nottingham forest v man united 1990 fa cup 3rd round

Alex Ferguson's job was reportedly on the line at a FA Cup game against Nottingham Forest when mark robins scored one of the most important goals in Uniteds history when he scored the winning goal at the city ground in 1990.United went on to win the cup and the rest as they say is history!!!!!

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• nottingham
• forest
• man
• united
• 1990
• fa
• cup
• 3rd
• round
• mark
• robins

[blobbym]

the ref was a fukin disgrace that day. if that ref was any good man utd wouldnt be a big 4 club.

[mattyredman]

since the 1960`s united have had the highest average attendance for all but 5 seasons and for 2 of them old trafford was having work on it reducing the capacity. so i think your argument that if we hadnt won this game we wouldnt be a top 4 team is a little thin,then again i think your just being bitter! Your not a city fan are you???????

[YdotKidVE]

I begged for a Chelsea top and I begged to go to Stamford Bridge, but I was 5 and but I was brainwashed. This was around late nineties. Our family have proud Mancunian roots and that meant support a Mancunian, even if you were brought up in London. I never really liked Chelsea, but as a five year old everyone around me was Chelsea. But I knew who I loved and that was I United. No matter where life takes when I'm older, from Stretford to Sudan, I will make sure my kids support United.

[martinrosskerr]

very fortunate to get a free-kick for Leighton's flap at the end there. Should have gone to extra time.

[BornAScouser1]

Bryan Robson wasn't injured, he had VD

[davesmith7891]

It's a myth that this goal saved Fergie's job, but it gives lazy hacks a nice easy cliche to trot out once in a while.

[viccomm1]

Knocking us off a perch...Souness did that not Ferguson.

[viccomm1]

I watched this to see the famous Mark Robins header that saved Ferguson's job.The fact that I then preceded to see a perfectly good goal for Forest disallowed in injury time to level is unbelievable.Even then they got preferential treatment.At this point if Hillsborough hadn't of happened & Dalglish had've stayed instead of Souness taking over and dismantling a side that had another 2 league titles left in it and would've coincided with the start of the Premier Lge then things would be different

[niksur]

@L0rdKarman mark hughes, he was managing fulham till last season

[park3r7]

One day this video might load anfd i might get to see more than hughes thigh trap. I just hope it happens before i retire in 2084

[kisbie]

In chapter 2, United have no choice but to sack Fergie, and with life in Division 2 beckoning, the club starts from square one. The expensive squad is largely dismantled and Graham Taylor is appointed before the FA give him the England job, so Bobby Robson persuades Graham Kelly to finally give that role to Clough, who has guided his Forest team to Cup glory at last. Ole Big Ead takes the job amidst huge expectation after Italia 90. Events spiral from there. Don't say it couldn't have happened!

[kisbie]

I'm interested in writing an epic alternative modern history of English football, based on what could have happened had Forest won this game. The starting point is that United's woeful league form doesn't receive the recovery this win provided, and they end up relegated. (Before this match, they were only two points off the drop zone, and at the end of the season, they were only five clear.)