“It doesn’t work for every player,” he said in Red, his autobiography. The following is an extract from Rob Smyth’s article from the forthcoming Issue Eighteen of the Blizzard. Cantona then suggested sitting Keane in front of the back four in a 4-1-3-1-1. Eric Cantona returned from his eight-month suspension at the beginning of October, and finished the season as the club's top scorer with 19 goals in all competitions, the last one being the winner against Liverpool in the FA Cup Final. It was a time when Oasis and Blur were making Britannia cool and United’s kids were beginning to bloom. Their extra man in midfield, and McManaman’s influence, led Ferguson to try all kinds of things against them. Liverpool marched on at the top of the Premier League as goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah earned a 2-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday.
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But, as he said three years later on the BBC’s Match of the Nineties, “if you do something like that, you’d better win”. Ferguson’s first great United team also had blockbusting sessions at the Four Seasons Hotel after games, as referenced by Keane. One hairy-arsed Neanderthal defender in particular. A youthful Gary Neville takes on Everton’s Graham Stuart in the 1995 FA Cup final. It’s easy to see 1996-97 as the one that got away, given that Liverpool were top at Christmas, but even then their chance was at best 50/50 against an excellent United who, though preoccupied with their first decent European Cup run under Ferguson, lost only two of their last 26 league games. Put simply, Liverpool were a very good side, while Manchester United – and Arsène Wenger’s Arsenal side of 1997-98 – were great sides. “The biggest myth of all is that Roy was soft, and put up with anything from the players, which made us a completely lawless group,” said Fowler. Against Newcastle, I put a shot three inches wide of the post, and at Wembley I failed to complete a hat-trick. Although United had recovered from that dismal opening-day defeat at Villa, there was still no real certainty about how good the team was or would be. The Reds have scored in each of their opening 22 league fixtures so far this term – a landmark never before reached in the top flight in club history. Yet it was extremely memorable, for two reasons: the completion of Cantona’s redemption, a marvellous late winning goal, and Liverpool’s sartorial travesty.
A year earlier, in his season diary, Ferguson reflected that Keane “thinks Guinness is medicine”. “Roy was a good man and didn’t deserve that.” The stories include an ongoing competition to steal his parking space, which even reserves players took part in; phoning Evans while he was doing an interview, urging him to call the writer “a cunt”. That, essentially, is what this Liverpool team were. Liverpool, Man Utd lick wounds after humbling Premier League defeats Liverpool became the first reigning English champions to concede seven goals in a league match since 1953 and Manchester United were thrashed 6-1 as inquests started after a humiliating day … With Liverpool, cause and effect were mixed up. United remained unbeaten throughout October and November, although they remained second behind Newcastle in the league. They were usually in one of their three favourite nightclubs – Chinawhite, Ten Rooms or the Emporium – by 9pm. Given that the fading David Platt started against both Spain and Germany because of suspensions to Ince and Gary Neville, it’s probably fair to assume Redknapp would have played both games. He inevitably tired as the match progressed and never really threatened to complete the story by scoring a winning goal. In Red Men, his history of Liverpool, John Williams says: “His signing turned out to be the equivalent of a managerial suicide note.”, Evans disputes that. Liverpool had the ball in the net four times against bitter rivals Manchester United in Sunday's derby clash at Anfield, but ran out 2-0 winners thanks to goals from Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, Get the FREE Mirror Football newsletter by email with the day's key headlines and transfer news. They had a Frank Spencer gene. While McManaman, Redknapp and particularly Fowler were outstanding, and Rob Jones – who retired at 27 because of injury - and Collymore might have achieved greatness in different circumstances, many of the players just weren’t that good at the very highest level, not compared with people like Schmeichel, Irwin, Keane, Cantona, Giggs, Scholes, Beckham, Gary Neville and others. Redknapp’s quick and quick-witted free kick was probably going to hit the outside of the far post; Schmeichel, scrambling desperately across goal, made sure with a fingertip save. It would be interesting to know the extent to which United were exposed to the same temptations as Liverpool. “A designer suit with no arms: that was about as close to a symbol of that Liverpool team as you are ever going to get,” said Collymore. The team lost too many important games and in four full seasons under Evans won only the 1994-95 League Cup. With his form and confidence so high, they might have changed his life.
“We tried to keep things as normal as possible. Redknapp never did start a game for England at a major tournament. As time went on, so such matches became tinged with an element of farce; Liverpool were a team who could always snatch defeat from the jaws of dignity. There may have been one or two better players in the country – Alan Shearer was at his very best – but there were none more exhilarating or charismatic, and none who captured the spirit of the times better. When asked why, he chirped: "Because I like the fellah.". In fact, if anything, Roy could be fucking ruthless, but he did it with a smile on his face and rarely an angry word.” Fowler’s take is that it was easy for the next regime to belittle Evans, thus buying more time to change things, and that it was “naughty” of Houllier to do so. Fowler celebrates with Jason McAteer on the day he scored two at Old Trafford. Even allowing for the unreliable nature of polls, this was startling stuff given that, in the previous two-and-a-half years, United had won their first title for 26 years and their first ever Double. Manchester United Alex Ferguson celebrates the Double in 1996 but was keen to keep a lid on the party spirit. “I’ve got to be honest,” said Fowler, “I would have killed to have had Teddy providing service for me.”. Surely they, more than any other English club, would stoutly resist the more extravagant commercial blandishments.”, “A shower of narcissists,” was the description of Brian Reade in 44 Years with the Same Bird, and when they subsequently lost the match it hardened the perception of a team who – to reverse a phrase associated with United – were not better, just arrogant. Liverpool fans celebrate the League Cup after Roy Evans’s side beat Bolton Wanderers in the 1995 Coca Cola Cup final at Wembley. He started to come deeper and wider, as Liverpool wanted, a tactic that was most obviously successful when his wonderful cross created Fowler’s opening goal in the legendary 4-3 win over Newcastle in April 1996.
They were deservedly 2-0 up when, on the stroke of half-time, McManaman and Fowler went through on goal. To him the biggest issue was discipline. “They usually wait for it to go quiet then they shout some horrible abuse at you. The change had little immediate impact, although Cantona, boxed in by the corner flag on the right, somehow manufactured a vicious low cross that only just evaded Cole. It was like having eight Mensa candidates in the same class. But Alisson Becker’s quick thinking set up Salah to finally put the game to bed in stoppage-time and provide an ecstatic release for those inside Anfield. Magical. “Don’t get me wrong, the Liverpool fans are the best in the world, but there are always one or two who get on your back,” he said.
Manchester United morning headlines as Bruno Fernandes makes penalty vow. He did make too many poor signings – Sean Dundee was a particular disaster – but there is a sense that, with Evans, we are guilty of accentuating the negative and ignoring the positive. Fowler took pleasure in signalling four or five fingers – the number of European Cups won by Liverpool either side of 2005 – when he scored against United, and Liverpool also helped deny United the title with a win in 1994-95 and a draw at Old Trafford in 1997-98. The 2-2 draw earlier that season, a multi-layered minor classic, was the best they produced.
Ince, after finding a way back in, showcased his superior defensive ability and started at Euro 96, where he performed with his usual under-appreciated brilliance. Nicky was a tough lad and an ideal partner for this kind of operation.”, Keane’s performance ensured Ferguson’s tactics worked. It was a vital lesson about man’s football, albeit from someone six weeks younger than him. With the limited camera angles it’s hard to discern a clear offence – Bruce made it look clumsy and therefore hard categorically to give a penalty – yet all football instinct suggests it was probably a foul. “We were like a bunch of kids, really. Even when he won so much at Real Madrid, McManaman did not dominate games as he did under Evans. Premier League match Man Utd vs Liverpool 01.10.1995. Outmuscled and outmanoeuvred by van Dijk in battle of two big money centre halves. “I didn’t see life until I was 27!” said Gary Neville of his monastic lifestyle. Alan Hansen, with his Match of the Day team Gary Lineker and Mark Lawrenson, was famously critical of United’s kids. Rush noted that he “seemed to be taking defeat a lot worse than some of the younger lads around me.” Matteo, by contrast, said that, after the game, “the scene was one of total devastation” and Fowler says the party was “rather subdued”. It’s sometimes forgotten that the nickname was not given to the team until long after the white suits. I caught myself imagining what would have happened if Gary Neville ever tried that with Alex Ferguson. On 27 December, they hosted Newcastle at Old Trafford and won 2–0, with one of the goals coming from Andy Cole, the former Newcastle goal machine who had arrived at Old Trafford the previous winter, and the gap was down to seven points.
What Collymore did not know during the act was that Evans was in the hotel room next door. In some cases, the criticism was surely born of jealousy. Bizarrely, he was included in the PFA Team of the Year in only one of his eight seasons at United. Leeds, in fourth, were between the sides. Booked. Stan Collymore is mobbed after scoring a stunner against Blackburn in 1995.
Ryan Giggs is part of the Class of 92 yet really he was a one-man Class of 91, a regular in the first team from the autumn of 1991. Preview and stats followed by live commentary, video highlights and match report. It was his last meaningful touch as a Liverpool player. Further down the bed, two girls were busy sucking him off.
Perhaps it’s because they were almost a team of mavericks, which is a contradiction and compromises the individual charm that is the essence of maverick appeal. After a slick move, Cantona drifted a chip towards Cole, whose scintillating overhead kick went just wide. The fact Liverpool’s defence seemed to be getting worse did not help. It was the inevitable conclusion of nine months of flirting. So did Fowler, who went on a summer holiday to Faliraki in which he and all his mates, including the young Liverpool defender Dominic Matteo, bleached their hair. This was a time when perception was starting to overtake reality; when it became more important to be seen to do the right thing than actually to do the right thing.
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