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Date: Fri May 21 12:44:16 GMT+00:00 1999
Mail: barry@www.red11.org
This Issue:
1. YORKE IS CARLING PLAYER OF YEAR
2. A great cartoon ECF cartoon drawing by NICK OLDHAM
3. SOLSKJAER GUNS FOR WEMBLEY GLORY
4. Manchester United to fly Concorde - report
5. No open-topped bus this season
6. US & Canada TV FA Cup Final
7. Man United v Newcastle - Previous FA Cup Meetings
8. Giggs Interview
9. Telegraph) A Cup Final Warning for Fergie
10. Soccernet) Unfair distribution of Cup Final tickets
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*** CHAMPIONS *** CHAMPIONS *** CHAMPIONS ***
ONE Trophy - 2 to go!
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Cheers barry
"Here comes the FAC"
RED Barry
MUFC New Single
For those in the UK, The 1999 Manchester United Football
Squad has released a new single.
It's called Lift It High (Its all about belief).
Daily RED Trivia Friday 21st May 1999:
21/5/1977:
United beat Liverpool 2-1 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley watched by
100,000. Goals from Stuart Pearson and Jimmy Greenhoff defeat the League
and European Champions of that season. Team was: Stepney, Nicholl, Albiston,
McIlroy, B.Greenhoff, Buchan, Coppell, J.Greenhoff, Pearson, Macari, Hill (McCreery).
21/5/1983:
United draw 2-2 with Brighton after extra time in the FA Cup Final at
Wembley watched by 100,000. Frank Stapleton and Ray Wilkins scored
for the Reds. Team was: Bailey, Duxbury, Albiston, Wilkins, Moran, McQueen,
Robson, Muhren, Stapleton, Whiteside, Davies.
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Barry Daily Comment:
**** LATEST BARCE NEWS ****
How to be recognised by list members in a crowd THE SIGN IS A HANDKERCHIEF
tied with 4 knots on your head! If you feel like it call out "GUMBI!" [NOT a joke]
MORE..............
MUSCS SA Secretary Ethel Sleith called from SA today
SHE WILL BE IN BARCE! She flies in on Monday afternoon IBERIA IB650 17.15pm
and will be joining us all!!!!
GOOD LUCK REDS WHATEVER HAPPENS!
*** Barry OFF THE NET FROM TOMORROW SAT 22 - back.... SAT 29th ****
off to sunny Spain!
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1 day Newcastle FAC
5 days Bayern Munich CL Final
I will be leaving Denmark for Barce on SAT after the cup final
back first one week later
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14 April 1999
Manchester United 2:1 Arsenal
Villa Park
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Brian Kidd Press conference, pic, real audio
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Peter Schmeichel's last Season at United!
http://www.red11.org/mufc/news/schmeichel.htm
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Final Games:
May
22 FAC Final Wembley Newcastle (N) Live on Sky Sports UK
26 European Cup Final Bayern Munich Nou Camp
UNITED Stats v All teams:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/stats/
*** FINAL PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE AS AT 16/05/99 ***
Pos Team P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
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1 Manchester United 38 14 4 1 45 18 8 9 2 35 19 43 79
2 Arsenal 38 14 5 0 34 5 8 7 4 25 12 42 78
3 Chelsea 38 12 6 1 29 13 8 9 2 28 17 27 75
4 Leeds United 38 12 5 2 32 9 6 8 5 30 25 28 67
5 West Ham United 38 11 3 5 32 26 5 6 8 14 27 -7 57
6 Aston Villa 38 10 3 6 33 28 5 7 7 18 18 5 55
7 Liverpool 38 10 5 4 44 24 5 4 10 24 25 19 54
8 Derby County 38 8 7 4 22 19 5 6 8 18 26 -5 52
9 Middlesbrough 38 7 9 3 25 18 5 6 8 23 36 -6 51
10 Leicester City 38 7 6 6 25 25 5 7 7 15 21 -6 49
11 Tottenham Hotspur 38 7 7 5 28 26 4 7 8 19 24 -3 47
12 Sheffield Wednesday 38 7 5 7 20 15 6 2 11 21 27 -1 46
13 Newcastle United 38 7 6 6 26 25 4 7 8 22 29 -6 46
14 Everton 38 6 8 5 22 12 5 2 12 20 35 -5 43
15 Coventry City 38 8 6 5 26 21 3 3 13 13 30 -12 42
16 Wimbledon 38 7 7 5 22 21 3 5 11 18 42 -23 42
17 Southampton 38 9 4 6 29 26 2 4 13 8 38 -27 41
18 Charlton Athletic 38 4 7 8 20 20 4 5 10 21 36 -15 36
19 Blackburn Rovers 38 6 5 8 21 24 1 9 9 17 28 -14 35
20 Nottingham Forest 38 3 7 9 18 31 4 2 13 17 38 -34 30
*** TEAM RESULTS - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 05/05/99 ***
Date Opposition Score Pos. Attend.
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15/08/98 Leicester City Home D 2-2 11 55,052
22/08/98 West Ham United Away D 0-0 11 26,039
09/09/98 Charlton Athletic Home W 4-1 9 55,147
12/09/98 Coventry City Home W 2-0 5 55,193
20/09/98 Arsenal Away L 0-3 10 38,142
24/09/98 Liverpool Home W 2-0 3 55,181
03/10/98 Southampton Away W 3-0 2 15,251
17/10/98 Wimbledon Home W 5-1 2 55,265
24/10/98 Derby County Away D 1-1 2 30,867
31/10/98 Everton Away W 4-1 2 40,079
08/11/98 Newcastle United Home D 0-0 3 55,174
14/11/98 Blackburn Rovers Home W 3-2 2 55,198
21/11/98 Sheffield Wednesday Away L 1-3 2 39,475
29/11/98 Leeds United Home W 3-2 2 55,172
05/12/98 Aston Villa Away D 1-1 2 39,241
12/12/98 Tottenham Hotspur Away D 2-2 1 36,079
16/12/98 Chelsea Home D 1-1 2 55,159
19/12/98 Middlesbrough Home L 2-3 3 55,152
26/12/98 Nottingham Forest Home W 3-0 3 55,216
29/12/98 Chelsea Away D 0-0 3 34,741
10/01/99 West Ham United Home W 4-1 3 55,180
16/01/99 Leicester City Away W 6-2 2 22,091
31/01/99 Charlton Athletic Away W 1-0 1 20,043
03/02/99 Derby County Home W 1-0 1 55,174
06/02/99 Nottingham Forest Away W 8-1 1 30,025
17/02/99 Arsenal Home D 1-1 1 55,171
20/02/99 Coventry City Away W 1-0 1 22,596
27/02/99 Southampton Home W 2-1 1 55,316
13/03/99 Newcastle United Away W 2-1 1 36,500
21/03/99 Everton Home W 3-1 1 55,182
03/04/99 Wimbledon Away D 1-1 1 26,121
17/04/99 Sheffield Wednesday Home W 3-0 1 55,270
25/04/99 Leeds United Away D 1-1 2 40,255
01/05/99 Aston Villa Home W 2-1 1 55,189
05/05/99 Liverpool Away D 2-2 2 44,702
09/05/99 Middlesbrough Away W 1-0 1 34,665
12/05/99 Blackburn Away D 0-0 1 30,436
16/05/99 Tottenham Hotspur Home W 2-1 1 55,189
*** TEAM STATISTICS - MANCHESTER UNITED - 1998/9
AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE: 55,188
HIGHEST HOME ATTENDANCE: 27/02/99 - Southampton (55,316)
LOWEST HOME ATTENDANCE: 15/08/98 - Leicester City (55,052)
BEST WIN: 06/02/99 - Nottingham Forest (8-1)
HEAVIEST DEFEAT: 20/09/98 - Arsenal (0-3)
BEST HOME WIN: 17/10/98 - Wimbledon (5-1)
HEAVIEST HOME DEFEAT: 19/12/98 - Middlesbrough (2-3)
BEST AWAY WIN: 06/02/99 - Nottingham Forest (8-1)
HEAVIEST AWAY DEFEAT: 20/09/98 - Arsenal (0-3)*****
Champions League:
Group D P W D L F A Pts
Bayern Munich 6 3 2 1 9 6 11
Man United 6 2 4 0 20 11 10
Barcelona 6 2 2 2 11 9 8
Brondby 6 1 0 5 4 18 3
Dec 9 Brøndby 0-2 Barcelona
Dec 9 Man Utd 1-1 Bayern Munich
******
CHAMPIONS' LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS
Manchester Utd 2 v 0 Inter Milan
Real Madrid 1 v 1 Dynamo Kiev
Juventus 2 v 1 Olympiakos
Bayern Munich 2 v 0 Kaiserslautern
**DYNAMO KIEV 2 v 0 REAL MADRID (Agg:3-1)
FC KAISERSLAUTERN 0 v 4 **BAYERN MUNICH (Agg:0-6)
INTERNAZIONALE FC 1 v 1 **MANCHESTER UNITED (Agg:1-3)
OLYMPIAKOS 1 v 1 **JUVENTUS (Agg:2-3)
Semi Finals
Manchester United v Juventus 4-3agg 3-2 [1-1]
Bayern Munchen v Dynamo Kiev 4-3agg 1-0 [3-3]
UEFA Champions League Final MANCHESTER UNITED v BAYERN MUNICH
Venue Camp Nou (Estadi FC Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
Date Wednesday 26 May 1999 Kick-Off 20.45 CET (19.45 GMT)
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CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: YORKE IS CARLING PLAYER OF YEAR
Dwight Yorke's brilliant season hit another high today
when he was named Carling Player of the Year.
Yorke, who beat Manchester United team-mate David
Beckham into second place, won the award just four days
after Old Trafford boss Alex Ferguson picked up the
Carling Manager of the Year award.
The £12.6million striker was the joint top scorer in the
Premiership this season with 18 goals as he helped United
to their fifth title in seven seasons.
The Carling panel said: "The value of his signing, in the light
of today's expensive market, has been proved beyond
doubt.
"The high quality of players within the Carling Premiership
at the present time merely embraces the accolade of the
unanimous vote for Yorke as Carling Player of the Year."
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: A great cartoon ECF cartoon drawing by NICK OLDHAM
Running at Simplenet now a great cartoon drawing by NICK OLDHAM:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/images/player/schmeichel/sch_cartoon.jpg 61k
http://www.red11.org/mufc/images/player/schmeichel/sch_cartoon.bmp 237k
ENJOY!
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"Nick Oldham"
CAN ANYBODY HELP ME GET THIS CARTOON OF THE GREAT PETER SCHMEICHEL TO THE
GREAT MAN HIMSELF BEFORE HE LEAVES US.
I ALSO HAVE A PLASTICINE CARICATURE FOR HIM, IF ANYONE CAN HELP ME
PLEASE CALLME, NICK OLDHAM, ON
(01625) 822201....DAYTIME OR
(01625) 423645...NIGHT.
CHEERS!
NICK (See attached file: scmeichs.bmp)
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FERGIE SALUTES SUPERB SCHMEICHEL
Alex Ferguson paid tribute to Peter Schmeichel after the Dane helped
Manchester United clinch the Premiership title on his Old Trafford farewell.
United came from a goal down to beat Tottenham 2-1 and win their fifth
league championship in seven years, and 12th in total, by a single point
from Arsenal.
Schmeichel has had a huge hand in those five triumphs and Ferguson claimed
he is up there with the all-time greats like Gordon Banks, Peter Shilton
and Dino Zoff.
The United boss said: "He's a winner and he's without doubt the greatest
goalkeeper I've ever had. You don't even have to consider that as part of
the equation, that's straight forward.
"How you place him in terms of world class, well he becomes part of that
argument and debate. You have all your great goalkeepers, Shilton, Banks,
Yashin, Barthez, Van der Sar and Zoff and he comes into that category."
Before kick-off Ferguson presented Schmeichel with a silver salver to mark
his record 178 clean sheets for the club.
After United had been presented with the Premiership trophy he took the
microphone to thank the fans for their support during his eight years at
the club.
Schmeichel was delighted to bow out on such a high and after completing the
first leg of a possible Treble he said: "I could not allow myself to get
emotional before the match, even though it was hard not to.
"I had to think about not losing my concentration because after all it
would not have been a day to remember if we had lost the match and thereby
the championship.
"It would have been incredibly annoying to lose it at Old Trafford of all
places. Right now I'm just so pleased and it was a real high talking to the
fans, but also because of the feeling
** REDS Are going to Barcelona" ** REDS Are going to Barcelona"
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How to be recognised by list members in a crowd THE SIGN IS A HANDKERCHIEF
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If you feel like it call out "GUMBI!"
***PS This IS -NOT- repeat -NOT- a joke we are serious
GOOD LUCK REDS WHATEVER HAPPENS!
Barry ** off the air from Sat 22-Sat 29th May
I will be somewhere in Spain - I can't remember why?
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: SOLSKJAER GUNS FOR WEMBLEY GLORY
Striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is hoping that the importance of next week's
European Champions' Cup final will mean that he is given the chance to
fulfil a lifelong dream of playing in the FA Cup final this weekend.
Solskjaer knows only too well that Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke are
Manchester United's first-choice strikeforce and will almost certainly
start against Bayern Munich in Barcelona next Wednesday.
However, manager Alex Ferguson may well decide to rest at least one of
them against Newcastle and that would leave Solskjaer and Teddy
Sheringham competing for a place in the Wembley line-up.
Both Solskjaer and Sheringham actually started the FA Cup semi-final
replay against Arsenal at Villa Park, with Yorke coming on as a late
replacement.
And the Norwegian striker has been involved in every single cup match -
at least as a substitute - en route to Wembley this season.
He declared: ``Hopefully I'll get a game as I've never started at Wembley
before.
``I don't think anyone from where I come from has played in an FA Cup
final so I'm just hoping that I get a chance.''
In fact his only Wembley experience so far was as a substitute when
United lost last summer's Charity Shield 3-0 to Arsenal, which he admits
is ``not the best of memories''.
However, Solskjaer grew up watching FA Cup finals broadcast live on
television in Norway and always believed that playing in one himself
would be one of the biggest games of his life.
``The FA Cup final is very big in Norway, it's always broadcast live,''
he explained.
``There's so many Norwegians playing in England and the FA Cup being
broadcast live is one of the reasons everyone wants to play here.''
Solskjaer has suffered from a knee injury over recent weeks but he
insisted that he was now ``100% fit and raring to go''.
He added: ``I just hope that I get a chance. I'm always ready and always
prepare for every game as if I'm playing as if I don't start, I could be
a substitute.''
It would have perhaps been easy for the Norwegian international to have
become disillusioned at Old Trafford this season as he waited in the
wings for his chance behind Yorke and Cole.
But he was full of praise for his two team-mates as he maintained: ``The
chemistry between them has been absolutely brilliant this year, I think
there's no partnership in the world that's been better.''
Solskjaer has still started 16 games for United, scoring an impressive
tally of 17 goals - many of them as a substitute, including four at
Nottingham Forest in the final 10 minutes of the game.
So with five years left on his contract following his move from Norwegian
side Molde and having rejected the chance to move to Tottenham earlier
this season, Solskjaer insists that he is happy at Old Trafford.
``I've never knocked on the manager's door, I don't think I'll ever do
that as I'm not that type of player. It's more like him coming to me and
telling me why I'm not playing,'' said the striker.
``But I'm very happy here and I feel that I've been improving this year.
The first season I came here I was top scorer but I feel that I've played
better this year.
``It might sound funny but I've enjoyed this year an incredible amount
with the atmosphere around the team and the feeling that we'll win every
game.
``After all, if you can't enjoy playing for Manchester United then what
can you enjoy as a footballer?''
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: Manchester United to fly Concorde - report
LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - British Airways is laying on
Concorde to fly Manchester United's players in style to the
European Cup soccer final against Bayern Munich in Barcelona
next Wednesday, the Sun newspaper reported on Friday.
No immediate comment was available from the airline but the
tabloid said the aircraft would normally cost 150,000 pounds
($242,200) to hire.
"They're in for a treat. We serve vintage wines, champagne,
the best food and there are special Concorde gifts," an
unidentified airline official was quoted as saying.
Manchester United, the English Premier League champions who
are due to play in the FA Cup final on Saturday, would leave
London's Heathrow airport on Monday, the Sun said.
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: No open-topped bus this season
United have announced this morning that there will be no traditional parade
with the trophy(ies) through the streets of Trafford this season, no matter
how many trophies we win. Ken Ramsden was interviewed on GMR and blamed a
change in the regulations. Apparently, the local authority used to invite
the team to take part in a parade and it was the local authority's
responsibility to organise and police it. The new regulations say that the
club has to apply to the local authority to hold a parade and that it is
now the club's responsibility to arrange and police the parade.
According to Ken Ramsden, it is not possible for United to do that safely
in the time they have between now and the return of the team.
Of course, cynical old me wonders how much the cost, rather than safety
issues have informed this particular decision. Whatever the reason, it
seems a shame that yet again the club moves another step away from tradition.
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: US & Canada TV FA Cup Final
Looks impossible to see it live this side of the pond!!
Per Soccertv:
English FA Cup Final - Newcastle United vs Manchester United
FOX Sports World and FOX Sports World Espanol will televise the English
FA Cup Final between Newcastle United and Manchester United on same-day
tape-delay: Saturday May 22 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. Both networks
will re-air the match on Monday May 24 at 3pm Eastern/12noon Pacific and
at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific.
The match will NOT be televised on any FOX Sports Net regional
affiliates or on any other US TV network.
In Canada, CTV Sportsnet will air the match in a 2.5-hour time slot via
same-day delay on Saturday May 22 at 7:30pm LOCAL TIME in most areas
(8:30pm in Manitoba and the Atlantic Provinces, 9pm in Newfoundland)
On Setanta -- check your area:
Sat-22-May FA Cup Final: Man U v Newcastle 9.00 ET T5/07
Best Wishes to REDS Everywhere.
Richard TOF [The Oldest Fart], Connecticut, USA
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: Man United v Newcastle - Previous FA Cup Meetings
United have a 100% record against Newcastle United in the FA Cup
so far, unlike the League Cup where it stands at one win apiece.
They met at Wembley in 1996, when the Reds won 4-0 in the Charity
Shield with goals from Cantona, Butt, Beckham and Keane.
In the League Newcastle are trailing 37-60, with 31 draws.
FA Cup meetings
March 27 1909 Semi-Final (Bramall Lane) United 1 Newcastle 0
Att: 40,118
In the first ever Cup clash between the two clubs, a Harold Halse
goal booked a place in our first ever FA Cup Final. Consolation for
the Geordies was the League title, whilst United, who were champions
the previous season, finished 13th. The Reds other Cup victims had
been Everton 1-0, Blackburn 6-1 and Burnley 3-2 in a replayed game
when the original fixture was abandoned with United trailing 1-0 with
18 minutes left.
United lifted the Cup in 1909, a Sandy Turnbull goal enough to see
off Bristol City 1-0 at Crystal Palace.
February 18 1990 5th Round (St James Park) Newcastle 2 United 3
Att: 31,748
This led to Alex Fergusons first trophy success at Old Trafford,
goals from Mark Robins, Danny Wallace and Brian McClair taking the
Reds into the Quarter-Finals. Newcastle were then languishing in
the old Second Division, and United finally finished 13th, still
their lowest since Relegation in 1974. On their way to Wembley United
also defeated Nottingham Forest 1-0, Hereford United 1-0, Sheffield
United 1-0 and Oldham Athletic 2-1 after a 3-3 draw in the
Semi-Finals. Apart from the Oldham triumph, all the games were
played on a Sunday away from home.
Lee Martin scored the winning goal in the Final against Crystal
Palace after a dramatic 3-3 draw.
Paul Hinson (email p.l.hinson@ais.salford.ac.uk)
MUTV Masterfan Quiz Champion 1999
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: 365 Giggs Interview
UNITED STAR GIGGS PINPOINTS BIG DUNC AS NEWCASTLE'S DANGERMAN
RYAN GIGGS has pinpointed Newcastle's Duncan Ferguson as the
man Manchester United fear most as the Premier League champions aim to
wrap up their third Double in six seasons at Saturday's FA Cup Final.
Speaking exclusively to Football365, Giggs explained: "When he's fully
fit, there's nobody better in the air than Duncan. And while Alan
Shearer is going to be a threat, Big Dunc can always cause problems.
We'll have to be at our best to deal with him."
With serious doubts hanging over the fitness of United centre-half Jaap
Stam, Newcastle boss Ruud Gullit must be sorely tempted to risk the
former Everton man in the final, despite the 6-foot-4 Scot being
short of full fitness after a bout of flu. The canny Dutchman may well
be prepared to base his match strategy around Ferguson's aerial
power, gambling on finding weakness at the heart of United's defence.
Should Stam fail to start on Saturday, the likelihood is that
David May, a spectator for most of this campaign, will be called on to
tether Ferguson and snuff out what many believe to be Newcastle's only
real prospect of victory.
Giggs, however, is taking nothing for granted: "Some
people are saying it's a foregone conclusion that we're
going to win this final, but none of us at Old Trafford
are looking at the game that way. We've worked hard all
through the season and, to be honest, it's been pretty
much a cup final for us every game for the last couple of
months. The lads have just got on with it and carried on
as if it was any other game, no matter what the occasion,
and that's what we'll be doing on Saturday. If you'd said
we'd have been in this position at the start of the
season, though, then we would have been delighted."
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: (Telegraph) A Cup Final Warning for Fergie
Docherty's Cup final shock is warning to Ferguson
By David Miller
NOBODY would suggest making a comparison between the
management of Alex Ferguson and Tommy Docherty.
Ferguson's era is unequivocally superior. Yet mistakes
can be made in the best calculations, and it would be
wise for Ferguson as he prepares for tomorrow's FA Cup
final with Newcastle United not to fall into the same
trap as Docherty and his team in the final of 1976.
There have been at least a dozen occasions since the
Second World War when the supposed wrong team won; the
side given little chance by public and even
professional opinion confounding the critics. The
Southampton victory, under the guidance of Lawrie
McMenemy, was a most glaring example, together with
Sunderland's victory against Leeds three years earlier
and Wimbledon's against Liverpool in 1988.
There is now the risk that circumstances - a final
sandwiched between the climax of winning the League and
the ultimate ambition of the European Cup final - may
conspire to undermine Manchester, and even Ferguson's
tactical analysis. Yet few beyond the Newcastle
followers would bet on Manchester's sixth post-war Cup
final defeat alongside their seven victories. Could
this be an unlucky 13th?
Ferguson has jokingly said that if his team won the
Premiership, he would play himself in the FA Cup final.
However conscientiously the manager and players may
resist light-heartedness, it is unavoidable for the
players, other than those reserves called up at
Wembley, to regard the match as third in priority.
Subconsciously, this can affect the performance.
Prior to playing Southampton, Docherty had boasted: "We
don't study the opposition." There were many
characteristics of Docherty's management, not all of
them desirable, but one of his virtues was addiction to
positive play. He gave individuals freedom of
expression and inspired a United revival. With wingers
Steve Coppell and Gordon Hill, he produced an
attractive team, so that Southampton, of the former
Second Division, were not given a prayer.
I was among those obliged to eat my words. "Easy for
United," proclaimed the Daily Express headline,
above my over-confident forecast that "Southampton are
just not equipped to win the way Sunderland beat Leeds -
by the only goal". Which is exactly what they did;
never mind that their defence was wobbly enough to expect
their opponents to score at least twice.
Like many outstanding teams, Docherty believed they
merely had to stand up to win. But McMenemy had
other ideas. He cleverly used midfielders Nick Holmes and
Paul Gilchrist to assist his full-backs in shutting
out Coppell and Hill; Jim McCalliog was employed to hit
repeated long balls at Mick Channon and Bobby Stokes
up front; Southampton's rearguard played first time as
much as possible to offset United's tenacious
tackling; and full-backs Peter Rodrigues and David Peach
pushed forward so that Southampton were not defending
four-against-two. The outcome? Southampton's
goalkeeper, Ian Turner, defied United in the first
half, and Stokes stole a goal with seven minutes to
spare.
Ferguson will remember United's one losing final out
of three under his command: also 1-0, against Everton
in 1995, when his side narrowly missed winning anything
in attempting to repeat the Double of the previous
year. There was no misjudgment then - just a superb
performance in goal for the winners by Neville
Southall, and another story of missed chances.
CONGRATS to REDS ALL over the world PREMIER LEAGUE 1999!"
Subject: (Soccernet) Unfair distribution of Cup Final tickets
Why the true fans are left fighting for scraps
The FA Cup Final always features the most cosmopolitan
crowd of the domestic season but it is still surprising
that more than a third of the 79,000 at Wembley tomorrow
will not be official supporters of Newcastle or
Manchester United.
Each club has been allocated fewer than 26,000 tickets to
distribute between a combined supporter base of nearly
80,000 season-ticket holders.
That allocation includes places for disabled fans and
also severely restricted views around the Wembley
pillars.
Disturbingly, it means almost as many tickets will be
distributed among the 43 FA county associations and the
country's non-professional clubs as the two finalists
will each receive.
Add those enjoying corporate hospitality, the sponsors,
VIPs and ticket holders from other league clubs and it is
easy to understand the grievances of genuine fans.
Leicester and Tottenham each received 32,000 tickets for
the Worthington Cup Final in March.
Freddie Fletcher, Newcastle's chief executive, said: 'I,
for one, would like to see more tickets going to the
participating clubs. I'm forgetting self-interest here.
Whether Newcastle were involved or not, it is the fans'
day and more tickets should be available to them.'
Fletcher helped devise Newcastle's distribution of their
25,802 allocation using the club's computer memory bank.
The system ensured the most loyal supporters were offered
first refusal for the trip to Wembley.
Newcastle invited applications from their 34,000
season-ticket holders, then prioritised acceptance based
on how many of this season's four FA Cup games at St
James' Park had been attended by each fan. After that,
those who had watched three such matches and travelled
away with the club on at least six occasions during the
campaign were chosen.
Eventually the club were left with 200 restricted view
tickets - a fact they conveyed in time-consuming phone
calls to the final 200 supporters eligible for a ticket
according to the above criteria.
'We tried to use technology and the sophisticated
equipment we have at our disposal to ensure the fairest
possible distribution,' said Fletcher.
'I hesitate to say we rewarded the most loyal supporters
because anyone who buys a season-ticket is loyal and I
fully understand their disappointment at missing out.'
Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards and his board
were equally determined to share their allocation fairly.
They had 131 more tickets to give out than Newcastle,
simply because of the vagaries of the Wembley seating
plan.
The club's 5,600 executive members pay up front for cup
matches at Old Trafford, in addition to the 19
Premiership home games each season, and all were granted
a ticket.
Ken Ramsden, United's assistant secretary, said: 'The
problem then was how to divide the remaining tickets
(20,333) between 40,000 season-ticket holders.'
Supporters were asked to present match vouchers given out
when they attended cup-ties during the season and any fan
with 11 or more vouchers from United's 12 home cup games
qualified for a ticket.
'It seemed the only fair way to reward those people who
had turned up at every home match this season,' said
Ramsden.
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