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Date: Mon Apr 27 07:48:52 GMT+00:00 1998
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MANCHESTER UNITED (probable; 4-4-2): P Schmeichel - G Neville, G Pallister,
D May, D Irwin - D Beckham, N Butt, P Scholes, R Giggs - E Sheringham, A Cole.

 UK TELEVISION: Today: Live on Sky Sports 1, from 7pm.

Barry Your editor


This Issue:
1. MANCHESTER UNITED HAVE SIGNED JAAP STAM
2. Preview Crystal Palace v Manchester United
3. Mission Impossible (Mirror)
4. Bergkamp Warns United (D.Mail)
5. Sheri Up For It (Telegraph)

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Monday Morning 27th April

It is reported that we have agreed a fee of £10M for Jaap Stam. All that
appears to remain now is for him to agree personal terms and have medical.
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MANCHESTER UNITED HAVE SIGHNED JAAP STAM

It is a reported £10 million pounds and he will join the reds after the
world cup. Maurice Wadkins announced the sighning today in a statement.

Meanwhile Kanchelskis has been seen at Old Trafford and he want's to come
back. 
Will Ferguson take him back?

Apparently Ferguson is going to step down as manager and he will have
another role,and Kidd will take over.Choccy will train the team.

Tony

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April 27 1998  FOOTBALL

Crystal Palace v Manchester United
Today, 8.0

BY OLIVER HOLT

MANCHESTER UNITED will try to stop the rot at Selhurst Park tonight, knowing
that the fabric of their championship challenge appears to have been
irrevocably undermined already. Things have reached such a pass that, if
they lose tonight against opponents who are still fighting desperately
against relegation, Arsenal will need only to beat Everton at home on
Wednesday night to rip the championship from their grasp.
Palace, of course, hold all sorts of unhappy memories for United, who have
not beaten them at Selhurst Park for five years and who will always
associate their ground with Eric Cantona's kung-fu attack on a home
supporter that resulted in his prolonged suspension from the game and the
loss of some of the fire that burned within him.

To add to that inauspicious omen, Palace finally recorded their first home
win of the season when they beat Derby County. Emboldened, they may now
fancy their chances of doubling their tally.

They certainly have nothing to lose. Rooted to the bottom of the FA Carling
Premiership, six points adrift of Barnsley, anything other than a win
tonight will effectively ensure that Attilio Lombardo and his embattled team
bequeath a season of Nationwide League first division football to the
incoming Terry Venables and whatever players he can entice back to Selhurst
Park.

United will not have given up hope of catching Arsenal just yet and a win
for them would bring them to within a point of the league leaders and exert
some more pressure on them. Even shorn of confidence though they are, Alex
Ferguson and his team will want to prolong the agony.

CRYSTAL PALACE (probable; 4-4-2): A Miller - J Smith, V Ismael, M Edworthy,
D Gordon - N Shipperley, S Rodger, T Brolin, S Curcic - M Jansen, M
Padovano.

MANCHESTER UNITED (probable; 4-4-2): P Schmeichel - G Neville, G Pallister,
D May, D Irwin - D Beckham, N Butt, P Scholes, R Giggs - E Sheringham, A
Cole.

Referee: P Jones.

TELEVISION: Today: Live on Sky Sports 1, from 7pm.

PREDICTION: United to win.
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Subject:   Mission Impossible (Mirror)

IT'S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

MANCHESTER United flew to the capital last night on a faint wing and a
prayer that the championship doesn't land in London, too.
The hard, cold facts of the Premiership table tell them they are embarking
on a mission impossible, starting at Selhurst Park tonight.

Arsenal will become the new kings of English football in the next 48 hours
if United lose to Crystal Palace and the seemingly unstoppable Gunners beat
Derby on Wednesday.

But United manager Alex Ferguson says defiantly: "We won't give it up.
Nobody in this club ever throws in the towel.

"That's not the nature of the players at this club.

"We can only hope now that a disaster happens at Arsenal. And we have to
make sure we finish the season on the right note.

"It needs total application and the main thing is that we do our job right.
We must make sure we get second place at the very least.

"Hopefully, though, there's still a collapse to come at Highbury."

Evidence enough that the current champs are going to hand over their title
belt with a bang, not a whimper.

They have vowed to fight and scrap every inch of the way until they are
counted out of points and games and Arsene Wenger raises his own arm in a
championship salute.

Quitting isn't the nature of the beast at Old Trafford. And any sign of
surrender by United's young braves will bring a fearsome, blow-torch
response from Ferguson.

United's boss has already admitted that finishing as runners-up and
trophy-less will bloody well hurt.

Finishing second-best to Arsenal will cut deep inside a man proud to have
collected four championships in five fantastic years.

But Ferguson is also very much a realist after watching the mighty Gunners
mount an awesome, late season run that was once his own side's speciality.

While Arsenal have gone four points clear with a game in hand, United have
basically been treading water until their titantic title run hits the
iceberg hits.

They have clawed just nine points from the last seven games, including
successive home draws against Liverpool and Newcastle.

Striker Teddy Sheringham says: "We have to keep plugging away. Things have
gone a little bit flat for us and it's up to us to try and pick it up again.

"It's still eleven players against eleven players. You never know."

Sheringham, like his boss, is on one knee looking for a bit of divine
inspiration from the heavens.

So far, there's no sign of it. Wenger's wannabe wonders have looked
invincible in the great title run-in. I watched transfixed as they wiped out
Blackburn in cold blood. Wimbledon and Barnsley have been clobbered to death
since.

Now Derby look like being rams to the slaughter at Highbury on Wednesday as
Arsenal close in for the final kill.

At one stage I didn't believe they had the bottle for this battle with
hardened title-fighters like United. But Wenger has forged a side of skill
and steel. A frightening combination that has been grudgingly acknowledged
even in the never-say-die north.

Ferguson too readily admits that he thought Arsenal would hit the brick wall
of too many games to play in too short a time. Having been in their log jam
position himself, he knew the massive mental and physical problems they
faced.

"They must continue to win if they are going to make their advantage pay
off," he says. "If they do, then good luck to them. They have shown great
resilience and will have put in a storming end to the season."

United will be boosted at Palace tonight by the return of keeper and skipper
Peter Schmeichel, who limped out of the Newcastle game suffering hamstring
pain. It looked as if his season was over.

But Schmeichel played for Denmark against Norway last Wednesday and has come
back for the grand finale.

Ronny Johnsen will be missing. He's flown back to Oslo for a cartilage
operation in a bid to save his World Cup hopes.

There is a worry over Gary Neville, who still hasn't fully recovered from a
virus picked up before the Newcastle match.

Ferguson said last night: "We will have Gary checked in the morning to see
if he can make the Palace game. But Peter's OK and he's going to play."


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Subject:  Bergkamp Warns United (D.Mail)

'We can rule Europe,' Bergkamp warns United

Monday, April 27, 1998

The disappointment that Manchester United and their hordes of supporters are
currently experiencing as Arsenal prepare to make off with their Premiership
crown may turn to disillusion within 12 months if Dennis Bergkamp is proved
correct.

The Dutch striker believes that his side's emergence as champions-in-waiting
may have far greater significance than that of domestic dominance.

It is Bergkamp's assertion that, although his colleagues go into next
season's Champions League as debutants, they are already better equipped to
handle life among Europe's elite than the team Alex Ferguson has so lovingly
nurtured over the past decade.

Manchester United may represent Cool Britannia but Arsene Wenger deals in
the ecu, rather than sterling. Arsenal have been constructed with parts
imported from all over Europe, which suggests to Bergkamp that while
home-grown United have failed four times to carry the union flag to the
summit, the London club will immediately feel at home on foreign fields.

Even allowing for injuries, United's Champions League quarter-final defeat
by Monaco ? a side later taken apart by finalists Juventus ? continues to
foster doubts about their ability to make the transition to the highest
levels of European football.

Arsenal's exchange students, of course, retreated in disarray after their
defeat against PAOK Salonika. But since those early days of the season, when
they were still boning up on the language of English football, Wenger's team
of many colours have taken on the warm, red glow of champions.

That unification now tells Bergkamp, scorer of yet another exquisite goal in
the crucial victory over Barnsley, that what they are about to do in the
Premiership can also be achieved in the Champions League.

He said: 'I think we have an advantage over Manchester United in that we
have a lot of players from Europe instead of a team who have gained
experience only by playing in European competition. That gives us a great
width of knowledge to take with us. We already have people from the French
League or the Dutch League. There is an an inbred knowledge of European
football already there.'

Arsenal have 11 players brought in from overseas while Wenger himself is
French and already has vast experience with Monaco.

Compared with Italy, for example, Premiership clubs work almost double the
hours because of the number of games they play. But Bergkamp said: 'Of
course there is strain if you are going for as many competitions as we must
in England. But I believe we have a strength in depth and I think we would
be able to handle it physically.

'Of course, it will probably be necessary to make choices in terms of what
you try to win but if you go into the Champions League you have to believe
within yourself that winning is possible.'

Against Barnsley, now looking doomed to a return to Division One after such
a valiant season, Arsenal were in total command.

Naturally, having won their previous eight games and with the championship
in sight, there was bounce and buoyancy. There was never any question that
they would lose their focus at Oakwell after Bergkamp curled home the first
goal. The only surprise was that it took so long to add a second, though
Marc Overmars still finished the game off with aplomb.

There was no hint of fatigue, and the fact that Wenger has rotated so many
of his players gives credence to Bergkamp's claim that,even with the
Champions League to contend with, Arsenal will remain an awesome force next
season.

David Platt, himself a Eurocrat after four years in Italy, preferred to add
a note of caution as Arsenal prepare for the visits of Derby County on
Wednesday and then Everton next Sunday. Victories in both will confirm the
club as Premiership champions but even from the confines of deepest
Yorkshire, the former England captain could see that Europe might not be as
easy to conquer as Bergkamp seems to think.

'None of the players has been in the Champions League yet,' he said. 'And
you only need look at the final coming up to see how far we have to go. Real
Madrid and Juventus is what I call a real European Cup final between two
phenomenal sides. It may not be scintillating to watch but there will be so
much going on in that game, so much for us to learn.

'What's more, we haven't even won our own championship yet. If United can
beat Palace, we will then have two very difficult games in the next week
against one team going for Europe and another fighting for survival. People
say it is all but over but it is not yet.'

It is all but over, however, for Barnsley. They must now travel to Leicester
then tackle Manchester United at Oakwell on the last day of the season.

As skipper Neil Redfearn said: 'We won't give up. We won't give in. We will
fight to the last and we have to believe there is still life left.'

Typical of Redfearn, typical of Barnsley, but as they filed away on Saturday
evening, the crowd who have loved every minute of life in the Premiership
appeared to have stopped believing in miracles.


   Marcus Lionel van Geyzel.

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Subject:     Sheri Up For It (Telegraph)

England goal lifts Sheringham

TEDDY Sheringham says the goal he scored for England against Portugal last
Wednesday has renewed his confidence as he tries to help Manchester United
keep their dwindling championship hopes alive against Crystal Palace at
Selhurst Park tonight.

"That game does give me confidence going into the Palace game," said
Sheringham. "Things have gone a little bit flat for us but we still feel
that we've got half a chance. If we were in Arsenal's position we would not
be thinking that it was all over.

"I've not been in this situation before, but I have watched over the years
how teams can look so good, only to falter, and we can only hope that
happens again this year."

Utility man Ronny Johnsen misses the game and United's other two remaining
fixtures because he is due to have a cartilage operation in Norway today.
Goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel hopes to recover from his nagging hamstring
injury in time to play.


Victory for United will confirm Palace's relegation to the First Division.
England B striker Matt Jansen, 20, who joined Palace from Carlisle when a
host of clubs, including United, were clamouring for his signature a couple
of months ago, is struggling to recover from an ankle injury.

He has no regrets about his move: "There was the prospect of immediate
first-team football at Palace, which would have been very unlikely at
United, and I knew I could progress my career more quickly here."
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