Rolling Back the Years: Wednesday 26 May 1999 Part II

1999 Champions League Final Programme United's line-up for the final was as follows: GK Peter Schmeichel DL Denis Irwin DR Gary Neville DC Jaap Stam DC Ronny Johnsen ML Jesper Blomqvist MR Ryan Giggs MC David Beckham MC Nicky Butt FC Andy Cole FC Dwight Yorke Did You Know That... With the full 90 minutes played, United were losing 1-0 and the Bayern Munich colours had already been tied on the trophy. The UEFA officials, on their way to make the presentation passed by the watching Sir Bobby Charlton and commiserated with him on United's loss. The UEFA officials then went inside the Stadium to prepare for the presentation while the referee allowed just 3 minutes of extra stoppage time to be played. When UEFA's officials emerged from inside the Stadium for the presentation they could not understand why the 'winners' looked distraught while the 'losers' were celebrating. Their astonishment was shared by all who had seen what had happened. The answer of course was that in those three incredible minutes, Manchester United had made history. Sources: treble1999.co.uk, wikipedia.org, manutdtreble.com