96/97

Originally Posted by Coracao

Wasnt that the game where that @#%&! Wright jumped on Schmeichel?

Class counter for the 2nd

Counter attacking away from home, streaming forward in numbers and overwhelming the opposition with pace, power and skill.

*sigh*

United were pretty average away from home that season in the main, failing to impose their game, letting leads slip, losing to sunderland, getting hammered in the blip and hardly winning at all away from home until after xmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb7qhAudGQo&feature=related

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

United were pretty average away from home that season in the main, failing to impose their game, letting leads slip, losing to sunderland, getting hammered in the blip and hardly winning at all away from home until after xmas

That was the season of the 5-0 loss to Newcastle and 6-3 loss to Southampton away from home, in back to back league games. Can you imagine the reaction on here if that happened now:shakehead:

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

YouTube - man united v fc porto 1997 european cup quarter final first leg

Mario Jardel

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Mario Jardel

Hilarious is goal, looked good there too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4hyfMeNyvU

was on the front row for thisthe wettest I have ever been. Do united still hand out them crappy free plastic macks? Probs not tbhGlazerDebt

Originally Posted by Sandman

That was the season of the 5-0 loss to Newcastle and 6-3 loss to Southampton away from home, in back to back league games. Can you imagine the reaction on here if that happened now:shakehead:

lost 6 or 7 games out of 9 at one stage

scratched around for draws at the likes of derby, villa and leicester, threw away a 2-0 lead at west ham iirc

got beat home and away off chelsea

half the time eric was even worse than rooney's been this season if that's possible

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

lost 6 or 7 games out of 9 at one stage

scratched around for draws at the likes of derby, villa and leicester, threw away a 2-0 lead at west ham iirc

got beat home and away off chelsea

half the time eric was even worse than rooney's been this season if that's possible

That Leeds game got Howard Wilkinson the sack after the best part of a decade there, actually.

We won the league that season with 75 points - it remains the lowest winning total since the Premiership began (we have come 3rd with more points) No other team managed 70

Some good stuff played though, nevertheless - and we came of age in Europe v Porto

(and we drew away at Chelski, Throb - lost 5 overall in the league [Newcastle, Soton, Chelski, Sunderland, Derby])

Championship Bants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhTdI2XGpG4

Originally Posted by red in cumbria

That Leeds game got Howard Wilkinson the sack after the best part of a decade there, actually.

We won the league that season with 75 points - it remains the lowest winning total since the Premiership began (we have come 3rd with more points) No other team managed 70

Some good stuff played though, nevertheless - and we came of age in Europe v Porto

(and we drew away at Chelski, Throb - lost 5 overall in the league [Newcastle, Soton, Chelski, Sunderland, Derby])

scrambled through the group stages in europe

got knocked out of the league cup at leicester with scholes blazing a penalty over the bar

lost out on shearer, bought cheap alternatives, squad shown up to £#%&!, behind at home to wimbledon and scrambled a win, blew the european cup failing to score against dortmund, knocked out of the fa cup by £#%&!ing wimbledon after being easily out-played and almost fluking a win in the first game at home blah blah blah

this is just how it would've been written. in fact, this is pretty much how it was written at the time. pretty sure the redcafe opened that season, united shares were sky rocketing, ferguson had the players blanking the media totally at one point. whose club is it anyway? was released at the end of that season as well...

oh and not sure we'd come of age against porto at all, we were at least as good in vienna, in the semi-final second leg, and maybe even at home to juve. for me the team came of age when dwight yorke equalised at the camp nou in 98

if you want to talk about the great games and iconic moments from that season i'm there. dortmund at home is high on my list. we didn't win though, so how could that count

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

United were pretty average away from home that season in the main, failing to impose their game, letting leads slip, losing to sunderland, getting hammered in the blip and hardly winning at all away from home until after xmas

Yeah, it was definitely the most boring league title win. That Arsenal match though was like 'the' 1990s United - slick, fast, skilful, just battering teams into submission, scared of no-one.

My memory has gone so shit it's like seeing them for the 1st time almost. an upside

Giggs looks so so quick. Funny old team always felt sorry for Jordi would have been better off becoming a painter or something.

Originally Posted by thrills_pills_bellyaches

YouTube - United 4 Leeds 0

Eric's celebration

The way he half turns to Gary Kelly before facing the Leeds fans.

god I miss us playing there.

Nevilles tackle for the 2nd

Originally Posted by Zorg

Yeah, it was definitely the most boring league title win. That Arsenal match though was like 'the' 1990s United - slick, fast, skilful, just battering teams into submission, scared of no-one.

Then again there were some cracking games - m'boro', dortmund etc - and there were a dozen or more classic united displays as well.

Tactically 96/97 was one of the most curious seasons, with all sorts of formations used regularly in the league and many of the sides - including united - adopting 3-5-2, 4-5-1 and so on depending on the opposition. there was also the experiment with beckham in centre mid (meaning scholes sometimes being used on the right, unsuccessfully needless to say). The season pretty much turned in united's favour once andy cole got back into contention.

used to love and idolise beckham that season he wore number 10. he seemed to be an attacking midfielder rather than a winger, making great driving runs through the middle.

although i was only about 9 so i'm possibly misremembering and basing it all on that goal against spurs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDa50AQd_4

Originally Posted by Zorg

Yeah, it was definitely the most boring league title win. That Arsenal match though was like 'the' 1990s United - slick, fast, skilful, just battering teams into submission, scared of no-one.

It was ranked 10th out of United's 10 titles by a Graun piece after we won the league in 2008 (Rob Smyth, possibly?) - with reason tbh. Though the Arsenal games were both memorable - the away game we played superbly (without Eric - truly portentous) but in the home match we ground out a 1-0 to emerge from that terrible autumn slump, equally important in its own way

Originally Posted by fix up look SHARPE

used to love and idolise beckham that season he wore number 10. he seemed to be an attacking midfielder rather than a winger, making great driving runs through the middle.

although i was only about 9 so i'm possibly misremembering and basing it all on that goal against spurs.

YouTube - David Beckham goals against Tottenham

I preferred Beckham as a 10 as well.

that 1-0 arsenal game was followed by 3 draws in 4 matches, by a knock-out blow in the league cup and by another home defeat in europe. it wasn't until christmas that united began to get their shit together, pretty much as the manager had planned.

95/96 was a tremendous achievement by united, and is obviously fondly remembered. in truth though is that united produced far more accomplished and stylish performances the following season, but it was all about europe.

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

that 1-0 arsenal game was followed by 3 draws in 4 matches, by a knock-out blow in the league cup and by another home defeat in europe. it wasn't until christmas that united began to get their shit together, pretty much as the manager had planned.

95/96 was a tremendous achievement by united, and is obviously fondly remembered. in truth though is that united produced far more accomplished and stylish performances the following season, but it was all about europe.

Not *quite* the whole story that, is it now?? Both that one and the Fenerbahce game ended 0-1, but otherwise they were about as different as could possibly be imagined

Didn't Lippi say after the match that had been Juve's hardest game of the season, or similar??