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Date: Fri Jun 25 GMT+00:00 1999
Mail: barry@www.red11.org
This Issue:
1. Memories of Barcelona
2. UNITED FACE 77-MATCH MARATHON
3. Best guess at Champions League lineup by Mark Roberts
4. Duncan Edwards now Updated : more pics + splendid articles
5. UNITED FACE EVERTON IN OPENER
6. Man Utd. appoint Cape crusaders ««
7. Fixtures analysis From: Oded Regev
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25/6/1921:
Tommy Arkesden died in Manchester. A tall striker, Arkesden made his United
debut at Blackpool in February 1903, and was top scorer in 1904 and 1905. He
helped United gain promotion in 1906, and scored 33 goals in 79 appearances
between 1903-07 before joining Gainsborough Trinity.
Barry Daily Comment:
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Next games: ****Pre season tour JULY 1999 ***
Melbourne Sydney
Thu 15/7 MAN. UNITED V SOCCEROOS evening in Melbourne
at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground- capacity 90,000.) kick off 20.00hrs.
- Melbourne Cricket Ground 5 minutes from the city. Good transport available
Tickets available - starts from $60.00 - behind the goal -next up is $90.00,
$130.00 and $150.00
Sun 18/7 MAN. UNITED V SOCCEROOS STADIUM AUSTRALIA, Olympic Boulevard,
Homebush Bay, Sydney NEW SOUTH WALES 15.00 local time
Tickets for Sydney game try here:
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then type MANCHESTER in the search field.
+ Far East
Wed 21/7 Shangai first time ever!!!
This match will be watched by 80,000 fans
The game has sold out with the Shanghai Star reporting the home side's
chairman Yu Zhifei as saying: ''It is unprecedented that the tickets
should sell out for a match five weeks in advance."
Sat 24/7 Hong Kong Repeat of the 1997 game
"ALL matches will be shown "the same day" om MUTV.
August 1st CHARITY SHIELD Wembley: Arsenal
August 3rd Omagh Town, St Julian's Road ground
Temp seating will be erected to increase the
capacity to 7,000 for the game.
UNITED Stats v All teams:
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*** 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
Here is the coming season 1999/2000 fixture list:
August
7 Everton (A)
11 Sheff Wed (H)
14 Leeds (H)
21 Arsenal (A)
25 Coventry (A)
28 Newcastle (H)
September
11 Liverpool (A)
18 Wimbledon (H)
25 Southampton (H)
October
2 Chelsea (A)
16 Watford (H)
23 Tottenham (A)
30 Aston Villa (H)
November
6 Leicester (H)
20 Derby (A)
27 Sheff Wed (A)
December
4 Everton (H)
18 West Ham (A)
26 Bradford (H)
28 Sunderland (A)
January
3 Middlesbrough (H)
15 Leeds (A)
22 Arsenal (H)
February
5 Coventry (H)
12 Newcastle (A)
26 Wimbledon (A)
March
4 Liverpool (H)
11 Derby (H)
18 Leicester (A)
25 Bradford (A)
April
1 West Ham (H)
8 Middlesbrough (A)
15 Sunderland (H)
22 Southampton (A)
24 Chelsea (H)
29 Watford (A)
May
6 Tottenham (H)
14 Aston Villa (A)
CL 1999
**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 2 v 1 BAYERN MUNICH
Venue Camp Nou (Estadi FC Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
Date Wednesday 26 May 1999 Kick-Off 20.45 CET (19.45 GMT)
THE FANTASTIC TRIPLE WAS WON!!
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Subject: Memories of Barcelona
I knew as soon as Cole put the third one in in Turin that I had to go.
We had just produced one of the great performances of the nineties and
the spirit was in us. Keane and Scholes out, Bayern big, rested and
strong, me 8,000 miles from Spain - didn't matter. I don't know whether
other fans feel this way, but the Cup seemed to be our destiny. Maybe
that is the willpower of Ferguson and Keane and the Jaapster reaching
out to the fans.
I persuaded two friends Matt and Svenn, mancs living in London and
Amsterdam, that we had to go, even though they were both broke. Tickets
were an embarrassingly expensive 550 quid - should have waited till
Spain. Oh well. I booked a flight from Taipei to Barca, took a week off
work, and started to relish the prospect.
I arrived on the Sunday before the game and watched the city fill up.
Barcelona was beautiful, and the Catalans were pretty good-humoured
considering they had 100,000 anglo-saxons arriving to get shitfaced.
There were loads of good bars and places to eat. Omelettes and coffee on
the Placa Reial every morning felt like the beginnig of a carnival. The
mood was rising by the day until on the Wednesday the Ramblas was a sea
of drunk, happy reds. I can still remember the fountain near the bottom
that was three deep all the way to the top. But where were the Germans?
In the Nou Camp, it seems. They had either been staying in another part
of town or had arrived on the day of the match in a typical no-nonense
gesture. About an hour before the game all the Bayern fans were there.
Credit to them, they sang for their team. When the players were being
announced, the commentator gave only his number and his first name.
There was a one second pause and then the whole Bayern roared out his
surname in unison. So it went "Number five, Sammy..." (pause) "KUFFOUR!"
etc. I hadn't seen that before and was impressed.
Reds gradually filtered in and by kick off we had about two thirds of
the ground. The game itself...well, Blonqvist, Neville and Johnsen were
pooh, Yorke was marked out of the game by Kuffour (buy him Alex), Giggs
was OK out of position, and only Beckham really excelled.
But no matter. Cut to the 89th minute. I've got my head in my hands and
for the first time I'm beginning to think it's over. "It's not happening
mate. It's not happening." Then Peter the Great imposes himself on the
Bayern defence and Teddy knocks it in. Pandemonium, and we're sure we'll
beat them in extra time out of sheer desire.
What happened next was literally beyond my wildest hopes, and it's not
often that reality outstrips your dreams. When Solskjaer volleyed it in
there were a few seconds where I felt as though I had dropped through a
hole to another dimension. Unreal mayhem, joy, disbelief. Too good to be
true. Was it really true? The whistle seemed to go about ten seconds
later.
I've since thought about giving up Utd and football altogether as it
will never get better than that moment. Won't really be doing that, but
May 26th 1999 will never be forgotten by me or anyone who saw it. Oh
yeah, on the way back to the Ramblas we saw the Bayern coach, and
treated the players to a glimpse of our United scarves and middle
fingers.
- Chris Francis, Taipei
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Subject: Best guess at Champions League lineup by Mark Roberts
I have been studying UEFA's qualifying arrangements for this coming season
and using a complex system called "guessing" I have tried to work out which
teams will come through the qualifying phases of the European Cup. Here are
my estimations of the teams entering the Champions League this year who I
have seeded into groups that the draw might be made from. The seedings are
just my humble opinion of course.
Seeding Group 1
Manchester United Eng
Lazio Ita
Bayern Munich Ger
Barcelona Spa
Bordeaux Fra
Fiorentina Ita
Real Madrid Spa
Parma Ita
Seeding Group 2
AC Milan Ita
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Ger
Dynamo Kiev Ukr
Marseilles Fra
Arsenal Eng
Feyenoord Ned
Porto Por
Borussia Dortmund Ger
Seeding Group 3
Willem II Ned
Boavista Por
Hertha BSC Berlin Ger
Real Mallorca Spa
Valencia Spa
Lyon Fra
PSV Eindhoven Ned
Chelsea Eng
Seeding Group 4
Rangers Sco
Molde Nor
Olympiakos Gre
Sparta Prague Cze
Rosenborg Nor
AEK Athens Gre
Croatia Zagreb Cro
Aalborg Den
This would give a best case scenario group for us of
Manchester United
Marseilles - watch out for the bribes though!!
Real Mallorca - Already scouted out by the likes of the Sausageman
Aalborg - get the beers in and turn that music up Mr Leeming!!
Worst case trip scenario would be
Manchester United
Arsenal
Chelsea
Rangers
However I don't know if UEFA allow teams from the same country to be in the
same group so if they don't then the worst case would be
Manchester United
Dynamo Kiev
Willem II
Croatia Zagreb
But then of course it's far too early to get into this sort of nonsense
isn't it.
Hypothetically yours
Mark Roberts
Subject: UNITED FACE EVERTON IN OPENER
Manchester United will open the defence of their FA
Carling Premiership title at Everton on Saturday August 7.
Alex Ferguson's Treble winners were handed a trip to
Goodison when the computer came up with the fixtures for
the 1999-2000 season.
Meanwhile to please Arsene Wenger, still in a sulk after last
season, Arsenal, Double winners in 1998 and pipped to the
title by United last year, face Leicester City at Highbury.
David O'Leary's Leeds United, fancied by many to put in a
big title challenge, will play host to Derby County at Elland
Road. Sheep Trials will precede the kick-off.
And Gerard Houllier's new-look but still Big-Time Charlie led
Liverpool will travel over the Pennines to face Sheffield
Wednesday at Hillsborough. Wednesday will be putting in
a stiff challenge once again to claim some silverware,
ie the Fair Play League.
Newcastle have a cracking opener against Aston Villa at
St James' Park. The cracks in the Barcodes defence will
be evident right from the start, whilst Villa will be hoping
to shake off their image as a home for convalescent
alcaholic and workshy passengers.
And West Ham host Spurs in a London derby at Upton
Park. Neil Ruddock will be all out to be Red-carded
against one of his old clubs, but Ian Wright may well
beat him to the punch.
Newly-promoted Bradford City will play their first-ever
Premiership match at Middlesbrough. This showcases
rejuvenated drug-addled Lee Sharpe against resolute
pivot and Junk-food addict Gary Pallister.
And the other promoted clubs have tough openers too, with
Sunderland travelling to the capital to meet Chelsea and
Graham Taylor's Watford welcoming Wimbledon to
Vicarage Road. The Wearside Army will be in force to
frighten the children around Stamford Bridge, whilst
the 'Turnip' will plotting to outwit the new Norweigan influence
at Wimbledon, and their cunning tactics brought by
manager Egil Olsen, namely boot it long and chase it.
Coventry City will play host to Southampton at Highfield
Road. A crowd of up to 15,000 will be dozing through
this one, and Match Of The Day will probably show about
25 minutes of it.
Looking further ahead Manchester United face a crunch
clash with Leeds on the forecourt at Old Trafford on August
14, and a trip to Highbury to meet Arsenal on August 21.
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Subject: Man Utd. appoint Cape crusaders ««
Manchester United have appointed Cape Town-based club FC Fortune as the
South African arm of their ever-expanding worldwide scouting network.
FC Fortune will look out for talented youngsters in the south of Africa
while United will offer technical assistance and arrange for trials in Europe.
United's South African expert Frank Lord will act as the go-between to
bring the most talented players over and place some with Royal Antwerp.
Antwerp were the first club to sign a 'memorandum of co-operation' with
United back in October before the club established further global links in
Scandanavia, Australia, Africa and Argentina.
The Reds are now looking to finalise agreements with Adelaide Sharks plus
clubs in Ireland and Buenos Aires.
Alex Ferguson returns from holiday later this week but praised the deal in
a pre-prepared press statement.
He said: "We believe this link will give us entry to a rich seam of African
football talent.
"It will help us find players to follow our youth academy's best products."
United's network now extends to Belgium (Royal Antwerp), Sweden (IFK
Gothenburg) and South Africa (FC Fortune) while other deals are in the
pipeline.
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Subject: Fixtures analysis From: Oded Regev
Well,the first thing i check in the fixture list is not where we
start,it's where we finish.There are 3 grounds you don't want to end up on
the last day of the season-West Ham,Leeds,Liverpool.The latter are
impossible i think(there are never big matches on the last day of the
season.In 1980 when we lost the title at Leeds they were crap) but West
Ham on the last day is possible as we found out to our cost in 1995.
On any other ground we can win, although our record at Villa Park is
better in the cup semis than in the league.Interestingly we could win the
title at home to Spurs again,but knowing our usual fixture congestion and
the annoying(!) habbit of chasing at least 2 trophies we'll probably have
another fixture between Spurs and Villa.
Could someone also state the Fa Cup dates and also the Worthless Cup Final
date.I'd like to know which fixtures could be put back(I'm not worried
about reaching the Worthless Cup Final,but our opponents could).
All in all it's a brilliant fixture list with all the big games not coming
at the end of the season,unlike 1997 for example.But then again with
all the postponements we could end up at Anfield in May again.I'm
surprised the premiership hasn't put the big fixtures at the end of the
season for neutral excitement.
Actually with United usually better against the big clubs it's perhaps not
so good that we have "easy" games at the end of the season.And George
Graham could bring a stiffer and better Spurs to Old Trafford this time
around.I also don't fancy the fact the home game against Chelsea is so
late.We haven't won that since 1993,before that 1987/1988(great McClair
goal) and before that the 60s!
But at the end of the day its' not the fixtures which decide the title(see
1997 again) it's the team.I for one plan to stay on a high at least until
January.The 1st half of the season is all about staying in touch.It's
actually better if we don't top the league.
Each time we have had a blistering start we've lost the lead-forgetting
the Atkinson 1985/1986 disaster(10 straight wins,15 unbeaten and only 4th
in the end)under Fergie we've lost the title in 1992 and 1998 after great
starts and in 1994 we also lost a 16 point lead over Blackburn(albeit with
3 games in hand to them) before recovering to win the league.
In short-the first half of the season i'll just be enjoying the
football.From January the pressure cooker begins!Another question-have you
got the European dates?
Bye for now!
(-)Oded Regev,
Haifa,Israel.
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