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Both are United

@@Flygono03 Yeah I've got a Leeds fan friend that says the same thing, but we all know who United are

@@-BuddyGuy scunthorpe

@@phil1721 I'm sorry, what are you referring to, is that some breed of fish?

3:33 good example

Iwan Bottos you’re that typical fan that probably didn’t watch Keane properly. ON THE BALL Keane was extremely calm. Off the ball he was hounding players and getting to them as quickly as he can with a brilliant nouse to smell danger and fight for the ball.

@Iwan Bottos fuck off

He was outstanding in the FA cup final that year as well. I think he was just as important as Cantona that year.

Roy did fuck all we dominated

Jimmy Dixon Yh my dad tells me a lot about Newcastle from the 90s. Apparently you guys were very good in 95-96 but we somehow won it.

This was definitely the best Newcastle team I've ever seen, by some distance. People always talk about the 12 point lead but we didn't really throw it away, Man Utd won 15 of their last 19 league games, only losing 2 of them and beating us twice in that period. You just have to give credit where it's due sometimes.

We won it because we were the best team.

@@jamesalandixon Manchester won a lot of those games with goals scored after 8 or 9 minutes of injury time.

They didn't.

So True, You Blitzed Them, How You Didn't Score Still Baffles Me........ I watched the entire match

Remember this like it was yesterday - I must've been 10. My first grasp of what a "top-of-the-table clash" was - and as a Utd fan it was nail biting stuff from the first whistle. Newcastle were well-oiled, brilliant - in the ascendancy in the title race and about to pull away. Then Cantona gives us the lead. From that moment on, I knew we were going to win the game - and the league. This game was the night the title race shifted - and Keegan knew it too.

Yes indeed but there were 3 glaring reasons for this painful loss. Shearer, Peacock and Watson (all either absent or hadn't signed yet in Shearer's case) Schmeichel also had an absolute blinder

A1 & HDJ Enterprises Exec A1 Including Shearer in your comment is the most stupidest thing I’ve ever I’ve read !! Wtf ??? Are you really that uneducated on football teams in a season ?? You don’t belong in the footballing world !!! You’re not even a basic football fan with that drivel !! My god !!

@@shanet5604 WTF Calm down fool. You'll give yourself a funny turn. What a right OTT rant. Are you OK after all that rubbish?

Yeah .. except it was Tomaszewski

Keegan said in his book he said nothing at half time because they’d attacked so much...My thinking,if that was Ferguson he’d have lifted them out of it for missed chances so make it right !!

Right? Such a contrast between the halves.

He definitely got some free champagne 🍾

Yes i boughout him 2pcs of skandia

If any celebration drink was offered, I doubt that Schmeichel would have accepted Newcastle Brown Ale. They almost battered MU that night but they lost their Newcie Brown Ale bottle afterwards, handing the reds the title in the process.

This season is pretty great

You mean just after it had started ... and then it was only downhill and ever-more-corporate from there.

mate it was a great season for football that newcastle team was a breathe of fresh air.

MAGNIFICENT

fucking hell that was magnificent! sharper than anyone else on the pitch at that moment. great catch scherben

@@Htheorphanarian It'd have been even better if I'd spelled of instead of it...

Spotted that ! Outstanding player !! 🇮🇪

That what made players like Keane world-class. It the little things you miss that they do and they make very few mistakes. Watch the lead up to the goal, determination, and vision to get that ball and pass forward asap to build an attack.

Boy? KING.

@Hunky Funkster wtf 😆😆😆

Rob Young Think Debbie Ashe is using a KZfaq name and got the year wrong !!!!

Probably would've done if they'd had them, though ...

Markus Elstob we lost out on shearer as he wanted to go to his boyhood club. We got solskjear instead.....

A premier league great

Yeah their attacking ability was incredible at this time, probably one of the best attacking sides i have seen.

Music Music Only had to tighten up defence and they would have,as I’ve said before lost 5 in 8 on the run in,couldn’t win the premier league playing all out for 38 games !!

@@shanet5604 if we had of just defended at anfield defended at forest defended at Blackburn we would of been champions

blue Star Well that’s only 3 points if you don’t attempt to score ! Lost the league by 4 and had a lesser goal difference ! So you need to get 5 points ! You couldn’t defend as a unit let’s be honest so that cancels Anfield out,Blackburn definitely defend all out and Forest well,you wear looking leggy that night so no that wouldn’t have won the league,they should have been tightening up the last 10 matches,not leaving it to the last couple of weeks !

@@shanet5604 we we're beating Blackburn 3 points 1 at anfield and a point at forest that's 5

hardly...theres 38 games..

@Hamish Munroe yes

Keegan always had his limit. Even if you won it, this team wouldn't have lasted with Keegan until 1999 and the Gullit era. You would've had some other manager regardless. Your performances had been iffy since the turn of 1996.

You're not even English you fraud.

You don't know that and it wouldn't matter if he wasn't.

eddie lasowsky have you ever heard of a British Asian? You fucking pillock.

So called? what are you on about?

@@davidvasey5065 Says who? You mong.

The resilience of that side, mind blowing, the Utd played of today should look back at these games and take note 📝

Alan Rose I always remember Asprilla for that hat rick vs Barca for Newcastle. But Newcastle fans only remember him for not living up to the stature he arrived at the club with and he’s always been scapegoated for screwing up the league for Newcastle.

Coz there was a wall at man United's goal

Zachumo C jungio Eh,check yourself ! No bus parked there,just great backtracking,defending and goalkeeping !

Shane T what I actually meant by a wall at united goal , meant the goal keeper was unbeatable that day

Zachumo C jungio Aha ! Yes,he had a great game !

@@shanet5604 Nah the backtracking is horrible but I've never seen better goalkeeping

2 or 3 games b4 this game they were just starting to wobble.

Their performances were waning from January really but they were scraping league wins. Come end of February their shit performances caught up with them and they started reflecting their results. United were just better.

I get what you’re saying,you’d nearly prefer it was them instead of Blackburn that got it the season before !!

Henry VIII was beheading wives last time they won it.

@Colin David You say "another" but this was before the 5-0 game. I doubt Newcastle would've put in such a vengeful performance the following season at st james's park had they not been embarrassed by ManUtd at Wembley 4-0 on Shearer's competitive debut in the charity shield and of course frustrated by finishing trophyless the previous season despite having a 12point lead while ManUtd went on to win the double with 2 big PL wins against Newcastle playing a huge part.

Shearer won the league with Blackburn the year before this

sadat s You "think Newcastle" would've won the title if they won this game lol well obviously it went to the last day of the season even with ManUtd doing the double over Newcastle that season. It's simple maths. But then again at least they weren't robbed decision wise in a close title race. If ManUtd got their stonewall pen at 2-2 at Highbury in 97/98 which Arsenal went on to win 3-2 then Arsenal would never close a very similar points deficit after also winning 0-1 at OldTrafford and with RoyKeane injured all season for Arsenal to narrowly win that title by 1 point with ManUtd scoring more and conceded less than them, 12 GD better than Arsenal and so just half a point in it. 95/96 at least beat Newcastle with no controversy and in the end won by 4 points and scored more and conceded less than Newcastle. The worst one was Chelsea 2009/10 needed 2 dodgy wins against ManUtd to nick that title by 1 point....and Gerrard to throw the penultimate game of the season because Liverpool preferred to lose with nothing to play for themselves finishing 7th but knowing if Chelsea dropped any points it was the first year Liverpool could be overtaken by ManUtd on overall league title wins, hence Gerrard's deliberate backpass to Drogba. So if the fixture scheduling was slightly different that season (or the head to head's between the top2 weren't fixed) ManUtd win the title because Liverpool won at all costs when ManUtd came to Anfield in the October that season, which made it even more fixed. ManCity needed 2 wins against ManUtd in 2011/12 and the 1-6 at OldTrafford was crucial for the goal difference which of course it was decided by that season and it wouldn't have been such a big scoreline if ManUtd weren't with a numerical disadvantage for most of the game and Balotelli did dive in that incident whether touched or not.

@@cddb5408 The final points margin in 1997-98 may have been one point, but only because Arsenal took their foot off the gas and lost their last two games (by a combined 5-0) after securing the title. Man Utd may have led by 11 pts at one stage, but Arsenal always had some games in hand and went on an excellent run and ended up winning the title with 2 games to spare. Prior to securing the title, Arsenal had won 10 games in a row by an overall margin of 23-2. After that, they lost their last 2 games by a combined 5-0, whereas Man Utd won their last 3 games by a combined 8-0. If you discount the non-competitive games once Arsenal were certain champions, the points margin would've been greater and the goal difference would've been very similar.

@@of_doom_and_steel477 Arsenal needed maximum points of ManUtd in 1997/98 to stand any chance of the title that's clear as day they were behind ManUtd before both matches and it was the first season ManUtd didn't have their captain Cantona and their new captain RoyKeane was injured for all but 1 month of the season. Arsenal were about 6th at Christmas. Also were they taking their foot off the gas or were they just hard fixtures that they would usually lose anyway? Just look at the results Arsenal used to get in those fixtures in the seasons surrounding that one then come back to me.....and ManUtd's last few fixtures were ones they'd usually win and they did. I'd understand if you said they were resting players for the FAcup final but they still usually lose those games plus they were both away they obviously played more home games hence the false points margin they had before the last game(s).

@@cddb5408 They won by 1 point after they lost their last two games and Man Utd won their last two. If they hadn't eased off after securing the title, they'd most likely have won by 7 points and indeed could have afforded to have lost one of the Man Utd games (they'd have still won the title by a point). You're imagining things about how Arsenal would "normally" have lost those last two games. They weren't in "normal" form for most of that season, and that's why they won the title. Like I said, in the crunch part of the season, when it counted most, Arsenal were well-nigh invincible and won 10 consecutive games by a combined total of 23 goals to 2. Only then, with the title in the bag, did they suddenly lose 4-0 to Liverpool (whose mediocre campaign had included home defeats to Leicester, Southampton and Barnsley) and 1-0 to Aston Villa (who needed to win to qualify for the UEFA Cup). If the title had still been up for grabs, it's just about inconceivable that Arsenal would've lost either game in the form they'd been in, whereas it is quite possible that they'd have kept winning by lopsided scorelines like in many of their prior games. Now that you mention it, however, they did indeed rest Vieira and Anelka in their final league games, and Petit, Bergkamp, Adams, Seaman and Overmars weren't even on the subs bench (so very much a B team) ...

@@of_doom_and_steel477 They needed to rest them otherwise they wouldn't have won the double. They narrowly won both competitions. They were a bit lucky to be in the position to rest them. Also if you lose 4-0 it's hard to say they would've won if they tried a bit harder, especially vs Liverpool who they had a poor record against especially around that time. Also Liverpool came 3rd that season, it's a hard fixture on paper despite the fact ManUtd won 1-3 there that season and the previous season.

which United?

aid901 I understand that here are two United(s). But I think one is far more bigger and far more famous than the other and is simply known as United.

one is followed by far more glory hunters that know nothing about football, give me Newcastle Uniteds passionate following any day of the week.

Fair enough. I agree United have many glory hunter fans. But United means Man Utd. That was the point.

not to me it doesn't, and I dare say to many others, the oldest United are Sheffield.

Arteta is a nearly man. Guess who the other PL manager is today...yep. You need to get rid, get a worldy manager in.

Best laugh is Newcastle looked at Schmeichel before United bought him but decided he wasn't good enough!

Em,they signed Shearer after finishing runners up ! They finished up 2nd again because Keegan fucked off after selling him the dream ! Had he stayed and had the guile to keep going and change tactics you know they might have !

They were close to the top from Oct-Dec of '96 (it was shaping into a race between themselves and Liverpool, but both teams began to stutter right away). After that, the best they ever did was scrape into the league of "champions" or lose in the cup final after getting drawn against a load of lower-league (or non-league) teams. An even bigger shame is that they were never again as exciting to watch. People say that Asprilla's signing unsettled the team, but he was fantastic to watch when playing, and equally so when celebrating a goal!

PLs littered with nearly men. I think Arteta and Howe are in that bracket today. Keegan was too. His love of the game, his softness, his kindness, he wasnt cut out to be a ruthless PL winner. Would he have taken NU to CL glory, v v unlikely.

Yeah football was a faster pace back then, far more aggressive and skilful i think.

@@musicmusic6595 That's what I remember thinking back then, comparing the typical football of the time with that of the 70s and 80s ...

The importance of that 8/10 performance raises it to a 9/10 impact wise. Literally a title decider.

agreed on asprilla.

Mmmm that killed it.

Absolute rubbish !! That’s a myth ! Check his stats,he in no way cost Newcastle the league ! Tactics cost them the league,playing all out attack for 38 games ??? Defence only needed to be tightened up and job done ! Blame Keegan,and not for signing Asprilla !!

@@shanet5604 yes, the “tactic” of buying Asprilla and playing him in a side that was already 12 points ahead. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

@@vashna3799 Em,he was signed in mid February….Newcastle weren’t 12 points clear then ! Get your facts and stats right…

agl2007 Unfortunately that's what team's who don't win trophies do. They lose the title deciding game but then thrash the same team in a season where the win isn't that significant....other than qualifying for the 97/98 champions league....but obviously they didn't win that either lol

After they beat you 4 -0 in the charity shield and they beat you to the title title next season aswell.

@@paulearl8203 There wasn't really a title-race that season. Liverpool and Newcastle looked like the main contenders towards the half-way stage, but both of them started stuttering badly, and stuttering Man Utd ended up winning by 7 pts because the other teams stuttered more persistently than they did.

Funny how Newcastle were renowned for their dangerously attacking style of play, but still persisted in using a bore-bore-2 formation ...

Manchester United were/are hated simply because of their fame, had nothing to do with players like Cantona being controversial. Asprilla was hardly an angel, think he headbutted Keith Curle on his Newcastle debut. Newcastle had a fantastic side this season, but they weren't the only side to play great football. Ferguson's Manchester United sides of the 90's were brilliant football teams and even if you wanted them.to lose you can never not accuse them of being boring. Calling them an effective side makes them sound like a well oiled machine, they were much more expansive than that.

Gary Mitrovic imo Liverpool played the best easy on the eye football in 95/96. It was a style that was ahead of its time in the league. Attacking based possession. It was so smooth and they were the only side that played out from the back. They were in the title race for most of that season and if they had a world class centre midfielder and centre back then it could’ve possibly been a 3 horse race that went to the final day.

if any team has to much success they end up hated.

No no no shit shit shit no manager acts like he did on TV don't talk about it show it

It's hard to truly judge how good a manager is when they've never been in a situation where they haven't had billions of some shitty tycoon's spare coins to spend on players ...

No Scholesy yet either; but good enough to win :)

We had Scholes, he just wasn't a regular.

What for being run into? nothing in the laws of the game says you have to get out of the way.

@@stevored1989 He knows exactly what he's doing...

There are 5 players starting that game that advertised male grooming products

Maybe these highlights are not a fair reflection then and this is coming from a United fan. We were battered in the first half we could hardly get out of our own half. It's true that we slowly took control second half but at no point did we look comfortable. Feel for Newcastle as they played some sensational football that season. Premier League before money destroyed it as a contest where you now get teams with 75% possession.

@@jamesmcgrath1342 "Premier League before money destroyed it ..." The formation of the premier league was just a symptom of the commerce that was already destroying the game.

Newcastle dominated the first half hour an looked great then Utd composed an had got away with it still being 0.0 after that it looked clear to me that Utd we’re on top

Still holding a grudge about Romania are we ???

@@shanet5604 er...yeah

meisterly manu England fans always look for a scapegoat rather than admit you’ll never win fuck all ! Your media are a fuckin disgrace !! 🇮🇪

agreed

Fantastic to watch, though.

Fuck off you stupid cow.

Fuck you twat.

Angus Walsh Wouldn't say robbed, that usually means it was a controversial loss. This wasn't controversial, it was just unlucky for Newcastle/ManUtd had a great goalkeeper and clinical striker.

CD DB all I was saying was that they had chances. That were easy and should of ended in the net. That’s all.

Shoulda woulda coulda