David Beckham is partying like it's 1999...with a brand-new tattoo! The 40-year-old soccer stud recently got some new ink on his pinky—the number 99. "99 was a good year for me..." he wrote on Instagram, alongside a black-and-white pic. In 1999, his team at the time, Manchester United, became the first U.K. team to win "The Treble"—the Premier League trophy, the Fa Cup and the UEFA Champions League trophy in the same season. Oh yeah, and also that year, he married that lovely Spice Girls singer... David and Victoria Beckham, who is 41 and now also a fashion designer, wed on July 4, 1999 at a castle near Dublin. The two played king and queen,...
- 7/23/2015
- E! Online
It’s hard to believe that it’s been fifteen years already since the beginning of the 1998/99 English football season, where Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United were regarded as underdogs for success by many following their humbling in 1997/98 at the hands of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal side, who won both the Premier League and the Fa Cup.
Arsenal’s comfortable 3-0 victory over the Red Devils in the pre-season Charity Shield event seemed to confirm their position as the ‘top dogs’ of English football. Over the course of nine months, however, Sir Alex’s men would defy the odds to win the Premier League, the Fa Cup and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the first (and only) English squad to win the coveted ‘Treble’.
What follows is a reliving of ten games that defined their groundbreaking, emotional and often dramatic campaign, which will most likely never be replicated by an English team ever again.
Arsenal’s comfortable 3-0 victory over the Red Devils in the pre-season Charity Shield event seemed to confirm their position as the ‘top dogs’ of English football. Over the course of nine months, however, Sir Alex’s men would defy the odds to win the Premier League, the Fa Cup and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the first (and only) English squad to win the coveted ‘Treble’.
What follows is a reliving of ten games that defined their groundbreaking, emotional and often dramatic campaign, which will most likely never be replicated by an English team ever again.
- 9/14/2013
- by Alex Antliff
- Obsessed with Film
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