😂😂😂😂😂 Should have been about 6 sending offs🤣🤣 whiteside 3 times... Brilliant stuff, love the ref giving it back too... Miss those days, £2.50 to watch united as a kid, get a chippy on way home

Norman Whiteside the greatest midfield player of his generation. Would love to see him kicking Henderson around Anfield for 90 mins 😂

This was the start of the feud. Arsenal went to Old Trafford top of league and unbeaten in around 18/20 fixtures. Very physical match. Arsenal felt many decisions against them. I think there was a fight in the tunnel after the match. Following season Winterburn and McClair carried it on in FACup at Highbury. Tense match in 89 when it ended in a draw. In 1990 Arsenal were having no more. Won the match 1 0. Big fight. McClair and Irwin both tackled Winterburn. Limpar chinned McClair. Most United players backed off. Every Arsenal player bar Seaman involved. Fight in the tunnel again. Set the tone throughout. Simmered until Wenger. Fergie mouthed off when Arsenal became a threat. OGS got Sol sent off at Highbury. Then we got 2003 with RVN and MK. 2004 Rooney dive and so on. All of that more less started here. You could tell all the players on both sides loved every minute. The good old days.

I was at this game as a 15 year old in the Stretford End, remember getting crushed against the barrier when Gordon Strachan scored. Just about every Arsenal player that season was about 6ft 6 and they were bullying their way through the league, dirty as ever. Man td were the first team that year to stand up to them, even the little ones like Terry Gibson and Arsenal well and truly spat their dummy out. Long time ago but it was a great day.

Wonderful stuff, I was laughing most of the way through it, old school football. Anyone throwing themselves on the ground and feigning injury? I don't think so.

I was in the Stretford end and loved this game. Back when football was foulball at times but every player got back up and got on with the game without doing seven roll overs and needing his hair dresser. I met Norman Whiteside recently and he's a lovely bloke who is still just as passionate about United. Any players these days showing half this passion would be worshiped at Old Trafford.

I remember this like it was yesterday! I was only 7 but to this day its still probably the most exciting match I've ever watched at Old Trafford! A proper game of football!

Yep, i was there as well, in the tunnel. Brilliant to see a team of men fighting for their club, with no quarter given or asked, and little complaint, making the fans feel proud. So different to today's shambles ... and thats coming from a lifetime Red

Because I have too much time on my hands, here's my take on the various offences (by today's standards): 0:05 - high elbow, yellow 0:10 - not sure there's actually an offence here? hard but fair tackle, play on 0:51 - late tackle, yellow 1:02 - two-footed lunge, RED 1:09 - obstruction, yellow 1:17 - high tackle with studs up, RED 1:21 - body check, yellow 1:40 - lunge with studs up, RED 1:56 - reckless sliding tackle but studs not up - probably just a yellow 2:12 - late tackle off feet, yellow 3:02 - late tackle, yellow 3:03 - kicks player on ground, straight RED 4:53 - horror tackle, straight RED 5:17 - throws ball away, yellow (looks like the ref made this call but it's edited out) 5:33 - odd one. Probably a red these days (in rugby, for a high tackle). Call it a yellow for holding the attacker back 5:38 - throws a punch - probably a RED Not going to go back and work out which individual was responsible for each offence! No doubt there were some players who committed two bookable ones. But little Terry Gibson should probably have got two red cards in this game before his goal. Naughty.

In the United Road for this dainty encounter. Quality stuff.

God , Arsenal vs ManU. Didn't know anything bout English football but I always tried to watch these brawls .Always big , big fun. Especially. when ever more Dutch players started transferring to either of these clubs .The list is endless of former Ajax players who went there.

Sat in K stand for this game, 8 years old and Whiteside my favourite player♥️🤍🖤

Omg I've forgotten how real football was.

How the game has changed. Proper football physical, players getting on with it. Players have too much protection, how money changed the the game and gave players power. I miss football. Norman Whiteside was one hell of a player.

24 January 1987, Viv Anderson threatens to knock Norman Whiteside out. July 1, 1987, Viv Anderson signs for Man United and joins Tuesday club with McGrath, Whiteside and Robson. Its a funny old game.

There's no talent anywhere but i would pay $1000 a seat to watch this now. Maybe even more. This is INCREDIBLE

I was at this match.. stood in the Stretford End..

This was the first Utd game my dad took me to. It was a running brawl, Arsenal were a team of big bullies and Utd kicked the from pillar to post, they didn't like it at all but I loved it.

Two things learned, how did Terry Gibson stay on the pitch of his own accord, and Whiteside is a fuckin cast iron legend -i also forgot my fave 80s united player was actually on and thankfully unfouled, number 11 the great Jesper Olsen.

Gordon Strachan ...what a player!

Half of these challenges would be instant reds now

Whiteside was out of control !

That was so much better than watching the footie.

Loads of hard tackles flying in from pretty much all players, there would be card galore today

Tremendous game of football, I remember it well, stood on the Stretford Paddock and hoarse at the end of it all

Brillant stuff! Credit to both teams

U gotta always love Utd !

I'm a united fan but in those days we were crap up until 1990

Football at its finest, I would do anything for it to be like this now.

Seems almost like a proper atmosphere at old Trafford here. Must be an old vid

The good old days,😀

Rocky Rocastle getting stuck in love it despite the result 😅

It simply could not happen in modern day football...

Brilliant lol proper football not like nowadays exchanging shirts at half time

Still a man's game back then. A ref today would have abandoned the game.

Norman lol legend

Great era. Real passion from Whiteside, what a legend

Terry Gibson! 💥

God that was savage.

Classic United getting all the Refs call

I'm neutral here but there's no way Arsenal started this, Norman Whitesude clearly had a bee in his bonnet at times.

Remember it well, enjoyed the game

Arsenal and Utd going toe to toe and kicking lumps out of each other. Fantastic.

I thought 90/91 was the start of the feud, but it goes back even further to this! 😀

Thats a real kick in the park rather than the one when they were invincibles.😂😂

First time seen highlights of this game, but have read about it down the years. Overall, This looked an even more bad-tempered game than the infamous one in 1990 at Old Trafford... Also, even though this was the 80’s, quite how only one player was sent off is beyond me, even by refereeing standards back then...great to watch to see the passion and atmosphere , but my god, truly awful refereeing! Yes, I know the “it was a man’s game” argument, but a few of those tackles well and truly seriously crossed the line even back then... Has to be said: the ref bottled it on several occasions...

That game today would finish 5 a side. Proper football lol

When Man Utd play Arsenal it should be called the derby of England north vs south. Like they do in Italy

Actually the refs is united fan

honestly not sure what's more offensive by today's standards: the hair or the tackles

The spell of play from 0:56 - 1:11.... wow....

I went to a fight and a football match broke out.

and they still scored goals

A great game

Back in the days when Arsenal were used to having the refs on their side, but couldn't handle it when a team gave them as good as they dished out. Constantly moaning at the referee for everything. Arsenal should have had their number 2 and O'Leary sent off as well but somehow they got away with it. At the end of the match they got exactly what they deserved 👍

Proper manly football that. We needed to change but have gone too far. How loud and into it is the crowd.

Proper football

Proper game

Hahah Utd absolutely leather the shit out of Arsenal for half the game, Arsenal player Kicks out and gets sent off. Wild.

Took no prisoners did Big Norm, that stamp on Mcmahon will be in my memory forever😁

I was at this game, and Man Utd look even dirtier than I remember them. You can tell Ferguson’s team talk just by watching.

If this was today, VAR would have it down to six aside by the end. That Jesper Olsen with the first? Now I’m feeling nostalgic :-)

HARD TACKLES BACK THEN. WARRIOR'S 3:04

Nutty normon Whiteside wot a man all ways up for big acasison in a United shirt

Is this the match were david rocastle is sent off ? And isn't this Ferguson's first fixture against Arsenal?!

And at the end they all shake hands..

Imagine neymar here..

was this a friendly ?

I wonder if the ref got a man it's brown envelope Jesus lol

And this kids is why so many of your dads have got zero interest in watching today’s pansies in your premier league.

1:03 lol

Nice interview with Terry Gibson talking about this game. www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/nov/14/golden-goal-terry-gibson-for-manchester-united-v-arsenal-1987#comments

David Rocastle got sent off

Proper men not the fairy's that play it these days

So many late tackles. The pansies of today would be destroyed.

Real football not the shithousery we get today

Imagine Neymar playing there

Terry Gibson....a Man U player...really?

Weakest ref ever

United behaving like *unts, relying on a soft ref and getting away with it. Basically Fergie’s game plan til about 91.

Terrible refereeing. Far too lenient at the start.

Arsenal bully's

when football was real, not this big girls blouse stuff we watch now

Same old arsenal always cheating

Another official Fergie bribed by the looks of it.

You have to love Terry Gibson in this Smallest man on the pitch giving it some Football is a joke these days All cheating girls