Season 1998-99 - Sheffield Wednesday vs Manchester United
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00:00Hillsborough was full to capacity for the visit in November 1998 of Manchester United,
00:05one of the biggest occasions of the season for any team.
00:08Sheffield Wednesday were already struggling, having slumped to seven defeats in 13 matches.
00:13United, on the other hand, had started well and were sitting in second place.
00:17Their sole loss of the season had been inflicted by Arsenal in a 3-0 defeat.
00:21United tended to bring out the best in Wednesday.
00:23The Yorkshire team had won two of the last four meetings at Hillsborough.
00:27New signing Pavel Sernacek made his home debut on his return to English football
00:31after previously spending several years at Newcastle United.
00:35Striker Benito Carboni was still awaiting his first goal of the campaign.
00:39This was his third season with the Owls, following a £3m move from Inter Milan.
00:45Wednesday fielded the same team that had played against Newcastle the week before.
00:49Indeed, the back four had played together in every game of the season,
00:53so injuries hadn't been a key factor in their struggles.
00:56United's goalkeeping legend Peter Schmeichel had announced his retirement at the end of the season,
01:01following seven successful years at Old Trafford.
01:04Roy Keane and Dennis Irwin returned after being rested against Blackburn.
01:09The only notable absentee was Ryan Giggs, who'd missed the last six games through injury.
01:15The fans had seen Wednesday win only one of their last seven games.
01:18That had come at home with a surprise 1-0 defeat of Arsenal.
01:21Could they rediscover that magic formula again?
01:24Next commentator is John Champion.
01:27Sheffield Wednesday have recently developed a habit of making life uncomfortable for Manchester United
01:32when they cross the Pennines and visit Hillsborough.
01:35Twice in the last four years they've won this fixture.
01:40And although they currently occupy vastly different positions,
01:45Sheffield Wednesday 15th in the Premier League table, Manchester United 2nd.
01:50You always find that the Owls are up for this one.
01:55Paviccioli draws the biggest crowd of the season to Hillsborough,
01:59and we already know it's a capacity attendance of 39,500 today.
02:07Sernacek on his home debut with his first clearance.
02:11Up goes Carboni.
02:15Brian Kidd taking charge of matters down on the bench in the early moments of the game.
02:22It's Atherton.
02:25It's down.
02:30And Alexanderson was caught on the back foot.
02:39And then Cole was bowled over by Emerson Tom.
02:47Despite this foul he's made a favourable impression.
02:51In his time with Wednesday so far.
02:53The Brazilian signed from Portuguese football.
03:06Manchester United beaten only once in the English Premier League so far this season.
03:133-0 at Arsenal.
03:16And scoring goals for fun lately.
03:1821 goals in the calendar month of October.
03:21Boosted by six at Bromby in the Champions League and five against Wimbledon.
03:26And in four games so far this month they've scored ten times.
03:30Five more of those against Bromby.
03:35It's Blomquist.
03:41Nice control.
03:43Swivel.
03:44And then too much elevation.
03:49They were hardly secure at the back.
04:01Wim Jonk.
04:03Taken from behind by Paul Scholes.
04:14One of the tidiest attackers, Scholes.
04:18Danny Wilson was in the Sheffield Wednesday team that beat Manchester United to win the 1991 League Cup.
04:26This time last year he was in charge of Barnsley.
04:35Alexanderson.
04:38Tries his luck.
04:39Oh and Schmeichel has virtually thrown it into his own net.
04:49Hillsborough alive with smiling faces.
04:55But there's one very red one and it belongs to Manchester United's usually impeccable Danish goalkeeper.
05:06Straightforward.
05:07Even for the goalkeeper in a pub team on a Sunday morning.
05:13But not it seems for Schmeichel.
05:16But not it seems for Schmeichel.
05:29Many a long year without seeing Peter Schmeichel make another error as severe as that one.
05:36Although this is not his happiest ground.
05:39Remember his embarrassment when chipped by Davos Shuker here playing for Denmark against Croatia in Euro 96.
05:47Perhaps the most emblematic goal of that tournament.
05:51A stamp to key.
05:54Danny Sonner making a nuisance of himself.
05:57A stamp to key.
06:00Danny Sonner making a nuisance of himself.
06:05Beckham.
06:07Stammer straight forward.
06:14Scholes.
06:17Lundqvist.
06:19Andy Cole.
06:20Andy Cole.
06:24And last Manchester United are beginning to put some passes together at least.
06:36Alec Ferguson has just completed 12 years in charge.
06:42Still no shrinking violet.
06:45Especially when his team are behind to a goal like that.
06:54Gary Neville.
06:59Cole.
07:00York.
07:01That's nice. That's Cole. That's 1-1.
07:14And suddenly Ferguson on the touchline must feel a whole lot better.
07:18Even if Danny Wilson doesn't.
07:22Two strikers who've played a fair amount of football together.
07:28They know what the other is likely to do next.
07:31And they hooked up very impressively there.
07:33For Andy Cole to get his eighth of the season.
07:36Danny Wilson with Barnsley.
07:39Lost 7-0 at Old Trafford last season.
07:422-0 at Oakwell.
07:45Here at least his side scored first.
07:59Scholes.
08:01And he's got a chance.
08:03Scholes.
08:06This is Dwight York.
08:11Blomqvist.
08:13Dennis Irwin.
08:20Now York.
08:21Leaves it for Irwin.
08:23And Irwin goes down.
08:25Under an untidy challenge from Nicholas Alexanderson.
08:28Alex Ferguson gave a penalty from the dugouts.
08:33What's more important is that David Ellery didn't from 10 yards away.
08:40Andy Booth.
08:43Stout.
08:55Phil Neville.
08:58York.
09:08York.
09:10Manchester United faced by the same back four that's seen duty in every Sheffield Wednesday League game so far this season.
09:17Results haven't been what they might have wished.
09:20But they've been consistent in their selection.
09:24Here's the Norwegian, Rudy.
09:29Blomqvist.
09:34Irwin.
09:41Jesko Blomqvist.
09:46Dwight York.
09:49Cole.
09:51Cole.
09:56This is better from Manchester United now.
10:01The equaliser from Cole has allowed them to regain their equilibrium.
10:07Irwin.
10:08Irwin.
10:10Blomqvist.
10:14Stout.
10:18Stout.
10:21Scholes.
10:23He misses his kick.
10:33Keane.
10:34Scholes.
10:39It's Manchester United asking most of the questions at the moment.
10:45Keane.
10:48Now Beckham.
10:51Oh, and both strikers went for the cross.
10:53York and Cole.
10:58Well, Manchester United required a moment of clarity to meet a super cross from Beckham.
11:05Neither striker was entirely on message.
11:13Carboni.
11:14Yet to score this season in ten games for Wednesday.
11:18Stam.
11:24Letting fly two and bringing a decent save from Soniczek.
11:31He's been kept busy on his home debut.
11:35What a wonderful ovation up at St James' last week when he returned to make his first appearance for Wednesday at his old club, Newcastle.
11:43Extended there by Stam.
11:46Beckham.
11:49Stam.
11:51Hits another corner.
12:00Towering presence at the back post.
12:09David Beckham.
12:13Scholes.
12:15Well, he had time and he had space and there wasn't a meaningful challenge.
12:20At least he would have expected.
12:23It would have been to work the goalkeeper.
12:27Danny Wilson has been pretty direct with his team this season when they were beaten here by Cambridge in the League Cup.
12:34He called them Fancy Dans.
12:36Paul Scholes.
12:40Wide with Beckham.
12:43Des Walker behind.
13:01Stam.
13:02And Scholes.
13:03No, he used a hand.
13:05And in fairness to him, he's not turning away in celebration and trying to calm the referee.
13:10Although that may not prevent him from receiving a yellow card.
13:16Poor unsportsmanlike behaviour.
13:23I'm not exactly sure what went through Scholes' mind.
13:26I think he couldn't get there with his head.
13:29Decided to turn his head.
13:30Decided to turn his head.
13:32Decided to turn it in with his arm.
13:34It's hardly a Maradona moment.
13:39It is one that Scholes may live to regret if he accumulates too many bookings this season.
13:45It's like a slam dunk in basketball.
14:00Cole and Tom.
14:03Having a verbal disagreement.
14:11Wilson, Tom who until recently played his club football at Benfica.
14:24And was offered in friendship by Tom and declined by Cole.
14:30The play restarts with a Sheffield Wednesday free-kick.
14:41Halftime at Hillsborough.
14:43And it's 1-1.
14:44Sheffield Wednesday taking an early lead through Nicholas Alexanderson.
14:47But it was a gift from Peter Schmeichel.
14:50And that was cancelled out by Andy Cole just before the half-hour mark.
14:55So here we go with the second half.
14:57Manchester United.
14:59Having come from behind to level through Cole.
15:02Sheffield Wednesday have played reasonably well without carrying too much by way of attacking threat.
15:07We've barely seen Carbone.
15:09Booth has worked hard alongside him.
15:13This is Andy Hinchcliffe.
15:17That falls into the path of York.
15:19That falls into the path of York.
15:24Actually Senecek put it away.
15:32Beckham.
15:37Beckham to cross this time.
15:39The goalkeeper was caught in no man's land.
15:41There's Scholes.
15:43Atherton.
15:44Atherton.
15:47And Sonner.
15:49Back to Peter Atherton.
16:00Rudy.
16:07Hinchcliffe.
16:11Irwin.
16:15Blomqvist.
16:33Rudy.
16:36Sonner.
16:39And there's Booth.
16:41And it comes to Vivian.
16:44First goal for Wednesday.
16:50What a day to score it.
16:58Another unhappy moment of uncertainty for Peter Schmeichel.
17:05Spread himself and blocked but the rebound ran loose and obligingly for Jonk.
17:10And the £2.5m summer signing
17:12makes his first repayment against that fee.
17:17Alex Anderson who scored the first indirectly set up the second.
17:24Not alone with his thoughts.
17:42Cardiff.
17:50Cardiff.
18:00Carboni.
18:03Support either side.
18:05He's picked up Rudy.
18:09Maybe not quite as accurately as he would have wished.
18:13Hinchcliffe.
18:23Alex Anderson.
18:26Oh, Schmeichel.
18:28Well that's the goal in which he was chipped by Schuker.
18:31At Euro 96.
18:34Although that day he was stranded way off his line, this time
18:38he was pretty much on it.
18:42York.
18:45York.
18:48York.
18:51Tries a blast.
19:07Not a real worry for Senecek.
19:12For Rudy.
19:15A release for Carboni.
19:20Stam I think got the call that time from Schmeichel.
19:28Wes Brown.
19:33Cole.
19:36Wasn't that well read by Des Walker.
19:43Beckham.
19:49And Beckham with a good effort.
19:51Not quite enough curl on it.
19:56There's plenty of anxiety down on that Manchester United bench.
20:00United have been busy this season. Nine Cup and Champions League games on top of their
20:0513 league fixtures including this.
20:09They go to Barcelona on Wednesday for their next Champions League engagement.
20:16And they've got a chance.
20:19And they've got a chance.
20:21And they've got a chance.
20:23And they've got a chance.
20:25And they've got a chance.
20:27And they've got a chance.
20:29Alexanderson.
20:32Carboni.
20:34There's Beckham.
20:35Stam, it ran away from him.
20:37Alexanderson's in here!
20:47We're a month short of Christmas.
20:49But Manchester United have arrived at Hillsborough bearing gifts.
20:55Two errors by Schmeichel for the first two goals.
20:57And now Jaap Stam
21:00presents the ball and the opportunity
21:02to the Swede Alexanderson
21:04for his second
21:06and Wednesday's third.
21:13Just over a quarter of an hour remaining
21:15at Sheffield Wednesday.
21:19Habitually awkward opponents for Manchester United
21:22are up to their tricks again.
21:28Scholes was caught high there
21:32by Emerson Tom.
21:37And given the artillery available to Manchester United
21:41this is a position of some threat to Wednesday.
21:46David Eller making the point that
21:48he will only allow the free kick to be taken once he's blown the whistle.
21:52In a sense this is almost too close for comfort for Beckham.
21:56He'd prefer to be three or four yards further out.
21:59Time to get the ball up over the wall and down again.
22:03Wouldn't rule him out from here.
22:06It is Beckham.
22:08And it was still rising when it cleared the crossbar.
22:22Danny Wilson as a manager
22:25has never tasted victory over Manchester United.
22:34Phil Neville.
22:40Alexanderson.
22:43Carboni.
22:51Atherton.
23:06Two goals for Nicholas Alexanderson.
23:09His first Premier League goals for Sheffield Wednesday.
23:13Joined them from IFK Gothenburg.
23:17And Young could be in again here.
23:22Well four-one really would be embarrassing for Manchester United.
23:26Three-one's bad enough.
23:30I don't think I've ever seen them as shabby defensively as they've been today.
23:41Booth.
23:47Young.
23:52A very well-weighted ball.
24:00Still barking the orders Danny Wilson.
24:04He was tough as teak as a midfield player.
24:11Carboni.
24:14Rudy.
24:15Carboni.
24:16Carboni.
24:20Carboni hadn't gone for the return.
24:22It's not going to matter though.
24:26Any second now
24:28the whistle will go.
24:35There it is.
24:37Sheffield Wednesday victorious.
24:40An excellent performance by them.
24:42Manchester United defensively shambolic.
24:46I've never been able to say that before to such an extent.
24:49But credit to Wednesday.
24:50Two excellent goals from Alexanderson.
24:52One from Young.
24:53Sheffield Wednesday three.
24:55Manchester United one.
24:58A day to savour had a packed Hillsborough.
25:01But it wasn't a sign of things to come.
25:03Sheffield Wednesday managed to win only four more games at home all season.
25:07Though they did finish in a respectable 12th place.
25:10Alex Ferguson's men went from strength to strength.
25:12They claimed the championship by one point over Arsenal.
25:15Won the FA Cup.
25:17And a remarkable comeback against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final.
25:20Saw them complete the Champions League final.