00:00Southampton in the Premiership in late September 1999.
00:03United were on an incredible run, undefeated in 28 league games,
00:08but they had drawn their last home match with Wimbledon.
00:11Southampton, under Dave Jones, were sitting in 13th place in the league
00:14and in their last outing had secured an extra-time win over Manchester City in the League Cup.
00:20United's experienced defender Dennis Irwin played at right-back
00:23to accommodate new signing Mikel Silvestre at left-back.
00:28Sir Alex Ferguson had several of his top players missing.
00:31Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Ronnie Jonson, Jesper Blomquist and Gary Neville were all out injured
00:35and Andy Cole was suspended.
00:38Nicky Butt was back from injury,
00:39while Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was preferred to Jordi Cruyff on the left of midfield.
00:44Former United favourite Mark Hughes was back to face his old club in Southampton colours.
00:48The visitors were able to include Hassan Cashloul, Klaus Lundertvam and Dean Richards,
00:53who'd all shaken off knocks and been past fit to play.
00:55Latvian striker Marian Pahaz had recovered from a virus and operated as a lone striker,
01:01while Stuart Ripley was back after missing three games.
01:04Your match commentator is John Champion.
01:08On the face of it, it's something of a mismatch.
01:10Manchester United, the leaders, unbeaten in 28 Premier League matches now.
01:17Their last defeat in this competition.
01:193-2 here against Middlesbrough back on the 19th of December last year.
01:25And Southampton with nine points and their seven fixtures so far.
01:30Three wins at Coventry on the opening day,
01:34which was the first time they'd won on the first day of a season in 11 years.
01:38Then 4-2 against Newcastle, 2-0 against Sheffield Wednesday.
01:41But it's a mighty task, taking on Manchester United in their own backyard, on current form.
02:01Here's Sheringham.
02:04Peeling away his goals.
02:09And York!
02:18Southampton have been told by their management team,
02:21led by Dave Jones, to expect to be under the cosh.
02:24It's a question of how they deal with it.
02:36Oakley.
02:41And Oakley sent flying
02:45by Henningberg.
02:57First caution of the afternoon
02:59issued by referee Dunn
03:02from Bristol
03:05to Henningberg.
03:14Stuart Ripley is over the ball for this.
03:21Taibbi got a touch.
03:25Third game in goal for Manchester United
03:27for Massimo Taibbi.
03:31Hope they've found the long-term replacement
03:34for Peter Schmeichel.
03:46Ripley.
03:56Three kick is Southampton.
03:58Solskjaer, the player, penalised.
04:00The fouling, Jason Dodd.
04:04Dodd's been one of the bargain signings in Southampton's history.
04:08£50,000 from Bath City.
04:22Berg's header, finding Beckham.
04:27Here's York.
04:35Oh, that's Solskjaer.
04:38And Beckham is none too happy.
04:47His anger directed at Solskjaer for having a go himself when others were better placed.
04:59Manchester United won their first three games here this season.
05:02Scoring 11 goals.
05:04They got a nasty shock last Saturday when Wimbledon held them 1-1.
05:08Needed a late goal from Jordi Cruyff to rescue a point.
05:17Mark Hughes.
05:19So long a favourite here.
05:22Pahas through the legs of Stam and Pahas scores!
05:31Echoes of last week when Walid Badir put Wimbledon in front here.
05:37This time it's the Latvian.
05:40Pahas nutmegging the Dutchman Stam.
05:43And then comprehensively beating the Italian Taibbi in goal.
05:48It's a real talent, Pahas.
05:51Signed from Skontoriga.
05:57Scholes.
06:00Manchester United having to come from behind for the second week running.
06:03At least that's their hope.
06:10Sylvester.
06:11Away by Hughes.
06:21York.
06:27Scholes.
06:33Beckham.
06:40And here's Irwin.
06:42And York.
06:44It was well blocked by Jason Dodd.
06:50Sylvester.
06:54Anticlimactic.
06:59That goal from Pahas, though, is getting the expected response from the reigning champions.
07:08Think about it, says Dave Jones.
07:11It's third season as Saints manager.
07:14Twelfth position, then 17th last season.
07:21Pahas.
07:24Berg.
07:25And Stam sorting it out between them.
07:38Beckham.
07:44They fall obligingly for Ripley.
07:48Sylvester with the block this time.
07:51Solskjaer.
07:52Sylvester's down, having been fouled.
07:56And the referee, Mr Dunn, has given the free kick.
08:02Mikael Sylvester, £4 million worth of defensive talent.
08:06Signed from Inter Milan.
08:11Liverpool were very interested in acquiring his services, too.
08:25Referee's happy now.
08:27Beckham.
08:31Behind by Dean Richards.
08:39And great applause for Beckham as he comes across to tee up the corner.
08:51Berg.
08:52Off the post.
08:54Really unlucky, Henningberg.
08:56He got up terrifically well.
09:00It was two years since he last scored.
09:03And now he has to get back and do some defensive duty.
09:06Ripley.
09:08Irwin.
09:09Irwin.
09:10Very calmly done.
09:18Invaded his defensive markers.
09:20Kirkhouse.
09:26Sheringham.
09:27Looking for Scholes.
09:29Finding Richards.
09:35Dodd.
09:38Here's Matthew Oakley.
09:44Hughes
09:59Dwight York
10:02So he's not keeping the ball as well now
10:06Irwin
10:07Steady supply of possession for Manchester United
10:10That goes Cash Low
10:17Clear to touch by the Moroccan
10:27Irwin
10:30Beckham
10:32Solskjaer
10:38It's beginning to click for the home team
10:53Hughes
10:54Saltbed
11:00Sylvester in front of Ripley
11:06Scholes
11:08Dwight York
11:16Southampton have lost on their last ten visits to Old Trafford
11:22Here's Paul Scholes
11:26Beckham
11:28Sheringham
11:33A very graceful near close finish
11:41A goal that had been coming for a while
11:51Gained a yard on Dean Richards
11:54And swept it
11:56Past Paul Jones
12:01Good goalkeeper
12:02Beaten by a good goal
12:04Despite the left hand
12:09Scheringer
12:14Scheringer
12:20Dodd
12:22Now Saltved
12:25To his fellow Norwegian
12:27To his fellow Norwegian
12:27Lundqvær
12:27To his fellow Norwegian Lundqvær
12:39Solskjaer
12:42That was meant for Sylvester
12:53Can he prevent the corner?
12:54No he can't
12:55Stuart Ripley
13:05Beckham
13:07Beckham
13:24Beckham to take
13:26Sheringham, and again denied, two excellent saves, there's York!
13:36Manchester United are in front, but it's really tough on poor Paul Jones.
13:44Twice he kept out goal-bound efforts from Sheringham, the second was a wonder save,
13:53but then he was stranded as York nodded Manchester United into the lead.
14:04Most unassuming character Jones, played non-league football with Kidderminster,
14:10was discovered by Wolves, went to Stockport with Dave Jones to Southampton, but beaten in the end there.
14:25Sylvester,
14:29York,
14:39Bernadette, out-muscled by Beckham, it doesn't matter, there's the half-time whistle,
14:45Manchester United have turned it around, trailing to Marion Paha's early goal,
14:50Sheringham and then York, despite good goalkeeping from Jones, and Manchester United lead 2-1.
15:03Lundercalms back pass,
15:07dismissively dealt with by Jones.
15:13Dennis Irwin.
15:17Manchester United needed a couple of late goals to win this game last season, they were nearly presented with one
15:23there.
15:25This time it's Jason Dodd that saves the day.
15:29Rush of blood by Jones, the goalkeeper.
15:33York.
15:36Scholes.
15:37Charged down.
15:42Good positioning, you would have to call it, by Jason Dodd.
15:46Here's Hughes.
15:51Leticia Atenoy scuffed it.
15:52Oh, it's great right through Taibbi!
16:01Well, why is he looking at his studs?
16:04Why not look at his hands?
16:08It was actually a miss hit.
16:13And Taibbi went down, and it went through his arms, through his legs.
16:22It was like a chicken laying an egg.
16:24But what a calamitous moment for Massimo Taibbi.
16:28They paid four and a half million pounds to bring him from Venezia.
16:38Old Trafford, certainly the home support, stunned into near silence.
16:46They've tried Bosnich, they've tried van der Haag this season since Schmeichel's departure to Sporting Lisbon.
16:53And now this big Italian who's come with a glowing reputation.
17:00But what a howler.
17:09Solskjaer.
17:11York, lovely ball back.
17:12Solskjaer, good save.
17:16Very quickly off his line, Paul Jones.
17:22Sharing.
17:24Irwin.
17:33One goalkeeper excelling.
17:37Now they're having a moment of horror.
17:39Abject horror.
17:44Stam.
17:47Irwin.
17:56Maybe Manchester United should have signed Paul Jones instead.
18:07Cash law.
18:12Southampton, lucky to be level.
18:15You need luck when you come as a visiting team to Old Trafford.
18:21Also need to play exceptionally well to get anything.
18:26Nicky Butt.
18:33Beckham.
18:38There's Butts.
18:42It's going to take something special to beat Jones on this form.
18:54The Tissier.
19:01Scored on this ground last season in that 2-1 defeat.
19:03The Tissierk.
19:15Henning Berg.
19:18Stoles.
19:22설ingham.
19:23Here's Nicky Butt.
19:24but there's Dwight York, 3-2 Manchester United in the lead again, excellent move, York just
19:45onside and there was nothing that Jones could do about that one.
19:558th of the season for Dwight York, Marsden, Oakley, Hughes, Ripley, cutting in on the angle, ball cut out by
20:14Japsdam,
20:36Oakley's lining this up, that's Hughes, still rising as it struck the face of the crossbar,
20:50reminiscent of some of the great goals he scored on this ground in the red of Manchester United,
20:58couldn't have struck that any more sweetly, great technique,
21:06goalkeeper, nowhere near,
21:13Cash Lue,
21:19Southampton in their 22nd consecutive season in the top division of English football,
21:24promoted back in 1978 under the astute guidance of Laurie McMenemy.
21:30It's a proud record that they want to extend.
21:35Sylvester,
21:36he's lost it to Pajas,
21:39Letizia!
21:43It's another horrible defensive plunder by Manchester United.
21:48They've now presented two goals to Southampton.
21:52And it's 3-3.
21:55Sylvester that time.
22:01Robbed by the Latvian Pajas,
22:05who teed it up
22:06for Matt Letizia.
22:17Don't set her away.
22:21And much disquiet around Old Trafford.
22:27Sylvester,
22:28who made the error.
22:32Solskjaer.
22:33There's York!
22:35And London Farm steers it behind.
22:41There is a worry for Southampton,
22:43it is that that third goal has come,
22:45with still plenty of time to go.
22:53Jones punch.
22:55Down.
22:58York!
23:16Well, a draw,
23:17a 3-3 draw.
23:21Would
23:22be a
23:23big disappointment for Manchester United,
23:26following on from the 1-1 draw with Wimbledon last week.
23:30May not be a draw,
23:31of course.
23:31Here's Sheringham.
23:33Now it's York.
23:35Beckham.
23:35And Scholes!
23:44Masters of the late goal.
23:49And Scholes nearly provided it.
23:57Beattie.
23:59Cutting inside,
24:00Stamm.
24:01James Beattie could win it!
24:03Off the outstretched leg of Taibbi.
24:07Partial redemption.
24:09Only partial redemption for the goalkeeper.
24:13Years of excellence,
24:15wonder saves from Schmeichel,
24:17and
24:17today,
24:18a horrible blunder
24:19from Taibbi,
24:20but at least he was up to it then.
24:26Beckham.
24:30Sheringham going up.
24:31There's York.
24:33And Sheringham.
24:37And Southampton clear.
24:39And they may now have done enough.
24:46The day will forever be remembered for Taibbi's blunder.
24:50Southampton played very well, though, too,
24:52and thoroughly deserved a 3-3 draw.
24:55Well, that game would prove to be a significant one
24:58for United goalkeeper Massimo Taibbi.
25:00His high-profile error cost him his Manchester United career.
25:03He played just once more for the club
25:05before being loaned to Regina.
25:08But United still finished Champions of England once again.
25:12Southampton had a satisfactory season,
25:14though there was the low of a 7-2 defeat to Tottenham,
25:17and Dave Jones left for personal reasons in January.
25:20Glenn Hoddle replaced him
25:21and guided the club to 15th position on 44 points.
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