Arsenal 2 Manchester United 6 - Rumbelows Cup, Nov 1990

[AjaxMufc]

Brilliant days those!

[videosrus99]

I remember that night watching from the North Bank.

It was so surreal that I was laughing every time ManU scored.

[BabyWildChild]

MAN THOSE SHORTS WERE WIERD

[alan200997]

united on the rampage !!!! brilliant

[cupomash2]

@alan200997 Is that right! !!! oh yeah we never knew that thanks.

[BabyWildChild]

@dabolts34 SHUT UP HATER!

[dovestones]

Outrageous short shorts!!

can't believe I used to wear them.

[seandb95]

i always thought united were a bunch of pussys, but seeing them play in pajamas really confirmed it haha

[Euromoney100]

I was there that night. For me it was such sweet revenge as i remember crying as a teenager in 78 or 79 when the gooners beat us in the FA Cup final. So i waited along time for this night.

I remember seaman looking up to the Stretford End with his arms raised in a gesture of what the hell is going on.

P.S. STILL HATE GOONERS 32 YEARS ON AND COUNTING.................

[mikeeeyt]

@Euromoney100

but this game was at highbury mate...so seaman wasnt looking at the stretford end was he

[anrimanu2]

we always beat this dick-sucker gunners. glory man united!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boeershna]

what cup is this? never heard of it^^

[tarron01]

@boeershna think its what the carling cup is now, it changes its sponsor ever few years, remember wen it was called the cocacola cup? haha and the premiership was the carling premiership

[boeershna]

@tarron01

ah thanks. Yeah merlin`s preimer league etc.lol yeah remember the Coca Cola cup.

[oldmanc2]

20 years on (where does the time go??), am so happy and proud to have been there that night.

My mate started the "Are you watching Merseyside" chant which you can hear if you still have the full video.

I lived off the buzz for months!

[noddywoodhead]

a remember this night sat in ma bedroom listening to it on radio!cldny believe what was happening!sharpey,loved him,just wish he could have been another giggs!

[karlmarx71]

Ive never been a big fan of Arsenal but they had some whingeing knobs playing for htem back then....it was the sweetest evening to walk in from the pub and watch this on ITV sports....Sparkys goal was a peach and how many E's in Lee Sharpe that evening? Sweet stuff always remember Smith kicking the ball outta Sealeys (RIP) hands and Winterburn whining...yeeeeha.

[mastercooly7]

what a kit LOL

UNITED

[corgiplumber]

As A GOONER MAY I SAY THIS WAS THE BEST AWAY PERFORMANCE IVE EVER SEEN AND THE BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SINGLE PLAYER

[7RedDevil4Ever]

2:00 WHAT A SHOT!!!!

[Jimjam1212]

remember watching the highlights of this years ago. Rumbelows cup lol arsenal had those recognizable nets for years, the ones with the green net holders



[Smudgerio]

Those were the days..... great football and nearly all British born players.

[mario25000]

Love this game, so many memories! When the Arse brought it back to 3 - 2  their fans were delirious !! What a night.....

UNITED forever

[tricx]

I perform magic to Lee Sharpe. You can see the video by clicking on my name as its the main video. He was such a sound lad.

[duxberry1958]

sharp waz so good

[zaezen]

that has to be the worst united away strip ever!

[MidlandNinja]

anyone remember the 2 line-ups for this game?

[miebulu]

What a shit seaman it is...look at 6:06 so fucking sucks !!! and dat's they called a 'safe hands'..hahaha !! They just make the world lough at them..

[GameMeteor]

@miebulu

Shut up.

Atleast he isn't a thug like "Man shitty"

[miebulu]

United will forever beat arsenal..trust me

[u009547]

????

Again and again

3-1

????

lol

[dullahgg]

@miebulu i trust you :D

[DILLIGAFFUM]

@miebulu whatever, least we don't wear gay blue kits...

[miebulu]

@DILLIGAFFUM blue in colour is a gay kits ?? WTF are u..blind ?? For me it's a nice colour for an away kit..and how about that ugly arsenil kit there ??????

Whatever u talking like shit, United will forever beat an arsenil..trust me !!

[Arsenalistaa]

@miebulu Aaron Ramsey says hi.

[coolbaire37]

The good old days when football was really football

[AjaxMufc]

Brilliant days those!

[videosrus99]

I remember that night watching from the North Bank.

It was so surreal that I was laughing every time ManU scored.

[BabyWildChild]

MAN THOSE SHORTS WERE WIERD

[alan200997]

united on the rampage !!!! brilliant

[cupomash2]

@alan200997 Is that right! !!! oh yeah we never knew that thanks.

[BabyWildChild]

@dabolts34 SHUT UP HATER!

[dovestones]

Outrageous short shorts!!

can't believe I used to wear them.

[seandb95]

i always thought united were a bunch of pussys, but seeing them play in pajamas really confirmed it haha

[Euromoney100]

I was there that night. For me it was such sweet revenge as i remember crying as a teenager in 78 or 79 when the gooners beat us in the FA Cup final. So i waited along time for this night.

I remember seaman looking up to the Stretford End with his arms raised in a gesture of what the hell is going on.

P.S. STILL HATE GOONERS 32 YEARS ON AND COUNTING.................

[mikeeeyt]

@Euromoney100

but this game was at highbury mate...so seaman wasnt looking at the stretford end was he

[anrimanu2]

we always beat this dick-sucker gunners. glory man united!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boeershna]

what cup is this? never heard of it^^

[tarron01]

@boeershna think its what the carling cup is now, it changes its sponsor ever few years, remember wen it was called the cocacola cup? haha and the premiership was the carling premiership

[boeershna]

@tarron01

ah thanks. Yeah merlin`s preimer league etc.lol yeah remember the Coca Cola cup.

[oldmanc2]

20 years on (where does the time go??), am so happy and proud to have been there that night.

My mate started the "Are you watching Merseyside" chant which you can hear if you still have the full video.

I lived off the buzz for months!

[noddywoodhead]

a remember this night sat in ma bedroom listening to it on radio!cldny believe what was happening!sharpey,loved him,just wish he could have been another giggs!

[karlmarx71]

Ive never been a big fan of Arsenal but they had some whingeing knobs playing for htem back then....it was the sweetest evening to walk in from the pub and watch this on ITV sports....Sparkys goal was a peach and how many E's in Lee Sharpe that evening? Sweet stuff always remember Smith kicking the ball outta Sealeys (RIP) hands and Winterburn whining...yeeeeha.

[mastercooly7]

what a kit LOL

UNITED



[corgiplumber]

As A GOONER MAY I SAY THIS WAS THE BEST AWAY PERFORMANCE IVE EVER SEEN AND THE BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SINGLE PLAYER

[7RedDevil4Ever]

2:00 WHAT A SHOT!!!!

[Jimjam1212]

remember watching the highlights of this years ago. Rumbelows cup lol arsenal had those recognizable nets for years, the ones with the green net holders

[Smudgerio]

Those were the days..... great football and nearly all British born players.

[mario25000]

Love this game, so many memories! When the Arse brought it back to 3 - 2 their fans were delirious !! What a night.....

UNITED forever

[tricx]

I perform magic to Lee Sharpe. You can see the video by clicking on my name as its the main video. He was such a sound lad.

[duxberry1958]

sharp waz so good

[zaezen]

that has to be the worst united away strip ever!

[MidlandNinja]

anyone remember the 2 line-ups for this game?

[miebulu]

What a shit seaman it is...look at 6:06 so fucking sucks !!! and dat's they called a 'safe hands'..hahaha !! They just make the world lough at them..

[GameMeteor]

@miebulu

Shut up.

Atleast he isn't a thug like "Man shitty"

[miebulu]

United will forever beat arsenal..trust me

[u009547]

????

Again and again

3-1

????

lol

[dullahgg]

@miebulu i trust you :D

[DILLIGAFFUM]

@miebulu whatever, least we don't wear gay blue kits...

[miebulu]

@DILLIGAFFUM blue in colour is a gay kits ?? WTF are u..blind ?? For me it's a nice colour for an away kit..and how about that ugly arsenil kit there ??????

Whatever u talking like shit, United will forever beat an arsenil..trust me !!

[Arsenalistaa]

@miebulu Aaron Ramsey says hi.

[coolbaire37]

The good old days when football was really football

[porridgeeveryday]

uniteds away strip looked gay.

[mastercooly7]

oh and arsenals home didnt lol/

[mastercooly7]

oh and arsenals home didnt lol/

[afiq358]

wot a game , that one is a classic, in truth arsenal were poor in that match and we should have bag more on it, great goals from sharpe he was our real left wizard before welsh giggsy comes in

[athenry04]

Thanks for posting this, happy memories.

[davdevalle]

yep we did, only 2 european cups- Alex said he could have been the best left back in the world...and he could have been......Bad management.......the past is not a perfect prism just because there were some wins....

[davdevalle]

it was not a hairdryer for playing out of position but because he gave interview to the press about the hattrick without asking..it is in his book...next game he scored winner Everton I think, and he got treatment for his dance celebration on the pitch....Sharpey was the beginning of the new era....and we should have kept him........

[Pulsator]

yeah, because you really under achieved after he left...

[Pulsator]

er, you gibbed sharpe off for ryan giggs.

if you're contending that you would have won european cups with sharpe instead of giggs, or that sharpe would be an integral part of a european cup winning side, more influencial than giggs, well one is entitled to ask:

why the fuck did lee sharpe end up winning nothing of note in his career.

i think ferguson made the right call there.

[Pulsator]

didn't work out that way though did it.

and i doubt that lee sharpes defensive qualities as a left back would have meant you winning more european cups, after all no top clubs fancied him either as a winger or fulll back.

and he won nothing of note, whilst man u went on to win everything.

giggs, ultimately, replaced sharpe.

hardly a big loss.

[Pulsator]

like i said, no massive loss.

you won plenty without him, and he would never have replaced giggs. laughably you reckon he could have been a brilliant left back - a position he rarely if ever played.

he went on to do fuck after he left, united went on to win the lot without him. says everything

and ferguson obviously thought so as he binned him for a pitance. other top clubs agreed because none of them bought him. he did fuck all internationally either, he then ended up at exeter FFS.

[Pulsator]

that good that he flogged him to leeds and went on to win everything. whilst shapre ended up playing non-league football.

you keep gleaming all your opinions from autobiographies mate.

and anyone using the word 'soccer' automatically knows naff all about the game.

shapre = best left back in the world

shapre + man u = more european cups

give it a rest mate. every other top club, england and fergie ALL gibbed him off before he was thirty.

QED.

[Pulsator]

you're the one who said "we're done" before posting again. i'm happy to carry on the discussion.

we may never know how good a left back sharpe may have been. but since he never played for another top side, and ended up playin lower / non -league football before he was thirty, it's safe to say he never came close to that.

united, meanwhile, won the lot.

if getting opinions from other people leads you to believing lee sharpe was a huge loss for united, i'll carry on thinking for myself.

[Pulsator]

ferguson is far from infallible. bellion was the next henry, veron was worth £28m. if changing your opinion to conform to whatever alex ferguson says is good enough for you, fine. you're welcome to that servile mindset. i'll carry on thinking for myself, thank you very much.

and if he wasn't such a huge loss, why did you insinuate that you would have won more european cups with a player who was playing for exeter with a few years of leaving united? at least be consistent in your ways.

[Pulsator]

so ferguson makes mistakes, yet you invoke his authority when people don't agree with you? very consistent.

so i repeatedly say things like: "hardly a big loss" and "like i said, no massive loss". you repeatedly argue against that, before saying: "you said huge loss". yah, very consistent.

you also say that keeping sharpe would have led to more european cups, yet don't think that a massive loss?

all over the place mate.

fergie was right to gib him off, he wasn't a huge loss. simple.

[Pulsator]

cite one insult i've levelled at you.

"you need therapy", "find a mate" "pulse off" "you can't read"

more inconsistency.

you think sharpe was the difference between winning more european cups, and was potentially the best left back in the world. i think he was neither of those. you want facts:

sharpe never made it at any other club and ended up playing non-league football. united won everything.

they are incontrovertible facts. and they support only one side of the argument. QED

[Pulsator]

oh and my opinion remains intact as your arguments are so weak [well in as much as they are yours and not ferguson's].

[Pulsator]

read back, you were the one who made the 'dummy' comment. i'm not all that assed that i would insult someone for not sharing my opinion. as you rightly pointed out, it's the sign of a weak argument. yet another example of your inconsistancy, mate.

arguments only yield changes of mindsets when they are convincing; yours isn't anywhere near to being convincing.

i'm happy to disagree with both you and ferguson.

have a nice weekend.

[Pulsator]

you can have the last word, darling.

after you made a bit of a fool of yourself and had to delete your last posts [for shame] it's only fair now.

[davdevalle]

my first comment still stands and talking to you was futile...so you can read all your points in their glory. Ferguson said Sharpe could have been the best left back in the world - I said we should have kept him. You had some therapy

[Pulsator]

read back, you were the one who made the 'dummy' comment. i'm not all that assed that i would insult someone for not sharing my opinion. as you rightly pointed out, it's the sign of a weak argument. yet another example of your inconsistancy, mate.

arguments only yield changes of mindsets when they are convincing; yours isn't anywhere near to being convincing.

i'm happy to disagree with both you and ferguson.

have a nice weekend.

[Pulsator]

you can have the last word, darling.

after you made a bit of a fool of yourself and had to delete your last posts [for shame] it's only fair now.

[davdevalle]

my first comment still stands and talking to you was futile...so you can read all your points in their glory. Ferguson said Sharpe could have been the best left back in the world - I said we should have kept him. You had some therapy

[ReggaeZal]

Hughes,wallace,adams, OH MY GOD, DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG AGO THIS WAS!

[arc20051]

Nov 1990 I think. The thing is, people will say (now) that it was only the league cup. But then it was a bigger deal, and both played their best players!!!!! Stunning achievement at a horrible ground to pick up anything!!

[ShaolinRespektah]

Horrible ground? Nice.

[arc20051]

Highbury was great, I just mean it was a horrible place to go and get any positive result. It was a fortress. So winning 6.2 was a dream.

[ShaolinRespektah]

Ahh I see, I was gonna say even non-gooners thought Highbury was a great classic football stadium. Wish it was still there in all honesty, only been to the Emirates about 4 times, too corporate, no soul. Might change in a few years but still, not the same as walking down Avenell rd. before a big game.

[martel1972]

Cheers for putting this on mate! Great memories. Sharpys hatrick was one of the best I've seen.

[kb01942]

my god i loved that united shirt, wore it every day possible. Sharpey, what a player he was and could of been!!!

[Russ1367]

got a s/s shirt like this signed by Sharpie, framed.....

[Russ1367]

I was luck enough to meet Lee and he said this game and the game against Barca ( with the back heel) were his highlights. Fergie gave him the 'hairdryer' after this game for playing out of position........

[kb01942]

russ1367 that true lol? gotta love fergie giving a bolloking after this game!!!! memories!!

[Russ1367]

kb01942, well I heard it from the horses mouth..... He also said that he scored the winner in a game (can't remember who against, sorry) in the same week and got the same treatment!!

I think Fergie has calmed down a bit with old age, not everyone responds to being shouted at, sometimes you have to put your arm around a player and actually talk to them. I think he's realised that over the years. Funny to think he went mental after this performance though ha ha ha!

[kb01942]

cheers Russ, lol still think its brill. Sounds weird mate but have fond memories of seasons 1990-1991 and 1991-1992, even though not league winners but its when i first followed united at age of 6, getting my first season ticket and seeing them come back from Rotterdam at Manchester airport with cup winners cup. Only Leeds ruined this era for me, they would awesome then.