Revisited: Manchester United's Historic 1999 Champions League Win
Investigating a defining side of their era.
“Football, bloody hell”.
It’s one of those phrases that seems to describe the entire sport while being utterly fixed in its moment. It’s this side, this season, this game. Manchester United in 1999 rewrote the history of English football, becoming the first side to win the treble, and did so in the most dramatic fashion.
It became the stuff of legend in p…