Fresh from ending the longest trophy drought since the 1980’s in the Milk Cup Final last Sunday, Gary was advocating midweek investing in getting Harry to Old Trafford for the avalanche of trophies that are seemingly about to come their way.
Presumably that’s the 5-0 defeat at Newcastle and the 6-3 defeat at Southampton in season 1996/97 that you are referring to, a season which incidentally saw a 4th league win in 5 seasons for Man U. You’ve lived through some very dark days following Man U.
I think we can all agree that it was a freak scoreline, as a United fan you’d have to be fairly concerned at the attitude of the United players in the 2nd half though, completely folded against their biggest rival when the pressure came on.
Could you imagine that happening under Ferguson, he’d have them shot