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Date: Fri Feb 26 00:29:33 GMT+00:00 1999
Mail: barry@www.red11.org
This Issue:
1. I'LL NEVER LEAVE OLD TRAFFORD PLEDGES PHIL EXCLUSIVE - by CHRIS BAILEY
2. Ronaldo: United beware
3. Schmeichel eyes dream move ««
4. United boss Ferguson fires wages warning
5. M.E.N article Yorke and Cole can join Red elite
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Daily RED Trivia Friday 26th February 1999:
26/2/1951: United trounce Sheffield Wednesday 4-0 at Hillsborough in a Division 1
game watched by 25,693. Harry McShane, Johnny Downie, Stan Pearson and
Jack Rowley grabbed the goals. Team was: Allen, Carey, McGlen, Gibson, Jones,
Cockburn, McShane, Pearson, Aston, Downie, Rowley.
1973: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer born in Kristiansund, Norway. Solskjaer scored on his
United debut in August 1996 after coming on as substitute against Blackburn Rovers.
He scored 19 goals in his first season at Old Trafford, winning a Premiership medal
in 1997. A lethal finisher, he has scored 58 goals in 118 games between 1996-98, and
has been capped many times for Norway, playing in the 1998 World Cup Finals.
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Barry Daily Comment:
Reserves drew 1-1 yesterday v Forest: Clegg scored for us, just before half time.
United's shareprice recently shot up to 227p before retreating back to 219p
early Wednesday. It closed at 223p yesterday.
These recent moves have been the biggest action in the shares
for many weeks and may indicate some smart money getting involved.
Previous News:
Brian Kidd Press conference, pic, real audio
http://www.iol.ie/~redcafe/kidd.htm
Peter Schmeichel's last Season at United!
http://www.red11.org/mufc/news/schmeichel.htm
Next games:
ALL Result/Fixture Index:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/fix9899z.htm
27 Southampton (H) 15.00
March
3 Inter Milan (H) ECLl "Quarter Final" 1st leg 19.45
7 Chelsea (H) 14.00 FAC6 *SKY SPORTS* LIVE* + DkTV1 Scand.
10 Liverpool (A) 19.45 PL (moved due to FAC)
13 Newcastle (A) 15.00 PL
17 Inter Milan (A) ECL "Quarter Final" 2nd leg 19.45
21 Everton (H) 15.00 PL
UNITED Stats v All teams:
http://www.red11.org/mufc/stats/
*** RESULTS AND ATTENDANCES ON 21/02/99 ***
Wimbledon 0-0 Aston Villa 15,582
*** CONDENSED LEAGUE TABLE AS AT 21/02/99 ***
Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
---------------------------------------------------------
1 Manchester United 27 15 9 3 61 28 33 54
2 Chelsea 26 13 11 2 39 21 18 50
3 Arsenal 26 13 10 3 34 12 22 49
4 Aston Villa 26 12 8 6 37 27 10 44
5 Leeds United 26 11 9 6 39 25 14 42
6 Liverpool 26 11 6 9 49 32 17 39
7 Derby County 26 9 10 7 25 24 1 37
8 West Ham United 26 10 7 9 29 38 -9 37
9 Wimbledon 25 9 9 7 29 35 -6 36
10 Newcastle United 26 9 7 10 34 35 -1 34
11 Middlesbrough 26 7 12 7 33 36 -3 33
12 Sheffield Wednesday 25 9 5 11 31 24 7 32
13 Tottenham Hotspur 25 7 11 7 29 31 -2 32
14 Leicester City 25 7 9 9 25 34 -9 30
15 Everton 26 6 9 11 19 28 -9 27
16 Charlton Athletic 26 6 8 12 31 37 -6 26
17 Blackburn Rovers 26 6 8 12 27 36 -9 26
18 Coventry City 26 6 6 14 24 37 -13 24
19 Southampton 25 6 5 14 25 48 -23 23
20 Nottingham Forest 26 3 7 16 22 54 -32 16
*** FIXTURES ON 27/02/99 ***
Aston Villa v Coventry City
Charlton Athletic v Nottingham Forest
Chelsea v Liverpool
Everton v Wimbledon
Manchester United v Southampton
Sheffield Wednesday v Middlesbrough
Tottenham Hotspur v Derby County
West Ham United v Blackburn Rovers
*** FIXTURES ON 28/02/99 ***
Newcastle United v Arsenal
*** ROUND 5 FIXTURES ON 23/02/99 ***
Arsenal v Sheffield United
*** ROUND 5 FIXTURES (REPLAYS) ON 24/02/99 ***
(0) Blackburn Rovers v Newcastle United (0)
(2) Derby County v Huddersfield Town (2)
(1) Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United (1)
*** TEAM RESULTS - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 20/02/99 ***
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
10/01/99 West Ham United Home W 4-1 3 55,180
16/01/99 Leicester City Away W 6-2 2 22,091
31/01/99 Charlton Athletic Away W 1-0 1 20,043
03/02/99 Derby County Home W 1-0 1 55,174
06/02/99 Nottingham Forest Away W 8-1 1 30,025
17/02/99 Arsenal Home D 1-1 1 55,171
20/02/99 Coventry City Away W 1-0 1 22,596
******
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
******
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
FAC Quarter Finals Draw ties to be
played the weekend of Saturday, March 6:
Newcastle United v Everton
Barnsley v Spurs
Arsenal v Derby
Manchester United v Chelsea (Sunday 7/3 1400 hrs UK)
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Subject: I'LL NEVER LEAVE OLD TRAFFORD PLEDGES PHIL EXCLUSIVE - by CHRIS BAILEY
PHIL Neville is a Fergie Fledgling who will never fly the nest.
Any predatory Premiership managers with his name pencilled on their summer
shopping lists can throw away their worthless pieces of paper.
The 22-year-old Manchester United star is going nowhere except, he hopes,
into Kevin Keegan's first England squad.
Mutterings about Middlesbrough and Blackburn being willing to shell out
millions to prise away the younger Neville brother from Old Trafford have
reached Phil's ears but he describes them as ``a joke.''
He has recently signed a new contract that will keep him a United player
for seven years - and he couldn't be happier.
``Playing 15 or 20 games a season for United is better than playing for a
full season for most other Premiership sides,'' he told M.E.N. Sport.
``With the talent in our squad just getting selected for the bench is an
achievement. Wanting to leave has never entered my head. Why would it? This
is the best club in the world.''
Despite being regularly ``rotated'' by boss Alex Ferguson, Phil has managed
to clock up 22 matches so far this term - around the same figure as Paul
Scholes, Nicky Butt, and Ryan Giggs - and considerably more than senior
internationals Henning Berg, Ronny Johnsen, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Teddy
Sheringham.
``Of course everyone would like to play every game but you have to learn
that it is not realistic,'' said Phil.
``I think sometimes people forget that I am only 22 and two years younger
than my brother Gary, Becks (David Beckham) and Giggsy (Ryan Giggs).''
One of his main goals - along with winning the treble with United - is to
get back into the England picture. His confidence was shattered last summer
when Glenn Hoddle left him out of his World Cup 22 but Phil feels he'll
have a better chance under Keegan.
``I have never worked with him but Nicky Butt and Andy Cole have and they
say he is inspirational.
``I'd love to get back into the England picture. I was upset when I missed
out on the World Cup squad but, funnily enough, I was more bothered when
Glenn Hoddle left me out of the friendly against the Czech Republic.
``He said he was giving younger players a chance but then virtually
everyone he picked was older than me.
``Fortunately, Alex Ferguson has been brilliant. Every time I have been
left out of the United team or an England squad he has taken the time and
trouble to remind me I have a big future at Old Trafford.
``It is something he doesn't have to do but it is very comforting.''
Phil's last three outings have been watched by Howard Wilkinson (twice) and
Keegan himself and he will be keeping fingers crossed while helping United
to what he hopes will be a unique treble.
``Play well for United and the England caps will follow, that's what I have
always believed and that's what I hope to do,'' he added.
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Subject: Ronaldo: United beware
By Graham Hunter
Just as the Ronaldo rumour mill has hit full gear it appears that the
Brazilian superstar is about to do the same.
Yesterday in training he moved smoothly, kicked the ball without pain and
looked every inch a man who could threaten Manchester United in the
Champions League quarter-finals, the first leg of which is at Old Trafford
next Wednesday.
From his awful day in the World Cup Final against France, right up to this
week, Ronaldo has been plagued by malicious whispers that his career was in
jeopardy.
The Inter Milan striker, who has been suffering from tendinitis in both
knees, said: 'I admit my physical condition is not the best. In fact, this
is the worst period of my career. But I am concentrating my fitness efforts
on next week's match against Manchester United in England.'
The sad thing for Ronaldo is that he knows people are enjoying his
discomfort - both physical and mental.
Twelve months ago he had just been crowned king of the football world for
the second time at an age when a young man is supposed to be given the key
to his parents' house - not be rich enough to buy a hundred houses for both
his mother and father.
He was the perfect athlete, vaulting tackles, erupting away from markers -
looking and feeling invincible. Then suddenly, last summer, the shock which
billowed around the Stade de France when Ronaldo was omitted from the
original team sheet for the World Cup Final was like being hit in the
stomach by a boxing glove filled with horseshoes.
Since then it has been doom and gloom, almost unremittingly, as his knees
have failed beneath him, his coach has been sacked and Inter approach next
Wednesday's tie against United with a limp rather than a spring in their
step. But he snaps testily at the idea that his life misses the samba
spirit of South America.
'Carnivals, that's just in Rio,' he said. 'I didn't come to Italy, just as
I didn't go to Spain, to go to carnivals. I'm here to play football.
'Here football is very hard but it is clean - even if injuries occur they
are not caused by malice or aggression in the bad sense of the word.'
The wounded genius can hear people sniping at his commitment, his attitude
and murmuring about his private life.
Shrewd observers, however, know that Ronaldo will play in one or both of
the clashes with United if his club need him.
Not to prove the gossips wrong. He accepts his status means he is a target
for the envious and Ronaldo is clearly not a man burdened by his troubles.
He said:
'Carrying on at the level I was at when I won World Player of the Year
twice in a row is a target but you must always know that, in such
conditions, responsibilities increase and criticism is stronger when
analysing the performance.
'To me that is natural because that particular award brings with it the
fact that one is seen as the best but as a human being I still make mistakes.
'I'm human and it is human to err - but you should try to err as little as
possible.
'This is my first season in the Champions League and winning it would be
another great stone in the house of dreams which I am building.
'But, God willing, I hope to improve it as quickly as possible so that I
can at least regain the standard I had during the last two seasons when I
had the honour of being considered the best player in the world.
'I have dealt with problems since I was a child growing up in Brazil
because it was a difficult upbringing but they are in the past - they have
been completely overcome. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth
and I owe everything to God and to football.'
Even at 22, he is bracketed with the three most recent geniuses of the
game, Diego Maradona, Johan Cruyff and Pele. His talent is not yet as
developed as theirs nor has he won a World Cup as did the two other South
Americans.
In fact, France 98 will be a woeful epitaph instead of the ode to joy it
promised to become for Ronaldo. He said: 'Everything that happened in
France certainly left me very sad. Of course there were mistakes, when
things don't go well something must lie behind the failure.
'When I chose to play in the final I did what I felt I had to do. At the
time I felt in perfect condition and the previous problems were momentary
and had passed by.'
Of course the 'previous problems' were a seizure so dramatic, in the hours
before the final, that Roberto Carlos, for one, thought he had died.
Ronaldo said: 'I felt that nothing serious had happened, the tests were all
negative and if things turned out for the worse I accept that.
'I don't accept the argument that all the fuss I caused by playing when the
coach left me off the first team sheet and then reinstated me might have
affected my team-mates. We just played badly.'
Ronaldo views the United matches with appetite bordering on hunger. He
said: 'I follow the performance of Alex Ferguson's team on television. They
started the season badly but have rediscovered their best form and are top
of the table.
'They play the type of football that favours open and attacking styles -
I'm expecting two great matches full of goals. In fact, the kind of matches
I love.'
Ominous words for United.
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Subject: Schmeichel eyes dream move ««
Peter Schmeichel could get his dream move to the south of
France in the summer - if French World Cup keeper Fabien
Barthez quits Monaco for AC Milan.
Barthez is keen on the move if Monaco fail to qualify for the
Champions' League next season and they are currently way off
the pace in the French first division.
Schmeichel, who has received numerous offers from abroad
during the months since he announced his departure in the
summer, is openly targeting a switch to the tax-free haven.
The 35-year-old wants two seasons in the sun before he winds
down his career in Denmark with either an executive director or
manager's role at Brondby.
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Subject: United boss Ferguson fires wages warning
GLASGOW, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Manchester United manager Alex
Ferguson on Thursday hit out at the wages spiral he believes is
in danger of crippling the game.
Ferguson, whose club were recently ranked as the richest in
the world, warned that the hike in players' salaries sparked by
the Bosman ruling is hurting fans as well as clubs and could
lead to a whole generation of supporters turning away from
football.
"What you have now is a free-for-all so far as wages are
concerned," Ferguson said in an interview with the Glasgow
Herald newspaper. "It is a serious concern now whether clubs can
afford to pay the kind of money which is being talked about.
"If you are to believe some of the sums being bandied about
then the game could die if clubs attempt to meet the demands
which are being made.
"We all know of cases where clubs are struggling financially
and a great many of the problems -- if not almost all of them --
stem from the fact that players are asking for salaries which
are too high and which will cripple the game permanently unless
there is some common sense brought to bear on the whole matter."
The Bosman ruling gave players the right to leave clubs on a
free transfer at the end of their contracts.
That led to the recent high-profile case of Liverpool winger
Steve McManaman, who has signed a five-year deal with Real
Madrid that will earn him a reported 14 million pounds ($22.45
million) in wages and signing-on fees.
Ferguson called on players' unions to "preach reality" to
their members involved with contract negotiations.
"Honestly, I believe the very future of football is on the
line unless we get back to wage negotiations in which players
and clubs are comfortable and can talk clearly to each other
instead of being hung up on the often nonsensical wage deals
which are being asked for nowadays."
Ferguson, the longest-serving manager in England's Premier
League, said if the freedom of contract given to players by the
Bosman ruling was not used more wisely he had "real fears" for
the game's future -- from the fan's point of view as well as
that of the clubs.
"It has to come to an end some time but what will be left of
football as we know it if these spiralling wages carry on for
much longer.
"The money to pay the players has to come from somewhere
and, inevitably, that means it will come from the pockets of the
supporters.
"I don't believe we should be continually asking the fans to
pay higher prices to see games. If you go to London you can find
yourself being asked for 30 pounds ($48.11) for the cheapest
seats.
"That takes the game out of reach of the ordinary fan and it
makes it impossible to take the family, so you are losing out on
the next generation of supporters. That would be a serious
problem."
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Subject: M.E.N article Yorke and Cole can join Red elite
By STUART MATHIESON
DWIGHT Yorke and Andy Cole can hoist themselves up Manchester United's list of
great post-War strike partnerships as they go for the treble.
Alex Ferguson's £20m front combination have hit 40 goals between them this season
and only Liverpool's Michael Owen separates them in the Premiership
goalscoring stakes.
The Old Trafford pair are on course for a unique Premier League one and two in the
goal charts. Since the formation of the elite division in
1992-93 no side has provided the top two hitmen in the country.
With Yorke on 21 goals in his debut United campaign and Cole hot on
his heels with 19 strikes the pairing is set to attain legendary
status by the end of the season. They need 15 goals from 14 games to
move into fourth place in the list of top double acts.
The early-1960s David Herd-Denis Law alliance is top of the lot and
is unlikely to be shifted for a while.
Three times they topped the golden 40 mark, and that included a
phenomenal 70-goal haul in 1963-64, in which the Lawman struck 46.
But Herd himself recognises the qualities of the Yorke-Cole union:
``Andy and Dwight are doing what myself and Denis did in the way
they play off each other,'' says the Red great.
``It was just one of those things that happened. We had a mobile
forward line and we interchanged quite a lot. If I went forward
Denis would be behind me and the other way around. I'd have a shot
and Denis would slide in and score the rebound. Andy and Dwight do
that.
``Matt Busby used to say to Denis and I that he didn't want us in
midfield, he just said get into the penalty box. The two boys these
days are doing similar.
``We had good players creating for us and so have these two. I love
the one-twos they play and they've got such quick feet.
``Teams in the sixties always had two front men scoring goals and if
you didn't score over 20 each you were in trouble. Nowadays I think
there is more of a goal spread. They share them out.
``But, however good these two are, there is nobody next to Denis
Law. Nobody compares. He's on his own.''
Old Trafford has hailed six partnerships since the Second World War
which has notched over 40 goals between them.
Matt Busby's first era spawned the Stan Pearson and Jack Rowley
combo which hit 54 goals in the 1947-48 season and 52 in the Reds'
first post-War championship season of 1951-52.
The golden mantle was then passed on to Barnsley import Tommy Taylor
and home-produced Dennis Viollet in the Busby Babes era.
Taylor and Viollet scored 41 and 45 in the 1954-55 and `55-56
campaigns, the latter bringing a League title.
Liam Whelan then briefly took over from Viollet to register 65 goals
with England international Taylor in 1956-57 as United won the
championship, reached the FA Cup final and entered Europe.
Munich robbed the Reds of Taylor and Whelan, and Viollet struck up a
partnership with Bobby Charlton which reaped 53 goals in 1959-60 and
50 in 58-59.
The Law and Herd combo were just three short of repeating their
stunning 70-goal act with their 1964-65 tally of 67.
The pair had warmed up for those two golden seasons with 50 goals in
'62-63.
The only modern-day partnerships to make it past 40 were Eric
Cantona and Mark Hughes with 46 in the `93-94 double season and
Hughes with Brian McClair, scoring 42 in `90-91.
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