Thursday, December 22, 2005
Watching Stars - as if
So this one's about when Vale played Man U in the League Cup. September 1994. They put out their youth team mostly, plus Roy Keane and Brian McClair in the leg at Vale Park and pretty much the same line up at Old Trafford. We were all fed up that most of the first team weren't playing, and were saying we'd kick their backsides for putting out an under strength team.
So who were the youth team ? Someone called Beckham was on the right, with someone called Scholes up front - plus a few others whose names kind of became familiar - Gillespie springs to mind, though he never made it with Man U, and there were others....we lost 2-1 at Vale Park - that little ginger git Scholes scored his first senior goal against us - and his second too- and we lost the second leg at Old Trafford. We went, it was depressing because it was hopeless and they'd played their kids. We wanted Cantona and Schmeichel - we got Beckham and Scholes, plus a few other names later to go down in history. In hindsight, it's OK, we got to see players before they were famous - but at the time it was crap that we couldn't even beat kids. The fact that those kids won the Premiership a couple of years later just about made it OK - we even signed one of the Man U squad from the game - Kevin Pilkington - and he was not anywhere near as good as the rest of the side, in fact he was pretty crap.....oh well.
So who were the youth team ? Someone called Beckham was on the right, with someone called Scholes up front - plus a few others whose names kind of became familiar - Gillespie springs to mind, though he never made it with Man U, and there were others....we lost 2-1 at Vale Park - that little ginger git Scholes scored his first senior goal against us - and his second too- and we lost the second leg at Old Trafford. We went, it was depressing because it was hopeless and they'd played their kids. We wanted Cantona and Schmeichel - we got Beckham and Scholes, plus a few other names later to go down in history. In hindsight, it's OK, we got to see players before they were famous - but at the time it was crap that we couldn't even beat kids. The fact that those kids won the Premiership a couple of years later just about made it OK - we even signed one of the Man U squad from the game - Kevin Pilkington - and he was not anywhere near as good as the rest of the side, in fact he was pretty crap.....oh well.
