Deja calificată de pe primul loc, Manchester United i-a lăsat acasă pe Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, Evra, Scholes sau Giggs pentru deplasarea la Istanbul. Turcii, ospitalieri cum îi știm, i-au primit cum numai ei știu. De dragul vremurilor bune, probabil.
În 1993 Man United venea la Istanbul pentru returul unei duble eliminatorii în Liga Campionilor. Avea să fie cea mai dificilă și înspăimântătoare experiență din mandatul lui Sir Alex Ferguson. Rob Smyth povestește ce s-a întâmplat atunci:
On the day of the match, the majority of fans arrived eight or nine hours before the game. When United went out to look around a couple of hours before kick-off, they were hit by the most magnificent wall of sound. “The most incredible noise I’ve ever experienced in my life,” said Gary Neville, who at the time was an 18-year-old with one first-team appearance to his name.
The way the chanting was organised, one side of the ground followed by the other, gave new meaning to the phrase “end-to-end stuff”. United were an exceptionally hard team with a spine of Schmeichel, Bruce, Pallister, Paul Ince, Roy Keane, Mark Hughes and Cantona. But they had never seen anything like this. Pallister said that “It made Anfield look like a tea party”.
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