Would be 90's for me, was when I first started really getting into watching football. Italia '90 being the first big tournament I followed from start to finish with the wall chart of course
The mid 90s, mainly because that was when I was a kid and obsessed over football the most. When I got older football became a very different thing and was more about being something you could socialise over. Being successful probably helped a lot although I had loads of mates who supported unsuccessful teams at the same time who were also mad about football at the time.
I rekon for most it'll be either when you were a kid and you first fell in love with the sport or a young adult if you were going to games a lot. I have quite a few mates who went to games most weeks (and still do) and it was pretty much their life but I never really had that desire, got other things to do.
Kanchelskis Giggs Keane Ince Cantona Hughes
Had the stupid max 3 foreigner rule not existed in the early to mid 90's that team would have definitely won the Champions League.
Crazy we had to go to Nou Camp and not play Schmeichel to prioritise playing outfield players from outside the UK. What made it worse is some teams had more than 3 foreign players in their team during the era but some of them had dual passports to get around the ruling. I believe it was mostly Italian clubs who benefited from this.
Kanchelskis Giggs Keane Ince Cantona Hughes
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Loved that time
From 2004 - 2009 time, when you had Fergie, Wenger Rafa and Jose battling it out. Plus you had players like Henry, the young Ronaldo and Rooney coming to the fore.
We generally had 2-4 clubs in the CL semis and of course winning the thing.
"Had the stupid max 3 foreigner rule not existed in the early to mid 90's that team would have definitely won the Champions League."
Not sure, we had excellent players but we were still very naive when it came to Europe (I know we won the CWC) after the ban was lifted. Took Ferguson a few seasons to figure out how to compete with the top sides.
It's why it's hard to compare United in the 90s to PL sides over the past 20 odd years because we were the guinea pig club for English sides in the CL (Blackburn and Arsenal were rubbish in the CL in the 90s). Once we became established and the competition grew it enabled other English sides to do well.
Most entertaining exciting, attacking football period was probably under Tommy Docherty, during the relegation year (yes the players found that easier in DIV2) and subsequently the couple of years after back in the top flight with Hill and Coppell etc. In contrast some of the dullest and pointless era apart from much of the post Fergie era was under Sexton and which was like watching paint dry often.
I loved watching us under Big Ron - we lacked consistency, but when we were on it, we mixed it with the best and played with swagger. Wasn't even a teenager then, so probably had a bigger effect watching as a kid - the likes of Robson, Whiteside, Wilkins, Muhren etc, the 2 FA Cup wins of course highlights and won in very different manners.
Whiteside's curler past Southall, prob the best goailie around then, a thing of absolutely beauty
Whiteside's curler past Southall, prob the best goailie around then, a thing of absolutely beauty
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that goal is right up there with ' and Solksjaer has won it', for sheer elation in that moment.
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
Too young for the Wideside goal but the Bruce double against Wednesday sticks out as having that feeling.
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 55 minutes ago
The mid 90s, mainly because that was when I was a kid and obsessed over football the most. When I got older football became a very different thing and was more about being something you could socialise over. Being successful probably helped a lot although I had loads of mates who supported unsuccessful teams at the same time who were also mad about football at the time.
I rekon for most it'll be either when you were a kid and you first fell in love with the sport or a young adult if you were going to games a lot. I have quite a few mates who went to games most weeks (and still do) and it was pretty much their life but I never really had that desire, got other things to do.
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Serie a was in its hey day with some great teams and players, golden time just before football got ruined by greed.
comment by RB&W - He kicked lumps out of them (U21434)
posted 6 minutes ago
Whiteside's curler past Southall, prob the best goailie around then, a thing of absolutely beauty
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that goal is right up there with ' and Solksjaer has won it', for sheer elation in that moment.
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Everton were such a dominant side that season, stopped their 'treble' of Cup Winners Cup, League and FA Cup, and of course we went down to 10 men - it was as good an effort as against City last season
Baz
Obviously I'm going to look through that period with rose tinted glasses but it does seem to be the end of when you could still have a highly talented fat bloke (who probably had 10 pints the night before) play and boss games. Simpler times I guess, the podcast Quickly Kevin does well at capturing what made that era so special.
Personally I find the way the game has gone (which was inevitable) with every player having to be an athlete and the tactical anaysis a bit boring and missing the spirit of the game.
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 12 minutes ago
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
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I think you mean the 83' semi against Arsenal? Beautiful strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpjp72WNy4
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 13 minutes ago
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
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in the 1983 semi he did vs Arsenal. (Brighton Cup Final)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpjp72WNy4
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 12 minutes ago
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
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I think you mean the 83' semi against Arsenal? Beautiful strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpjp72WNy4
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I actually meant Liverpool if I'm being honest
Great strike!
Robson's goal against Liverpool in the 85' semi was beautiful also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzfVYEhiZvY
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
Robson's goal against Liverpool in the 85' semi was beautiful also
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Best goal he ever scored.
The era for me would be the 90's.
The first part was Giggs Sharpe, Cantona, Kanchelskis and Sparky. The second was the class 0f 92 with Cole Yorke and OGS.
Whiteside score a great goal in the Milk Cup 83' final, but of course we lost that 2-1 in ET
Hard to believe he still hadn't reached his 18th birthday yet.....it's after 40sec in clip below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9KS3WEv1ck
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 14 minutes ago
Baz
Obviously I'm going to look through that period with rose tinted glasses but it does seem to be the end of when you could still have a highly talented fat bloke (who probably had 10 pints the night before) play and boss games. Simpler times I guess, the podcast Quickly Kevin does well at capturing what made that era so special.
Personally I find the way the game has gone (which was inevitable) with every player having to be an athlete and the tactical anaysis a bit boring and missing the spirit of the game.
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players like stefan effenberg for Bayern that used to smoke at half tine-sure I read that somewhere. Gazza drinking a few whiskies too
Loads of players smoked up until the 90s I think, Cryuff famously. I think Bartez was smoking when he was with us.
Pep deserves jail time for what he's done to the beautiful game.
Pass masters, very good it works incredibly well, the goals scored can be beautiful but the games are often as dull as dishwater. Suffocate the opposition, wear them down, finish them off.
Effective but boring.
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posted on 19/8/24
Would be 90's for me, was when I first started really getting into watching football. Italia '90 being the first big tournament I followed from start to finish with the wall chart of course
posted on 19/8/24
The mid 90s, mainly because that was when I was a kid and obsessed over football the most. When I got older football became a very different thing and was more about being something you could socialise over. Being successful probably helped a lot although I had loads of mates who supported unsuccessful teams at the same time who were also mad about football at the time.
I rekon for most it'll be either when you were a kid and you first fell in love with the sport or a young adult if you were going to games a lot. I have quite a few mates who went to games most weeks (and still do) and it was pretty much their life but I never really had that desire, got other things to do.
posted on 19/8/24
Kanchelskis Giggs Keane Ince Cantona Hughes
Had the stupid max 3 foreigner rule not existed in the early to mid 90's that team would have definitely won the Champions League.
Crazy we had to go to Nou Camp and not play Schmeichel to prioritise playing outfield players from outside the UK. What made it worse is some teams had more than 3 foreign players in their team during the era but some of them had dual passports to get around the ruling. I believe it was mostly Italian clubs who benefited from this.
posted on 19/8/24
Kanchelskis Giggs Keane Ince Cantona Hughes
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Loved that time
posted on 19/8/24
From 2004 - 2009 time, when you had Fergie, Wenger Rafa and Jose battling it out. Plus you had players like Henry, the young Ronaldo and Rooney coming to the fore.
We generally had 2-4 clubs in the CL semis and of course winning the thing.
posted on 19/8/24
"Had the stupid max 3 foreigner rule not existed in the early to mid 90's that team would have definitely won the Champions League."
Not sure, we had excellent players but we were still very naive when it came to Europe (I know we won the CWC) after the ban was lifted. Took Ferguson a few seasons to figure out how to compete with the top sides.
It's why it's hard to compare United in the 90s to PL sides over the past 20 odd years because we were the guinea pig club for English sides in the CL (Blackburn and Arsenal were rubbish in the CL in the 90s). Once we became established and the competition grew it enabled other English sides to do well.
posted on 19/8/24
Most entertaining exciting, attacking football period was probably under Tommy Docherty, during the relegation year (yes the players found that easier in DIV2) and subsequently the couple of years after back in the top flight with Hill and Coppell etc. In contrast some of the dullest and pointless era apart from much of the post Fergie era was under Sexton and which was like watching paint dry often.
posted on 19/8/24
I loved watching us under Big Ron - we lacked consistency, but when we were on it, we mixed it with the best and played with swagger. Wasn't even a teenager then, so probably had a bigger effect watching as a kid - the likes of Robson, Whiteside, Wilkins, Muhren etc, the 2 FA Cup wins of course highlights and won in very different manners.
Whiteside's curler past Southall, prob the best goailie around then, a thing of absolutely beauty
posted on 19/8/24
Whiteside's curler past Southall, prob the best goailie around then, a thing of absolutely beauty
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that goal is right up there with ' and Solksjaer has won it', for sheer elation in that moment.
posted on 19/8/24
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
posted on 19/8/24
Too young for the Wideside goal but the Bruce double against Wednesday sticks out as having that feeling.
posted on 19/8/24
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 55 minutes ago
The mid 90s, mainly because that was when I was a kid and obsessed over football the most. When I got older football became a very different thing and was more about being something you could socialise over. Being successful probably helped a lot although I had loads of mates who supported unsuccessful teams at the same time who were also mad about football at the time.
I rekon for most it'll be either when you were a kid and you first fell in love with the sport or a young adult if you were going to games a lot. I have quite a few mates who went to games most weeks (and still do) and it was pretty much their life but I never really had that desire, got other things to do.
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Serie a was in its hey day with some great teams and players, golden time just before football got ruined by greed.
posted on 19/8/24
comment by RB&W - He kicked lumps out of them (U21434)
posted 6 minutes ago
Whiteside's curler past Southall, prob the best goailie around then, a thing of absolutely beauty
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that goal is right up there with ' and Solksjaer has won it', for sheer elation in that moment.
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Everton were such a dominant side that season, stopped their 'treble' of Cup Winners Cup, League and FA Cup, and of course we went down to 10 men - it was as good an effort as against City last season
posted on 19/8/24
Baz
Obviously I'm going to look through that period with rose tinted glasses but it does seem to be the end of when you could still have a highly talented fat bloke (who probably had 10 pints the night before) play and boss games. Simpler times I guess, the podcast Quickly Kevin does well at capturing what made that era so special.
Personally I find the way the game has gone (which was inevitable) with every player having to be an athlete and the tactical anaysis a bit boring and missing the spirit of the game.
posted on 19/8/24
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 12 minutes ago
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
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I think you mean the 83' semi against Arsenal? Beautiful strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpjp72WNy4
posted on 19/8/24
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 13 minutes ago
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
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in the 1983 semi he did vs Arsenal. (Brighton Cup Final)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpjp72WNy4
posted on 19/8/24
Touche kinsang
posted on 19/8/24
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 12 minutes ago
Didn't Whiteside score a volley against Utd in the semi final?
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I think you mean the 83' semi against Arsenal? Beautiful strike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMpjp72WNy4
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I actually meant Liverpool if I'm being honest
Great strike!
posted on 19/8/24
Robson's goal against Liverpool in the 85' semi was beautiful also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzfVYEhiZvY
posted on 19/8/24
comment by kinsang (U3346)
posted 1 minute ago
Robson's goal against Liverpool in the 85' semi was beautiful also
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Best goal he ever scored.
posted on 19/8/24
The era for me would be the 90's.
The first part was Giggs Sharpe, Cantona, Kanchelskis and Sparky. The second was the class 0f 92 with Cole Yorke and OGS.
posted on 19/8/24
Whiteside score a great goal in the Milk Cup 83' final, but of course we lost that 2-1 in ET
Hard to believe he still hadn't reached his 18th birthday yet.....it's after 40sec in clip below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9KS3WEv1ck
posted on 19/8/24
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 14 minutes ago
Baz
Obviously I'm going to look through that period with rose tinted glasses but it does seem to be the end of when you could still have a highly talented fat bloke (who probably had 10 pints the night before) play and boss games. Simpler times I guess, the podcast Quickly Kevin does well at capturing what made that era so special.
Personally I find the way the game has gone (which was inevitable) with every player having to be an athlete and the tactical anaysis a bit boring and missing the spirit of the game.
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players like stefan effenberg for Bayern that used to smoke at half tine-sure I read that somewhere. Gazza drinking a few whiskies too
posted on 19/8/24
Loads of players smoked up until the 90s I think, Cryuff famously. I think Bartez was smoking when he was with us.
posted on 19/8/24
Pep deserves jail time for what he's done to the beautiful game.
Pass masters, very good it works incredibly well, the goals scored can be beautiful but the games are often as dull as dishwater. Suffocate the opposition, wear them down, finish them off.
Effective but boring.
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