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Date: Wed Jan 06 08:08:30 GMT+00:00 1999
Mail: barry@www.red11.org

This Issue:
1. BERG, MAY BOOST UNITED DEFENCE
2. WENGER: FERGUSON ATTACK 'CLUMSY'
3. HIDEN: WHY I WON'T SUE MAN U
4. Brian Kidd

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Daily RED Trivia  Wed 6th January 1999:

6/1/1906: United continue their challenge for the League title with a 5-0 defeat of
 Grimsby Town at Bank Street. Clem Beddow with a hat-trick and Jack Picken with 2
 scored the goals watched by 10,000. Team was: Moger, Bonthron, Holden, Downie,
 Roberts, Bell, Schofield, Allan, Beddow, Picken, Williams. 

1973: Alex Forsyth made his debut at Arsenal. Forysth was a sharp tackling Full-back
 signed from Partick Thistle for £100,000 who won a Second Division Championship
 medal in 1975 and played in the 1976 FA Cup Final. He made 119 appearances and 
 scored 5 goals between 1973-77, and won 10 caps for Scotland. Forsyth won a
 Scottish Cup medal with Partick Thistle  in 1972. He moved to Glasgow Rangers in
 and 9 goals between 1952-69, won 4 League Championship medals, 1956, 1957, 1965,
 1967, 1 FA Cup Winners medal in 1963 and a European Cup Winners medal in 1968.
 Survivor of  the Munich crash, he won one England cap in 1954.  August 1978.  

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Barry Daily Comment:
Kick off time for the FAC 4th rnd tie v Liverpool 24/1/99 is 12.00 hrs
We reported 1600 hrs yesterday by mistake "live on Sky sports in UK"
Todays newsletter pic shows your two Simplenet webmasters Bill and Barry
meeting up for the first time ever! Diary to follow soon featuring Mike Dobbin,
Dr Mark, Dave Menashe, Jon Leigh and others.........

http://www.iol.ie/~redcafe/kidd.htm
Brian Kidd Press conference, pic, real audio

Next games: 
ALL Result/Fixture Index:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/fix9899z.htm

  10/1 West Ham    (H) Sky Sports time 16.00 UK
  16/1 Leicester   (A)  15.00
  24/1 Liverpool   (H)  12.00 Sky Sports FA CUP 4th rnd
  31/1 Charlton    (A)  15.00 UK

UNITED Stats v All teams:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/stats/

*** 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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Simplenet Webmasters Barry and Bill


Subject:  BERG, MAY BOOST UNITED DEFENCE
            By David Anderson, PA Sport

Henning Berg and David May are determined to increase
the already intense competition for places in Manchester
United's defence.

Berg made only his eighth start of the season in United's 3-1
FA Cup win over Middlesbrough on Sunday and he hopes
he can force his way up the defensive pecking order at Old
Trafford.

May, who has only started two Worthington Cup games this
campaign, is also ready to restake his claim following his
recovery from a calf injury.

The former Blackburn pair are vying with the likes of Jaap
Stam, Ronny Johnsen, Denis Irwin and the Neville brothers
for starting places in the backline, while this season has also
seen Wes Brown graduate to the senior squad.

Berg, 29, who arrived in a £5million transfer from Ewood
Park in August 1997, admitted it was frustrating watching so
many games from the sidelines, but he remains undaunted.

"I was delighted to be in the team against Middlesbrough,"
he told the Manchester Evening News.

"It's definitely frustrating when you're not playing because all
I want to do is play football. 

"When you aren't playing obviously you are not happy.

"Squad rotation can be frustrating at times because
everybody wants to play every week, but with the number
of players here at United somebody has got to be
disappointed all the time.

"You just have to make sure you're playing as well as you
can and then maybe you'll get in the team. 

"The more competitions we are in, the more chance I have
of getting a game."

May, 28, has been dogged by injuries for the past 18
months and he still feels he is good enough to do a job for
United.

"I've had horrendous misfortune injury-wise. Now I have
just got to get match-fit and be patient," he said.

"The squad we have now is much stronger than it was two
years ago so it is going to be a difficult task ahead.

"But I'll bide my time and hope I am good enough when an
opportunity arises."

© PA Sporting Life 
Simplenet Webmasters Barry and Bill



Subject:  WENGER: FERGUSON ATTACK 'CLUMSY'
             By Paul Walker, PA Sport

Arsene Wenger has branded Alex Ferguson's attack on his Double-winning
Arsenal side "clumsy".

Ferguson was up to his mind games tricks again at the weekend when
suggesting that some of Wenger's men relished turning games into battles.

Fabian Caballero, Arsenal's Argentinian striker, unwittingly backed up
Ferguson's claims in Monday night's 4-2 FA Cup win at Preston with a
flailing arm that laid out Ryan Kidd during the build up to the Gunners'
third goal.

But Wenger tried to brush off Ferguson's comments after watching his side
book a fourth round tie at home to Wolves.

He said: "It doesn't bother me at all. It's just, I think, a clumsy
statement to make.

"We don't need to start fights to win matches. I think what he (Ferguson)
said was wrong.

"It's unfair because we try to respect every team and let referees do their
job.

"It's disappointing to hear another manager talk like that.

"I personally think we have to keep a good image of our game and that
starts by respecting every other team.

"You don't win championships or win cups by just fighting.

"It is wrong to say things like that.

"If you look at the Fair Play table we have got 37 yellow cards and
Manchester United have got 38.

"Many other teams have got more."

Preston boss David Moyes had no doubts about the Caballero incident.

"There was an elbow used and Ryan was upset," he insisted, "

Kidd added: "I got an arm across the face and I'm disappointed the linesman
didn't see it."

FA referees' supremo Colin Downey expressed sympathy for Gallagher, who
missed the offence.

He said: "These things happen. He was probably following the ball out to
the left.

"What it shows is how hard a job refereeing is. I watched that game on TV
and didn't spot anything until the re-runs later.

"And, as far as the linesman is concerned, there were lots of players
bunched up in the box. It was so easy to miss.

"As far as any further action, I doubt it."
Simplenet Webmasters Barry and Bill



Subject:  HIDEN: WHY I WON'T SUE MAN U
                taken from LUFC website

Austrian international Martin Hiden today maintained that he had no
intention of suing the richest club in the world, over the injury that will
see him out of first team action until next August.

Hours after work was completed on a newly laid pitch at Old Trafford in
November, Leeds kicked off against Man United, and within 30 minutes Martin
had suffered the cruciate ligament injury that has wrecked his season, as
the turf beneath him slipped.

Speaking exclusively to United's official website, the cultured centre half
explained why he will not pursue legal action, despite the fact that he
steadfastly lays the blame for his nine months on the sidelines on a pitch
that had not had time to take root.

The 25 year old, who had been in magnificent form prior to his injury,
admits he has been deeply depressed in the days since the calamitous blow
at Old Trafford, but now three weeks after the operation to rebuild his
knee, he has set his heart on returning to training before this season is
out.
Simplenet Webmasters Barry and Bill



From: "Seamus Gallen" 
Subject: Brian Kidd

I was so sorry to see Kidd go. I'll always remember him for three 
things.

1. The rebound headed goal against Benfica in 1968.

2. The wrangle with Ferguson when Schmeichel was sent off against 
Charlton in the FA cup match a few years ago. It seems that  Alex 
wanted to take off a forward, but Kidd wanted to take Paul Parker off 
and put Keane at right-back. Kidd won, and so did we, 3-1.

3. The handstands on the pitch after Bruce headed the winner against 
Wednesday at Old Trafford, April 1993. 


Best wishes to all for 1999.
Simplenet Webmasters Barry and Bill

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