Shearer agrees to join Man Utd, meaning they never end up signing their plan b, a certain Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
It’s impossible to ever know how this will have turned out, we may in fact have been even more successful, but one thing is for sure, the dramatic events of the last few minutes of the 1999 Champions League final would not have panned out the same.
We would in all likelihood have a different manager right now, too, as despite being a fan of the job he’s done so far, it’s hard to deny that nostalgia and sentimentality played a part in his hiring.