How Manchester United Won the Treble
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The image is iconic: Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer toeing the ball over the line at Camp Nou to secure Manchester United the treble in 1999. But how did they get there?
This is a story of how manager Sir Alex Ferguson learnt from previous failings, came back stronger, adapted to the continental style of play and inspired his side to never give up.
Written by Seb Stafford-Bloor, illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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The way Manchester United won the treble is really unbelievable. They defeated Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Newcastle to win the FA cup in an emphatic fasion and Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Inter, Juventus despite being in the group of death. They overcame Fatigue, suspension, injuries and had many players who came from youth squad. It had everything from added time goals, squad rotation, team play to key substitutions and unique tactics. They were so good but still aren't talked about when there is a debate for best squad ever to play football.
Perhaps because they did not contain Iconic players like for example Barca with Messi,iniesta and Xavi In 2009
@@Glory-Compass United had Beckham, Scholes, Andy Cole, Stam....and many mores.
You forgot managing to get outplayed by Bayern for 90minutes only to win from two corners from the world's best set piece specialist changed it all, delivery so good even that clown sub forward who decided to hang out at the backpost like the bystander he actually was managed to score in Europe. Bayern were robbed. And that Utd team were quickly to be put in their domestic place by Arsenal.
@@hermankermit-warm1121 Have u seen the final? I saw it a few years back the whole match, there is no way u could say man utd were outplayed by bayern we had plenty of chances (check the statistics of the final) just because bayern hit the woodwork twice doesnt efface the chances we created. Plus keep in mind we didnt have 2 of our best midfielders (kean and scholes).
@@cobgab yes, I watched it live so I don't need your bias interpretation of events thanks. Try it on someone else.
The Man Utd team of 1998/99 was the first English squad that truly harnessed and utilised squad rotation. Fergie’s brand of total football that season set a bar that has never been replicated since in England
I remember that. Ferguson’s substitutes and reserves had quality, and I was waiting for them to get knocked out of one of the 3 big competitions but it never happened.
He did the same in 2007/08, arguably playing even nicer football. So much tactical flexibility in that side, and that front 3 of Ronaldo, Rooney and Tevez was devastating.
@@ILLALLU One can argue the 07/08 squad was better than the 99 one.
@@Irfan87 Still kills me to this day that the 07/08 team...a team that the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Roma and Barcelona couldn't get the better of...was denied a Treble by flipping PORTSMOUTH 😡
@@surindersingh724 not denied by Portsmouth - denied by the ref. Re-watch the highlights of that game, Utd were robbed!
Roy Keane was unbelievable during that return leg at Juventus. One of the greatest individual performance in UCL history.
The Barcelona game before it too. If you had to pick one player that season, it was definitely him. He won the PFA, FWA, United's player of the year. I don't any midfielder could touch him for 2 years after that. He made a mess of Zidane, Deschamps and Davids in the one game. He was quite impressive.
What made it great is how selfless it was. He knew he wasn't going to the final so he put his body on the line, covered every blade of grass, & probably shortened his career by a few weeks with that performance. The greatest Premier League Captain ever
@@qkomodo9098 why wasn't he going to the final??
@@jermaine___ He got a yellow, meaning he'd miss the Final for getting too many yellows
watching the 1999 champions league final as a 10 year old kid and celebrating wildly at the end is a memory I can take to my grave, incredible moment, incredible season, incredible manager, incredible team, incredible club
I wasn't even alive then but I still feel how Iconic it must have been
Everything said in this comment is identical to my experience. I remember my cousin phoning me up to congratulate me while I weeped with joy hahaha!
Lol I remember going to the loo thinking the match was done for… only to come back and see the score 2-1 united 😂
I remember it well, was 8 at the time. My dad who was a man City fan was cheering and going mad with me in front of the TV when the 2nd goal went in. Never forget when seeing them all on the bus with the 3 trophies for the celebration parade either.
Good times, good times.
I'm German, and even I remember celebrating with my brother because we hated Bayern. We were jumping up and down with joy Hahaha
Legendary season for a legendary team under the greatest football manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
Legend himself
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@@certifiedchillkill tf 😂😂
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Makes you realise just how special Alex Ferguson was
Special? Alex couldn't even shine Beckham's shoes if he wanted to. There is no Fergie without Becks.
@@gwkiv1458 Yh remember how after beckham left in 2003, united never won anything again
@@ajprop99 spot on mate
@@gwkiv1458 are u dumb
@@ajprop99 well Beckham is overrated just a passing Crossing free kick merchant. During that time Beckham started losing his pace. Keeping him would hurt the team's gameplay. Then their fight happened then he left the club. Then united signed CR7 as his replacement then became one of the GOAT of the game. You don't know ball kiddo. Fergie is special
Revisiting their exploits that year still sends a tingle down my spine till today.
Beating against Juve at Turin from 2-0 down is a incredible feat in football history.
and that Juventus team
Even though I was born after 99 watching that Roy keane goal in the second vs Juventus always give me goosebumps “Roy keane a captain goals for United “🥶🥶than the duo and Andy cole and Dwight York took over🔥🔥🔥
It highlights what kept SAF at the top, and more importantly winning, year after year after year. Adaptability.
He constantly learned and constantly adapted so matter what came along it couldn’t keep him down for long. Managers are often too attached to philosophies or systems. The only thing SAF was attached to was winning, by whatever means necessary.
Absolutely spot onabout SAF.
Mourinho is the perfect example of not being able to adapt, at the time he was one of the best managers around. It just goes to show how good SAF was throughout his whole managerial career.
Fergsuon is a legendary manager. He joined a Manchester United team that hadn't won a league title in 18 years. Unlike managers like Guardiola who joins clubs that are already a powerhouse
You should do an episode for all the treble-winning sides!
The best season by an English team and the best English team ever!
The amount of people that look down on this achievement like its notthing.
smaller squads, , between February and May they were playing every 3 days,
Their FA Cup run involved Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool then Newcastle who were decent in 90s.
CL run, Bayern and Barca in group stage, Inter, Juve then Bayern again.
The greatest achievement in English football so far
And Arsenal fans say their 2004 "invincible" team that got knocked out the FA cup and Champions League by Man United and Chelsea in the space of 3 days is better than Man United 1999 treble winning team. Lol the delusion is actually insane 😂😂
I hope Tifo does a video of the other treble winners:
1966/67: Celtic (also won Scottish League Cup)
1971/72: Ajax
1987/88: PSV Eindhoven
2008/09: Barcelona
2009/10: Inter
2012/13: Bayern München
2014/15: Barcelona
2019/20: Bayern München (did it during the World Wide Covid-19 Lockdown and response policies, very impressive!)
Thank you Tifo!
You're asking how Jupp and Hansi's Bayern won the treble 😂
And Liverpool's quadruple last season. Ohh wait nevermind
@@jasonwolfe5787 Nice!
Add city to the list mate
@@roger5857 ah yes by breaking 115 FFP rules
Well there’s no title that would make me click quicker than that. Well played, Tifo😂
Becks was so good man. On the back of THAT world cup too. Unreal mentality, workrate and ability. Arguably robbed of the ballon Dor that year
Beck was never been a Ballon d'Or material. He's a great player no doubt but never came close to become one of the GOATS of football. Stop this stupid United and England bias
@@mercurialthespectre1779 Id argue he had a strong case when Rivaldo won it
@@nadadur and you'd be a fool for doing so.
@@mercurialthespectre1779 someone wasnt alive to witness the season he had then and if there’s anyone who’s biased then it’s you 😂😂
@@caseyisaacs2661 why’s that?
A legendary feat that had been achieved by the first and only English club, Manchester United!
Big Smoke we meet again.
@@ZexaXIII 👀
@@ZexaXIII well if it isn't one of my favourite Man Utd fans 🤝
And will be the only one
@Patrick Bateman Jr did not age well😂
I remember this season as a kid, I was an Arsenal fan and watched the FA Cup semi with my friend who was a Utd fan. Then we watched the CL final together. It hurt as an Arsenal fan to see how narrowly we didn’t do the double but even as a kid I understand how huge it was and how narrow the margins were to achieve what Utd achieved that year
Barca being a punching bag for ucl iconic moments
As an arsenal fan I can totally appreciate how important this team was to British football. And you can see how difficult it’s been to replicate even given the juggernauts we’ve had in Liverpool and Man city.
Tears in my eyes 😭
We’d be great again
We’ll be great again.
Man Utd NEED to be back in the Champions League competing for it regularly again.
They a huge club and it's not the same without them, its crazy what they have turned into in recent times.
not crazy, shameful
It’s brilliant without them. It’s hilarious 😂
@@tremensdelirious same way it's brilliant seeing u bottle the UCL every season.
@@tremensdelirious city in ucl is just for formality lol
dw, ETH will have us back there soon
Old-school Tifo. Love it.
The inter game is a standout. They had ronaldo and zamorano and utd put them out. Vivid memories of zamorano deliberately walking backwards into Staam only for him to stand like an oak tree and zamorano bounced of him.
The Juve game, magnificent. To go 2-0 in turin...the utd of previous years would have caved in. Keane was immense, the front line unplayable....full steam ahead to Barcelona:)
What I love about United's treble is not only did they win, but it felt poetic as to who they beat in England to do the double. The FA Cup win over Liverpool vanquished their oldest rivals. The league vanquished their new upstarts. Beating Newcastle felt like the punctuation on a paragraph of battles. Then to win the Champions League on what would've been Matt Busby's 90th birthday was a script out of Hollywood.
wdym vanquished Liverpool?
@@riyadj6784 cry
Most resilient team I’ve ever watched. United would be a goal down in the 80th minute and you still wouldn’t write off the possibility of a win. While the Bayern win was lucky in the sense they were only 1 down, it’s something they always had in the bank.
Some fair points but speaking as United fan, that Champions league final was not won by squad rotation. United missed Keane and Scholes massively and Bayern were the better side for most of the match. It was won by dogged determination and a sprinkle of individual brilliance.
what a calming video, thank you tifo
Beautifully done!
TIFO with a backing piano track, no better way to start a Monday
Love this man's voice bro
‘‘Twas destiny we stared the season losin by 3 goals at Wembley, lost 3 league games conceding 3 times in each game before going 33 games unbeaten scoring two goals in stoppage time which was…..you guessed it 3 mins of added time
Football around 98-99 was at its peak… look at the players and matches in World Cup 98 and the champions league was being demystified every year united took the next leap forward. As a United fan I looked to Juventus as European royalty in the mid to late 90s, and by the time we won the title we did THEM in Turin, Bayern were almost par for the course for me.
I was 8 at the time and I remember watching the match with my dad, I was crying on the living room floor because I thought we'd lost... Then minutes later I was riding round the street on my BMX going mad waving my United flag
I think we've still got the video tape recording somewhere too (but no video player) 😂
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This video making out like United were paupers, they were consistently big spenders throughout Fergie’s early tenure and already had a world class squad.
Obviously still the greatest season of any English club.
It’s actually insane when you look at the quality of teams United faced as well. Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle in the FA Cup. Inter, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus in the UCL. They were consistently drawn against the best teams in the competitions they were in and still won all 3 cups.
Looking at the league now it's genuinely incredible how you could win the title with less than 80 points. Doubt we'll ever see a title winner with less than 85 points for a long while yet. Last I can remember in recent years was Leicester.
That season is the first season i follow Manchester United after awed by Beckham free kick against Colombia in World Cup. And boy what a season. being a Red Devils at that time is a bless. no better way to enjoy your youth than being Man Utd fans.
a good summary, but for anyone interested in going deeper into united's history and their journey to the treble I would recommend balon's united video.
Please make a video about World Cup Qualification similar to the ones you did for 2018
I feel Manchester United is transforming under ETH. Such magical moment might be created again in next 4-5 years..!!!
Should have kept Ragnick
@@v.demonaco3718 ETH is way better, stop waffling.
@@v.demonaco3718 Rangnick was too rigid
@@v.demonaco3718 He'd be a great DoF
as a 16 year old american in 1998 this is the team that 100% made me a fan of not just united the premiere league as well, i've been a fan of both ever since.
My biggest regret in life is still not being born like 4 years earlier so I could actually experience the treble. The greatest experience any football fan could have and I was 3 😭😭😭
Same! But we have witnessed some truly great moments such as Arsenal's Invincibles and THAT Aguero goal.
@@Ese96Agoaye oh I’m a United fan I couldn’t care less about any of those😂. I’m just happy I got to see us win 3 in a row and do a league and CL double
My favourite Man U kit ❤
i absolutely loved this
The 3-3 at Camp Nou is possibly my favourite ever game.
I think this is a clear indication that trebles are never expected for a club at the start of the season. Even United's treble in 1999 which was dramatic was never thought of after that charity shield defeat
Legendary
Stam cost £10.6m, not £15m. And Blomqvist was closer to £3.75m than £6m.
Surprised there's not more comments on this. The signing of Stam broke utds transfer record which was again broken when they signed Yorke. Bit hard to set a new transfer record if you cost less than the last guy that came in
Incredible season and achievement by Manchester United but "the most successful campaign in British footballing history and an achievement that remains unmatched"? Celtic's Lisbon Lions won 5 trophies out of 5 in 1967 becoming the first non Latin team to win European Cup and they did it with a team born within 30 miles of Celtic Park. That is the most successful campaign in British footballing history and it's an achievement that will forever remain unmatched.
How many times have rangers and Celtic won the domestic double/treble though? Winning those 2/3 trophies is straight forward. That Celtic team is only special for going one step further in winning the CL too.
Yoke was signed in October
Irony is that both 98/99 and 07/08 started bad in their league games, but become unstoppable towards the race
As someone who wasn’t alive for 5 more years (2003), it’s so weird and fascinating to hear people not think squad rotation was important. I knew that possession and similar now fundamentals of football hadn’t made it England, but squad rotation not being a thing escaped me.
Rotation wasn't as necessary. Players didn't play as many games as they do now and the game was somewhat slower, more focused on skill and creativity. Season ending injuries were rare and almost always came from bad fouls rather than just plain fatigue from too many games played at ultra high intensity.
it is quite crazy how football in England really started evolving, and how raw it still was during the 90s, you'd have teams like Middlesborough sign some amazing players, do poorly in the league but go all in on the cups & the idea of peak fitness wasn't much of a thing - you'd have players play drunk etc. Also rec football faithful; 90s hall of fame series for some good look back at that era.
If Fergie had a well money backup like City and PSG ....he would have done wonders in world football..same goes to Arsène Wenger ..Both Hima ne Fergie had little but did so much in world football.
And this is why City will never do it in their current state one injury to KDB or Haaland turns them in to a very beatable team when they’re otherwise electric I always make the point of how we had Nicky Butt and Becks in the midfield that night and still won it because of mentality never say die Real Madrid last year proved that point again
the champions league final was probably the best day of my life 5 year old me was crying because I thought we were going to lose and then we scored 2 to win.
Remember quite well Lothar Matheus' very shocked look on the sidelines when ManU equalized vs B Munich
Mate not ManU, terrible name. Call us United or Man United, just not ManU
@@thatShakirBhat yess
@@thatShakirBhat take a seat, its not a Diss name. I will call the team as I see fit, thanks
Glad that this piece was given to Seb, if you'd given it to Jon he'd probably have replied saying he saw nOtHiNg sPeCiAL that season
THE GREATEST IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL ...
WE'VE WON IT ALL...
DU...DU..DU..DU..DU..
An achievement that had never happened in British football? I think you'll find Celtic beat Man United to that achievement years earlier...
Where are you getting these numbers from ?
Stam was 10.75 pounds
Blomquvist 4.5 pounds
Seriously done Cole and Yorke the dirty with that thumbnail
It felt like a lifetime ago.
"COLE AND YORKE COMBINED!" - Martin Tyler
When you look at details they were lucky to win the Champions League and FA Cup in which they were totally dominated by Bayern Munich in the final and Arsenal in the semis. Great resilience though from Fergie's team. 👏👏
They simply couldn’t break United down no matter how hard they tried. Small margins = great success. There’s a reason why no one else one the Treble…the better you are, the luckier you get. 1999 greatest season of any British side without contest or argument, hands down, unanimous and definite.
Great season for sure. But I still think Juve with Del Piero would have beaten Man U.
bro why would u upload at 7 in the morning?
MAN CITY CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!!!!
Greatest PL side of all time, none came close
What would tifo be without Manchester United
United had blackhole-esque balls to achieve the treble, especially considering the teams united faced in europe!
Ole in
@Tifo Football... Do world cup preview videos like last time
This is the season that made everyone in the world a Man U fans
LMAO
What a stupid thing to say. Some of us support the 6 times UCL champions from England
Oh that's why barca and madrid have almost twice more fans than utdd
@@parvathyt4610 that's just... not true though, is it
@@parvathyt4610 lol no. United still has the most fans in the world.
Damn
Well, man city just won the treble as well😂
Cole wasn't a superb finisher. The amount of chances he missed at utd . The partnership with Yorke was definitely his best spell at utd. But apart from that he never looked comfortable in a utd shirt.
That was the final time Fergie's gung-ho dual-wing football conquered the Europe and maybe ever for English style. After deafeats in 99/00 and 00/01 seasons to Redondo and Ballack, Fergie initiated his European football revolution only to constant disappointments till the rise of Rooney and Ronaldo and embracing Mourinho's 433 stsyem.
One of the greatest teams ever. With that being said, Europe was Fergie's weakness. Considering his longevity and success, he should have won more in Europe. But playing two finals against arguably the greatest club side of all time, really didn't help.
They’d have won at least 5 UCL if it wasn’t for Barca lol.
@@coreymichael1880 Real could have been in 2011 final. Only 2009 final would have been winnable for man utd had Chelsea qualified for it
I agree Fergie could have won the Champions League more. United should have atleast got to the 1997, 2002 and 2003 finals in my opinion. Especially '03 when it was held at Old Trafford. But United met holders Real Madrid and were beaten in the quater finals 6-5 on aggregate.
Whereas '97 and '02 United were knocked out in two semi finals to Dortmund and Levekusen pretty much on a whimper.
It is debatable whether the 2009 side were capable of beating Barcelona but the 2011 United team had no chance. That Guardiola-Barcelona were magnificent and at the peak of their powers.
@@vinhbao9738 how real could have been in final?? Barcelona totally outplayed in the 2nd leg of semi final..
@@MM-ep2zq 2009 Barcelona team was beatable...Chelsea gave them a very tough competition in semi final..even Chelsea could have defeated them had the referre not been biased...following year inter Milan Knocked same Barcelona out from the semi final...Ferguson's tactics just Didn't work unfortunately in both finals...pep completely outplayed fergie tactically...
Roy keane v juventus won the treble
It is super weird but United seemed to play better in the first half of 1997-98 and much of 1999-03 than they did in 1998-99. Just 1999 the fixtures and performances aligned at the right intensity and consistency as well as favourable European knock out ties. Still it is the greatest achievement in SAF career and his time at United and second only to the recovery from Munich as achievements in the club history.
There was a collectors video set with memorobelia where they did the history of the club, it came out in summer/autumn 98. I remember clearly at the end of the video the presenter saying something along the lines of, "we don't know the future of what will happen to Manchester United, but it will have to be something very special to surpass what has gone before." Then it cuts to the squad photo for that season. It is the squad that would go on to win the trebble.
Could have said that any season and released it any season, but it just had a great effect being released at that time.
May I ask what is so favourable about United's knockout ties? Surviving group of death with La Liga champions and Bundesliga runners-up, before heading into knockouts against Serie A champions and runners-up.
@@CZY00 Inter and Juventus were not as strong that year, but still had a high reputation so it is favourable in that United players brought their strongest focus against teams that were weaker in reality than they were on paper. See injuries both clubs had that season and domestic form.
Celtic 1966/67 was the most successful campaign in british footballing history ya melts
Just remember that before this season, the most successful season in British history was by Preston North End
Turned off after 20 seconds. ‘Biggest achievement in British football history’, Celtic won a QUADRUPLE in 1967. Do your research!
This was back in the day when fans didn’t leave at half time because they were getting battered
Most successful campaign in British footballing history??
I think you’re all clearly forgetting the 1967 Lisbon Lions Celtic team, that sweeped up 4 trophies in the one season.
That is 1 more than this United team.
I was 11 that year and I fell in love with the club, defining season for me as it became one of my biggest passions in life. Thanks for the video I love it. If you want to see game day vlogs for United, take a look at my Channel ;)
Arsenal fan here. Don’t remind me 😬
As a Bayern Munich Fan I can't like this video this time.
The One and Only English that will see this Glory
It was the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese horoscope. I was born in the Year of the Rabbit too.
Man City lost the charity shield this season 😩😩
The answer is: by an incredible amount of luck in the CL final. This is something that should have never happened.
Do Inter treble.
As a biased United fan, this treble will always be better than City's. Securing the Prem on the final day and beating Arsenal to it by a single point. A scintillating FA Cup run that involved beating Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Newcastle. A champions League campaign where we faced Bayern thrice, Barca, Juve, and R9's Inter while writing the most extraordinary storylines and comebacks. City are amazing but nothing beats the raw emotions and vibes this team gave fans all around the world.
Whoever did that thumbnail needs a slap
Arteta should learn from this
Lets be honest they were lucky that Bayern hit the woodwork a couple of times