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00:00October 1999 and Stamford Bridge was the setting for one of the Premiership's biggest games
00:05Manchester United began this one as early leaders of the Premiership with 21 points from 9 while Chelsea were in 7th with games in hand
00:14United were full of confidence boasting a 9 game unbeaten run against Chelsea and overall Sir Alex Ferguson's team were on a
00:21Remarkable 29 game unbeaten run a record for the Premiership at the time
00:26Gianluca Vialli had scored the winner the last time Chelsea had managed to beat United
00:31His diminutive striker Gianfranco Zola hadn't been in top goal scoring form at the start of the season
00:36He'd gone 10 matches without finding the net unusual by his own high standards
00:41Vialli drafted in Danish defender Yes Ho in place of Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps replaced Jodie Morris
00:48Sir Alex Ferguson looked relaxed in these stands as he exchanged pleasantries with Chelsea chairman Ken Bates
00:55Summer signing Massimo Taibbi continued in goal despite a clangor against Southampton the week before
01:01Another new signing defender Mikael Silvestre who'd arrived from Inter Milan played at left-back
01:06Phil Neville moved into midfield to replace Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
01:10Your commentator for this one Alan Parry
01:15The Chelsea pitch resurfaced during the summer in beautiful condition here
01:21And everything is set really for a classic encounter
01:25Today's referee Dermot Gallagher Manchester United in the red shirts
01:30defending the goal to the right
01:32shadows falling across the
01:35Stamford Bridge pitch on this beautiful afternoon
01:39Albert Ferrer a little Spanish player with a layoff
01:43to Zola
01:45Chris Sutton who keeps his place ahead of Tor André Flo and the first ball for Manchester United to deal with it
01:51It's a goal Poiette sneaks in and scores inside 30 seconds. What a sensational opening here at Stamford Bridge
02:00confusion in the Manchester United defence
02:02And that must be the quickest goal that any team has scored against Manchester United for a very very long time
02:11Straight from the kickoff from the very first attack and the goalkeeper
02:17Taibbi has to take the lion's share of the blame again
02:20I'm afraid he came too far out didn't make contact
02:24Clashed with his own player Dennis Irwin and Petrescu's cross was headed in by Poiette
02:30One of the best headers of a ball in the premiership and what a start we've got now here at Stamford Bridge
02:37Well, he really has got a fabulous scoring record. It's his 23rd goal in just over 60 appearances
02:44Gustavo Poiette the big Uruguayan has been a fantastic signing for them
02:50Dwight York loses out Chelsea are up for this
02:58Stam's clearance
03:00Stam's clearance picked up again by Petrescu the little Romanian held off the challenge from Neville
03:10Really flying now after that start Ferrer fires another one in but this time beyond Chris Sutton
03:18Good little player Albert Ferrer excellent signing by Gianluca Vialli who's been 20 months in charge at Chelsea now
03:30Stam
03:45Stam for Manchester United the captain gets it back again
03:51The noise was fantastic even before a ball had been kicked, but with Chelsea getting a start like that
03:57The atmosphere really is something special now
04:02Possibly some spectators didn't even take their seats in time to see that goal
04:06But Zola is trying to give them a bonus here and look for Sutton who went down under the challenge on the near post
04:13Looks to the referee but gets nothing. He was hoping for a penalty
04:17lovely build-up play
04:20Zola just glancing up to see where Sutton was and it certainly looked as though it might have been a bit of a push as
04:26well by Henningberg
04:34Ten minutes gone Chelsea won Manchester United nil
04:40Ferrer going forward
04:42That's a good ball too. And suddenly Sutton found himself unmarked not Sutton rather. It was Poirier again found himself unmarked and
04:51Really almost had too much time. He brought the ball down on his chest, but couldn't control it
04:56Poirier
04:57Finding himself for the second time in the match with a chance of a goal here
05:01everyone appealing for offside in the United camp and it seemed to catch Poirier and it was almost because
05:07No, he took the ball down then
05:09he just
05:11Controlled it too far away from himself and in fairness to Taibbi
05:15He was brave going down at his feet like that
05:17Manchester United regaining some of their composure which was certainly missing in the opening few minutes here when they went a goal behind
05:26inside 30 seconds, remember
05:33Deschamps
05:36Referee rather belatedly giving Chelsea the free kick when Deschamps would rather I think have gone for the free kick
05:42Ferrer with a good ball into the box and Taibbi's been beaten again
05:47Chris Sutton has made it Chelsea 2
05:50Manchester United nil only 16 minutes gone
05:55Unbelievable stuff at Stamford Bridge
05:58They're absolutely overjoyed these Chelsea players and fans. What a start against Manchester United
06:05Brilliant ball into the box and Chris Sutton's header was superb
06:10No blame attached to the goalkeeper this time
06:15It was a perfectly placed header and Chris Sutton
06:20On the occasion of the 300th game of his career
06:24Has scored a goal
06:26And it's a goal for Manchester United
06:28Chris Sutton on the occasion of the 300th game of his career
06:34Has scored his first premiership goal for Chelsea
06:40And Viali as delighted as anyone in the stadium in blue
06:48Chelsea 2 Manchester United nil
06:51Sensational opening at Stamford Bridge to what was always going to be one of the fixtures of the season
06:59So
07:10Chris Sutton the first Chelsea striker to score since the opening day of the season
07:16Collision there between two tough little characters. How stupid can you get?
07:21Nicky Butt with the referee right beside him reacted ridiculously and he's off and he deserves to be off
07:27I can't believe that
07:29That is crazy. The referee was stood next to him
07:33Well, even if he hadn't been it would have been a ridiculous thing to do
07:36But Alex Ferguson will be living with Nicky Butt. What a totally unnecessary way to get sent off and get your team into deeper trouble
07:45Dennis Wise being
07:47Protected by his teammates. Well, whatever Nicky Butt's feelings about the rights or wrong of that challenge to do that
07:54Right in front of referee Gallagher gave the referee no option whatsoever. That is a ridiculous piece of indiscipline by Nicky Butt
08:04It's going to be a yellow card by the looks of it for Dennis Wise
08:07But i've rarely seen such a foolish sending off
08:11All right. It was a bad challenge by Wise
08:14But at that point you would have thought it was all over. Nicky Butt would have settled for a free kick
08:18Settled for the fact that Wise was likely to get yellow carded as well. There was a bit of verbals by the looks of it
08:25And now Alex Ferguson's going to have to change things around
08:30Tactically
08:31Wise yellow carded, Nicky Butt red carded. Manchester United all over the place, but a slip has let them back in suddenly here
08:39Oh great save
08:41Scholes must have thought he was going to bring United back into the picture
08:44But Ed Dahoy diving to his left made a fabulous stop it's all happening here
08:51This is wonderful entertainment
08:55Scholes didn't do much wrong
09:00Oh a mistake again by Manchester United's defense, what are they playing at?
09:05two successive mistakes and this is
09:08Unlike any Manchester United performance that i've seen for a long time
09:13Basic errors being made at the back
09:36Well, the sunshine's gone but the entertainment is getting better by the minute even if the weather isn't
09:42All right
09:47Frank LaBeouf
09:51And another little clash there involving Scholes off the ball
09:55The referee seemed well placed to see that as well him and Sutton having a go
10:01Manchester United are trying to commit suicide here. They're already two down. They're already down to 10 men
10:06And they're getting involved unnecessarily. Oh, look at that. He took a kick at him again
10:11And caught as well, he's lucky not to have joined Nicky Buck for an early shower
10:17Good turn by Cole and then a rather theatrical dive
10:22Neville Scholes
10:25Being booed now for his earlier involvement
10:29And commits a foul on Puyat. He's he'd better calm down Paul Scholes
10:35The referee's already been lenient once he might not be a second time
10:41So
10:45It's a good ball for Zola
10:52Got two to beat now
10:55Sensibly went back to keep possession
11:00Good ball wise to Ferrer
11:02Petrescu to one side of him Sutton in the middle another good ball in
11:06Oh
11:07Manchester United were caught again then
11:10And these crosses particularly from the right are causing
11:14United's defense all manner of problems
11:17Both the goals came from that sort of situation the Puyat miss and now a Sutton miss also
11:27Now Sir Alex's uh
11:29Immaculate club blazer looking a little worse for wear and his team certainly looking worse off than Viali's Chelsea
11:36And
11:39Chris Sutton's goal is first in the premiership for Chelsea
11:44Has given Chelsea this 2-0 advantage after Puyat's strike inside 30 seconds
11:56Keep ball is all that Chelsea need to do now
12:05So
12:07Simply running down the clock to make sure they go in with that huge psychological advantage
12:13And that they will do
12:15What an excellent 45 minutes for Chelsea Puyat with a headed goal inside 30 seconds
12:22Chris Sutton with another headed goal making it 2-0 for Chelsea
12:26Manchester United have rarely had such a disjointed and disappointing first half
12:32For many seasons in the premiership the halftime scoreline at Stamford Bridge Chelsea to Manchester United nil
12:41Neither Gianluca Viali nor Sir Alex Ferguson has made any changes
12:47during the halftime interval changes of personnel anyway, but Sir Alex Ferguson might have
12:52reorganized things
12:54Following the sending off of his midfield player Nicky Butt in that first half
12:59But if Manchester United could get a goal back
13:02We might get a second half to match the excitement and drama of the first
13:10The teams have met nine times in various competitions over the last two seasons
13:16And united remember unbeaten in their last nine
13:29Very composed very impressive chelsea performance so far
13:40Interesting to see what tactics they adopt in this second half really chelsea
13:45Do they go looking for a third killer goal that would surely?
13:49mean the end for Manchester United
13:51Or do they just contain?
13:53Keep the ball as often as they can
13:56And let Manchester United do the chasing
13:59So
14:05The only will be very happy about everything at the moment ray wilkins alongside him
14:13Ferrer with the cross which caused so many problems united in the first half beckham
14:21Only
14:22Three teams managed to beat chelsea in the premiership last season coventry on the opening day
14:28Arsenal and west ham they won 20 of their 38 league games
14:34And they started in even better form this season
14:39Wise has possession for them again zola on the right
14:51Stan winning the header
14:53Oh
14:55And a hard challenge coming in there the referee didn't like that
15:01Scholes with a smile of sarcasm rather than the pleasure i'm sure
15:09And i'll tell you what that's a bad tackle by paul scholes for me
15:12He's a lucky lad to still be on the field
15:14He should have been in trouble
15:16Earlier in the first half he is now
15:19And one more misdemeanor
15:22He is going to be shown the red card
15:30Poyette and sutton trying to lose their markers here
15:36Go short to dennis wise
15:39And on to laberth who can really hit the ball from this kind of range, but he finds babayaro instead babayaro leaves it to laberth
15:46It's a third goal for chelsea
15:49Poyette has scored again
15:52And surely now surely manchester united have been beaten
16:0010 minutes into the second half chelsea sail into a three-goal lead
16:06And any one of three players might have scored this
16:10Poyette was on hand to score again
16:13And his particular baron spell is well and truly over he's on a hat trick now against manchester united of all teams
16:24And even if alex ferguson had his full complement of players out there
16:28You couldn't see how they could ever turn this situation around with 10 men. It's well nigh impossible
16:33So
16:40And chelsea have deserved everything they've got today
16:44Right from the start they went at manchester united quite literally with a goal inside 30 seconds
16:51They've played good possession football. They've looked bright and sharp around the opposition penalty area
16:58They've defended comfortably
17:01And they fully deserve their three-goal lead
17:08And the only question now is can they score again
17:14Laberth with a long ball
17:17Stamp with the interception leaves it to bird
17:23I must say i've been disappointed in david beckham's contribution today dropping deeper and deeper here and he's been very subdued
17:31a very
17:32lethargic performance from him almost
17:36And you look for your stars to deliver on a difficult day like this and he most certainly hasn't
17:46Babayano for chelsea
17:53Well, you never would imagine you could use the word easy when you're playing manchester united
17:59But really it's looking easy for chelsea now a three-goal lead. They're keeping possession comfortably
18:06and uh
18:08You cannot see a way back for manchester united
18:13And here goes zola
18:15Sutton is alongside him and he picked him out unselfishly and in it goes
18:19I think it might have been off the defender unless sudden is claiming the final touch
18:23Sadly, I think that goes down as an own goal by henningberg and manchester united's woeful day gets worse
18:32Four nil
18:34Zola doing brilliantly here. He knew where sutton was
18:37He unselfishly tried to slide it into him and that definitely came off berg. That's an own goal
18:45I would like to say manchester united's misery is complete somehow rather. I think it isn't there could be further punishment inflicted
18:52here
18:54Well, he must be wondering what it's all about coming to the most
18:59successful club in europe
19:01And it's been a torrid time for massimo taibbi so far
19:06Phil neville tries to get united moving in the right direction is injured there as he was challenged
19:16Certainly can't afford an injury now manchester united
19:19So
19:21Although to be honest with you, I don't really think it's going to make a huge amount of difference
19:34All chelsea have to do is what they're doing now keep the ball
19:39So
19:43Foul given
19:45Sutton on stam
19:48And now I think united will make those changes and chelsea are also going to make a change jody morris coming on for that
19:59Well, i'm not surprised to see david beckham leaving the field he's had a poor game let's be honest
20:09And uh, oligonucleotide is coming on
20:15And i'm also not surprised to see paul's goals going up
20:18I think he's been taken off to protect him from further punishment as they say in boxing parlance
20:24It looks like all three
20:26Substitutions have been made in fact by manchester united wilson has come on as well
20:31So an attempt by cyrillic ferguson to freshen things up and now of course he's
20:36got the dilemma with 25 minutes remaining of knowing that uh
20:40If there's an injury
20:42Then they've had it. They've used all their subs
20:46Dennis wise the chelsea player off and they almost scored again. That was a fine save by taibi
20:53well, he's uh
20:55He's given his course to criticize him today the italian goalkeeper
20:58But you've got to say that was a marvelous save backpedaling all the way
21:02and I think it even took a
21:04Flick up off the boot of yap. Stam here
21:08It did but he made a very good save
21:11Good goalkeeping that
21:16Still four nil though taibi comes into the crowd and makes a mistake again
21:24Oh when he stays on his line, he looks a decent keeper when he comes off he looks anything but
21:35So
21:37Here's erwin
21:43Possible foul there by laberve on sultry, but it's not been given
21:49Well, that's the first attempt on goal by manchester united for some time teddy sherram sharing and making it
22:04So
22:35So
22:42And petrescu had the temerity there to try a little chip and peter
22:48Taibi from outside the penalty area. It's that kind of game today. I feel that anything's on here chelsea
22:54Foreign
23:02And another taunting for manchester united what's it like to be outclassed say the chelsea supporters
23:12And there's some merit to that question today never thought i'd say that
23:17But manchester united have not been at the races
23:20chelsea
23:23Embarrassingly in control here
23:28The birth
23:29Baba yada
23:31The so has gone to this left-hand side of midfield and gets his first touch of the ball
23:35And fires in a decent cross
23:37Stam knocks it away
23:41No blame at all attached to him today, I think he's defended in his usual superb manner yap stamp
23:48One or two others
23:51Can't hold their heads up quite so high chance here now
23:54Oh, it's another goal and would you believe it?
23:57He's only been on the field a few minutes, but jody morris has scored a rare goal for him
24:03And he'll trumpet that to the heavens tonight. That's for sure
24:07He whacked the ball between taibi's legs and from a simple set piece of throwing
24:13Manchester united's defense has been beaten again. Lovely little ball by lasso
24:18jody morris makes it chelsea
24:21five
24:23manchester united nil
24:25and now perhaps
24:26United's misery is complete or is it?
24:33He hasn't scored at all for the last eight months
24:37Jody morris who was born near the ground here used to be a ball boy
24:41In his school days chelsea through and through sweet moment for him
24:49It's all over at stamford bridge
24:52A memorable day for jean-luca vialli and chelsea football club
24:57the final score at stamford bridge
25:00chelsea five
25:02manchester united nil
25:05Some performance but chelsea couldn't reproduce that sort of form on a regular basis and contrived to lose their next three premiership games
25:13Gianluca vialli's team ended the campaign in fifth spot
25:17Massimo taibi never played for manchester united again, but the team still won the league with a