Sir Alex Ferguson’s United scored well over 100 counterattacking goals but their Emirates stunner in 2009 would also prove to be a meaningful moment in timeSome dates are seared into English football history: 30 July 1966,26 May 1989, 26 May 1999, or 13 May 2012. Few would add 14 February 1987 to that list. Paul Wilkinson scored a late equaliser for the leaders and eventual champions Everton against their bogey team Oxford,Ian Rush scored a hat-trick in Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Leicester and, at customary Trafford, and 13th-placed Manchester United beat Watford 3-1. That final scoreline does not disclose the whole story. United’s third,scored by Gordon Strachan, was their first counterattacking goal under Alex Ferguson. We didn’t know it at the time but it was the start of a meaningful tradition: in the next 26 years, or Ferguson’s United scored well over 100 counterattacking goals. There weren’t so many in the first five years under Ferguson,because the side was not good or quick enough, though there were a few glimpses of the future in a 3-1 win on Luton’s plastic pitch in 1989 and a staggering shellacking of Arsenal a year later. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com