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Date: Wed Dec 30 06:48:14 GMT+00:00 1998
Mail: barry@www.red11.org
This Issue:
1. RESULTS AND ATTENDANCES ON 29/12/98 ***
2. Relief for Ferguson as Chelsea miss chance
3. United and Chelsea stalemate benefits Villa
4. Wasteful Chelsea let United escape
5. Decision time for Schmeichel
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Daily RED Trivia Wed 30th December 1998:
30/12/1929: Tommy McNulty born in Salford. McNulty made his debut against Portsmouth
in April 1950, and won a League Championship medal in 1952. The Full-back made
59 appearances between 1950-53, before moving on to Liverpool in February 1954.
1978: In a remarkable Division 1 game at Old Trafford, 45,091 see United lose
3-5 to West Bromwich Albion with goals from Brian Greenhoff, Sammy
McIlroy and Gordon McQueen. Team was: Bailey, B.Greenhoff, Houston,
McIlroy, McQueen, Buchan, J.Greenhoff (Sloan), Ritchie, McCreery, Thomas.
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A decent draw and 3rd in the table. We must be pleased with Schmikes today.
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*** 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
03/10/98 Southampton Away W 3-0 2 15,251
17/10/98 Wimbledon Home W 5-1 2 55,265
24/10/98 Derby County Away D 1-1 2 30,867
31/10/98 Everton Away W 4-1 2 40,079
08/11/98 Newcastle United Home D 0-0 3 55,174
14/11/98 Blackburn Rovers Home W 3-2 2 55,198
21/11/98 Sheffield Wednesday Away L 1-3 2 39,475
29/11/98 Leeds Home W 3-2 2 55,172
05/12/98 Aston Villa Away D 1-1 2 39,241
12/12/98 Tottenham Hotspur Away D 2-2 1 36,079
16/12/98 Chelsea Home D 1-1 2 55,159
19/12/98 Middlebrough Home L 2-3 3 55,152
26/12/98 Notts Forest Home W 3-0 3 55,216
29/12/98 Chelsea Away D 0-0 3 34,741
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Champions League:
Group D P W D L F A Pts
Bayern Munich 6 3 2 1 9 6 11
Man United 6 2 4 0 20 11 10
Barcelona 6 2 2 2 11 9 8
Brondby 6 1 0 5 4 18 3
Dec 9 Brøndby 0-2 Barcelona
Dec 9 Man Utd 1-1 Bayern Munich
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CHAMPIONS' LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL DRAW
Manchester Utd v Inter Milan
Real Madrid v Dynamo Kiev
Juventus v Olympiakos
Bayern Munich v Kaiserslautern
Ties to be played on March 3 and 17
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Subject: *** RESULTS AND ATTENDANCES ON 29/12/98 ***
Chelsea 0-0 Manchester United 34,741
Leeds United 2-2 Wimbledon 39,816
*** LEAGUE TABLE AS AT 29/12/98 ***
Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
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1 Aston Villa 20 11 6 3 31 20 11 39
2 Chelsea 20 9 10 1 31 17 14 37
3 Manchester United 20 9 8 3 39 23 16 35
4 Arsenal 20 9 8 3 22 11 11 35
5 Leeds United 20 8 9 3 34 19 15 33
6 West Ham United 20 9 5 6 24 23 1 32
7 Liverpool 20 9 4 7 36 25 11 31
8 Middlesbrough 20 7 9 4 32 26 6 30
9 Wimbledon 20 8 6 6 27 32 -5 30
10 Derby County 20 6 10 4 20 18 2 28
11 Leicester City 20 7 7 6 23 21 2 28
12 Tottenham Hotspur 20 7 6 7 28 30 -2 27
13 Newcastle United 20 6 6 8 24 28 -4 24
14 Everton 20 5 8 7 13 21 -8 23
15 Sheffield Wednesday 20 6 4 10 21 22 -1 22
16 Blackburn Rovers 20 4 6 10 20 28 -8 18
17 Coventry City 20 4 5 11 16 29 -13 17
18 Charlton Athletic 20 3 7 10 23 31 -8 16
19 Southampton 20 3 5 12 16 38 -22 14
20 Nottingham Forest 20 2 7 11 18 36 -18 13
*** TEAM RESULTS - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 29/12/98 ***
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
03/10/98 Southampton Away W 3-0 2 15,251
17/10/98 Wimbledon Home W 5-1 2 55,265
24/10/98 Derby County Away D 1-1 2 30,867
31/10/98 Everton Away W 4-1 2 40,079
08/11/98 Newcastle United Home D 0-0 3 55,174
14/11/98 Blackburn Rovers Home W 3-2 2 55,198
21/11/98 Sheffield Wednesday Away L 1-3 2 39,475
29/11/98 Leeds United Home W 3-2 2 55,172
05/12/98 Aston Villa Away D 1-1 2 39,241
12/12/98 Tottenham Hotspur Away D 2-2 1 36,079
16/12/98 Chelsea Home D 1-1 2 55,159
19/12/98 Middlesbrough Home L 2-3 3 55,152
26/12/98 Nottingham Forest Home W 3-0 3 55,216
29/12/98 Chelsea Away D 0-0 3 34,741
*** TEAM RESULTS SUMMARY - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 29/12/98 ***
P Won Drawn Lost For Against Points
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Home 11 7 (64%) 3 (27%) 1 (9%) 27 (2.5) 12 (1.1) 24 (2.2)
Away 9 2 (22%) 5 (56%) 2 (22%) 12 (1.3) 11 (1.2) 11 (1.2)
Total 20 9 (45%) 8 (40%) 3 (15%) 39 (2.0) 23 (1.1) 35 (1.8)
Averages per game in (brackets)
League position: 3rd
Form position: 15th (Index: 72%)
Predicted position: 10th
(The higher the form index, the higher the average
league position of the recent opposition)
Highest league position: 1st
Lowest league position: 10th
(Excluding the first 4 matches)
*** TEAM STATISTICS - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 29/12/98 ***
AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE: 55,174
HIGHEST HOME ATTENDANCE:
17/10/98 - Wimbledon (55,265)
LOWEST HOME ATTENDANCE:
15/08/98 - Leicester City (55,052)
BEST WIN:
17/10/98 - Wimbledon (5-1)
HEAVIEST DEFEAT:
20/09/98 - Arsenal (0-3)
BEST HOME WIN:
17/10/98 - Wimbledon (5-1)
HEAVIEST HOME DEFEAT:
19/12/98 - Middlesbrough (2-3)
BEST AWAY WIN:
03/10/98 - Southampton (3-0)
31/10/98 - Everton (4-1)
HEAVIEST AWAY DEFEAT:
20/09/98 - Arsenal (0-3)
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Subject: Relief for Ferguson as Chelsea miss chance
Wednesday, December 30, 1998
Chelsea paid the price last night for failing to take the chances their
magnificent football created on a night of passion at Stamford Bridge.
Manchester United came close to being overwhelmed in the first 45 minutes
and striker Tore Andre Flo could have collected a hat-trick.
As early as the first minute, Gianfranco Zola fired over the crossbar - but
his miss set the pattern for Chelsea.
Norway striker Flo, normally so clinical with his finishing, failed to
adjust his feet in time after Peter Schmeichel had spilled a Zola shot at
his feet and somehow contrived to put his effort the wrong side of the post.
His manager, Gianluca Vialli, was up on his feet but turned away to hold
his head in his hands as the opportunity went begging.
United were so busy reinforcing at the back that they had to rely on sudden
breaks from the back. In one instance, Andy Cole managed to round Chelsea
goalkeeper Ed de Goey but saw his shot cleared by Michael Duberry.
Manager Alex Ferguson must have been relieved when his team went off at
half-time still in the game and after the interval United were more
composed and managed to ration the flow of Chelsea chances.
Chelsea had an escape when the combative Frank Leboeuf, who had earlier
been booked, sent United's David Beckham crashing to the ground. But
referee Mike Riley issued only the sternest of warnings when he might have
reached for a red card.
The Frenchman admitted afterwards: 'I think maybe I deserved a red card. I
touched his foot and grabbed him with my hand. I apologise for that, but I
am very pleased not to be sent off.'
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Subject: United and Chelsea stalemate benefits Villa
By Clare Lovell
LONDON, Dec 29 - Chelsea and Manchester United played out a 0-0 stalemate
in the premier league on Tuesday, allowing Aston Villa to move into 1999 in
top spot. In a scrappy match Chelsea, who would have overhauled Villa had
they won, enjoyed the better of the first half, capitalising on Manchester
United's passing errors in midfield and testing Denmark goalkeeper Peter
Schmeichel.
Norway's lanky Chelsea foward Tore Andre Flo went into the break deeply
frustrated after putting the ball wide or high from clear scoring positions
four times.
Both managers, Chelsea's Italian boss Gianluca Vialli and United's Alex
Ferguson, were pleased to have avoided defeat. "I'm a little disappointed
after that first half but satisfied with the point," said Vialli.
"Chelsea created a few good chances and we were lucky to survive the first
half," said Ferguson, adding: "I think both teams are happy to have settled
for a draw."
Flo's sharpest chance went begging after a display of Italian wizardry from
Gianfranco Zola, who rounded two defenders and fired from close range.
Schmeichel parried at Flo's feet but the ball ricocheted just wide.
Chelsea's World Cup winning captain Franck Leboeuf and fellow defender
Michael Duberry kept Andy Cole and Paul Scholes in check but got a fright
halfway through the first period when Andy Cole rounded Chelsea 'keeper Ed
de Goey only to see his shot scrambled off the line. Ten minutes later a
rather subdued David Beckham curled in a cross but Scholes's shot went
straight to the keeper. Beckham perked up in the second half and benefited
from Scholes's substitution by Teddy Sheringham, who made more space up
front. United upped their tempo and tightened their somewhat porous defence
with Roy Keane and Gary Neville distributing with greater flair and
imagination. De Goey was forced to punch the ball out from Sheringham in
the 61st minute and an imposing Duberry scrambled the ball off the line
four minutes later. Zola, ever busy, had Chelsea's best chance of the
second half but when he found himself face to face with Schmeichel he tried
and failed to power the ball through the big Dane's legs. Schmeichel, who
leaves English football at the end of the season, confounded critics who
maintain he has lost his touch with an inspired display throughout a match
Chelsea will feel they lost through squandered chances.
They can count themselves lucky that they did not finish the game with 10
men after the referee -- showing seasonal goodwill -- failed to produce a
second yellow card for Leboeuf for pushing Beckham after he had already
gone in the book for a foul on Cole.
The Frenchman himself was waiting for his marching orders. "I think maybe I
deserved a red card but it was not intentional," he said after the match.
United fans thought they might have snatched the three points in the dying
seconds as a Ryan Giggs sally and shot went straight to the tall Dutch
Chelsea keeper. De Goey fumbled it and only just managed to stop it
bouncing over the line. The draw put United into third place above Arsenal
on goal difference and the top four clubs move into the new year with four
points separating them.
In the evening's other premier league match, Wimbledon fought back twice to
hold fifth-placed Leeds to a 2-2 draw.
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Subject: Wasteful Chelsea let United escape
Wednesday, December 30, 1998
In the five painful years since Manchester United last lost at Stamford
Bridge Chelsea have never had a better chance to end that run than last
night when they peppered Peter Schmeichel's goal, dominated the match but
failed to win the match.
After Alex Ferguson's near full-strength side started with menace and
confidence, they barely tested Chelsea's defensive abiltiy and it was not
until Frank Leboeuf came within inches of being sent off, for clipping
David Beckham's heels, that things almost turned towards the visitors.
The final piece of wastefulness on a night when Chelsea could have won by
four goals, came with 10 minutes left. Dan Petrescu sent Gianfranco Zola
through one on one with Schmeichel but the Dane saved with a flailing heel.
Only he and Jaap Stam kept a bright start from turning into a defeat which
would have left them five points behind Chelsea.
Any side with the built-in confidence which four titles in six seasons
brings would be eager to face a Chelsea starting line-up missing Dennis
Wise, Gustavo Poyet, Gianluca Vialli and Marcel Desailly, let alone
Pierluigi Casiraghi.
United came down to London with exactly the same sense of self-belief which
made Chelsea so confident at Old Trafford this month when they earned a 1-1
draw.
Early on, Ferguson's side held possession in the manner which has become
Chelsea's trademark. They anticipated the loose ball more often and
Vialli's team too regularly hoisted the ball high and long. Having seen
enough of that, the Chelsea manager hoisted himself off the bench with
better effect than any of the forward punts he had disapproved of, and
strenuously ordered his side to keep the ball on the ground.
The result was spectacular. Celestine Babayaro, the target of Vialli's
orders, turned inside a Beckham challenge and slipped a neat pass to Zola.
Chelsea's leading scorer shaped to shoot and then left Stam on his backside
with a postage-stamp turn.
The shot was good but Schmeichel earned a bit of luck with his instinctive
parry.
The goalkeeper could only watch as Flo missed his third opportunity of the
match when he put the hair-trigger rebound just past a post.
While United had been playing the more controlled game, Flo had beaten
Ronny Johnsen to Zola's 12th-minute corner and then the gifted Norwegian
profited from invention by Zola and Petrescu but hooked wide from five yards.
Even those chances had not hidden the fact that Chelsea's game was not as
flowing or patient as usual but Vialli's intervention from the bench
immediately changed their style.
The passing sequences went up from two and three to six and seven, and gaps
in United's defence appeared as a consequence.
Before that flood of opportunities however, Andy Cole had the chance to
score precisely the type of goal which led to a flood here last January
during the FA Cup third-round tie when United went 5-0 up and effectively
ended Ruud Gullit's reign.
Paul Scholes took possession 20 yards in from his left touchline and Frank
Leboeuf went for the challenge but was far too late. Scholes released the
ball with perfect timing and Cole was ready to pounce.
The only thing which prevented Cole doing his job was the bewilderingly
quick appearance of Ed de Goey's huge frame in his line of sight.
Cole went wide of the goalkeeper but in doing so allowed Mike Duberry to
man the decks, and the defender applied a size 10 boot to the ball, sending
it hurtling up the pitch.
The pace was furious but the tempers were not. Last season held so much
miserly respect between these two sides that nastiness became the product
and football the by-product.
At least the first half passed last night with a handshake between Graeme
Le Saux and Beckham when the midfielder caught his England colleague with a
slightly late challenge.
Zola and Beckham both failed to cause any damage from the only other
notable free kicks of the first half.
Chelsea's opportunity, in the 26th minute, came when Leboeuf strolled
elegantly forward, Flo and Roberto Di Matteo tussled with Stam and Johnsen,
and Jody Morris was finally brought down by Gary Neville.
Zola hit the target but Schmeichel was easily equal to the curving free kick.
Beckham's effort, a few minutes later, indicated how easily the play was
surging from one goalmouth to the other but the flighted chip he played
forward resulted in Scholes nodding the ball into De Goey's grasp.
The moments which followed must have made Scholes fearful that he had
wasted a crucial chance to set Chelsea back on their heels.
Flo nearly - perhaps should have - scored twice. Zola was thwarted by a
desperate lunging save which Schmeichel produced from his old repertoire
rather than the newer, flawed one.
Flo was having one of those nights which is reviewed in glowing terms if
his team win but critical tut-tutting if they lose.
Always able to pose difficulty for United's World Cup-calibre pairing of
Stam and Johnsen at the back, Flo spent the lion's share of the match
unable to apply the punishing touch.
Just before the half-hour he was one on one with the goalkeeper but inched
his chip wide. Then five minutes later, Le Saux floated a lovely pass into
the box, Flo made delicate contact with his volley but the ball flew just
over the bar.
Finally, to end what had been a chance for Chelsea to seal the destination
of three hugely important points, Roy Keane's mistake put Zola in on goal
only for his normal sure-footedness to fail him and he was thwarted by
Schmeichel's dive at the ball.
Shorn of Dwight Yorke, Cole did his usual industrial shift and must have
turned green with envy watching the bounty of chances in which Flo wallowed.
The reward for Cole was to be reunited with Teddy Sheringham exactly on the
hour, a resumption of the partnership which terrorised the Premiership this
time last year.
The tempo never once relented with each passing moment emphasising that the
game would be won by the first team to score.
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Subject: Decision time for Schmeichel
Wednesday, December 30, 1998
Peter Schmeichel will announce by the middle of February which club he will
join next season and a move from Manchester United to southern Europe is
odds-on, according to his agent.
The 35-year-old goalkeeper wants to spend a minimum of two seasons in a
warmer climate before returning to Brondby in his native Denmark but his
plans seemed to be foundering because of a series of poor performances for
United.
The major Continental sides were apparently unconvinced about paying high
wages for a player with injury problems and unimpressive form.
However, his agent Ole Frederiksen said yesterday that Schmeichel was a hot
property.
Denying that an immediate return to Brondby at the end of this season was
looming as Schmeichel's only option, Fred-eriksen said: 'The interest for
Peter has been far larger even than we had dreamed it might be.
Inquiries have come, in particular, from clubs in the southern part of
Europe - Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.
'Now we are getting ready to look at the clubs which have declared an
interest but that will not happen until early January. 'Peter has been
treated extremely fairly by United from the point at which he made his
decision to try a career change in a new and warmer country. Therefore, we
will follow the rules and not start talking to potential new clubs until we
are allowed to, which is this weekend.'
Schmeichel must also consider the financial aspects of his move as he seems
unlikely to be granted a testimonial by United.
On the family side, the player pointed out: 'I have my 12-year-old son
Kaspar to think about and it would be good for him to learn another
language before we return home.'
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