Manchester United legend

Chapter 190

When the time came to the summer of 1999, the Manchester United team set off and they started a trip to Australia.

The commercial development of the Red Devils has come to this magical country. This trip in the summer of 1999 was unforgettable.Ferguson did not accompany the team, and the Manchester United players experienced a fantastic carnival.

Of course, this is not the first time Manchester United has come to Australia. In the 1960s and 70s, the Red Devils also landed here four times.

Of course, wherever they go, they also attract fans from this country to the carnival - although the ball game that Australians are more passionate about is not football.

In fact, what Manchester United gained was not all joy, and one of them even staged a good night of terror in the hotel.

At that time, the Manchester United team was staying at the Coastal Hotel, and Paul Jost was dazed to find that there was another movement in the room.

Jost woke up to find a burglar stealing from his room. As the team's famous tough guy, he yelled without hesitation: "You bastard, stop it!"

The thief fled in a panic with Jost's stack of banknotes, followed by the tough Manchester United man in shorts and shirtless.

At the entrance of the hotel, the thief was kicked to the ground by Jost. The thief found it difficult to get rid of it, so he simply got up from the ground, pulled out the pistol from his waist, stared at Jost and said, "If you keep chasing me, I'll kill you!"

Jost didn't chase anymore. If the opponent had a knife in his hand, Jost would dare to rush up and fight him, but the thief was holding a gun, so Jost didn't dare to take the risk.

Then the Manchester United team called the police, but in the end the police did not find the thief.

Going back to the trip to Australia in 1999, this time it was Manchester United who accepted the invitation of the rich Australian Rennie Levikin to come to Australia to participate in two friendly matches.

In fact, this group of players in the Manchester United team have never been to this new continent. They have almost never had such a long-distance travel. In fact, they were very resistant at the beginning-after all, this is not a vacation, but a friendly match across continents. What a long journey and then a match!

However, Australia will welcome them with an unprecedented surprise: "The trip to Australia in 1999 is still the best trip I have ever had." Dwight Yorke recalled it a long time later, and it seemed that he still couldn't get enough of it.

For this generation of Manchester United players, Australia was a whole new place.For Australia, Manchester United is also different from the previous Red Devils, they are the newly released "Triple Crown".

Although at the press conference introducing the Manchester United players, the host didn't even know who Solskjaer, the star who had just scored the winning goal in the Champions League, did not prevent the Manchester United players from enjoying the trip very quickly.

The players were free to wander around the city center, visit the safari park, visit the Gold Coast, watch the cute kangaroos and koalas... There is another important reason why the players can be so free-Ferguson did not come.

At that time, the British royal family notified Ferguson that he would be awarded the Medal of Jazz and that he needed to stay in the UK to cooperate with the award. All matters were handed over to the newly appointed assistant coach McClaren.

"McLaren was in charge, he wanted to be in charge, but even though we respected him, we enjoyed complete freedom."

Cole said, "We are not afraid of him like we are afraid of the boss. He also asks us to rest on time, even asks the hotel to impose a curfew on us and asks us to drink less alcohol. But we don't pay attention at all. He has only been here for six months and has not established himself. Authority."

When the team stayed in Sydney until the second day, Manchester United's players completely let go.They just dealt with the team's daily schedule and adaptive training casually. Whenever they had time, they got out of the sight of McLaren and the club staff and ran out secretly to find programs.

Bart said: "We enjoyed a wonderful night from the second day of our stay in Australia. We almost didn't come back to sleep until four o'clock in those days. There is a very large casino and nightclub in Sydney called STAR CITY. I went to play with Giggs and the others and played crazy every day. How to pass the supervision? We used the security door of the hotel to enter and exit and were never caught."

Giggs said, "York and Bosnich obviously had another program. They came back later than us, and they came back at dawn again, and were caught by McLaren. But in the end the assistant coach didn't do anything to him. It was just a fine. York was obviously very happy. He directly asked McLaren if he could pay the fine for the next day..."

It is naturally the beauty that makes York stay away at night.Yorke said: "Nowhere in the world can you find as many beautiful women as Australia, and they are so passionate!"

Yorke's words are not a joke. In 2005, Yorke chose to play for Sydney United and took Sydney as the last stop of his career. Naturally, it was decided by those wonderful memories.

Yorke said: "When we first started in Melbourne, we were under strict supervision. We were not allowed to visit, we were not allowed to go out alone, and the security guard was on duty in the elevator. I had to use the most primitive trick - paying bribes to get the girl to my room. But in Sydney, the situation is different. We can sing every night."

The consequence of singing and singing all night and all night is sleeping during the day - "I remember training at the Olympic Stadium, we were doing stretching exercises, and I suddenly heard someone snoring."

Butt recalled, "That was York! He fell asleep! We all started laughing, and no one could wake him up. He always sleeps very fast, and after 5 minutes we started running laps, and York was still sleeping in the middle of the court!"

Cole tried to wake up his strike partner. "I yelled 'York! York! York!' and he echoed a little bit and seemed to hear us, but he didn't wake up—he was already asleep, and even if an alligator crawled in front of him, it wouldn't wake him up!"

"The scene of Yorke snoring at the Olympic Stadium is still the funniest thing in my football career,"

Butt said, "We said it over and over again. Finally, the news got to the boss (Ferguson) - he joined us in Hong Kong, and he was going crazy!"

Yorke said this himself, "I was lucky not to have a hangover. Of course I admit that I came to the training ground a little late that day. It was a miracle that I was able to make it to the court. The training was boring. I only lasted for 20 minutes. I felt that my head started to give way. When we lay on the grass and stretched, I felt a lot better, and then I thought I could use this opportunity to lie down and relax."

Yorke said, "That was a huge mistake! I fell asleep within two seconds of laying down! I don't know how long I've been asleep, and the next thing I know I'm submerged — I don't know who poured me a bucket of water! Those guys were laughing."

(End of this chapter)