Manchester United: 30 Years of the Premier League

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Unfortunately for Keane, both he and Paul Scholes picked up yellow cards which would see them suspended for the Champions League final. The answer became evident on the opening day of the season, when the two linked up in devastating fashion to demolish Fulham 5-1. David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, and Gary and Phil Neville all started on the opening day against Aston Villa.

Mourinho was joined in arriving at Manchester United in the summer of 2016 by superstars Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba. Ally McCoist insists that it would not surprise him if Manchester United end up going 30 years without the title, like their rivals Liverpool did between 1990 and 2020. The COVID-delayed 2020-21 season was to be United's most successful under Solskjaer, as they sealed second place in the league. In 2010–11, Manchester United won their 19th top division title, passing Liverpool's previous record of 18, before winning a 20th title in 2012–13.

United had been the first English club to win the competition in 1968, but had failed to add to their tally in the 30 years since. Despite a League Cup win in 2005-06, it was now three years since Manchester United had won a league or European title, and the pressure was on the team to turn things around entering the 2006-07 season. Jose Mourinho’s Blues went on to win 2-0, and Manchester City ended up pipping Liverpool by two points. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Dare I say it, the biggest criticism I could level at United and Chelsea is that even Luton have got a bit about them.

Solskjaer was amazing,” said Ferguson post-match (while Forest boss and former United manager Ron Atkinson quipped that his team had been involved in a “nine-goal thriller”). The league was made up of the 22 clubs that broke away from The Football League at the end of the 1991–92 season.

British football's season of SHAME: Amid violence at West Brom vs Wolves and yobs making monkey gestures and mocking Bradley Lowery. Cantona scored his 24th and 25th goals of the season in the final on his way to winning the PFA Player of the Year award. The Manchester United team at the start of the 1905–06 season, in which they were runners-up in the Second Division and were promoted. Countless greats have passed through Old Trafford in the Premier League era, many of them under the stewardship of Alex Ferguson in the first two decades of the Premier League. Manchester United: 30 years of the Premier League’ takes a lavish in-depth look at the greatest goals, matches and moments in the league over the last three decades, with expert analysis of moments like Wayne Rooney’s overhead kick against Manchester City, David Beckham’s halfway-line stunner against Wimbledon and Steve Bruce’s title-race heroics against Sheffield Wednesday in 1993.