#OnThisDay 20 years ago, #SaintsFC produced a memorable display to beat #MUFC 6-3 at The Dell
Posted Oct 26, 2016, 10:05 AM UTC
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One of those days that goes down in history for us, a moment of pride amongst so little of that time, and one of those rare results in the PL etc. Just one of those generational things, in a few years it entirely won't matter. But there'll be others that do - the 8 - 0, the 4 - 0 vs Arsenal.
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Not sure if I'm reading you right, but do you mean that the 6-3 against Utd won't matter in a few years?
I can't ever see people forgetting it or not regarding it as the best result we've had in the modern era. Way above the 8-0 or the 4-0 against Arsenal in my opinion, and that's not just nostalgia speaking. We were playing one of the best English club sides in memory, with Beckham, Schmeichel, Scholes, Cantona etc at their peak.
Also, fans of other clubs remember the game well too, it's not just me. A club like Saints putting 6 past Utd was a crazy result. A once in a lifetime, really.
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Well, not that it won't matter, more than when more fans don't remember it and its significance in that PL era it'll lose a bit of the significance. Both clubs have changed, but so has the PL as a whole. As a result it'll be just a big in reality, but it'll be little different to when we finished 2nd that one time. I know it happened, and I can feel pride about it a bit, but not the same a having lived it.
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Understood. I think it'll take a good 30 to 40 years more for it to get to such a point though. Fans that saw/experienced it will have to die out first ;-)
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Or we'll get new things to be proud of cough cup wins cough
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Memorable indeed. My dad's reaction is a particularly vivid memory.
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I was there for this game too, I was young but I have a couple of memories, Keane getting sent off in the first half and an offside goal spring to mind immediately. Was a great day out for 7 year old me.
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I think I may have been at this game. It was the one with Man U in their grey shirts.
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No, that was the 3-1 win the previous season.
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I'm sure I'm gonna feel really old now when a load of you guys tell me you're too young to remember it, but what a result. Most memorable Saints game of my lifetime.
Mate I was just thinking that. I feel so old but yeah I was at this game! Little me was so happy that day haha.
Lucky you! I was listening on the radio.
Depends on what was going on to make you remember it. I was playing football with some friends around our road, and wandering between friend's houses at one point for drinks and such we were getting updates from a friend's dad as he was cleaning his car listening to it on the radio. Every time we walked past there'd been another goal, and one of my friends was a United fan so it was fun for me in many a way. Was 7 at the time. So I remember it, but more the activity around it and the MOD that night that I was allowed to stay up and watch.
Yes, there were loads of Man Utd fans at school, that was the best part.
This happened a year before I was born. Sorry for the existential crisis
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I remember listening to this on the radio with my parents going apeshit. Pretty memorable 90mins and I wasn't even there.