CHELSEA V MANCHESTER UNITED

4pm

KICK OFF

DATE

Sunday 3rd October 1999

FA Carling Premiership

Stamford Bridge

FIXTURE

AT

SCORE

MAN OF THE MATCH

ATTENDENCE

Chris Sutton

5-0

34,909

SCORERS

CHELSEA

Poyet 26, 54 Sutton 16 Beg 59 o.g Morris 81

REFEREE

Dermot Galagher

8/10

REFS PERFORMANCE

ASISSTANT REFEREES

S. Gagen
G. Beale

TEAMS

CHELSEA

Ed De Goey, Albert Ferrer, Jes Hogh, Frank Leboeuf, Celestine Babayaro, Gustavo Poyet, Didier Deschamps, Dan Petrescu, Dennis Wise, Chris Sutton, Gianfranco Zola

SUBSTITUTES

Le Saux (Petrescu) Morris (Wise) Flo (Zola) Lambourde Cudicini

BOOKED

Wise

MANCHESTER UNITED

Taibi, Irwin, Berg, Stam, Silvestre, Beckham, Butt, Scholes, Neville , Yorke, Cole

SUBSTITUTES

Solskjaer, Sheringham, Wilson

BOOKED

Scholes, Butt (Sent Off)

MATCH REPORT

Ever since I started watching Chelsea , I have been waiting for a majic day like this.

To quite simply give Man United a good stuffing, and that is exactly what we did to Fergies red army.

When I saw that Marcel Desailly was not in line up, It concerned me and I thought that we were going to have problems in containing Cole and Yorke , that just was'nt the case.

After just 27 seconds of the game Chelsea went into the lead with a brilliant header by Gus, 1-0, Stamford Bridge went wild.

But more was to follow, Chelsea played some of the best football ever witnessed at Stamford Bridge, Chris Sutton my man of the match was absolutely brilliant and was superb in the air leaving Stam looking a right mug.

The second goal was not long coming this time Chris Sutton heading home for his first Premiership goal.

The crowd went wild and so did I , oh how we sang, with a new ditty sure to spread around the country-
"Oh Andy Cole, Andy, Andy Cole, Is a fucking arsehole, is a fucking aresole, Oh Andy Cole"

Man United by now completly outplayed, outclassed started to use some bully boy tactics which backfired on them when Butt was sent off for lashing out at Wise, Man United down to 10 men and we were all left wondering if this was all a dream.

When the ref blew for halftime I quickly ran down to Tamblings for a quick pint to lubricate my tonsils because by now my voice had gone.

15 Minutes is not long to knock back a pint before its a quick dash back to my seat to see the second half of this thrilling encounter.

Man United looking more and more like a wounded animal came out in the second half with a lot more purpose, but Chelsea were not going to give up the fight and easily contained the threat of Yorke and Cole, with Frank Leboeuf outstanding.

Chelsea again took control of the game, and on 54 mins Gus made it 3 with a glorious goal with his shot going in off the bar.

Can it get any better than this-"Oh yes it can"

From a lovely run by Dan Petrescu who wipped in a low cross, saw Chris Sutton running in on goal and all he needed to do was to latch onto it, but somehow Berg seem to steer the ball into his own net, and this game was becoming a big embrassment to manure, sympathy was not going to come from me.

The game was concluded when Morris scored our last of the afternoon with a sweet drive when put clean through by Gus-5-0, yes 5-0 was this a dream, will we ever forget this match, I doubt it not for a very, very long time.

The celebrations were surely going to go on right through the night with fans packing into every pub in the Kings Road and beyond singing songs of triumph

"One-Two, One-Two-Three, One-Two-Three-Four Five -nil"

"Can we play you every week"
"Are you Tottenham in disguise"
"Oh Teddy, Teddy, You went to Man United and your still a c--t"
"Carefree"

To name but a few.

A Day I will never forget for the rest of my life

Thankyou Chelsea
Thankyou Luca
Thankyou Fergie

5-0 SAY NO MORE

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