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00:00Mark Hughes back into his team.
00:02Gicta's been injured, Cantona on national service and Hughes suspended.
00:07Their recalls today mean no place in the starting line-up for any of the bouncing babes.
00:11Roy Keane plays it right back in a team containing only four Englishmen.
00:16So, put two and two together and you come up with the name of Stan Collymore.
00:20The football gossip columnists have placed him near the top of Alex Ferguson's shopping list.
00:25He'll move higher still if he scores today to end that amazing eight-month run of United clean sheets here.
00:32Mind you, both Collymore and Brian Roy have found goals harder to come by just lately.
00:36Forrest have slipped to fifth place in the table.
00:38Central defender Colin Cooper is their most notable absentee.
00:42Although the Norwegian Lars Bahien has been dropped today
00:45to accommodate the return from international duty of Welshman David Phillips.
00:52There's a Welshman in charge too.
00:54The referee is Keith Burge.
00:58Manchester United started the season with European ambitions to the fore.
01:04And Alex Ferguson accepts that he'd have been happy then
01:07to be told that his team would be only a point off the pace
01:10approaching the halfway mark in the championship race.
01:14Mind you, this time last year, they were 13 points clear in the championship race.
01:20Take away with it.
01:21And here's Stan Collymore's big chance.
01:23And what a tackle by Paul Ince.
01:26Well, no wonder they never can see goals here at Old Trafford
01:29because even when you get past Bruce and Pallister,
01:32there's somebody like Ince popping up to cover.
01:33But it was a real chance for Stan Collymore.
01:39Steve Bruce tried to clear it in.
01:40Ricocheted against Collymore.
01:43Walsh tried to stand up and make it awkward for him,
01:46but it was Ince who denied him.
01:47Walsh tried to clear it in.
01:50Walsh tried to clear it in the middle of the year.
01:50Walsh tried to clear it in the middle of the year.
01:52One with the corner.
01:53Walsh tried to clear it out.
01:53Headed by Pallister.
01:56Scott Gemmell.
01:57Stan Collymore.
01:58It's his first game at Old Trafford
02:03The rumours have been stoked over the week building up to this game
02:10And he has said that Frank Clarke had a word with him about those rumours a week or so ago
02:16Alex Ferguson for his part insists there's been no approach for Colin Moore from Manchester United
02:28Keane
02:38Cantona
02:42Hughes
02:44Oh! Hit the bar that stayed out
02:47Mark Crossley in a hurry to get on with it
02:53But he's a very relieved man and is there a better volleyer of the ball in the game than Mark Hughes
02:59Clean as a whistle
03:01And Crossley just about caught up with it on the way back out
03:05Stone
03:11A little isolated on that right hand side
03:21Oh and trying to keep him there
03:22Now he's found an outlet, it's Scott Gemmell
03:25David Phillips
03:27Three inside the box
03:29Phillips going for glory
03:30And a corner has been given
03:33Just a slight deflection
03:37Nottingham Forest have stood up for themselves in these opening 20 minutes
03:45Certainly not overawed by the occasion
03:50Gemmell
03:52Gemmell
03:52Pierce
03:54Headed by Bruce
03:57Not quite got the job done yet
03:58Pallister hasn't either
04:00Colin Moore trying to get in there, he's scored
04:02No, it's been disallowed
04:03The referee penalised Stan Collymore for wrestling his way into that goal-scoring position
04:12But if Manchester United needed a warning about his ability, if he does get a chance
04:19Then Collymore gave them a little dress rehearsal there
04:24McClare
04:27Hit Giggs and fell for Ince
04:30McClare
04:34Referee has pulled it up, he's given Max United a free kick
04:37McClare
04:43McClare was heading towards the edge of the penalty area at the time
04:45But he goes with such determination that he's so difficult to stop Paul Ince
04:51Stone just had to stand in his path
04:55Ince is to the right, waiting hands on hips
05:01It's Kanchelskis though
05:04It was a belting strike by Andre Kanchelskis
05:11Just didn't start to dip early enough
05:15Moved a little bit from left to right too
05:20I think Mark Crossley might just feel as though he had it covered
05:24But it had plenty of place on it
05:25Stone to Little
05:28Gemmell
05:33Won
05:37Max United not really picking up here
05:39And Won's had a goal
05:40Roy
05:46Collymore
05:48He's done it
05:51Stan Collymore
05:53And Nottingham Forest must feel as though they've broken it to the bank of England
05:59Collymore has stolen a goal from the vaults of the Old Trafford defences
06:04It had to be him
06:06A thunderous strike from Stan Collymore
06:12The first league goal that Manchester United have conceded here for over eight months and what a goal
06:20And the golden goal time
06:23One thousand one hundred and thirty five minutes since Graham Sharp scored for Oldham
06:29Won't
06:30Oh and here's Collymore
06:33Oh and here's Collymore
06:33Real chance for Stan Collymore again
06:35Oh and how close can you get
06:38Well he knows what a chance that was not only to add to his growing reputation but maybe to win the game
06:48Less than ten minutes of the second half gone
06:52It was a lovely ball to him
06:55And he couldn't quite give it the finish he deserved
06:58Kampchelskis
07:02Running away from Gemmelt
07:06Giggs
07:08Struck Chettle
07:12Hooked away by Stone
07:13Colomar using his body well but Sotu wins
07:20Free kick to Manchester United
07:22Pallister's in there
07:38So too Pearce though
07:39McClare
07:41Hughes wrestling for it
07:43Pallister trying to make something of it
07:44Gemmelt got something on it
07:45Pallister
07:46Giggs
07:47Hit won't
07:48Smashed away
07:49And the pressure from Hughes
07:50By Little has gone down
07:51Referee stopped play
07:54Manchester United are unhappy about that
07:58Nottingham Forest unhappy about the challenge by Hughes
08:00And it's a real skirmish
08:06Just caught his standing foot
08:09Very painful
08:21Stone has done so much of that kind of work for Forrest
08:24And Gemmelt's found Roy here
08:26And the flag is down
08:27Stone is in the middle
08:28Cut out by Keane
08:29It's a corner
08:30It could have been worse for Manchester United
08:31Every step that they take forward
08:35In pursuit of an equaliser
08:38Just leaves a larger gap
08:42For Nottingham Forest to exploit on the counter
08:44It's a full-blooded match
08:50But it's a wonderful tactical contest too
08:53Chettle flicked on
08:54It's come as far as Pearce
08:55It's gone in with a deflection
08:57And Nottingham Forest lead by two goals to nil
09:00It's Stuart Pearce
09:04It's the third successive game in which he scored strangely enough
09:10But it's a goal which owed much to a deflection
09:14By one of the charging Manchester United defenders
09:16But Nottingham Forest's luck appears to be in
09:20Bruce
09:27Kanchelskis
09:30They can bring the ball this far without too much discomfort
09:39Although Inch felt so many years after Roy here
09:42Kanchelskis is in possession though
09:45And the referee has stopped play
09:47He's going to have a word with Inch and Roy here
09:50Now Kanchelskis and Little are getting involved
09:51It's happening all over the field
09:53It's all gone sour
10:02Manchester United's frustrations boiling over
10:12Well it was a little bit of afters from Roy
10:18But it was nothing too vicious you have to say
10:20I think Brian Roy is being ushered in the direction of the dressing room here
10:27Certainly that was the point for the referee
10:29Watch the card
10:30No, the point was a warning
10:37Now the second incident
10:44Giggs and Little
10:44Yellow
10:51And Yellow
10:59Alex Ferguson's side
11:07Facing probably their biggest challenge of the season here
11:10And now what does he do
11:11Does he turn to the two youngsters on the bench
11:13Neville and Butt
11:15Giggs
11:22Kane
11:29Corner conceded by Pearce
11:48Still a quarter of the match to go
11:51Plenty for kicks to aim at
12:01Clicked on well and into the net
12:03Cantona's goal
12:04And the recovery has started
12:10Eric Cantona from the quarter kick
12:16I think as much as anything
12:19Just trying to flick the ball on
12:20But it was such a well delivered corner
12:24That the player on the line
12:26Steve Stone couldn't keep out
12:28Cantona's header
12:28And Nottingham Forest lead has been hard
12:32And who else but Eric Cantona
12:37Is the man who's got Manchester United
12:40Back within reach
12:41From Dennis Irwin
12:42Stone trying to get in support of him
12:44Here's Steve Stone
12:45Good challenge by Roy Keane
12:47You can't take your eyes off it
12:57For an instant
12:58A clear away
13:03Cantona
13:05Only Kanchelskis ahead of him for now
13:07Here's Giggs though
13:09Hughes is getting involved in the break too
13:13Andre Kanchelskis
13:15Cantona
13:18On to Steve Bruce
13:21Chetel set up
13:26Pearce
13:27It's back towards his own goal
13:29Cross has come
13:30Somehow found it
13:32Brian Roy back in the right back position
13:38Who's holding who?
13:43Giggs has got the throw
13:44McClare
13:49Holland's header
13:52Roy Keane
13:56Steve Bruce
13:58Ince
14:02Cantona
14:04Six to aim for
14:07Headed away by Little
14:12Giggs thought about the shot
14:13Back to Irwin
14:14It's going to be a long last 15 minutes for Nottingham Forest
14:21Ince
14:27McClare
14:41Almost slipped into Hughes' path
14:45Tried to do so again
14:48Tried to do so again
14:48Just turned away by Hall
14:52And it's off the line
14:53By Steve Stone
14:55And nobody's epitomised the Nottingham Forest spirit more than Steve Stone
15:01They shall not pass
15:03They shall not pass
15:03Cantona takes the corner
15:08It's come for Hughes
15:10And this time Crossley makes a save
15:11And for once in his life
15:13Mark Hughes didn't really connect with the volley
15:15Mark Crossley
15:20Trying to look calm
15:21But it's all happening
15:24All around him
15:25A century on the post
15:37And the century did his jaw
15:40When inspired in the shot
15:42Manchester United have a free kick
15:48One last roll of the dice maybe
15:51Everybody
15:55Bar Walsh of course
15:56Ahead of Bruce
15:57It's come for Pearce
16:02And Pearce has sent it back from where it came
16:04Bohinan
16:06Irwin
16:08Nobody in red is near where it will land
16:12Cantona trying to get there
16:13And he's peaking a little to it
16:14And he's won a throw
16:15Irwin
16:24Away by Chettle
16:27Boris just trying to cover up on the ropes
16:31Headed by Haaland
16:34Ince
16:35Ince blocked by Pearce
16:37Dennis Irwin
16:40Haaland again
16:42They have played with admirable determination
16:47Their game plan's been good
16:49Their counter-attacking specialists
16:51And so far so good
16:54Cantona though
16:55Crosley claims it
16:58The last 100% home record
17:05In the four English divisions
17:06Falls to Nottingham Forest
17:08The first league goal scored by
17:11An Old Trafford visitor since the spring
17:13By Stan Collymore
17:14Added to with the help of a deflection
17:16By Stuart Pearce
17:18That's four wins in their last half dozen games
17:21At Old Trafford for Forest
17:22Where nobody else has won for over nine months
17:25It's an unexpected setback for Manchester United
17:29But in a way no worse than a by-election defeat
17:32They'll still believe that they can be the power in the land again
17:35Come the end of the title race
17:37Come the end of the title race
17:37Come the end of the title race
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