02/03 - Road to the PL Title
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I remember this season so much, I had the end of season DVD which had all of Evans goals and highlights of every game. I damn near wore out that DVD in...
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I remember this season so much, I had the end of season DVD which had all of Evans goals and highlights of every game. I damn near wore out that DVD in between going to the park and trying to perfect my RVN penalty technique.

Anyway, this video was pushed to my and I thought it was good to watch back each game.

Couple of things I noticed;

Barthez is appalling. Like, just utterly crap.

We conceded a lot.

Random losses to smaller teams.

Defending is all over the shop.

Veron was great, I like him.

I love Ole, just so clinical.

Forlan started looking good.

Scholes would be worth 120m in this market.

Memories of us as this all conquering team that dominated teams is a bit exaggerated.

Honestly, Barthez is a clown.

What are your observations watching this? Does it make you miss the yesteryears?

I remember this season so much, I had the end of season DVD which had all of Evans goals and highlights of every game. I damn near wore out that DVD in between going to the park and trying to perfect my RVN penalty technique.

Anyway, this video was pushed to my and I thought it was good to watch back each game.

Couple of things I noticed;

Barthez is appalling. Like, just utterly crap.

We conceded a lot.

Random losses to smaller teams.

Defending is all over the shop.

Veron was great, I like him.

I love Ole, just so clinical.

Forlan started looking good.

Scholes would be worth 120m in this market.

Memories of us as this all conquering team that dominated teams is a bit exaggerated.

Honestly, Barthez is a clown.

What are your observations watching this? Does it make you miss the yesteryears?

Just watched a YT video of this season the other night, all the goals and was only a half hour video. What a season, probably the sweetest of all our PL titles bar the first.

edit: just noticed it was the video in OP.

One of my favourite seasons.

To win it with Barthez in net, the Beckham stuff and the state of central defence is quite an achievement in hindsight. I remember thinking we should've beaten Real Madrid in the CL, but in hindsight 6-5 was a serious feat coming up against the absolute star names then.

Also, the unsung hero was probably John O'Shea. I was young so really had no idea at the time, but you look back at it now and he played a lot of football in a variety of positions at such a young age.

But, despite all that...Rio, RVN and Scholes were just

O'Shea megging Figo

They were bigging him up like he was going to be a superstar.

Felt Ole was the unsung hero, so many goals and assists for a striker playing out of position.

I don't actually remember Barthez having a bad season at all. Quite the contratry - I thought he had a very good season. Problem is, it all fell apart for him in the last few matches of the season as he cost us a goal match after match, and was rightly replaced by Carroll for the last couple of games. And that was pretty much the end for him with us.

We had some terrible injuries in the first half of the season, somewhat went on a run with a makeshift side - beating Newcastle, Liverpool, Arsenal La Coruna. Then the big guns returned (Rio, Keane, Becks) and we prompty lost consecutive matches around Christmas at Birmingham and Middlesbrough, but our form really picked up after that. The football we played in the couple couple of months of the season was of the best I've seen United play.

In the beginning of the season. Plus that's nearly a goal a game!

Rio took some time to find his feet, sure, but we were pretty solid in the second half of the season. We usually concede far more these days... though that's no surprise, of course.

The football we played in the couple couple of months of the season was of the best I've seen United play.

Yeah, it was outstanding, only 06/07 comes close. That 6-2 at Newcastle remains one of my favourite games and the 5-3 at Old Trafford was also brilliant. I remember playing Leverkusen in the Champions League and being desperate to destroy them in revenge for the semi-final the previous season. Then there was Van Nistelrooy's insane goal at Basel, struggling against a flu-stricken Juventus at Old Trafford but crushing them away with a Giggs masterclass...

The "title decider" at Arsenal was one of the best games between two heavyweights I've seen, and I always think of that game when Arsenal fans do their whole "woe us, we are always fecked over at Old Trafford" -- they scored two offside goals, one of them spectacularly obvious. And Van Nistelrooy scored possibly the best goal of his United career. The other contender is also from this season, against Fulham. The memories, man.