Originally Posted by dno

Almost every European night in 99'. We'd bomb forward as we did, Barca/Bayern/Juve would tear through us on the break and then from nowhere Roy, driven by a will that was unparalleled in football history would get back and break up the attack. That's what bound us to him. We see them pour forward, we'd feel fear and then Roy from nowhere would get back and solve it. He was incredible. Years later Roy would just sit and do this, valuable, but it didn't effect the watching fan the same way, in 98/99 and for a couple of years either side (apart from the injured year of course) it was like we had an extra player, Roy to join the attack and then Roy to break up their attack.