1999 Champions League final match thread

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

I wasn't sure where to ask this but was there a match thread on here for this famous match against Bayern Munich? Was RedCafe even around in those days?

If so, is it possible to see that thread now, specifically the injury time!?

If not, does anyone remember what the reactions were like on the "internet" (this was pre-social media I guess!)? Either on here or a similar website?

I would love to see the reactions in those few minutes!!

Thanks

 

[Arruda]

I think the oldest member I've seen had a 1999 join date, not sure if Niall himself. Oldest threads in the classic area are from 2001 so I don't think the forum was around during that game. Niall probably became a glory hunter after that final and created the forum then.

 

[Sir A1ex]

I saw the thread title, and thought a) it was an amazing bump and b) it's quite surprising there were only 2 posts in the thread at the time.

 

[charleysurf]

I bet there would be a lot of posts like below coming up to the 90th minute:

Why is Ferguson just sitting there! Why doesn't he DO something!

Sheringham is so slow! What a donkey!

Bayern are light years ahead of us. This is just embarrassing.

 

[17 Van der Gouw]

If it weren't for the fact people using dial-up internet would have taken about 5 minutes to submit each post

Assuming the same caliber of posters were active on Redcafe, the thread would look like this ten minutes in:

FFS, cheap free kick

feck off Johnsen

1-0 down already. We're shit

Embarassing

Same old shit. Going to get buttfecked tonight

All the top.reds saying we're going to turn it around can feck off

feck off Fergie, playing Blomqvist in a game like this

Need to sell off half of this shower of twats, get Rivaldo and Del Piero next year

Goes to show what lack of spending will do. Wont win shit with these academy idiots

OMG we're shit

...5 minutes after full time

Maybe now we'll be able to attract some big names next year and not have to rely on scraping it

 

[Mrs Smoker]

Luckily, quality of support is much better these days.

 

[Bear Attack]

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

Maybe now we'll be able to attract some big names next year and not have to rely on scraping it

To the Zidane thread!

 

[united_99]

 

[Invictus]

Oldest matchday thread I could find is from 2002 :

https://www.redcafe.net/threads/united-2-leicester-city-0-05-11-02-wc.28948/

 

[rcoobc]

For those saying that the current crop would be dejected and horrid... Is that what the 2011 and 2009 match threads were like? Prove it?

I know we are dispirited at the moment, but if we were on the verge of a treble, the posts wouldn't be like that at all. It would be more like this

Oh well. Its a fantastic achievement. No Keane or Scholes has killed us though.

and

please... Please... Just a moment of magic

 

[Kostur]

Cleverley was invisible again

 

[Damien]

I wasn't sure where to ask this but was there a match thread on here for this famous match against Bayern Munich? Was RedCafe even around in those days?

If so, is it possible to see that thread now, specifically the injury time!?

If not, does anyone remember what the reactions were like on the "internet" (this was pre-social media I guess!)? Either on here or a similar website?

I would love to see the reactions in those few minutes!!

Thanks

Nope. Not in this form anyway. Was just a fan website with news and stuff I think from around 1997 until a few months after CL final

 

[rcoobc]

Nope. Not in this form anyway. Was just a fan website with news and stuff I think from around 1997 until a few months after CL final

Really? That's interesting. What was the domain back then?

 

[kps88]

For those saying that the current crop would be dejected and horrid... Is that what the 2011 and 2009 match threads were like? Prove it?

I know we are dispirited at the moment, but if we were on the verge of a treble, the posts wouldn't be like that at all. It would be more like this

and

Yep. The mood is far more cheerful and there's a real sense of camaraderie, even when things aren't going too well.

 

[Guy Incognito]

You are bound to find some posts in Google Groups.

 

[ZIDANE]

Doesn't look like it was around back then in this form.

You could try the way back machine e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20000831090004/https://www.redcafe.net/home/

The BBC used to have active message boards if you want to hear people's opinions online though sometimes it was very much like a set of YouTube comments.

 

[charleysurf]

Doesn't look like it was around back then in this form.

You could try the way back machine e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20000831090004/https://www.redcafe.net/home/

The BBC used to have active message boards if you want to hear people's opinions online though sometimes it was very much like a set of YouTube comments.

They were awful

 

[17 Van der Gouw]

To the Zidane thread!

Haha, he definitely would have been our Muppet favourite. Must admit, even I'd melt down for the thought of pairing him with Scholes

 

[Adebesi]

If it weren't for the fact people using dial-up internet would have taken about 5 minutes to submit each post

Assuming the same caliber of posters were active on Redcafe, the thread would look like this ten minutes in:













...5 minutes after full time

Brilliant, you're right this is exactly what such a thread would've looked like.

 

[Alock1]

Doesn't look like it was around back then in this form.

You could try the way back machine e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20000831090004/https://www.redcafe.net/home/

The BBC used to have active message boards if you want to hear people's opinions online though sometimes it was very much like a set of YouTube comments.

Got Nialls email. Oh yeahhhhhh

Absolute scenes are a coming

 

[Raoul]

Not sure whether the forum was even up then.

 

[Offside]

I saw a google group post once and the comments were during a United game in 1997. People may have been posting on there during the 99 final, not sure how to find it though.

 

[United22]

Why are so many of the older users banned?

 

[The White Pele]

Beckham can't play in a midfield two

 

[2 man midfield]

FFS Schmeichel get back in goal you fecking gimp!

Why do we never score from set pieces?

That baby faced idiot?!! FFS Fergie, why don't you just hand Bayern the cup?

Sign the crossbar!

Sigh. Beckham's corners are useless, one in five fail to beat the first man! He must be on at least 50 grand a week!

We miss Keane and Scholes so much it's scary

Oh wait, that last one still applies...

 

[Rory 7]

I'm still here, although I did join two years later. Bandwagonesque ;-)

 

[Offside]

''Why do we never score from corners'' will have 100% been said.

 

[golazo]

What does Steve McClaren even do?

 

[WR10]

 

[AltiUn]

Why are so many of the older users banned?

Always wondered that myself, 90% of the posters back then seemed class too, shame they ain't around anymore.

 

[Phil]

Always wondered that myself, 90% of the posters back then seemed class too, shame they ain't around anymore.

We are a great bunch.

 

[2 man midfield]

I didn't know the internet existed until around 2007, nearly signed up in 2011, couldn't due to the email restrictions, did in 2012 and was promoted after 4000 posts.

A week after signing up they de-restricted the email signup and just after promotion it got easier to make it up here. You now see fellas knocking about in the mains with 100 odd posts!

 

[jim]

Why are so many of the older users banned?

I think there's a system set up now to auto-ban unused accounts, i.e. ones that haven't been logged into for a long time.

 

[mariachi-19]

I didn't know the internet existed until around 2007, nearly signed up in 2011, couldn't due to the email restrictions, did in 2012 and was promoted after 4000 posts.

A week after signing up they de-restricted the email signup and just after promotion it got easier to make it up here. You now see fellas knocking about in the mains with 100 odd posts!

I got up in like 500 in 2008

 

[2 man midfield]

I got up in like 500 in 2008

I think there's a few cases of people coming up in under 1000 posts, but until a few months back i'm sure it was extremely rare. Definitely been a bit more relaxed recently.

 

[Invictus]

Also what's up with the guest system in the older threads ? See naught of that these days..

 

[Twigg]

I think there's a few cases of people coming up in under 1000 posts, but until a few months back i'm sure it was extremely rare. Definitely been a bit more relaxed recently.

Took me like 8000 posts

 

[Adebesi]

I'll tell you what isn't to blame for this shambles: our formation. I love 442.

 

[AltiUn]

I think there's a few cases of people coming up in under 1000 posts, but until a few months back i'm sure it was extremely rare. Definitely been a bit more relaxed recently.

I came up on my 100th post I think it was.