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Date: Thurs May 28 1998
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This Issue:
1. PPV imminent
2. Fergie "Kluied" Up... (Mirror)
3. Manchester United radio??
4. The night Busby met United's destiny (Independent)
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 10:21:21 -0700
Subject: PPV imminent
Thursday May 28, 12:18 PM
Premier Clubs 'Want Pay-Per-View' - United Chief
Pay-per-view broadcasting is set to receive a collective thumbs-up from the
chairmen of Premiership clubs.
The 20 chairmen are discussing the proposals from BSkyB, which will
revolutionise the game, at their annual two-day meeting in Leicester.
And Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards has carried out his own
telephone straw poll of chairmen which he claims indicates that most are in
favour of the idea.
Under BSkyB's plan, five Premiership fixtures would remain on Saturdays,
with four moving to Sundays and one, as usual, on Monday nights.
Of the four games on Sundays, three would be screened on a pay-per-view basis.
These games will feature the cream of each weekend's action with the result
that the likes of United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea will find
themselves playing even more games on Sundays.
Edwards said: "I'm confident that the proposals will go through. My own
research shows that the majority of clubs are in favour of the idea."
The Football Supporters' Association has already attacked the proposals,
while the Independent Manchester United Supporters' Association (IMUSA) is
also against the plan.
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 21:58:40 -0400
Subject: Fergie "Kluied" Up... (Mirror)
ALEX KLUED UP
BY STEVE MILLAR
Patrick Kluivert is back on Alex Ferguson's shopping list for his summer
£30million spending spree. But the Manchester United manager knows he faces
a fight with Arsenal and Newcastle for the £8million Dutch World Cup
striker.
United are showing huge interest again after so far failing to prise Gabriel
Batistuta away from Fiorentina.
Another Argentine target, Ariel Ortega, is proving elusive, too. And after
the collapse of the deal for French star Marc Vivien Foe because of his
broken leg, United want to buy quickly.
Meanwhile, United have put the block on defender Gary Pallister leaving in
the immediate future.
Chairman Martin Edwards says: "Any possible move to Middlesbrough is on hold
until after the World Cup finals."
TIME GOES BY FOR OWEN IN CASABLANCA
From JOHN DILLON
Morocco ..0 England ..1
TEENAGE sensation Michael Owen blew Glenn Hoddle's World Cup plans wide open
last night by becoming the youngest player ever to score for England. The
Liverpool star survived a frightening moment when he was knocked unconscious
and swallowed his tongue in an ugly collision with the Moroccan goalkeeper.
But he insisted on playing on - showing the sort of grit even Humphrey
Bogart would have been proud of - and scored in a 1-0 victory here in
Casablanca. By smashing Tommy Lawton's 60-year-old milestone at the age of
just 18 years and 164 days he added fuel to the burning debate that he
deserves a place in the starting line-up at France 98.
The picture was not as promising for Arsenal striker Ian Wright, who now
faces an agonising 48 hours of treatment on a damaged hamstring in a
desperate bid to cling on to his World Cup hopes. Yet there was no holding
back the brilliant apprentice and Owen's goal came in only his fourth
appearance for his country - sealed with a kiss from team-mate Paul Ince.
Owen said: "I don't remember being knocked out or Dion Dublin turning me on
my side. The first thing that I remember was the physio asking me if I was
OK. I felt a bit groggy but I wasn't going to tell him that. Getting this
goal is probably the best of all the records I've broken and it's come at
the most important time, just before the World Cup."
Hoddle reacted tetchily when questioned about Owen's chances for France in a
post-match television interview.
"Who said I was ever going to leave him out?" snapped Hoddle as he turned
his back on the camera and walked away.
But later he regained his composure to add: "Dion's reaction when Michael
was injured was first class. I went on to the pitch to see what had happened
because it's obviously something that causes great concern. He took a
terrific whack on the jaw.
"But the first thing he said when he came round was - 'Don't take me off'.
The boy has got up from that and displayed some terrific finishing. We knew
that their defence was very square and that Michael had the pace to get
behind them."
Hoddle refused to rule Wright out of his planning. But if his hamstring is
found to be torn, there will be no way he can go to the tournament. Wright
pulled up hurt in the 24th minute when he was chasing unchallenged after a
loose ball and later complained of a pain behind his left knee.
Hoddle said: "I'm not prepared to say whether he's in or whether he's out.
We'll assess it in 48 hours.''
Owen's goal gave England a much needed, morale-boosting victory after the
disappointing 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia at Wembley on Saturday when they
were jeered off the pitch.
It also lifted them after a poor display in the first half of this opening
match of the King Hassan II Tournament here.
Hoddle's team face Belgium tomorrow in the same competition, their final
international warm-up match before their opening World Cup game against
Tunisia in Marseilles on June 15.
Hoddle conceded that England had been poor in the first half but believes
the experience of playing in front of 90,000 noisy and hostile north African
fans was a perfect dress rehearsal for the clash with Tunisia.
The atmosphere will be similar because Marseilles has a large Tunisian
population. Hoddle said: "I thought it was a very good exercise. The crowd
were hostile and intimidating and that's the sort of thing we could be up
against when we play Tunisia.''
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Subject: Manchester United radio??
LONDON -- An ambitious project to provide
high-speed Internet access through electricity
mains hit a snag when street lights using the
same power supply turned into rogue radio
transmitters.
Trials of the systems in Manchester showed that
Norweb's Digital PowerLine technology was fast
but Internet users discovered that the data they
were downloading was being broadcast as
high-frequency radio waves through the street
lamps.
Physical similarities between the street lights,
which are the right vertical length of a conductor,
caused them to act as radio aerials.
"If the current technology were to be widely used,
experts fear that sections of the radio spectrum
could be swamped, disrupting emergency
communications, annoying amateur radio buffs
and interfering with the BBC World Service," New
Scientist magazine said in its issue today.
Britain's Department of Trade and Industry is
holding meetings with Norweb and users of the
affected frequency, such as the BBC, the Civil
Aviation Authority, and the government's electronic
communications center, in an attempt to solve the
problem.
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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:04:41 -0700
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From: Andrew Sherman
Subject: The night Busby met United's destiny (Independent)
Thirty years ago today Old Trafford's finest beat Benfica to win the
European Cup. Ken Jones recalls a pivotal moment at Wembley
WHEN Matt Busby raised the European Cup amid scenes of great emotion at
Wembley on 29 May 1968, few realised the parlous state into which
Manchester United were falling.
Busby's aura, the genius of George Best alongside such notable figures
as Bobby Charlton, Denis Law (who watched the match from a hospital
bed), Pat Crerand and Nobby Stiles obscured issues that would send
Manchester United into the Second Division within five years of their
greatest triumph.
Although appearing recovered from grievous physical and emotional wounds
inflicted by the Munich air disaster 10 years earlier, his reputation
enhanced by the achievements of a rebuilt team, Busby in fact no longer
possessed the energy to secure United's long-term future.
Supply lines were drying up and Busby's heart-felt warning - "Too much
'mind' could ruin the game" - spoke of the frustration caused in him by
technical developments.
No tactician, Busby's strength was in deployment, his profound sense of
the roles in which players were most likely to be effective. Coupled
with a deep attachment to the beauty and romance of football it made
Busby a great manager, the ultimate football man, but by 1968 he was
presiding over the inertia that would put 25 years between Manchester
United and their next League championship.
None of this registered with the army of supporters who descended on
Wembley in the hope that Busby's vision - if overtaken by Celtic's
ground-breaking conquest a year earlier - would at last be rewarded with
the trophy he had cherished since 1956 after persuading Manchester
United's directors to defy the Football League, who ruled against
participation in the European Cup on the insular grounds that extra
fixtures would seriously disrupt the domestic programme.
The years had rolled by, from the tragedy of 1958 to 1966 when United,
down 2-0 from the first leg of a semi-final against Partizan of Belgrade
and without Best, were unable to make up the deficit at Old Trafford.
Another opportunity lost, another chance coming with the 1967
championship. Busby had sent out better teams, but perhaps this one
would bring fulfillment.
Easily past Hibernians of Malta in the opening round, United then
defeated Sarajevo of Yugoslavia to set up a quarter-final tie against
the Polish champions, Gornik. Taking a two-goal lead to the Silesian
coalfields, Busby making a rare concession to negative tactics, United
hung on for a narrow aggregate victory. "There's a job of work to do
he," he had said in the dressing room. "So let's do it properly."
Of all the clubs who have fought for the European Cup none did more to
glamorize it than the present holders, Real Madrid, so when United were
drawn against them in the semi-finals destiny seemed to be working
overtime. If no longer the Real of Alfredo di Stefano (Busby's
favourite player), Ferenc Puskas and Raymond Kopa, a great tradition ran
strong in their blood.
Holding United at Old Trafford to one of Best's most breathtaking goals,
Real almost battered them into submission two weeks later. Sent out
with instructions to keep their heads and protect the ball, still
without Law whose right knee was badly swollen, United trailed 3-1 at
the interval.
Busby gambled. Releasing David Sadler from an auxiliary role in defence
he gave orders to attack. "There's only one goal in it overall, so
don't give up hope. Go back out with your heads up. Play your
football. Let's get at them."
It wasn't so much that United improved but that Real lost their
momentum. The pace slackened and at last Busby's team began to look
tidy. Then Sadler scored to bring them level on aggregate. "A replay,
at least a replay," Charlton thought.
He was 50 yards behind the play when Best slithered past two men and
made for goal. "I could see others trying to support George, including
Bill Foulkes who seldom crossed the half-way line," Charlton recalled.
"Bill kept running, no one picked him up, and when the ball came over he
knocked it into the net. When the final whistle went it felt as though
we'd won the European Cup and there were tears in our eyes when Matt and
I embraced. How could we fail to win it after all we'd been through
that night?"
Charlton felt it important that only three of the men chosen to face
Benfica in the final had been signed from other professional clubs.
"The lads who had played in Europe a long time all seemed to be there,"
he said many years later when we put a book together. "Bill Foulkes,
Shay Brennan, Nobby. Then the younger ones, Johnny Aston and Brian
Kidd. They were Manchester lads, so they knew what was expected of
them. They had grown up with it all. Brian would have been about 10
years old at the time of the Munich accident."
Identifying Eusebio as an obvious threat but confident that Stiles could
do the job on him that he'd done for England against Portugal in the
1966 World Cup semi-finals, Busby gave attention to Benfica's other
strengths; the influence of Coluna in midfield, Torres's heading ability
and Simoes's scurrying pace.
Encouraged by the ease with which Aston got through Benfica's right
flank United recovered from early nervousness for Charlton to put them
ahead in the second half with a header from Sadler's centre so rare he
imagined it coming as a shock to Busby, his mentor Jimmy Murphy, his
family, his friends, his team-mates, and the football world at large.
Not enough though to secure Busby's dream. Torres headed down for Graca
to equalise and then a heart-stopping moment as Eusebio advanced on Alex
Stepney. Instead of settling for simplicity Eusebio attempted a
spectacular goal and the ball stuck in Stepney's large hands.
Extra time. The World Cup final all over again; only for Charlton and
Stiles the faces of those lying on the ground alongside them were
different. Busby's words echoed Alf Ramsey's. "Benfica are shattered.
Look at them. We're in much better shape. We've got this far, now
let's finish it."
Demoralised by Eusebio's miss, Benfica sank even lower when Adolfo's
slip allowed a clearance from Stepney to reach Best. Wrong-footing
Benfica's goalkeeper, Henrique, with a twitch of his shoulders and a
flick of the hips, Best planted the ball into an empty net before
wheeling away, right hand held aloft. Eusebio had been shown how it was
done.
Kidd headed a third before providing the fourth for Charlton. As Busby
stepped from the bench to embrace his players people wondered what
images were passing through his mind: Duncan Edwards, Eddie Colman,
Roger Byrne. "At last, we've done it," he said.
Busby and Charlton had kept faith with United's dead; Best had confirmed
his genius. But the glorious unification of skill and spirit that
brought Manchester United to fulfillment would dissolve in the acid
truth of complacency that drove Best to brooding, self-destructive
despair.
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