Unheard: 1999

The Official Manchester United Podcast

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

25 years ago, Manchester United made English football history, when they won the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League. With a nucleus of homegrown stars, Alex Ferguson and his team went on a remarkable 33 game unbeaten run to reach the promised land.

Where there is a true moment in time, a ‘where were you?’ moment, there is a desire to relive it. And not just relive it. To feel what it was like before it happened. To remember that anticipation. To bask in the moment and soak it in just one more time. Now you can.

Narrated by Paddy Barclay, produced by Wayne Barton and using rare unheard audio from the collection of Tom Tyrrell, this episode of the Manchester United Podcast places you on May 14th, 1999, two days before the final Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur. You will hear from the players as they navigated through the following days, on the brink of history, experiencing it as it happened.

This is Manchester United, on the edge of glory.

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0:00.0	25 years ago,
0:04.5	ago Manchester United made English football history
0:08.5	when they won the treble of the Premier League,
0:11.5	FA Cup, and Champions League.
0:15.0	With a nucleus of homegrown stars, Alex Ferguson and his team went on a remarkable 33 game, unbeaten run to reach the promised land.
0:28.0	History was made. Records were rewritten. A legacy was defined in the most sensational of ways.
0:37.0	Where there is a true moment in time a where were you moment there is a desire to relive it and not just relive it to feel what it was like before it happened, to remember that anticipation, to bask in the moment
0:57.6	and soak it in just one more time.
1:01.4	And now you can. What you're about to hear is from the 10 days before camp now in Barcelona,
1:10.0	Manchester United players at each step of the journey before each of their final three games.
1:17.0	David Beckham, Yesper Blomquist, Nicky Bot, Andrew Cole, Ryan Giggs, Dennis Irwin, David May, Gary Neville,
1:31.2	Phil Neville, Peter Schmy, Teddy Sharingham, Olegona Sulshire, Yapstam, White York.
1:40.6	These men share their thoughts and feelings in the moments before they scaled football's biggest mountain.
1:48.0	This is Manchester United on the edge of glory. Alex Ferguson's side had won four Premier League titles in the past six seasons.
2:19.2	He was keen to take them to a fifth in seven, especially now he was confronted with his most formidable rival
2:26.3	yet, an Arsenal team coached by Arsenvenga. Arsenal had won the league an FA Cup double in the previous season.
2:37.0	United's response had been strong, knocking out Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final and going all the way in the league.
2:49.0	On the last day of the season, the two clubs were in a straight shootout. United were at home to Dotnamotsburg.
2:57.0	Arsenal played Aston Villa at Highbury.
3:00.0	United just had to win to be champions.
3:04.0	It was a time where every player in the squad was just itching to be included.
3:10.0	The name of the game is playing football and you want to be involved in the games.
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