"His 'big time' charlie bit? He's against men, am I right?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BRxRa8hC7c

'Kin 'ell... look at that squad. Bloody brilliant.

That celebration in the 2-2 at Klanfield in 99... The £#%&!ing @#%&!.

Originally Posted by The Watcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BRxRa8hC7c

tactical genius

ferie looking weirdly uncomfortable with the cameras tbf

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

That celebration in the 2-2 at Klanfield in 99... The £#%&!ing @#%&!.

Always rated him too

Originally Posted by Mr_Ed

That celebration in the 2-2 at Klanfield in 99... The £#%&!ing @#%&!.

Their penalty, Irwin being sent off, the inevitable equalizer and his subsequent celebration...no match has ever made me as angry as that. Never known rage like it after a football match I was £#%&!ing fuming for days after that.

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Their penalty.

Absolutely superb tackle by Blomqvist.

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Their penalty, Irwin being sent off, the inevitable equalizer and his subsequent celebration...no match has ever made me as angry as that. Never known rage like it after a football match I was £#%&!ing fuming for days after that.

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Their penalty, Irwin being sent off, the inevitable equalizer and his subsequent celebration...no match has ever made me as angry as that. Never known rage like it after a football match I was £#%&!ing fuming for days after that.

'we're not gonnae let him rob us of we title' re elleray. Didn't arsenal beat spurs at white hart lane the same night?

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Their penalty, Irwin being sent off, the inevitable equalizer and his subsequent celebration...no match has ever made me as angry as that. Never known rage like it after a football match I was £#%&!ing fuming for days after that.

Snap.Watched in a pub, more or less full of Scouse and ABU's.You can imagine.

Originally Posted by Zorg

Absolutely superb tackle by Blomqvist.

It was immaculate.£#%&!ing undeserving @#%&!s.

choccy in the background.

love the chocolate.

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

Banned Irwin from the Cup Final that.

Originally Posted by Zorg

Banned Irwin from the Cup Final that.

Absolute disgrace.

Celebrated like a title win by the wall pushing @#%&!s.

Originally Posted by Knockers

Didn't arsenal beat spurs at white hart lane the same night?

Yes they did.
I remember sitting in a daze on the settee from the FT whistle at Anfield right through till about 4am. I was inconsolable for days.
You think I'm a doomlord now ffs, I was a million times worse in my Teens & twenties.

Horrible night.

Season ended reasonably well though as I recall.

Originally Posted by Chorlton74

choccy in the background.

love the chocolate.

the fat bastard struggling to keep his eyes open. must have been a big lunch

just looking at the players sat in that clip and comparing with the present day fergie's right, they were men.

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

Elleray lived for decisions like that.

From David Elleray's new book:

Over the years I felt I had built up a good rapport, as good as you could hope for, with players and managers. That was until one night at Anfield in May 1999. Liverpool versus Manchester United games are always big matches, for the players and the fans. I was aware of how high passions would run. Then there was the fact that United and Arsenal were in the final stages of their championship battle. A few weeks earlier I had overseen the FA Cup semi-final between the two clubs, including the replay. Things hadn't gone too smoothly in those games. There were claims that I had wrongly disallowed a United goal in the first game and in the replay I had sent off Roy Keane for the third time in my career. I wasn't flavour of the month in Manchester.

Anyway, in the Liverpool game, with United 2-0 up, I awarded the home side a penalty, which they converted. It was a tight decision for which I would have been criticised either way but which angered United. Then, Denis Irwin took the ball out of play; after the whistle blew he knocked it upfield and it looked to me like deliberate time-wasting, so I reached into my pocket. It was only as I pulled out the card and showed it to him that I realised that I had already booked him. There was the usual melee around me, but Denis seemed to leave the pitch quietly enough. Liverpool went on to claim a draw.

I couldn't have prepared myself for what followed. The tunnel at Anfield is very narrow and I was pursued by Alex Ferguson, who was shouting and screaming. I am always thankful to Bernie, a policemen with a particularly meaty truncheon, who managed to get me back to my dressing room safe and sound. The United players and fans were furious, not only about the penalty and the sending-off, but also because it meant Denis would miss the FA Cup final (not a rule I agree with). Then [United chairman] Martin Edwards said that if Arsenal won the Premiership, they should award me a winners' medal. That really hurt. Fortunately, United won it that year.

The letters I received after the Liverpool game were nearly all from outraged United fans. The tone became increasingly menacing and I received death threats. At this point, I realised that I ought to show them to the school authorities, who immediately took them up with the Home Office. I remember walking along the street and a guy pulled up in his car and started screaming insults at me. The police decided to fit a security alarm in my house, which meant they could get to me straight away if anything happened. That really shakes you up. You start looking over your shoulder wondering where your assailant is. A bit of you almost wants something to happen, so at least you will have got it out the way.

As it happens, I went to the Cup final that year when United were playing Newcastle. Not that anyone would have recognised me: for obvious reasons, I was advised to travel in disguise and it has to be one of the most ridiculous disguises anyone has ever attempted. As I made my way into Wembley with the United fans, I remember thinking that if my false moustache and beard fell off then I could be beaten to a pulp.

I didn't go back to Old Trafford until 2001 and I think that was a conscious decision on the part of the authorities. Then, at the end of that season, I found myself in charge of the Manchester derby. We had gone 83 minutes without so much as a yellow card until Roy Keane made that challenge on Alf Inge Haaland. People say to me that it must have been the easiest decision I had ever made. But it wasn't. In fact, it was the most difficult. This was a Manchester derby, Roy had made the challenge right by the Stretford End and it was to be the fourth time I had dismissed him. It was already alleged that I was pursuing a vendetta against him. Back in the dressing room I saw the tackle on television. I was relieved to see that I had made the right decision. As Roy later admitted in his book, it was deliberately brutal.

When I retired, he was good enough to send me a personal note expressing his gratitude that I had hung up my boots. He also sent me a signed United shirt. I like to think that that reflected well on him and on me.

Originally Posted by magic_cantona

Snap.Watched in a pub, more or less full of Scouse and ABU's.You can imagine.

Luckily, I didn't watch it with any Liverpool fans. Rather ironically, I'd have been up for murder if I had.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Horrible night.

I was devastated at full time. Pretty much assumed that was the end of the League and probably our entire season. What made it so much worse was the £#%&!ing injustice of it all. I've never felt more 'robbed' after a game.

Originally Posted by MJ Ramone

Season ended reasonably well though as I recall.

Yep