Totally Gold 98/99: More than just Man United’s treble

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson

The Athletic

Soccer, Unknown, Soccer,, Sports, Football

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Back in the summer of 2020, Jimbo and co passed the time reviewing classic Premier League campaigns.

Here from the vault, we bring you the thoughts of Michael Cox, Daniel Storey and Matt Davies-Adams on the 1998/99 season, when there were many twists and turns but one team won it all.

It was the best season ever to be a Man United fan with Sir Alex Ferguson's side taken right down to the wire but winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. But what else about 98/99 have you forgotten?

Di Canio shoving a referee? Liverpool having joint managers? West Ham finishing 5th?

Relive one of the most dramatic seasons in Premier League history.

Produced by Charlie Jones.

RUNNING ORDER:

• PART 1a: Gullit joins Newcastle (04.00)

• PART 1b: John Gregory’s Aston Villa (06.30)

• PART 1c: West Ham finish 5th (09.00)

• PART 1d: Paolo Di Canio versus Paul Alcock (10.30)

• PART 2a: A three-way title race (15.00)

• PART 2b: Forest relegated, Van Hooijdonk on strike (25.00)

• PART 2c: Houllier/Evans at Liverpool (28.00)

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0:43.6	Through the summer, we're running regular totally football shows on Tuesdays and
0:47.6	Thursdays, plus a bonus show, usually on the Monday that we're calling Totally Goal,
0:53.3	revisiting that curious interval in
0:55.2	2020 when there was no football on and all we had to talk about was some of the greatest
0:59.4	football seasons in history. Today is the episode where myself Michael Cox, Daniel Sturray and
1:05.4	Matt Davis Adams got together to parley like it's 1999 as we discuss a season when there were countless twists and turns
1:12.5	but only one team ended up
1:14.7	winning it all.
1:39.3	Thank you. Unbelievable. This. 9899.99. A season famous for that bewildering last-minute blaze in Barcelona, but also in the Premier League
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