and don't think.
"Sometimes I have transferred that into situations where a bit of thought
would not have gone amiss.
"Being at United, with the responsibility that goes with it, I will be
trying my utmost to uphold the club's good name."
Bosnich has already had a roasting from Sir Alex Ferguson about his final
night out at Aston Villa when he was due to meet his pal Dwight Yorke and
instead snapped at a snapper.
Bosnich said: "The main emotion was embarrassment. As far as I was concerned
I was doing nothing wrong. It was more stupidity.
"I went to meet Dwight, I walked past the place [the Legs Eleven
table-dancing club] and someone jumped out in front of me. The way I reacted
is open to question, but that is the bottom line about what happened.
"I felt as though I was cornered. If the gentleman had acted in a different
way there would have been no problem.
"I acted out of fear. I didn't know what was happening. If he had asked for
a picture it would have been different.
"I challenge anyone who is walking along a dark street at night not to react
in the same way.
"There was no malice intended. The main feeling was embarrassment and regret
that on the eve of joining Manchester United something like that should
happen.
"The boss has told me in no uncertain terms that it should never happen
again. When you join United there are certain standards that you have to
adopt. The quicker you toe the line the better.
"At a place like this, unless your performances are like Pele's, people
won't put up with indiscretions off the pitch."
Bosnich points to his own improved behaviour on the pitch as he puts the
case for his defence. He won't respond to taunts, although that promise will
be tested to the absolute limit while wearing the shirt of United.
The Nazi salute at Tottenham offended many, and not just the elements of the
Spurs support who did not see the funny side.
That was typical old Bosnich, but his view of it now is new Bosnich. He
said: "After what happened at Spurs I realised it was a sign of immaturity.
"I decided to be a goalkeeper and forget about the play-around stuff. If you
want to be taken seriously you've got to behave off the pitch as well as on
it." Trouble is not Bosnich's only concern - he has to step out of the giant
shadow of Schmeichel.
But that's where his Aussie nature comes in handy. Bosnich said: "The
pressure is part of the bait for me.
"I thought about it long and hard. But there was something about this move
and something in me that wanted the challenge. I would only ask that people
judge me in the long term.
"I can't recall Peter's first season, but during his time here he was
phenomenal. All I want is that people give me the same chance.
"I could have taken the easy way out and gone somewhere else for more money.
But if you've got something about yourself, if you really are ambitious, as
I am, you want to take on the biggest challenges.
"Whether you succeed or not is down to you. It's the ultimate gamble."
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Subject: Fergie's book - Final part (long but superb)
Reds, In the final extract from his autobiography, Alex Ferguson relives
the goals that won Manchester United the European Cup after 30 years and
clinched the treble
'The celebrations begun by that goal will never stop'
IN the early summer of 1998 I decided that I had to assert myself on the
need for Manchester United to spend money in the transfer market. For too
long I had allowed the plc to overwhelm me, accepting too readily all the
Cityspeak about the harsh realities of the business world. We had gone 30
years without winning the European Cup and the domestic trophies we had
piled up could not compensate fully for that omission. I was about to lead
United into the greatest of club competitions for the fifth time since
becoming manager in 1986 and I had endured more than enough disappointment.
At the end of the 1997-98 season I met Martin Edwards and David Gill, our
finance director. They told me that the sum available for transfers was £14
million. We had already committed £10 million to buying Jaap Stam, the
Dutch central defender, so our fund could not provide anywhere near the
amount required to make Aston Villa part with Dwight Yorke. We signed the
Swedish wide player Jesper Blomqvist, for £4 million in July 1998. A
solution to the problem of paying for Yorke was found by finalising the
£12.5 million deal just a couple of days before the transfer deadline in
mid-August. In January we made a good start, winning all five of our
matches and scoring 16 goals in the process. The first sign that we might
be on a momentous roll came in the FA Cup fourth round against Liverpool at
Old Trafford. The match began in the worst possible way when Michael Owen
headed Liverpool into the lead in the third minute. From then until
half-time we chased the game with more enthusiasm than guile. We had to
forget about using our strikers until we got into the Liverpool penalty
box. When we applied those tactics in the second half, their
centre-midfield players had to do a lot of running and, with about 15
minutes to go, Ince had to come off. He was either injured or exhausted. In
spite of shuffling the team through substitutions and committing so
wholeheartedly to attack that we were often left undermanned in defence, we
could not answer the frenzy in the stadium with a breakthrough. Roy Keane
hit wood twice and it began to look as if it was not our day. Then, in the
88th minute, one of David Beckham's flawlessly executed free kicks was
headed delicately back across goal by Andy Cole for Yorke to tap in the
equaliser. Two minutes into injury time, we completed the kind of fightback
that was to epitomise our season. A long ball from Stam was chased down by
Paul Scholes, creating a glimpse of an opening for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
The amazing quickness of the Norwegian's reactions did the rest and
Liverpool's Cup dreams were dead. We had witnessed a demonstration of the
morale that was to be every bit as vital as rich skill in the five months
that lay ahead of United. When critics of our game parade their theories
about the attributes that lift certain teams above others, I am always
amused by their eagerness to concentrate almost exclusively on technical
and tactical comparisons. Tactics are important but they don't win football
matches. Men win football matches. The Manchester United of 1999 had talent
by the bundle but there was nothing about them that I admired or valued
more than their team spirit. Double whammy: Ferguson celebrates the FA Cup
[] We had been anxious to avoid Internazionale of Milan in the draw for the
European Cup quarter-finals. The first leg was at Old Trafford, so we had a
chance to make the journey to Milan less hazardous. A couple of Premiership
wins over Coventry and Southampton on the way to the tie did our confidence
no harm but dealing with those opponents was rather different from coping
with Ronaldo and his friends. I was spared the worry. Ronaldo wasn't fit
enough to play at Old Trafford. Aggressively and defensively, the team
applied themselves well and when Yorke met a Beckham cross with a diving
header to put us ahead after seven minutes, we were in good shape. The same
combination brought a second goal just before half-time and 2-0 was the
final score. Chelsea were our opponents in the sixth round of the FA Cup,
giving us further proof that if we were to win the prize we would have to
do it the hard way. Chelsea's record at Old Trafford in my time there has
pleased them a lot more than it has me and surviving their visit would not
be easy. Looking at the big picture, however, I was more concerned about
our scheduled trip to Anfield for a Premiership meeting with Liverpool on
the following Wednesday. Liverpool would be going into that game with ten
days' rest behind them and they were bound to come at us like demons. I
wanted to be ready for them, which was why I left Cole and Yorke out of the
team that took on Chelsea. Most people thought I would be depressed when a
goalless draw set up a replay in London but it meant the Liverpool game was
postponed. We wheeled out the big guns for the Chelsea replay and an
excellent game it was. An early goal from Yorke put mental pressure on
Chelsea and he crushed the home crowd's hopes with a second strike that was
one of the goals of the year. Few players anywhere could deliver a chip on
the run with such fluency and precision. Physically and psychologically, we
were handling our hectic programme well and - after Cole had pained his
former admirers at St James' Park by claiming the two goals that beat
Newcastle and kept us at the top of the Premiership - we flew to Milan
without undue trepidation. Success there on the evening of March 17 would,
I felt, represent the biggest step forward Manchester United had taken
under my management. The news that Ronaldo was a starter dictated my
tactics. I deployed Ronny Johnsen alongside Keane in centre-midfield so
that either one could choke the space in which the great Brazilian likes to
operate. Knowing that neither Ronaldo nor Baggio would press for the ball
or hunt it down, I urged on our full backs, Gary Neville and Denis Irwin,
the importance of profiting from the possession they would have. If we
could stretch our play through Denis and Gary, I believed that it would be
hard for Inter to win back the ball. So it proved and we had the superior
volume of quality possession during the match. Admittedly, we had an
advantage before a ball was kicked. Ronaldo may have been in the
blue-and-black stripes of Inter but not all of him was there. He looked
vacant, utterly uninterested in the happenings around him and he might have
been replaced long before he gave way to Nicola Ventola with an hour
played. Our players maintained their composure admirably, refusing to be
distracted by the tidal wave of hostile noise or the oranges and coins
tossed on to the field. The French referee, Gilles Veissière, was equally
unintimidated. In fact, it must be said that his bravery extended to
turning down legitimate Inter claims for a penalty when Schmeichel threw
his body in front of Zamorano. And I had an ace to play in the shape of
Scholes. He took over from Johnsen, who had done a good job but was tiring.
I am fortunate to have a lad as fearless as Scholes to call upon in such
circumstances. He went into that cauldron as calmly as someone popping
round the corner for a newspaper when, in the 88th minute, he slid in the
goal that took us to the semi-finals. Having gained such a result, we
feared nothing the European Cup could throw at us. [] On the way: United's
Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel celebrates with Norwegian team-mate
Ronnie Johnsen after beating Tottenham Hotspur to win the Premiership We
were now leading the Premiership and were in the semifinals of both the
European Cup and the FA Cup and press speculation about the treble had
begun in earnest. Nothing contributes more to the greatness of Manchester
United than the passion of our supporters. But the urgings of the crowd can
encourage a cavalry charge when a more patient approach is needed. That was
a major part of our problem on April 7 when Juventus repeatedly ripped us
open in the first half. We were meant to play with three in midfield at all
times, with Beckham or Giggs out wide to give us prospects of penetrating
the Juve back four and stretching their midfield. When one of the wide men
was attacking, the other was supposed to tuck into the middle of the park
and link up protectively with Keane and Scholes. But, intoxicated by the
atmosphere of a classic European occasion at Old Trafford, Beckham and
Giggs simultaneously pushed too far forward, leaving Roy and Paul to
struggle against three of the most effective midfielders in the world:
Didier Deschamps, Edgar Davids and Zinedine Zidane. In those first
forty-five minutes we might have lost three goals instead of the one scored
by Antonio Conte. A lot of sorting out was done at the interval. In the
second half, we took control and could have won the match but I could not
be dissatisfied with the draw we earned through a late goal from Giggs. As
a relaxing diversion before we went to Italy, we had an FA Cup semi-final
at Villa Park against our most consistent rivals of the Nineties, Arsenal.
The contest lasted four hours and I have never been involved in a more
engrossing semi-final. But it should not have gone beyond the first hour
and a half. We were denied an entirely valid goal by an outrageous decision
perpetrated by a linesman and endorsed by the referee, David Elleray. The
offside ruling related to Yorke's position in Arsenal's box at a time when
Giggs, far out on the left, was in the process of playing the ball past Lee
Dixon and sprinting after it to cross from near the by-line. It was blatant
nonsense to disallow the goal that his centre permitted Keane to blast into
the Arsenal net. I resolved to freshen up the team for our second go at
Arsenal, also at Villa Park. When I have to do that, Teddy Sheringham and
Solskjaer are invaluable alternatives to Yorke and Cole and once again they
excelled. Jesper Blomqvist penetrated effectively for us on the left and by
the hour mark the game should have been over. Instead, we had only a goal
gloriously struck from the edge of Arsenal's penalty area by Beckham to
show for our superiority, and missing chances invites trouble. Yet we were
coping well with Arsenal's main threat, Dennis Bergkamp, until luck came to
his aid midway through the second half. Receiving the ball in his familiar
deep position, he delivered a shot that was going straight to Schmeichel
until it hit Stam and was deflected several feet into the corner of our
net. The goal revitalised our opponents and their confidence had a further
lift minutes later when Keane was sent off for a foul on Marc Overmars. It
was the third time Roy had been dismissed by David Elleray. TV replays
showed the decision to be harsh but my concern at the time was organising
my ten men to resist the bombardment that was surely coming. Just when I
thought we had withstood it, Arsenal were awarded a penalty for a Phil
Neville foul on Ray Parlour. From the moment Bergkamp's kick was
brilliantly saved by big Peter to send the match into extra time, I
believed we could at least take it to a penalty shoot-out. If ever a tie
could be described as epic it was this one. Something special would be
required to decide it. What was provided by Giggs (who had come on as a
substitute) was not just special. It was historic. When a misdirected pass
by Patrick Vieira carried the ball to Ryan about 15 yards inside our half
of the field, our bench rose with a roar of encouragement. "Go and attack
Dixon," was my thought, for I had detected signs of tiredness in the
Arsenal full back. Ryan attacked just about everybody in front of him who
was wearing a red shirt. By the time he crowned a mesmerising 60-yard run
with a thunderous shot into the roof of Arsenal's net, his fierce surges of
pace and dazzling two-footed control of the ball had contemptuously
dismissed the challenges of four internationals and left them trailing in
abject pursuit. Given the importance of the game, the point it had reached
and the pressure our ten men were under, that has to be one of the best
goals ever scored in major football. Unfortunately, Giggs's reward for his
miracle at Villa Park had been an ankle injury and he missed our
unforgettable night in Turin, which was the greatest performance ever
produced by a team under my management. All my life I have based my
football creed on passing the ball, possession with rhythm and tempo. For
30 minutes of the first half against Juventus, my ideals were almost
totally realised by United. That we had fallen two goals behind before we
rose to that level of excellence only made the achievement all the more
remarkable. What was imperative was that we should keep our composure and
express ourselves. Doing so was made more difficult when the referee
harshly cautioned Keane. The implications of that yellow card were drastic.
If we qualified for the final in Barcelona, suspension would make Roy a
spectator. I didn't think I could have a higher opinion of any footballer
than I already had of the Irishman but he rose further in my estimation at
the Stadio Delle Alpi. The minute he was booked and out of the final, he
seemed to redouble his efforts to get the team there. It was the most
emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding
over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of
exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt it was an honour
to be associated with such a player. When he leapt to meet a Beckham corner
and headed in our first goal, it was as if his will had given the ball no
choice but to land in the net. Another marvellous header by Yorke brought
an equaliser before half-time and at 2-2 the away-goals rule meant that we
were halfway to Barcelona. I was thoroughly relaxed and couldn't envisage
anything other than victory. There was the usual defending to do in the
second half but it was far from desperate and our counter-attacking play
was stretching Juventus towards breaking point. Then Yorke thrust through
their straining central defenders, Paolo Montero and Ciro Ferrara, and you
could sense that a goal was coming. Dwight was dragged down by the
goalkeeper but the ball rolled to Cole and he coolly completed as good a
night's work as any team had ever done in Juventus's backyard. Now the
rescheduled Premiership collision with Liverpool at Anfield was looming and
I was confident that the heat of traditional rivalry would revive the form
that had carried us to the top of the table. But my optimism was shaken
when I learnt that an injury to Paul Durkin, who was originally due to
referee the match, had led to the appointment of David Elleray. The last
official I wanted was the Harrow schoolmaster. For most of the hour and a
half, it appeared that the identity of the referee wouldn't matter. We went
in front early through an exciting goal that originated in good passing
along our right flank. Beckham whipped in the kind of perfectly flighted
cross that is his speciality and Yorke responded with a fine header at the
far post. Liverpool were playing quite well but could not create a
noticeable chance and when, in the second half, Blomqvist was caught by a
high kick from Jamie Carragher in our opponents' box, maximum points for us
seemed guaranteed. It was a penalty and Denis Irwin, untroubled by the
memory of his aberration against Villa, established a two-goal lead that
looked unassailable. But we soon learnt it wasn't. After Blomqvist slid in
to sweep the ball cleanly away from the feet of Oyvind Leonhardsen, the
referee awarded one of the least likely penalties even Anfield has seen.
Worse was to come. Denis Irwin, who had been booked for a foul earlier, was
chasing the ball along the touchline when it bobbled out of play. Carried
forward by the momentum of his run, Irwin knocked a short pass inside to a
team mate. Television evidence later indicated that there had been only a
fraction of a second between the sound of the referee's whistle and the
pass but Elleray had no hesitation in flourishing a second yellow card at
Irwin, apparently for the offence of kicking the ball away. Presumably, the
reasoning behind the caution, which was automatically followed by a red
card, was that our full back had been guilty of a time-wasting tactic. The
ordering-off was an affront to common sense. With one minute remaining,
Ince equalised. I hope he enjoyed it. Unless I am mistaken, his time in
top-level football is dwindling fast. In a post-match interview on Sky TV,
I made a vow with David Elleray in mind: "We will not let this man deny us
our title." Our prospects of making good the promise improved conspicuously
within a week. On the next Sunday the team returned from Middlesbrough with
a 1-0 win that left Manchester United and Arsenal locked at the top of the
Premiership, each with 75 points from 36 matches and dead-heating on goal
difference too. But the number of goals scored might yet be the tie-breaker
and if so we would be well ahead. We had amassed more than Arsenal. Of
course, we wanted a more comfortable margin in our favour and it was
presented to us by Leeds when they beat Arsenal 1-0 at Elland Road on May
11. We arrived at Blackburn on the following night aware that a victory at
Ewood Park would put us three points in front of the reigning champions and
send us into our final fixture with Tottenham on our own ground requiring
nothing more than a draw to be assured of the title. If Blackburn failed to
win, they would be relegated. We had 90 per cent of the game but could not
score and I was angry that we did not succeed in breaking them down. With
Arsenal expected to defeat Aston Villa at Highbury on the Sunday, our
simultaneous meeting with Spurs would have to be won if we were to be sure
of regaining the championship. I knew that Tottenham wouldn't hand out any
favours. What I didn't know was that we would. We just had to put ourselves
through the emotional wringer yet again by presenting a silly goal to Les
Ferdinand. Equally typical was the thrilling response that blunder evoked.
We battered the Spurs defence and created quite a few chances before
Beckham took a fine pass from Scholes and powerfully drove the ball high
inside Ian Walker's right-hand post. At half-time I replaced Sheringham
with Cole. In studying the Spurs defence I had noticed hints that John
Scales, who had missed a lot of football because of injury, was tiring and
might be hurt by Andy's pace. The justification was almost immediate as
Andy controlled a long pass with remarkable finesse and lifted the ball
over Walker to give us the lead. A prize that we cherish had come back to
us. Whatever the glamour of the FA Cup or the historical significance of
the European Cup, there is only one stamp of supremacy in our country's
football and that is the Premier League title. I was ecstatic at the end of
that match and acknowledged to myself that we could indeed win the treble.
By Thursday the team were in Windsor to prepare for the FA Cup Final on
Saturday. There was a healthy spirit among the troops but a few of their
bodies were in a doubtful state. The worst case was Paul Scholes, who had a
head cold and a chest problem. Those ailments were made worse by the
asthmatic condition that is always with Paul. By the morning of the Cup
Final, the bugs that had attacked the squad were in retreat and we had no
invalids. We did have a major casualty almost as soon as the match was
under way. The scything lunge with which Gary Speed brought down Keane was
to force the Irishman to admit that 1999 was not his year for finals. He
hobbled about the field for a while in the hope of playing through but the
ankle damage was too severe and in the eighth minute Roy had to come off. I
considered sending on Blomqvist but he would have a lot of running to do in
Barcelona, so I didn't want him involved in practically the whole match at
Wembley. My decision was to take a gamble by drafting in Sheringham and
moving Solskjaer from his starting position as a striker to wide on the
right. Teddy had been on the park barely three minutes when he joined in an
intricate exchange of passes that ended with Scholes releasing him
cunningly into the Newcastle box. The Sheringham finish was cool and
efficient and we had a lead that was never to be in serious jeopardy.
Winning our third double in six years was a cause for celebration. There
was some but hardly any alcohol was consumed and by 1.30am the players
decided that it was time for bed. They didn't have to be told that
history-makers should not have hangovers. My thoughts about the team we
should field in Barcelona were clear but I had a dilemma concerning the
deployment of Beckham and Giggs. Ever since the suspensions incurred
against Juventus in Turin had made Keane and Scholes unavailable, I had
been contemplating the use of Giggs in centre-midfield, where his speed and
penetration would be a handful for the Germans. But opting for Ryan's
surging style in that area would mean surrendering an essential part of our
game - the kind of controlled, sustained possession that calls for a player
adept at holding the ball and spreading calculated and accurate passes.
Beckham was the best bet to meet those requirements. The downside of
allocating it to him was that we would miss his devastating crosses from
the right wing. With Beckham in midfield and Giggs on the right, I could
play Blomqvist on the left. That would assure me of the width in our
attacking which I saw as indispensable against opponents so afraid of that
quality that they had lobbied successfully to have the Nou Camp pitch
narrowed for the match. Bayern were strong and well organised and those
attributes doubled in value once they had scored in the sixth minute. When
Mario Basler prepared to take a free kick and Markus Babbel set about
blocking out Nicky Butt on the end of our defensive wall, I was itching to
run on to the field and stop Nicky from falling for the ploy. But I was
helpless as a gap was created and so was Schmeichel when Basler swept his
shot into our net. Our lads are used to important occasions but a European
Cup final was another dimension for them, especially with the weight of
their club's history and all the feverish speculation about the treble
loaded on their shoulders. I thought Yorke, who may be as talented a front
player as there is in the game today, looked more nervous than I had ever
previously seen him. It did not help, of course, that he was opposed by a
brilliant marker, Thomas Linke. The man marking Cole, Samuel Kuffour, was
even more impressive and to my mind Bayern's outstanding player in the
final. The most prolific scoring partnership in the Premier League was
subdued on the night and our superior possession went unrewarded for 90
minutes. I was happy with my decision to use Beckham in central midfield
and Giggs on the right. The strain Ryan put on the opposition was one of
the factors that steadily drained them in the second half. We had so much
of the ball that their strategy of protecting their flimsy lead became an
exhausting one and by the end several of them were almost out on their
feet. Sheringham, who had replaced Blomqvist with 23 minutes to go, was
giving them particular trouble with shrewd runs on our left. I was out on
the touchline when the fourth official displayed his electronic board
signalling that there would be three minutes of stoppage time and I was
still out there when we won a corner on the left. Then I caught a flash of
the mad Dane hurtling upfield and into the Bayern box. "What the hell is he
doing?" I said to Steve McClaren, but I suppose you couldn't fault Peter.
After all, there were only two minutes remaining in his last game for
United - he probably expected to score. He distracted the Bayern defenders
as Beckham's corner came over and one of them let the ball glance off his
head. It landed beyond the back post, from where Yorke headed it goalwards
but only to Thorsten Fink, who had come on for Lothar Matthäus ten minutes
earlier. Fink made a panicky effort at a clearance and mis-hit it straight
to Giggs. Ryan, on the edge of the box, swung his right foot with more hope
than accuracy. His shot screwed away towards the left-hand post but it was
our next piece of good fortune that Teddy was lurking in its path. He spun
as the ball came past him and deftly added to its momentum, tucking a
skilful shot just inside the upright. As madness erupted around the
stadium, I would have bet long odds-on that the Cup was ours. The Bayern
players looked like people staggering away from a plane crash. Steve
McClaren pounced on the practicalities. "Now let's get ourselves organised
for extra time," he said: "Go back to four-four-two." Just as the words had
left his mouth, the ball dropped to Denis Irwin in the middle of our half
and I said, "Steve, this game isn't finished." Irwin hit a long ball up
towards the corner flag on the left and Ole Gunnar chased it down. When
another corner was won, there was almost a feeling of inevitability about
what we were seeing, as Bayern wearily tried to regroup. Beckham delivered
one of his specials to the near post, where Sheringham was arriving, having
made a late run. His header wasn't much more than a touch but it steered
the ball into the heart of the six-yard box and there was Solskjaer's
jutting leg to do the rest. The celebrations begun by that goal will never
really stop. Just thinking about it can put me in a party mood. At the
time, all of us associated with the team were blissfully demented
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Subject: Kidd Slams Fergie (Mirror)
FOOTBALL: FANTASIA
SIR Alex Ferguson was last night accused of living in a fantasy world by
Brian Kidd as an extraordinary rift ripped apart the two former colleagues.
Blackburn manager Kidd was left stunned and hurt by an attack by Ferguson in
his new book.
Ferguson, to the dismay of many Manchester United fans, claimed that his
former No2 Kidd was "insecure", a "moaner" and went around Old Trafford
"undermining" his boss.
But a devastated Kidd said: "I believe Walt Disney is trying to buy the film
rights to this book as a sequel to Fantasia.
"If you work for a person for more than 10 years, you get to know a lot
about them.
"I've chosen to respect that relationship. Clearly Alex Ferguson has not.
"But I'm not going down the road of who said this and who did that - it's
laughable. I've more important things to do. I have a job to finish here and
I can't be bothered. I mean, what do you tell your kids? I'm struggling for
words
about this.
"The way I was brought up means that I don't belly-ache. You might take a
few knocks, but you get up and get on with it.
"You never complain. And when I go home at night, I am at ease with myself.
"The truth is, you might try to fool other people, but you can't fool
yourself." Ferguson claimed Kidd was unhappy
at United and continually complained behind his back to chief executive
Martin Edwards.
The United boss also stated that his No 2 was insecure and said he lacked
self-belief and suggested his judgment of players was questionable.
Ferguson also hinted that Kidd did not believe in Dwight Yorke's ability and
would have preferred to sign John Hartson.
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Subject: United face uneasy defence of world title
By Christopher Davies
MANCHESTER United will be invited to defend the World Club Championship if
they are successful in Brazil next January - a dubious honour for winning
the controversial tournament which has forced them to withdraw from the FA
Cup.
FIFA have confirmed that, just as the World Cup winners gain automatic entry
to the following finals, the winners of the inaugural World Club
Championship will also be invited back. The 2001 competition has yet to be
scheduled but it is likely to be during July, which means United would
probably have to give a decision before FIFA decide who will stage the 2006
World Cup next summer.
That would mean the English treble winners would again find themselves under
political pressure to enter a competition they feel they were forced into
this time round to help England's 2006 World Cup bid.
With the 2006 decision even closer to the World Club Championship in 2001,
United would again be seen as a crucial part of England's bid if they were
to defend their title. While the timing of the tournament in 2001 will not
interrupt the European domestic season as it will next January, a July date
would still present problems for United.
Their players will have virtually no close season because most of them will
be required for their various countries in the preceding month of June when
an array of 2002 World Cup qualifying matches are scheduled.
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Subject: Gary Neville - The Times
Desire for trophies burns on
THE achievements of last season seem a long way away now. It was absolutely
wonderful at the time but really, it rarely gets a mention at Manchester
United training these days. The new season is here and you have got to put
Barcelona and the rest of it to the back of your mind.
I have heard it said that maybe we will be complacent this season because
we won the treble but, in a way, the fact that we have been so successful
can only make us compete even more intensely. As we won everything last
season, everyone will want to put one over on us - and we can't afford to
let that happen.
I can still remember the season before last when Arsenal won the Double and
that was a horrible feeling. If you are part of a top team and you are not
being successful, you always get the feeling that you are being laughed at.
When you win trophies, you just want to do it again and again and again. If
you think about the European Cup final, you would give your right arm to go
and have another night like that. You can't get enough of that kind of
feeling.
We won't be able to do the treble again this season, of course, because we
will not be in the FA Cup but I don't really understand why the club seems
to have been slaughtered over this.
The FA Cup is a special tournament and we are always desperate to play in
it but if the club had said they would not play in the world club
championship to help England to try to win the right to host the 2006 World
Cup, can you imagine what the reaction would have been? It seems to me that
the club could not win.
Some people still seem to be suggesting that we could compete in Brazil and
in the FA Cup but I can tell you now from bitter experience that something
has got to give. It is largely because of the mounting number of games that
clubs play that I have developed a wear-and-tear injury that has been
affecting my pelvic bone and I'm going to miss our opening game of the
season against Everton.
The injury is really as a result of the volume of games I have played over
the past four or five years. In all that time, I think I have only missed
about five matches but the most rest I had ever had during a summer was
three weeks. Players really need at least six, but that is becoming almost
impossible now when you take international matches into consideration.
The manager reminded me a lot last season of the need for rest but I always
told him I wanted to play. With the games we had during April and May, I
just felt I could not afford to miss a match. The physios then decided I
needed at least six weeks off so I missed England's games against Sweden
and Bulgaria and I didn't go on the club's pre-season tour to Australia and
the Far East. I played for about an hour in Omagh on Tuesday night but I
began to feel the pain again, so I came off. I suppose this is my body's
way of telling me to calm down a little bit.
Because of the injury, I wasn't even allowed to do any jogging during the
summer. I just had a quiet time. I had a week or so on holiday in Malta and
I went to two weddings. The first was that of Chris Casper. He plays for
Swindon Town now but I know him from our days in the United youth team.
A few weeks later, I was the best man at David Beckham's wedding in
Ireland. That was a magical day, one of the best I have ever had. It was
such an honour and it was fantastic to see your best mate walking down the
aisle.
I was pretty nervous, though, mainly because Becks had been teasing me for
two or three months about the contents of my speech. In the end, it went fine.
I have got some great memories from this summer but the season is about to
start and I'm not really thinking about anything else now. It is going to
be very close in the Premiership, and it is up to us to make sure our
standards are every bit as high as they were last season.
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Subject: New Man United Tribute Twin track CD
This arrived im my mailbox from Terry Mechan in Dublin
For those interested here are the links:
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 12:23:52 +0100
From: Terry Mechan
To: barry@www.red11.org
Subject: Hi Barry
I have written an new song and recorded it and recorded an old
tradtional Man u song
Let me know what you think of them, please?
We Follow Man United
The Flowers of Manchester
If your readers would like to listen to the new Tribute to Manchester
United CD, then they can hear the songs free of charge on
http://ecom.mp3.com/cgi-bin/order.cgi?cd_id=15080&srclk=ld
Perhaps you would put out the news or a link
regards
TJM
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