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ALEX FERGUSON: THE FERGIE ERA.


1986: Ferguson arrives at Old Trafford Old Trafford commonly refers to two sporting arenas:
  • Old Trafford (football ground), home of Manchester United F.C.
  • Old Trafford (cricket ground), home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.
 in November saying: "I have never thought in terms of coming second or third."

1990: He follows poor League run by winning FA Cup with 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace.

1991: Brings first European trophy to Old Trafford since 1968. They beat Barcelona 2-1 to clinch Clinch, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, formed by the junction of two forks in SW Va., and flowing generally SW across E Tenn. to the Tennessee River at Kingston.  the Cup Winners' Cup.

1992:Pays pounds 1.2million to lure lure

the skin-covered object which runs on a monorail on a Greyhound racing track and which the dogs are schooled to chase. The lure must be kept 30 to 40 ft ahead of the leading dog so that the field is stretched out.
 Eric Cantona from champions Leeds to Old Trafford.

1993: Ferguson is voted Manager of the Year as he finally ends United's 26-year wait for the League Championship.

1994: A 4-0 FA Cup win over Chelsea makes United only the fourth club to do the post-war League and FA Cup double.

1996: United are first club to achieve the double twice.

1997: They lose to Borussia Dortmund BV Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the most successful clubs in German football. History
BVB's early years
 in the semi-finals of the Champions League, but win the domestic title for the fourth time in five years.

1998: Pipped to Premiership title by Arsenal. Fergie breaks club transfer record by signing Dwight Yorke This article is about Dwight Yorke, the football player. For the black supremacist, see Dwight York.
Dwight Eversley Yorke (born November 3 1971 in Canaan, Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobago football player. He currently plays for Sunderland A.F.
 for pounds 12.6million from Aston Villa.

1999: Completes a superb treble treble, highest part in choral music, thus corresponding in pitch to soprano, but associated with the voice of a boy or a girl. The term appeared in 15th-century English polyphony, probably as an anglicization of the Latin triplum,  of League, FA Cup and Champions Cup as United come from behind to beat Bayern Munich with two goals in the last minute in Barcelona. Ferguson knighted. United beat Palmeiras in Tokyo to become World Club Champions.

2000: United win League by 18 points from Arsenal.

2001: League champions for the seventh time in nine years, but United crash out to Bayern in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:May 19, 2001
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