Melville Red
Full Member
That was football, it’s all got a bit boring now the most exciting part of football is looking forward to the match, the actual match and lack of banter between supporters is very staid.Ince did this to get back at Ferguson, who was knowingly filmed calling Ince a 'big time Charlie' in an ITV documentary during the 98-99 season.
He had also called Ince a 'bottler' to his face in the now infamous 0-4 reverse against Barca in 1994. It precipitated Ince leaving the following summer.
The title race entered May 1999 white-hot when we travelled to Anfield. We raced into a deserved two goal lead, only for Liverpool to be awarded an extremely dodgy penalty. We had Denis Irwin sent off, for kicking the ball away. Missed the FA Cup final.
Ince scoring was the moment Liverpool thought they'd 1992'd us. Sweet revenge for thwarting their treble in 1977. It was a frankly awful feeling, a mixture of bilious injustice worsened by a beloved former player loving every second of it.
Still, we won the league by a point so worked out in the end!
I was watching Spurs v Arsenal and the crowd were terrible, I remember when that and other big fixtures especially close rivals the atmosphere was electric not any more and people get upset over the slightest of so called wrongs.
I think Ince just showed what a passionate player and how human he was.