1999 Champions League Final Streaming Live on the United Website Right Now.

[Charlie Foley]

Currently about 10 minutes in. That Basler goal was so soft.

I haven't watched the full game in a while. We are much livelier than I remember, surprised how much Blomqvist was on the ball vs my memory of the game.

 

[T_Model101]

The pitch looks absolutely massive, or maybe I've just forgotten what a football pitch looks like

 

[UnofficialDevil]

Cheers. Why does it look that bad at 720p was that what it was like then? I seem to remember it much clearer on the telly back then.

 

[Charlie Foley]

The pitch looks absolutely massive, or maybe I've just forgotten what a football pitch looks like

Doesn't it

 

[Charlie Foley]

Cheers. Why does it look that bad at 720p was that what it was like then? I seem to remember it much clearer on the telly back then.

Our standards were different I guess!

Nicky Butt was underrated.

 

[UnofficialDevil]

Becks playing as a deep lying playmaker with Giggs on the right..

 

[Web of Bissaka]

Sigh, we're going to lose this ain't we

If only Keane and Scholes are not suspended

 

[Charlie Foley]

Nicky Butt was underrated. Though United would have won this game much earlier with Roy Keane in midfield. Giggs on the right was not as good, and Blomqvist played much better in that half than I remembered, but Giggs on the left would have had much more of an impact. And Beckham could have gone right mid then.

 

[sammsky1]

Nicky Butt was underrated. Though United would have won this game much earlier with Roy Keane in midfield. Giggs on the right was not as good, and Blomqvist played much better in that half than I remembered, but Giggs on the left would have had much more of an impact. And Beckham could have gone right mid then.

I personally think SAF made abit of a mess with his midfield choices that day with Beckham and Giggs both in unnatural positions. I’d have played Johnson and Butt central and kept Beck’s and Giggs on the right and left, and played someone else at CB.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

I personally think SAF made abit of a mess with his midfield choices that day with Beckham and Giggs both in unnatural positions. I’d have played Johnson and Butt central and kept Beck’s and Giggs on the right and left, and played someone else at CB.

Who at CB? Berg out

 

[Uniquim]

Wow. I had forgotten how many times Bayern came sooo close to scoring a second! First the post, and then the crossbar.

 

[McGrathsipan]

Jancker off the bar with 6 mins left.
Unreal.
Watching this is taking me back to the night

 

[McGrathsipan]

Who at CB? Berg out

Stam and Jonsen

 

[Uniquim]

Get in! Equalizer!

 

[anant]

Sheringham!!!

 

[anant]

And Solskjaer has won it!

 

[Uniquim]

I'll never get tired of watching this!

 

[McGrathsipan]

Enjoyed that. What a roller coaster.
Still makes me emotional. Best night as a supporter for me.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Stam and Jonsen

No, I know who played I was replying to the guy who said he'd have played someone else at CB and asking "who?" (May would have been a big step down)

 

[McGrathsipan]

No, I know who played I was replying to the guy who said he'd have played someone else at CB and asking "who?" (May would have been a big step down)

Oops

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Enjoyed that. What a roller coaster.
Still makes me emotional. Best night as a supporter for me.

It's close for me between the first PL and that. I'd gone through the 26 years of waiting, been close a couple of times and had so many people take the piss out of me so that first PL was special as it'd been a long time coming.

Clive Tyldsley should be knighted for that commentary. I could listen to/watch the last 10 minutes on a loop (even with his senile co commentator, God bless him). Soooo many phrases that stick in the memory.

And finally, the Bayern fans. Feck me, that must have hurt?!

 

[Sandikan]

Stam and Jonsen

He was asking who would you play at centre back instead of Johnsen (who he said he'd play in midfield), with Berg out.

It would have been a brave call to go with Brown at that time. Maybe G Nev, but then you're disrupting a great centre back combo

 

[sammsky1]

And Solskjaer has won it!

OleIN!!!!

 

[AaronRedDevil]

Hope they do the 08 final

 

[Sandikan]

Incredible to watch back.
Stand out points that I hadn't really remembered

• 78mins Scholl (?) hitting the post
• 84mins Jancker off the bar, and then it whizzing past him on the way back
• Yorke totally miscuing from a great position around 88
• Babbel playing a dreadful pass that led to us getting the corner for the first goal.
• A really poor slice clearance from one of their defenders, whereby any sort of hoof down field would have probably won them the game
• When Sheringham smacks Giggs' miscue in, there's a defender next to him who seems keener on running out, rather than trying to make an attempt to tackle him when he looks quite close!
• Butty getting after some bloke in a suit who has wandered into the celebrations from the crowd

 

[sammsky1]

He was asking who would you play at centre back instead of Johnsen (who he said he'd play in midfield), with Berg out.

It would have been a brave call to go with Brown at that time. Maybe G Nev, but then you're disrupting a great centre back combo

Yeah, there were no perfect choices given injuries and suspensions but I thought our key strength at the time was our wing play, especially the Beckham- Yorke axis.

Blomquist and Giggs has very little impact in final and Beckham wasn’t wise enough as a quarterback in those days.

Still, winners write history so SAF is a football genius beyond compare and I’m obviously not!

 

[Sandikan]

Yeah, there were no perfect choices given injuries and suspensions but I thought our key strength at the time was our wing play, especially the Beckham- Yorke axis.

Blomquist and Giggs has very little impact in final and Beckham wasn’t wise enough as a quarterback in those days.

Still, winners write history so SAF is a football genius beyond compare and I’m obviously not!

You wouldn't change a thing now, but yes you're right, wing play was critical to our approach, and to play both Giggs and Beckham out of position was a real blow to that.
We could have at least played Giggs on the left, and Blomqvist right, and that may have got a higher performance combined than the other way round.

But you don't usually have 2 critical players out, and from the same area of the pitch. That was appalling luck, but I suppose we can't moan about overall luck with the way the game played out, and the years of terrible luck after!