There was a chasm between the two halves of Manchester’s football landscape in 1999, and this week of all weeks it’s worth revisiting. Back then, one half of the city was on its way to celebrating the ...
Liverpool striker Michael Owen managed to snatch glory from the jaws of defeat against Arsenal in the 2001 FA Cup final at the Millennium Stadium, in similar fashion to a game from two years previous.
It was 1999 and - by today’s standards - everything was hunky dory in the world of Newcastle United. Sitting in an unspectacular but secure 10th spot in the Premier League, the Toon under Ruud Gullit ...