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www.red11.org DAILY NEWS Fri May 28 99 ** European Champions **
(Part One)
This Issue:
1.  23 WORDS THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF FOOTBALL HISTORY (Mirror)     
2. United toast Fergie's party piece  (Telegraph)            
3.  What the papers said                              

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Daily RED Trivia  FRIDAY May 28 1999
28/5/1871:
 Jack Banks born in West Bromwich. Banks joined United from his local
 club, having gained an FA Cup losers medal in1895. He made his United
 debut against Gainsborough Trinity in September 1901, and the pacy
 Half-back made 44 appearances between 1901-03. He signed for Plymouth
 Argyle in May 1903.

28/5/1959:
 Uniteds Bobby Charlton scores a hat-trick for England as they beat
 the USA 8-1 in Los Angeles.

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Paul's Daily Comment:
For those lucky enough to be in Manchester yesterday, it was
a magnificent welcome-home for the lads. Around 500,000 lined
the streets as the open-topped bus took 4 hours to travel 7 miles
from the Airport to the City Centre. The city is proud of its heroes,
as indeed are fans all over the world.

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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
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---
 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
 5  West Ham United      38 11  3  5  32  26   5  6  8  14  27   -7   
57
 6  Aston Villa          38 10  3  6  33  28   5  7  7  18  18    5   
55
 7  Liverpool            38 10  5  4  44  24   5  4 10  24  25   19   
54
 8  Derby County         38  8  7  4  22  19   5  6  8  18  26   -5   
52
 9  Middlesbrough        38  7  9  3  25  18   5  6  8  23  36   -6   
51
10  Leicester City       38  7  6  6  25  25   5  7  7  15  21   -6   
49
11  Tottenham Hotspur    38  7  7  5  28  26   4  7  8  19  24   -3   
47
12  Sheffield Wednesday  38  7  5  7  20  15   6  2 11  21  27   -1   
46
13  Newcastle United     38  7  6  6  26  25   4  7  8  22  29   -6   
46
14  Everton              38  6  8  5  22  12   5  2 12  20  35   -5   
43
15  Coventry City        38  8  6  5  26  21   3  3 13  13  30  -12   
42
16  Wimbledon            38  7  7  5  22  21   3  5 11  18  42  -23   
42
17  Southampton          38  9  4  6  29  26   2  4 13   8  38  -27   
41
18  Charlton Athletic    38  4  7  8  20  20   4  5 10  21  36  -15   
36
19  Blackburn Rovers     38  6  5  8  21  24   1  9  9  17  28  -14   
35
20  Nottingham Forest    38  3  7  9  18  31   4  2 13  17  38  -34   
30


*** TEAM RESULTS - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 05/05/99 ***

Date        Opposition                        Score   Pos.   Attend.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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
27/02/99    Southampton              Home     W  2-1     1    55,316
13/03/99    Newcastle United         Away     W  2-1     1    36,500
21/03/99    Everton                  Home     W  3-1     1    55,182
03/04/99    Wimbledon                Away     D  1-1     1    26,121
17/04/99    Sheffield Wednesday      Home     W  3-0     1    55,270
25/04/99    Leeds United             Away     D  1-1     2    40,255
01/05/99    Aston Villa              Home     W  2-1     1    55,189
05/05/99    Liverpool                Away     D  2-2     2    44,702
09/05/99    Middlesbrough            Away     W  1-0     1    34,665
12/05/99    Blackburn                Away     D  0-0     1    30,436
16/05/99    Tottenham Hotspur        Home     W  2-1     1    55,189

*** TEAM STATISTICS - MANCHESTER UNITED - 1998/9

AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE: 55,188
HIGHEST HOME ATTENDANCE: 27/02/99 - Southampton (55,316)
LOWEST HOME ATTENDANCE:  15/08/98 - Leicester City (55,052)
BEST WIN:                06/02/99 - Nottingham Forest (8-1)
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:           06/02/99 - Nottingham Forest (8-1)
HEAVIEST AWAY DEFEAT:    20/09/98 - Arsenal (0-3)*****
  
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 Brondby         0-2  Barcelona
Dec  9 Man Utd         1-1  Bayern Munich

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CHAMPIONS' LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS
 Manchester Utd  2 v 0  Inter Milan
 Real Madrid     1 v 1  Dynamo Kiev
 Juventus        2 v 1  Olympiakos
 Bayern Munich   2 v 0  Kaiserslautern

**DYNAMO KIEV      2 v 0  REAL MADRID         (Agg:3-1)
FC KAISERSLAUTERN  0 v 4  **BAYERN MUNICH     (Agg:0-6)
INTERNAZIONALE FC  1 v 1  **MANCHESTER UNITED (Agg:1-3)
OLYMPIAKOS         1 v 1  **JUVENTUS          (Agg:2-3)

Semi Finals 
Manchester United v Juventus  4-3agg 3-2 [1-1]
Bayern Munchen v Dynamo Kiev  4-3agg 1-0 [3-3]

UEFA Champions League Final  Nou Camp, Barcelona - May 26   
Manchester United 2 Bayern Munich 1                         
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23 WORDS   THAT CHANGED THE
 COURSE OF FOOTBALL  HISTORY (Mirror)

  The cup is only six feet away from you at the end
  of this day. If you lose you can't even touch it ALEX
  FERGUSON'S HALF-TIME TEAM TALK
  ALEX FERGUSON stood in the middle of the
  Manchester United dressing room and turned slowly to
  look each of his players in the eye.

  It was half-time in the Champions League final, 9.35pm
  Spanish time and his side were struggling at 1-0 down
  to Bayern Munich. Thirty seconds later Ferguson had
  spoken 23 short words.

  And they changed the course of football history.

  The United boss said simply: "The cup is only six feet
  away from you at the end of this day. If you lose you
  can't even touch it."

  He spoke quietly and from the heart, raising every hair
  on the back of every head.

  Mine rose yesterday when he revealed what he had told
  his Nou Camp heroes to drive them towards possibly
  the greatest ever United comeback.

  Ferguson looked fresh and alive after having his nerves
  shredded on a night of unbelievable tension.

  He undoubtedly thrives on drama and was in the perfect
  mood to utter those prophetic words to rouse his troops.

  He added: "That was all I said. You have to find a way to
  affect people's lives. One of these ways is through
  motivation. But there are different ways.

  "It is not an easy thing to do because you can
  sometimes ruin the whole effect.

  "I prepare the best I can. I have always been good
  tactically over the years but motivation is an absolutely
  massive influence in whatever you do. But you have to
  be careful. If you just look at some players they can
  melt. You have to make sure you don't over do it.

  "It is a dangerous game, motivation. It comes back to
  personalities again. Sometimes I have gone over the
  top. At half-time or the end of the game. But then they
  know very well how much it means to me.

  "Eventually it seeps into their pores and you hope that
  in the end they are like that themselves. Maybe one or
  two of them will later become managers. I am sure of it.
  And they will have to have that part in them to get
  through to everyone.

  "Twenty years from now this team that will always be
  remembered for their last minute goals and for never
  giving up."

  Ferguson cannot speak too highly of his English and
  European kings. He always said that he would wait and
  reserve the right to compare them to his outstanding
  Double-winning side of 1994.

  But now he does not hold back from delivering the
  highest of praise. There are no more doubts.

  Ferguson added: "The '94 team had mental toughness.
  So many of them. Real tough b******s. Mentally tough
  that is. I said this present bunch could only be judged
  on what they have achieved. Now they have achieved
  and now they are the best. There is no question about
  that. They are the legends now."

  No one would deny him that tribute. Not even the
  greatest of 1968 who brought the first European Cup to
  Old Trafford.

  Ferguson's mind flashed back to those latter day
  legends as he sat with one of them, Sir Bobby Charlton,
  long into the Nou Camp night pondering about heavenly
  intervention.

  He says: "We were chatting about just how great was
  this European achievement. Well, it was just a fairytale.

  "Bobby said about it being Sir Matt Busby's 90th
  birthday and that he was probably looking down on us.

  "There had to be some meaning to it all. Matt's birthday.
  Playing a team from Munich and all that. The number of
  times we have won games like that and of course Peter
  Schmeichel's last match.

  "I didn't really take it all in. I didn't really feel a lot to be
  honest but when I got back to the hotel and I was with my family I
  really enjoyed it.

  "I stayed up until 5am and they were still at it. All my
  family were here except my grandson who is only five.

  "During the game I was gearing up to the final and
  inevitable question: 'Do you think you will ever win it?'

  "You have to address that. But I was refusing to
  interrupt my life in a sense. I wasn't going to let it test or
  upset me.

  "I hadn't thought the treble was possible. I just felt the
  FA Cup was one step too many. To get to the
  semi-final, then a replay and then extra-time.

  "That was the killer for us. I had to juggle the balls. Tried
  to relieve the pressure.

  "But deep down I didn't feel the treble was really on.
  These players, though, have established themselves on
  a new higher level. In the pantheon of George Best,
  Denis Law and Bobby Charlton. They can't be ignored
  now in that respect. I don't think the '68 side will deny
  them either. Some were at the party. They are proud of
  them. The old team did their bit all those year's ago.
  They were the men of other times.

  "Now these lads have established something by
  themselves."

  The show still goes on, though. Ferguson will have a
  summer break, splash some more transfer cash and
  then get the pre-season ball rolling again in the middle
  of July.

  So will he be tempted to take it a little easier after
  winning the lot? The question deserved the answer of
  dismissal. What is required now is to say that we can
  get better," the United boss said. "I have my last three
  years and I want to go out as successful as I can be. I
  don't want to leave without having won anything more
  since Barcelona. That would be a waste of talent for
  both the players and myself.

  "We can drive ourselves to more challenges. There will
  be the world club champion-ship in Tokyo. But this
  European Cup is always something you strive for. I was
  never obsessed by it though. On Wednesday I just
  accepted that we were going to lose.

  "I had to do that because I wasn't going to let myself get
  all twisted up inside. I have a life to live.

  "Now, I have won it I do feel a sense of fulfilment. There
  is no question about that.

  "You look at the names of the teams who are on that
  new European Cup. Ajax. Bayern Munich. Juventus.
  Real Madrid. And now Manchester United.

  "You see those names and you think that's what this is
  all about. That was a fantastic result for English football.
  The Germans showed us respect and by doing that they
  showed that they were respecting English football.

  "Maybe we were meant to win it. Maybe it was destiny.
  You just live with a certain determination that you don't
  want to fail.

  "Once you sample success then you say right, the
  main drive now is going to be more success. This
  survival mechanism inside me gives me a lot of parts
  that are reflected in this team.

  "Not giving in is one of them. You hope that the team
  mirrors yourself. That it eventually thinks like you and
  reflects yourself."

  United 98 certainly does. They are stubborn, relentless
  and born winners.

  Just like the boss.

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United toast Ferguson's
party piece (Telegraph)

              Ferguson's trophy cabinet
 DAWN had crept over Barcelona and turned into morning
 yesterday when the staff at the hotel where Manchester
 United were celebrating began to beg the players to wind up
 a party that still seemed to be in full swing. They wanted to
 set the tables for breakfast.

 Some of the players, still wearing their European Cup
 winner's medals, succumbed finally to the exhaustion that
 adrenalin had been keeping at bay and returned to their
 rooms. Others wandered out into the deserted streets and
 towards the port.

 They came across some Bayern Munich supporters there, as
 crumpled and as broken as the team that they had
 vanquished the night before in the Nou Camp here. They
 commiserated with them for a while and mulled over the
 incredible events of the night before.

 Then they made their way back to the hotel and readied
 themselves for the journey home, still scarcely able to take in
 the fact that they had just completed the most dramatic
 comeback in the history of the world's leading club
 competition.

 Like all of us, they were full of wonder at how close they had
 come to losing, about how exhilarating victory felt. "I knew
 our time was almost up," David Beckham said. "I looked
 around and I saw the cup being carried down to the pitch
 with Bayern Munich colours on it. Two minutes later, I had it
 in my own hands and it was ours."

 By then, Alex Ferguson, the manager, had appeared,
 beaming broadly. He sat outside on a first-floor terrace, the
 noise of water from a roaring fountain below calming his
 racing thoughts. His voice was hoarse with elation and
 fatigue.

 His words, though, were clear and emphatic. Perhaps it was
 a trick of the mind, but they seemed to carry even more
 authority than usual. It was as if he had taken the final leap
 into greatness with his team the night before.

 He spoke of the drive that he still had, of his determination
 not to go quietly or without further success in what he has
 said will be the last three years of his career. Yet there was a
 sense of peacefulness about him, too, a sense of completion and
 fulfilment.

 And for us, there was an inkling of what it might have been
 like to have sat and listened to the wisdom of Sir Matt Busby
 the day after George Best and Bobby Charlton had helped
 him to the European Cup 31 years ago.

 Ferguson will not dwell in anyone's shadow any more. His
 domestic achievements had already brought him most of the
 way into the sunlight. The fact that United had just completed
 an unprecedented treble, and that they had done it by
 performing a miracle of footballing resurrection, completed
 the transformation.

 It made it more special that it had happened on the day that
 would have been Busby's 90th birthday, that United will now
 be able to associate the name of Munich with something that
 is a symbol of the club's rejuvenation and rebirth, not just a
 lasting reminder of the tragedy and misery of an air disaster.

 For most of the match, though, that kind of jubilation and
 catharsis had seemed a world away. Bayern had taken the
 lead through Mario Basler in the sixth minute and, as United
 toiled, had hit the woodwork twice in the second half.
 Ferguson had reconciled himself to defeat, to trying again
 next year, before two corners from Beckham had yielded an
 injury-time equaliser from Teddy Sheringham and a winner
 92 seconds later from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, his fellow
 substitute, that sent the United section of the crowd into
 delirium.

 "We would have had no reason to be disappointed after the
 season we had had, but I was gearing up to facing the
 question about: 'Do you think you will ever win it?' "
 Ferguson said.

 "I would have refused to have interrupted my way of life for
 it. I was not going to let it obsess me. The European Cup
 was always going to be the thing you strive for, but even last
 night I was relaxed about it. I was accepting that we were
 going to lose. I was not going to get myself twisted inside
 about it because I have got a life to live. Now, though, I do
 feel a sense of fulfilment that I did not feel before.

 "I think you go into your life with a determination that you
 especially don't want to fail. I think that's the first thing.
 When you sample success, that makes your main drive from
 then on repeating that success.

 "That survival mechanism inside you gives you a lot to impart
 to the team and not giving in is part of it. You hope that
 eventually, your team mirrors yourself and your personality.

 "I hope that part of the result of that is that 20 years from
 now, when they talk about the chief characteristic of this
 particular team, they will always be remembered for their
 last-minute goals, for never giving in. The 1968 side were
 men of their time and now my team cannot be ignored. They
 are men of their time now.

 "I mean, two goals in injury time, who would have thought it?
 Maybe we were meant to win it. Maybe there was an
 element of destiny. With Matt's birthday and Bayern Munich
 all in there, I kept hoping there was a meaning to it. You
 could tell Matt was looking down on me."

 In the Nou Camp tunnel on Wednesday night, the players
 had spoken of the debt that they owed to their manager.
 Peter Schmeichel had acknowledged it by asking him to help
 him to lift the trophy, Sheringham had said that the turning
 point in the match was Ferguson's half-time team-talk.

 Ferguson smiled when he was asked yesterday what he had
 said. For a few seconds, there was just the sound of the
 fountains. "I told them that the cup is only six feet away from
 you at the end of the game," he said, "and if you lose, you
 cannot touch it."

 No doubt, Beckham had those words ringing in his mind
 when he saw the European Cup being carried down, ready
 to be presented to Bayern. He took the ball, placed it by the
 corner flag and the rest is history.


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hat the papers said
  THE incredulity surrounding the nature of United's victory
  was perhaps best-reflected by L'Equipe, the French daily
  sports newspaper, which declared in a headline "God Is
  English". In its three pages of coverage, L'Equipe praised
  the "energy, passing and free kicks of Beckham" and
  concluded: "As a legend, 'Becks' has just joined Best.

  Sport, the Barcelona daily newspaper, devoted its first 23
  pages to the match and spoke of the last final of the
  millennium deserving an historic final. "And how we got it,"
  the paper said.

  El Pais recalled the late Sir Matt Busby, who was the
  Manchester United manager when they last won the
  trophy in 1968. Sir Matt, who died five years ago, would
  have been 90 on the day of the final and El Pais stated:
  "Happy Birthday, Sir Matt."

  Marca, the Madrid daily sports paper: God saved
  Manchester United.

  Sport: The Red Devils - from the inferno to glory. The
  Nou Camp, for all its majesty and the fact that this was
  the last European Cup final of the millennium, deserved a
  historic final. And how we got it. The denouement of
  Manchester United-Barcelona has no comparison. Never
  was a loser more of a loser; never was a winner so
  fortunate. From glory to misery in a minute.

  El Mundo, another Spanish newspaper: Manchester
  touched glory in one minute. A magical final in a magical
  setting.

  El Pais: The match was possibly the most dramatic ever
  seen in the history of the European Cup.

  IF NEWSPAPERS in neutral countries were spellbound
  by the spectacle, it was a different matter in Germany. On
  its front page, Bild carried a front-page black and white
  photo of Stefan Effenberg, the Bayern captain, sitting
  dejectedly on the ground, his head bowed. The paper had
  just two words in its headline: "Oh, no!"

  Bild: That was bitter. Just unbelievable.

  TZ, the Munich daily tabloid: Ninety minutes party and
  then the tears poured. One Munich supporter, Peter
  Bond, an actor, demanded: How can a top team let in two
  goals at the end?

   A total of 13.59 million people in Germany watched the
  entire game on RTL television, 1.7 million fewer than
  when Borussia Dortmund won the European Cup final in
  1997.

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Subject: www.red11.org DAILY NEWS Fri May 28 99 ** European
  Champions ** part2




www.red11.org DAILY NEWS Fri May 28 99 ** European Champions **
(Part Two)
This Issue:
1. Entertaining to the final encore (Gary Neville)       
2. WE CAN RULE FOR TEN YEARS (Mirror)            
3.  Big demand for the European Champions                          

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*        WE'VE DONE THE TREBLE !!!!!!!!      *
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*                                            *
*       1999 PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS        *
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*         1999 F.A. CUP CHAMPIONS            *
*                     &                      *
*         1999 EUROPEAN CUP WINNERS          *
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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
 5  West Ham United      38 11  3  5  32  26   5  6  8  14  27   -7   
57
 6  Aston Villa          38 10  3  6  33  28   5  7  7  18  18    5   
55
 7  Liverpool            38 10  5  4  44  24   5  4 10  24  25   19   
54
 8  Derby County         38  8  7  4  22  19   5  6  8  18  26   -5   
52
 9  Middlesbrough        38  7  9  3  25  18   5  6  8  23  36   -6   
51
10  Leicester City       38  7  6  6  25  25   5  7  7  15  21   -6   
49
11  Tottenham Hotspur    38  7  7  5  28  26   4  7  8  19  24   -3   
47
12  Sheffield Wednesday  38  7  5  7  20  15   6  2 11  21  27   -1   
46
13  Newcastle United     38  7  6  6  26  25   4  7  8  22  29   -6   
46
14  Everton              38  6  8  5  22  12   5  2 12  20  35   -5   
43
15  Coventry City        38  8  6  5  26  21   3  3 13  13  30  -12   
42
16  Wimbledon            38  7  7  5  22  21   3  5 11  18  42  -23   
42
17  Southampton          38  9  4  6  29  26   2  4 13   8  38  -27   
41
18  Charlton Athletic    38  4  7  8  20  20   4  5 10  21  36  -15   
36
19  Blackburn Rovers     38  6  5  8  21  24   1  9  9  17  28  -14   
35
20  Nottingham Forest    38  3  7  9  18  31   4  2 13  17  38  -34   
30


*** TEAM RESULTS - MANCHESTER UNITED - AS AT 05/05/99 ***

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
27/02/99    Southampton              Home     W  2-1     1    55,316
13/03/99    Newcastle United         Away     W  2-1     1    36,500
21/03/99    Everton                  Home     W  3-1     1    55,182
03/04/99    Wimbledon                Away     D  1-1     1    26,121
17/04/99    Sheffield Wednesday      Home     W  3-0     1    55,270
25/04/99    Leeds United             Away     D  1-1     2    40,255
01/05/99    Aston Villa              Home     W  2-1     1    55,189
05/05/99    Liverpool                Away     D  2-2     2    44,702
09/05/99    Middlesbrough            Away     W  1-0     1    34,665
12/05/99    Blackburn                Away     D  0-0     1    30,436
16/05/99    Tottenham Hotspur        Home     W  2-1     1    55,189

*** TEAM STATISTICS - MANCHESTER UNITED - 1998/9

AVERAGE HOME ATTENDANCE: 55,188
HIGHEST HOME ATTENDANCE: 27/02/99 - Southampton (55,316)
LOWEST HOME ATTENDANCE:  15/08/98 - Leicester City (55,052)
BEST WIN:                06/02/99 - Nottingham Forest (8-1)
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:           06/02/99 - Nottingham Forest (8-1)
HEAVIEST AWAY DEFEAT:    20/09/98 - Arsenal (0-3)*****
  
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 Brondby         0-2  Barcelona
Dec  9 Man Utd         1-1  Bayern Munich

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CHAMPIONS' LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS
 Manchester Utd  2 v 0  Inter Milan
 Real Madrid     1 v 1  Dynamo Kiev
 Juventus        2 v 1  Olympiakos
 Bayern Munich   2 v 0  Kaiserslautern

**DYNAMO KIEV      2 v 0  REAL MADRID         (Agg:3-1)
FC KAISERSLAUTERN  0 v 4  **BAYERN MUNICH     (Agg:0-6)
INTERNAZIONALE FC  1 v 1  **MANCHESTER UNITED (Agg:1-3)
OLYMPIAKOS         1 v 1  **JUVENTUS          (Agg:2-3)

Semi Finals 
Manchester United v Juventus  4-3agg 3-2 [1-1]
Bayern Munchen v Dynamo Kiev  4-3agg 1-0 [3-3]

UEFA Champions League Final  Nou Camp, Barcelona - May 26   
Manchester United 2 Bayern Munich 1                         
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Gary Neville on why the attacking policy of his team
deserved to succeed (Telegraph)

    Entertaining to the final encore

  I KEPT looking up at the
  clock. It was ticking down
  towards the end of the
  second half. I saw it go
  through 40 minutes, 42
  minutes, 43 minutes and I
  just thought that the Germans had gone and done us again.

  By that stage, we had thrown all caution to the wind. We
  had got a throw on the left-hand side and Ryan Giggs was
  going to take it, but I rushed over to stop him because I
  thought we could do with a long throw into their box at
  that stage.

  When that came back out, I think either I or David
  Beckham managed to force a corner on that side. Becks
  took it and Teddy scored the equaliser. When that goal
  went in, I just got a sense that something was going to
  happen.

  Even so, when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer got the second one,
  I could hardly believe it. I don't think any of us could.
  Even when we got back in the dressing-room and we
  were almost out of control with delight, I don't think any
  of us could really take it in that we had won the European
  Cup.

  Everybody was just so happy. People were hugging each
  other everywhere. What I remember most about those
  moments was the feeling that what we had done actually
  meant something, it had affected people's lives.

  I suppose winning the trophy was the last piece in the
  jigsaw for this United team. It was the one thing that had
  got away from us, until Wednesday night, the one thing we
  had left to achieve.

  I had never really felt any burden weighing down on me
  because of what the 1968 team had done. Trying to win
  the league championship after such a long time a few years
  ago was more difficult than any pressure to win the
  European Cup.

  Now that we have done it, it doesn't mean that we can
  stop and sit back. There are teams that have won the
  European Cup four times. Just look at the haul that clubs
  such as Real Madrid and Liverpool have got. They are the
  targets. They represent what we have got to try to get to.
  Even before the game, the manager said it would just be a
  stepping-stone for us, that the greatest things were to
  come. There is always somebody who has done more
  than you in this game. The moment you rest on your
  laurels, you are beaten.

  Partly because of that, I didn't think Bayern deserved to
  win.

  In a way, you have to admire the way they nearly killed
  the game off, but you have to ask if that is football and if a
  team that does that deserves to succeed. Maybe I am
  being naive, but should using all your experience just to
  stifle a game be enough to win you a European Cup final?
  I don't think it should. Think of all the great teams, Brazil
  in 1970, teams such as that: they would not have done
  that and nor would we. I think the way we won on
  Wednesday was a victory for football.

  I don't think a team has ever entertained as much as we
  have done in one season. I don't want to get carried
  away, but think of the second leg against Juventus, the FA
  Cup semi-final replay with Arsenal and the Cup-tie with
  Liverpool. Normally, you would only get one or two
  games like that in your life.

  I am lucky that I have experienced so many of them at
  such a young age. People are always coming up to me
  and talking about how many medals I have got, but I
  honestly don't care about the medals.

  From Wednesday night, if I had to pick out a couple of
  things, it would be the memory of lifting the manager up on
  our shoulders and of Roy Keane coming through at the
  end to take his place with us. That was important. The
  fans love Keano and the players know how much he has
  contributed to our success this season.

  It was a night when everything was perfect. I had been
  looking up at our fans, 45,000 of them or however many
  there were, and just thinking how amazing it would be if I
  could just see them celebrating a goal.

  I know some of them had spent an awful lot of money
  getting to Barcelona and paying for their tickets, but the
  feelings that those people had on Wednesday night -
  money can't buy them.


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 WE CAN  RULE FOR TEN YEARS (Mirror)

  United stars pledge to build on their Euro night of
  triumph
  IT WAS an incredible, unforgettable scene. Peter
  Schmeichel in centre stage lifting the European Cup as
  40,000 cameras flashed to bathe Manchester United in
  a stunning light.

  Schmeichel had tried to convince Alex Ferguson to
  collect the trophy, but the United boss insisted that it
  was the Dane's destiny to pick up Europe's most
  treasured piece of European silverware on his farewell
  appearance against Bayern Munich.

  You can rest assured, though, that Schmeichel's will be
  the only departure this summer. After claiming their
  place in Manchester United history, wild horses could
  not drag any of the rest away.

  An already-great team firmly believe they are on a path
  to even greater glories.

  Schmeichel, whose night to remember was slightly
  tinged with sadness at his exit from Old Trafford, said:
  "This United side is a very, young team, and there's no
  doubt in my mind that there are more European Cups for
  them."

  One of those young players, Nicky Butt, is in agreement
  and believes United can rule for the next decade, such
  is their skill and belief that they truly are the greatest.

  Butt said: "We have a great team spirit. We're young,
  so hopefully we can dominate soccer for the next 10
  years. We've got to try and make that happen. We must
  not be one-year wonders."

  David Beckham, whose majestic performances have
  won over an often hostile public this season, added: "It's
  been an amazing 11 days for the team, for the manager
  and for everyone. Alex Ferguson deserves everything he
  gets. We owe him everything. I certainly do because he
  brought me into football and made my career. But this
  victory wasn't just for the players on the pitch but for
  everyone involved in this great club.

  "You could tell that at the end when the boss wanted
  Roy Keane out there holding the trophy.

  "He might not have played but, believe me, he was there
  in spirit.

  "It's the same spirit between the players that's made us
  complete this wonderful Treble."

  His sentiments were echoed by Dwight Yorke, whose
  marksmanship has made United not just successful but
  exciting as well.

  Yorke said: "There's a closeness in this team, a bond in
  the dressing-room, and we have proved that over the
  season when people have written us off. Every time we
  have bounced back.

  "To be part of Manchester United is the best feeling that
  any footballer can have."

  And Gary Neville firmly believes they can maintain their
  heady standards and has another name for the team
  Ferguson calls his soccer gods.

  Neville said: "I can't explain how we won the game. It
  just happened. In a way it was supernatural.

  "It was like nothing I have ever experienced before in my
  life. I'm not going to say that now we've reached the
  peak. We have just won the Treble but we've got to
  come back next season and do it all over again.

  "The manager sets the work ethic here, and if you let
  that slip you will be out of the club. Now we are up there
  we have got to try and stay at the top.

  "I remember hearing the 1968 side in recent interviews
  saying that when they won the European Cup they felt
  as though they had done it.

  "But we have to go out and win it again and again. It
  won't be easy but we can't sit back and think we have
  made it.

  "We deserved to win the Treble. This team never gives
  up. It fights to the end and that reflects the manager's
  spirit." So while they will be searching for a replacement
  for Schmeichel, it is unlikely that there will be other
  holes to be filled in this squad.

  Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer have
  always been singled out - hastily it must be said - as
  likely casualties in another end-of-season shake-up.

  But it would be a waste if their unquestioned talent was
  disposed of after the season they have experienced.

  Scoring the goals that brought down Bayern underlined
  their undoubted value to Ferguson and United.

  Sheringham, teased about his absence of trophies, now
  has three of the best. And for the third time in 11 days
  he emerged from the darkness of the tunnel with a
  gleaming gong decorating his chest.

  In fact, the repeated departure of the United medallion
  men gave another huge clue to their phenomenal
  success story.

  It was not just the same grey blazers bearing the United
  emblem or the medals dangling from their necks that
  told you about their uniformity.

  These boys are in it together. They won together.
  Danced in wild celebration together.

  And there is no doubt that whenever that famous night in
  Barcelona is recalled they will stay together...United for
  ever.


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       Football - Big demand for the European
         champions

         By Glenn Moore

         Manchester United may regard themselves
         as the world's biggest club, but they
         are likely to accept reluctantly that
         they are not quite big enough to take
         on the world at the same time as
         conducting campaigns in England and
         Europe.

         Alex Ferguson will meet with the club's
         board of directors in the next few days
         to consider a trio of invitations that
         would take the club across the globe
         following their European Cup triumph on
         Wednesday night.

         Two of the invitations, to contest the
         European Super Cup in Monte Carlo in
         August, and the Intercontinental Cup in
         Tokyo in December, are likely to be
         accepted. The third, the inaugural Fifa
         Club World Championship, which will
         probably be played in South America
         next January, is expected to be
         refused.

         Maurice Watkin, the influential club
         lawyer and board member, said
         yesterday: "We haven't received the
         invitation yet but we have discussed it
         and the feeling is that it would be
         very difficult to fit in when you
         consider the amount of games we hope to
         be involved in, in Europe and at home,
         next year. We may reconsider that view
         but it would be difficult, especially
         if it is in South America."

         The tournament, the brainchild of Sepp
         Blatter and Joao Havelange, the current
         and past presidents of world football's
         governing body, is scheduled to last a
         fortnight and involve eight teams
         including the champions of Asia,
         Africa, Europe, South and north
         America, Oceania (Australasia), a host
         nation club and the holders of the
         Intercontinental Cup. Brazil, Uruguay,
         Mexico and Saudi Arabia are contending
         hosts. Uefa, the European governing
         body, agreed under intense pressure
         from Fifa, earlier this month to send a
         team and confirmed yesterday they would
         be inviting United.

         However, they also said they would
         understand if United said no. Bayern
         Munich, the European Cup runners-up,
         who may be able to arrange the
         tournament around the German winter
         break, or Dynamo Kiev, who reached the
         semi-finals and will be between
         Ukrainian seasons, are likely deputies.

         Watkins added that United expected to
         take up the invitation to play the
         European Super Cup against Lazio, the
         European Cup-Winners' Cup holders, and
         hoped to make the Intercontinental Cup
         against the winners of South America's
         club championship, the Libertadores
         Cup, which has reached the semi-final
         stage.

         This match, which is widely regarded as
         producing the world's top club, is
         especially evocative for United who
         lost a notoriously violent contest
         against Estudiantes of Argentina in the
         1968 equivalent. The first game, in
         Argentina, was a battle in which Nobby
         Stiles was dismissed, but the second
         leg was even worse, with George Best
         sent off for punching his tormentor,
         having been continually kicked.

         All these events will further gild the
         club's international reputation - and,
         of course, its stock market value.
         Earlier in the tournament Martin
         Edwards noted wryly that the best
         result was to reach the final and lose
         as the bonuses due on winning
         outweighed the prize-money.

         But, he added, the impact of winning
         brought immeasurable benefits both
         financially, in terms of commercial
         spin-offs, and in attracting and
         retaining players.

         One of those, the match-winner Ole
         Gunnar Solskjaer, was yesterday again
         linked with Tottenham who tried to sign
         him last autumn. However, Watkins said:
         "He was very keen not to leave Old
         Trafford earlier in the season. I can't
         imagine he'll be rushing to leave after
         last night. I've not heard anything
         about a transfer. The great thing about
         the team this season is the way we've
         had a squad, how players have fought
         for their places and pleased to be part
         of the team.

         "You can imagine how everyone is
         feeling today. It's such a great thing
         for the club and for English football.
         It's been a long haul back from Heysel
         and now we have several powerful teams
         in the Premiership we could do
         something next year. I doubt if we'll
         ever see something as exciting as last
         night again though."

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