Man U v. Tottenham - September 2001

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The Fox Soccer Channel just showed an edited version of this amazing game. Long story short, Tottenham was up 3 at half. Man U, with some of the games best known players including Beckham and Cole in their prime primes, score 5 goals in the 2nd half to win going away.

Amazing game – I imagine that in England it’s one of those revered games that, if everyone that says they were there had actually been, would have needed a stadium to hold three million fans. Of course, being a yankee, I’d never heard of it.

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Moved from BBQ Pit to Cafe Society.

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Thanks - sorry bout that.

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Also, being that it was played only a couple of weeks after 9/11, the focus over here was not on sports generally.

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That match is certainly well-remembered, but most seasons throw up an amazing game or two. I seem to remember Liverpool and Newcastle having titanic 3-3s or 4-3s in successive seasons in the 90s?

But it’s small potatoes compared to Charlton Athletic vs. Huddersfield Town (home team comes first, remember :wink: ) in 1957. Huddersfield were 5-1 up with half an hour left. Final score: Charlton 7 Huddersfield 6, the winning goal coming right at the whistle.

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Hell, that’s just crappy defense. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Huge! I forgot about the home and home games – they really set the scene for some epic comeback victories!

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That was a great match, but I sometimes think things get blown a bit out of proportion by what seems to be the Premier Leauges attitude that life before the EPL was a long dark age where nothing any goood happened - the “don’t mention dead guys” policy.

If you want to see a epic, tense, high scoring game with an amazing finish where there is actually something at stake- find a DVD of the 1979 FA Cup final - Arsenal v Manchester Utd (back in the days when they were both plodding underachievers behind the behemoths that were Liverpool and Nottingham Forest). Great, great game of footy - and a reminder that they could play a bit back in the day.

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Meh. I was at the game the OP mentions… as a Spurs fan. It has taken me this long to get over it, but Beckham was amazing that day.

I’m more interested in talking about the Mendes goal that never was against United a few years later.

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THen there was Arsenal v Liverpool, 1989 not to far removed from the Hillsborough disaster. Arsenal needed to win at Anfield 2-0 to win the league over Liverpool. I think it was the only time the league came down to the final game with the two contending teams playing each other. Due to scehudling changes due to Hillsborough this game was the final game of the league season, even coming after the FA Cup.

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What about Liverpool v Milan in the Champions league final a few years back? Who comes back from 0-3 down v Milan?

Or the 1990 FA Cup Semi Final, Liverpool 4 Crystal Palace 3

Honestly, with me mentioning them so often, you’d think I had some sort of love for Liverpool wouldn’t you? A fine thing that is, for an Everton man.

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Just last week, Spurs were 4-1 down with 22 minutes left against Aston Villa and came back to level it 4-4.

(They’re still rubbish, though :wink: )