www.red11.org DAILY NEWS
Date: Mon Jul 05 09:43:23 GMT+00:00 1999
Mail: barry@www.red11.org
This Issue:
1. To whom it may concern:
2. Ferguson criticises external pressure
3. Banks blasts back in United Cup row
4. POSH SPICE AND BECKHAM TIE THE KNOT
5. SHERINGHAM ADMITS NOT EVEN END-OF-SEASON GLORY TOOK AWAY
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Daily MANCHESTER UNITED NEWS Mon 5th July 1999:
Barry Daily Comment:
The story rants on I must say both sides seem to have put their foot in it!
Guess we will have to live and bear it. No FA cup? Just A Micky cup instead!
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NEXT MATCHES
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01-AUG-1999 [15:00] Manchester Utd. vs Arsenal (FA Charity Shield, AWAY)
08-AUG-1999 [16:00] Manchester Utd. vs Everton (FA Premier League, AWAY)
11-AUG-1999 [20:00] Manchester Utd. vs Sheffield W (FA Premier League, HOME)
14-AUG-1999 [15:00] Manchester Utd. vs Leeds U (FA Premier League, HOME)
22-AUG-1999 [16:00] Manchester Utd. vs Arsenal (FA Premier League, AWAY)
Friendlies:
August 3rd Omagh Town, St Julian's Road ground
August 4th Wigan Athletic
****Pre season tour details JULY 1999 ***
Melbourne Sydney
Thu 15/7 MAN. UNITED V SOCCEROOS evening in Melbourne
at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground- capacity 90,000.) kick off 20.00hrs.
- Melbourne Cricket Ground 5 minutes from the city. Good transport available
Tickets available - starts from $60.00 - behind the goal -next up is $90.00,
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Sun 18/7 MAN. UNITED V SOCCEROOS STADIUM AUSTRALIA, Olympic Boulevard,
Homebush Bay, Sydney NEW SOUTH WALES 15.00 local time
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+ Far East
Wed 21/7 Shangai first time ever!!!
This match will be watched by 80,000 fans
The game has sold out with the Shanghai Star reporting the home side's
chairman Yu Zhifei as saying: ''It is unprecedented that the tickets
should sell out for a match five weeks in advance."
Sat 24/7 Hong Kong Repeat of the 1997 game
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*** FINAL PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE AS AT 16/05/99 ***
Pos Team P W D L F A W D L F A GD Pts
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1 Manchester United 38 14 4 1 45 18 8 9 2 35 19 43 79
2 Arsenal 38 14 5 0 34 5 8 7 4 25 12 42 78
3 Chelsea 38 12 6 1 29 13 8 9 2 28 17 27 75
4 Leeds United 38 12 5 2 32 9 6 8 5 30 25 28 67
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15 July Melbourne pre season Australia
18 July Sydney pre season Australia
21 July Shanghai pre season Shenhua
24 July Hong Kong pre season South China
1 Aug Wembley Ch Sh Arsenal
4 Aug Friendly Wigan Athletic
8 Aug away PL Everton
11 Aug home PL Sheffield Wednesday
14 Aug home PL Leeds United
21 Aug away PL Arsenal
25 Aug away PL Coventry City
27 Aug Monaco ESC Lazio UEFA Super Cup in Monaco
at Stade Louis II, kick off 8.45pm.
30 Aug away PL Newcastle United 13.00 UK
THE FANTASTIC TRIPLE WAS WON!!
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Subject: To whom it may concern:
This is a letter I have just sent to The Rt. Hon. Tony Banks, Minister of
Sport.
Dear Sir
The current situation regarding Manchester United's non-defence of the FA
Cup - the world's oldest football trophy - has left the Treble Champions
as the laughing stock of British football. Far from being rightly
lauded for their amazing efforts last season, the club - especially the
players and the supporters - is being punished. Forcing them to withdraw
from the FA Cup was a callous and ill-conceived idea. Obviously there is a
rift between UEFA and FIFA regarding the new World Club Cup, and the FA
deems it necessary to send Manchester United over to Brazil to fly the flag
for the World Cup bid for 2006. With fixture congestion a distinct
possibility I would like to propose the following solution, which I think
would enable the government, the FA, and Manchester United to save face.
More importantly, it would restore the integrity of the FA Cup, and still
bolster England's World Cup bid.
Since the FA Cup 3rd round has already been brought forward to early
December, Manchester United should be invited to participate. Should they
be eliminated there is no problem. If they win their 3rd round tie I
propose that they then be given a bye to the 5th round so that they could
go to Brazil. This would leave 31 teams still in the 4th round. The draw
would be made as usual, except that there would only be 15 matches played
in the 4th round. The first 28 teams drawn out of the "bag" would line up
in the 4th round as usual. The 29th team would be at home in the 4th round.
The 30th team would play a single game against the 31st team to decide
which team plays team 29 in round 4. This would increase the number of
fixtures by one single match, and all 31 teams would have an equal chance
of being asked to make this small sacrifice to bolster England's World Cup
bid.
There is still the possibility that Manchester United might face a fixture
pile-up at the end of the season, of course. I suggest that if they were
faced with the prospect of having to play more than two games in any seven
day period from February to May that their season be extended to allow for
this.
Yours faithfully
Steve Edge
Manchester United supporter
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Subject: Ferguson criticises external pressure
TONY BANKS, the Minister for Sport, has rejected claims by Sir Alex
Ferguson that Manchester United were forced by the Government into
competing in the world club championship. In a newspaper column, Ferguson
said that United "have been under considerable pressure from the
Government", which he believes is "on a crusade for the World Cup".
Ferguson believes that had it not been for the World Cup 2006 bid, his side
would have defended the FA Cup, but Banks is adamant that it was United's
decision all along.
"Exceptional circumstances have caused this situation to arise," Banks
said, "but this is something Manchester United were happy to do and the
idea that I personally have forced them to do it is a rather interesting
story. I hope Mr Blair realises just how powerful I am in domestic and
world football."
Nicolas Anelka made it clear yesterday that he considered himself to be a
Lazio player and would never return to Arsenal. Anelka, whose protracted
move to the Italian club should be completed this week, said that the deal
had stalled partly because of recent interest shown by Juventus and Parma.
AS Roma, of Italy, want to buy Rio Ferdinand, West Ham United's £12
million-rated England defender. Franco Sensi, the Roma president, claimed
yesterday the Serie A club may finalise a deal by Wednesday after being
thwarted in their bid for Sol Campbell, of Tottenham Hotspur.
John Gregory, the Aston Villa manager, has dismissed the prospect of making
a fresh bid to sign Juninho, the Brazil midfield player, from Atlético
Madrid. Villa made a move to recruit Juninho last season and the player
even flew in to Birmingham for talks.
Kevin McKeown, the goalkeeper, kept Newry's hopes of a place in the third
round of the InterToto Cup alive with a string of saves that restricted MSV
Duisburg to a 2-0 second-round, first-leg win in Germany.
Rivaldo, of Brazil, was sent off for the second time in four internationals
and Marcelo Salas, the Chile forward, was also dismissed for diving as
their teams won their latest matches at the Copa America. Brazil beat
Mexico 2-1 to qualify for the quarter-finals and Chile overcame Venezuela
3-0.
Terry McDermott, the former Newcastle United assistant manager, is joining
Celtic as "social manager". John Barnes, the Celtic head coach said: "His
job will be to assist me on the training ground as a coach and social
manager."
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Subject: Banks blasts back in United Cup row
Russell Thomas
Monday July 5, 1999
Tony Banks, the sports minister, yesterday insisted he had not forced
Manchester United to drop out of next season's FA Cup and play in the world
club championship in order to boost England's chances of hosting the 2006
World Cup.
Banks was hitting back at claims by Alex Ferguson that United were
railroaded by the government into giving up the defence of the Cup and
entering the new club competiition in Brazil next January.
Ultimately the decision, said Banks, was the Old Trafford club's and "this
is something United were happy to do".
He added: "The idea that I personally have forced them to do it is a rather
interesting story. I hope Tony Blair realises just how powerful I am in
domestic and world football."
And the minister insisted the FA Cup was not devalued by the holders
quitting it next season, suggesting that view was an "insult" to other
teams in the Cup.
Yet he pointed out that Fifa, the sport's global governing body, had
effectively applied pressure on all parties involved in England. He claimed
that if the treble winners had not accepted the offer and agreed to enter
Fifa's inaugural world club championship, England's World Cup bid would
"undoubtedly" have been threatened.
"Three crucial people whom I know extraordinarily well in Fifa made it
quite clear," he said, "and I had to take that message very seriously and I
conveyed that message back to all the different parties."
The latest argument over United's sacrifice of the FA Cup was prompted by
Ferguson saying United "have been under considerable pressure from the
government" who he believes "are on a crusade for the World Cup".
United's manager is convinced that but for the World Cup - with a decision
on the venue for 2006 in March, only two months after the Brazil event- his
side would have gladly defended the FA Cup, and ultimately their treble.
"It is easy for everyone to criticise Manchester United, but if you read
the statement from sports minister Tony Banks it said 'Manchester United
must go'. It expressed what they feel."
Fifa has said United's participation in the new competition would not
influence the 2006 issue. But the government felt that if United had
declined, their Champions League victims Bayern Munich would have accepted,
handing the initiative to Germany who, with South Africa, are England's top
rivals.
England's World Cup bid chief Alec McGivan said of the effect on the 2006
bid had United rejected the Brazil event: "For us to have not attended it
and walked away from it would have gone down very badly."
In Scotland, the league secretary Peter Donald has questioned the Rangers
manager Dick Advocaat's suggestion that now that the League Cup offers no
European place it should be scrapped.
Advocaat thinks the League Cup, which his treble-winning side won last
season, threatens their chances of qualifying for the Champions League
group stage. But Donald cited recent changes which mean Rangers will not
have to play until the third round, by which time the Champions' League
will be almost halfway through.
Subject: SHERINGHAM ADMITS NOT EVEN END-OF-SEASON GLORY TOOK AWAY
PAIN OF HIS OLD TRAFFORD MISERY
By Ian Cruise
TEDDY SHERINGHAM has confessed not even the adulation that was heaped on
him at the end of last season could take away the heartache of months he spent
in the wilderness. The Manchester United striker returned to the fold in
the closing
weeks of last season's historic Treble triumph and scored priceless goals
in the
both FA Cup and Champions League Finals. But even though it all ended in
smiles of delight, he still feels the pain of long periods as a first-team
outcast.
Injuries severely hampered his cause but, even when he was fit, Sheringham was
forced to sit and watch Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole take the plaudits as their
partnership propelled United towards glory. Ultimately his goals
transformed him into an
Old Trafford hero, but those magic moments did not entirely make up for the
months of
misery.
Sheringham admitted to Football365: "It doesn't erase those memories because I
went through all of that, it's something I can't change. A footballer wants
to be
playing football, and if he's not, he's not happy. It's as simple as that.
I still have
memories of not being involved in the first 16 to face Wimbledon. I wasn't
in the first 16 to
face Arsenal in the first semi-final and that also hurts. When you're fully
fit, flying, and
ready to go in those big games and you're not involved, there is a great
deal of
disappointment. So no, it doesn't erase those memories, they are still in
my head."
However, the 33-year-old is realistic enough to know that, at a club
like United, players will have to accept spells on the sidelines. "I think
it's something people are going to have to get used to at the highest
level," he added. "Manchester United are going to need an even
bigger squad to compete next season. You can't afford to sit back no
matter how successful you've been. Other clubs are going to be
hungry for success and they are going to bring in players to achieve
that. It's all about the size and quality of the squad these days."
United's withdrawal from the FA Cup has denied the players the
chance to defend their Treble but Sheringham admits that repeating
last season's astonishing success would have been a tall order.
He said: "I don't think you could even try to emulate last season's
success. That would put one hell of a burden on the club. The Treble
wasn't even talked about at the club until the last week of the
season. Any talk came from outside because everyone inside
Manchester United knew it was asking a hell of a lot to actually pull it
off. We knew one little blip and it could have all been over. We could
have even ended up with nothing - even with a week of the season
to go and that would have been devastating. So you can't think
about following that going into next season, you just have to start
from scratch and hopefully things will go for you from there.
"If you succumb to outside pressure, it makes the job even more
difficult. Of course the critics will judge us on last season, but in
turn, you have to be realistic. One of the great things about United
is they don't interest themselves in other people's comments unless
they are constructive and come from within the club."
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