Sir Alex And His Worst Ever New Year's Day - with QPR's Andy Sinton
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
New’s Eve Year 1991. Manchester United are on course to win the title for the first time since 1967. It’s Sir Alex Ferguson’s 50th birthday party, but it's a small, understated affair because United play QPR at Old Trafford the next day. A comfortable home win is expected for United to go top again - but it didn't work out that way...
Join one of the stars of that game, Andy Sinton, to discuss what happened next, in perhaps the most famous New Year's Day game in modern English football.
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| 0:00.0 | Dennis Bailey thank God after the game for the good fortune of his Hattrick. |
| 0:10.9 | I don't blame him. |
| 0:12.5 | Hattrick's by opposing players are rare enough at El Trafford to invite suspicion of supernatural. |
| 0:16.9 | Much gossip surrounded that game, and all of it was malicious rubbish. |
| 0:21.4 | It was a popular rumour that our players were less than they should have been |
| 0:23.9 | because they'd spent New Year's Eve celebrating with me to mark my 50th birthday. |
| 0:27.5 | We were certainly in the Midland Hotel together, |
| 0:29.6 | but I can assure anybody who's interested that the players were in bed early. |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to It Was What It Was, the Football History Podcast. |
| 0:38.1 | I'm Jonathan Wilson and with Rob Draper, |
| 0:40.6 | and that was Sir Alex Ferguson reflecting on Manchester United's |
| 0:43.6 | Shock 4-1 home defeat to Queen's Park Rangers on New Year's Day, 1992. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm glad to say that joining us is one of the stars of that game, |
| 0:53.4 | a left side of the midfield, he played 161 times for QPR. He also played for Brentford, Chephyr Wednesday, Spurs and Wolves. He was capped 12 times by England. It's Andy Sinton. But before we get to Andy in his recollections, Rob, apart for the fact that you're a QPR fan, and when we floated the idea of doing something New Year specific, you demanded |
| 1:12.5 | we did this, you wouldn't listen to any other suggestions. But apart from that, apart from your |
| 1:16.5 | horrendous bias, why are we doing this game? Well, it is just the greatest New Year games of all |
| 1:22.9 | time. Happy New Year to everyone or an imminent Happy New Year. We should also say. But yeah, I think New Year's pictures are quite special. |
| 1:29.9 | Everyone's feeling a bit gorgy on New Year's Day. |
| 1:32.6 | And it's particularly hilarious to see a super team of athletes apparently looking really gawky. |
| 1:38.5 | But as Sir Alex said, you know, nothing in that. |
| 1:41.8 | We'll investigate that, Clay, later on the show. But I think it's a really interesting game for a couple of reasons. One is, of course, for me and Andy, this is a really good QPR side, and we really want to talk about that. How we've got QPR on a podcast before Sunland's 73. I'm not sure, but I'm smuggled it in there. But secondly, it's a really interesting point in Manchester United's history |
| 2:03.4 | because they're not quite in the doldrums like they were before they won that famous FA Cup. |
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