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Date: Sat Oct 03 04:27:24 GMT+00:00 1998
Mail: barry@www.red11.org
This Issue:
1. Reserves win again/United to play friendly in Aberdeen
2. Injury completes miserable week for Schmeichel
3. Beckham still has some growing to do
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Daily RED Trivia Sat 3rd October:
3/10 1914: United beat Sunderland 3-0 at Old Trafford in a Division 1 game watched
by 16,000. George Anderson, George Stacey and Enoch West scored for the Reds.
Team was: Beale, Hodge, Stacey, O'Connell, Hunter, Knowles, Meredith, Turnbull,
Anderson, West, Norton.
3/10/1981: Bryan Robson signed for United from West Bromwich Albion for a record
£1.5 million. Lifted the FA Cup three times, scoring twice in the 1983 Final, and
won further winners medals in 1985 and 1990, plus Premiership medals in 1993
and 1994. An inspiring captain and midfielder who also collected a European
Cup Winners Cup medal in 1991. Represented England in the 1982, 1986 and 1990
World Cup Finals, winning 90 caps and scoring 26 goals. For United he made 457
appearances and scored 97 goals between 1981-1994, making his debut at
Manchester City in October 1981. Became manager at Middlesbrough in May 1994.
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Next 4 games:
Result/Fixture Index:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/fix9899z.htm
Sat 3/10 Southampton (A) PL
Sat 17/10 Wimbledon (H) PL
Wed 21/10 Brondby (A) CL
Sat 24/10 Derby (A) PL
UNITED Stats v Southampton are here:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/stats/vssouthampton.htm
*** PL TEAM RESULTS - MANCHESTER UNITED ***
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
Barcelona 2 Brondby 0
Bayern Munich 2 Man Utd 2
GROUP D P W D L GF GA PTS
Barcelona 2 1 1 0 5 3 4
Brĝndby 2 1 0 1 2 3 3
ManUnited 2 0 2 0 5 5 2
BMünchen 2 0 1 1 3 4 1
*** FIXTURES ON 03/10/98 ***
Blackburn Rovers v West Ham United
Coventry City v Aston Villa
Derby County v Tottenham Hotspur
Leeds United v Leicester City
Middlesbrough v Sheffield Wednesday
Nottingham Forest v Charlton Athletic
Southampton v Manchester United
Wimbledon v Everton
*** FIXTURES ON 04/10/98 ***
Arsenal v Newcastle United
Liverpool v Chelsea
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Subject: Reserves win again/United to play friendly in Aberdeen
Man Utd Reserves 1 Notts Forest Reserves 0
United's latest Pontin's League victory - their fifth in succession - takes
the Reds to the top of the Premier Division. Terry Cookes's strike settled
an intriguing contest after good work by Alex Notman. Cooke was denied a
second by Forest's keeper Mark Crossley but United had done enough to
protect their six-match, unbeaten start to the season.
Utd: Culkin, Clegg, Curtis, Brown (Roche), Wallwork, Wilson, Cooke,
Wellens, Greening, Notman (Healey), Mulryne.
(From MEN 2nd Oct)
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Subject: Injury completes miserable week for Schmeichel
David Lacey on how United have harmed their hopes of Champions League progress
Friday October 2, 1998
Manchester United will fly to Copenhagen in just under three weeks knowing that anything less
than a victory against Brondby, Peter Schmeichel's old club, would severely diminish their
chances of reaching the knockout stage of the Champions League.
Alex Ferguson may think that nine points could be enough to win Group D but if United lose to
Brondby even this would be a tall order since they have taken only two from their first two
matches. The two best runners-up will join the six group winners in the quarter-finals, yet if
this is to become any sort of option, Ferguson's team still have to start winning games.
On Wednesday night a United victory seemed certain when they led Bayern Munich 2-1 in the
Olympic Stadium as the match moved into stoppage time. Then Schmeichel made a rare error as he
missed a long throw-in from Bixente Lizarazu, enabling Giovane Elber to head Bayern level.
Schmeichel also aggravated a stomach injury and will not play for two weeks. The matches he
will miss include Denmark's European Championship qualifiers against Wales and Switzerland.
United do not have much luck in Europe when Brazilians are among the opposition. Romario
destroyed Ferguson's defence at Nou Camp when Barcelona routed United 4-0 four years ago and
this season Anderson and Giovanni, with a penalty, led Barca's recovery to draw 3-3 at Old
Trafford after going in at half-time 2-0 down.
Elber, another swift-footed, quick-witted Brazilian forward, caused United most problems in
Munich. He gave Bayern the lead after 10 minutes and frequently drifted wide to stretch the
defence. But when he put a simple chance wide 18 minutes from the finish, United appeared to
have survived their worst crisis. Schmeichel's misjudgment made a nonsense of that prognosis.
So far in the Champions League this season United have held the lead three times, only to come
away clutching at draws. When a team score five goals in two matches they really should be
collecting more than a couple of points.
Wednesday's performance by Ferguson's side neither scaled the heights achieved by United in the
first half against Barcelona nor flattened out as anticlimactically in the second.
Ryan Giggs, another casualty, might well have helped to put Wednesday's match beyond Bayern's
reach. Needing a win to offset their initial defeat by Brondby, the German team habitually
left themselves thinly covered at the back as they pressed forward and Giggs's speed on the
counter-attack would surely have punished a defence which was slow on the turn.
As it was, Teddy Sheringham's quick thinking set up David Beckham for the cross from which
Dwight Yorke headed the scores level on the half-hour. And when Paul Scholes strode through to
put United ahead soon after half-time they looked likely to join Norwich City as the only
English teams to beat Bayern in the Olympic Stadium.
But it was not to be and now United have to meet Brondby without Beckham, who will be serving a
one-match ban after receiving his second yellow card of the tournament. In fact, having
needlessly fouled Stefan Effenberg to incur a booking, Beckham then appeared to be doing his
best to get himself sent off.
As a certain captain in the Home Guard might have said: "You stupid boy!"
* Monarch Airlines have apologised to Manchester United after they were forced to spend an
extra night in Munich when their flight home was postponed. The German aviation authorities
would not let their charter flight land at Munich airport because a delay had taken it beyond
the curfew on night-time flying.
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Subject: Beckham still has some growing to do
Friday, October 2, 1998
Alex Ferguson demanded a performance of European maturity from Manchester United against Bayern
Munich on Wednesday. His words were heeded by each of his players - with the worrying exception
of David Beckham.
While others proved Ferguson's estimate that the Champions League is accelerating their
progress, Beckham proved that his good behaviour this season is not necessarily confirmation
that he has grown up.
In Germany, Beckham teetered on the same disciplinary tightrope from which he fell,
spectacularly, against Argentina in the World Cup. That moment of immaturity, according to
Glenn Hoddle, cost England victory and a possible charge to the final.
Despite the vastly unfair vilification which followed, the lesson has evidently vanished from
Beckham's brain, to judge by his violent reactions on Wednesday.
With the game delicately balanced, he lashed out with boot and arm at Bayern's Hasan
Salihamidzic. It was the moment which could have eliminated United from serious contention in
this season's Champions League.
His folly is only magnified by the fact that he had already been booked for a kick on Stefan
Effenberg and will now miss United's next game against Brondby which is in Copenhagen - where
Bayern lost, it should be remembered.
If referee Marc Batta, or his assistant, had spotted the flailing boot and fist, Beckham would
certainly have been ordered off.
United found it hard enough to cling on to the match with a full side in the 2-2 draw and would
surely have succumbed if they had been reduced to 10 men for the third time in four matches.
The talented midfielder knows his character is under intense scrutiny and that Ferguson does
not forgive stupidity. But what he doesn't seem to know is how to master his hair-trigger
temper.
Salihamidzic confirmed that he had been struck by his opponent and said: 'Nothing had happened
between us before that but he was a bit angry and I don't know exactly why. I'm not going to
start making a fuss about it once the game has finished because that is now part of football -
it seems to happen every week.'
Former United player Lou Macari was at the match and willing to be more explicit. He said: 'To
my mind he is a lucky boy that he wasn't sent off. That would have been a catastrophe because
he lost his head after being on the receiving end in one or two incidents.
'He raced the length of the pitch and tried to elbow someone in front of the linesman which,
somehow, the official didn't see. So he was fortunate not to be sent off. David is a wonderful
player but he almost let the team down because of his youth and inexperience. Now he is
suspended for the Brondby game. You can judge how much he will be missed from the wonderful
cross which made it easy for Dwight Yorke to score the first goal.'
Nobody is questioning Beckham's talent, nor the fact that the other parts of his game have
developed while his self-discipline seems to have reached a plateau.
Hoddle spent most of last season warning the player about his temperament and his fears were
confirmed with Beckham's instinctive strike at Argentina's Diego Simeone which brought a red
card.
At that time, Ferguson was protective of Beckham's generally confrontational attitude but,
against Bayern, he seemed to warn Beckham at half-time that he must calm down - hence his
quieter second half.
Yet, that hindered United and helped Bayern rally for their late point. Salihamidzic said: 'He
always has ideas in his mind which are different to other people's and he plays passes you
would not expect to reach his team-mates. He still could improve the general tempo of his game
- for example in the second half he took a break.'
Kaiser leads defence of Beckham
Friday, October 2, 1998
Franz Beckenbauer has given an insight into the flaw in David Beckham's psyche which has again
betrayed him.
The England midfielder must watch from the sidelines as United take on Brondby this month in an
encounter that is now crucial to their chances of progressing in the Champions League.
Against Bayern on Wednesday night - as against Argentina during France 98 - his temper got the
better of him. Now, just as England missed him in Sweden last month, United may suffer because
of his petulance when they travel to Denmark on October 21.
Yet, Kaiser Franz, a long-time admirer of Beckham, believes the darker side of his personality
may be a necessary evil, a counter-balance that makes him the player he is.
The Bayern president said: 'Bixente Lizarazu marked him well, so he could not display his
talent as he wanted to. Perhaps that is what frustrated him.
'Yet, Beckham's temper is actually one of the strengths of his game. Sometimes he overdoes it,
but there is no doubt that the fire within his belly is one of Beckham's great strengths.
'If you keep him down by telling him to keep cool, you risk losing a big part of what makes him
such a fierce competitor.'
Beckenbauer, who admitted his relief over Bayern's late escape, believes that, in Alex
Ferguson, Beckham has someone who can keep him, for the most part, on the straight and narrow.
'I don't know of a manager who has been as successful as Ferguson,' added Beckenbauer. 'He has
so much experience. I am sure there is no-one better than him to talk to Beckham.
'There will always be a delicate balancing act in dealing with Beckham, but I would say that
Ferguson is the best teacher he could have.'
United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel will be out of action for two weeks after suffering a
recurrence of a stomach injury.
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