Chelsea 3-5 Manchester United Classic FA Cup match 1998

With Manchester United and Chelsea meeting in this year's Sixth Round we thought we'd rewind the clock and relive Manchester United's epic win over Chelsea in the FA Cup '97-98. Watch the extended highlights here...
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[@mrjones29]

Andy Cole was a lethal finisher baring down on goal, one of the club's finest ever and the Premier League's best ever strikers. Loved this ManU squad of the late 1990s.

[@popcornboxing369]

Is he disrespected ? Third highest premier league goal scorer and did not even take penalties.

[@finbarobruadair2761]

He gets the ball, he scores a goal, Andy Andy Cole 🎵

[@anthonymcken6050]

I remembered that Andy Cole owned Frank LeBeouf in every game Man U played against Chelsea back then. Frank LeBeouf is easily one of the luckiest footballers ever.

[@gunternetzer9621]

@@toinfinityandbeyond-zy1sk In what way?

[@mrblanc7521]

What in under rated football player by many people D Beckham was, truly a gifted and hard working player who gave 100% effort coupled with exquisite touch on the football.

[@tomapp3608]

Beckham's right foot still unmatched. crosses, free kicks, corners, passing -beautiful to watch

[@martinet1985]

really? ever seen Messi?

[@pandjiaryopoerwono3789]

@@martinet1985 Messi is the best player, but David Beckham is on another level.

[@jamescostello3437]

Marcin Ratajczyk messi is left footed

[@ashunknown9728]

Tent Alexander Arnold is better the n him in crosses

[@pandjiaryopoerwono3789]

@@ashunknown9728 yes, but David is still the icon of crossing, and this will remain forever.

[@slobodanreka1088]

1:55 "I should like to respectfully disagree with your decision to book me."

[@torogenghis1609]

Slapping face Past : no cards,stand still. Now : sent off, rolling away to bermuda

[@akaunderdog4223]

To Bermuda! Hahaha 😂🤭😂

[@jamesarendse9739]

Sheeingham yellow?? Kicks out at player. Straight RED.

[@user-wz8ok2kd6u]

@@jamesarendse9739 ฃช

[@komentatoryoutube1759]

Halo +62 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@vrt1718]

Back when tackling was allowed.

[@AL-np5br]

The games gone mad

[@jokesonyou1373]

Back when your team actually deserving to win

[@ashscott6068]

And insulting chants

[@sbam4881]

1:23 People used to ride challenges in those days and tried to stay on their feet. If that was Neymar today, he'd have done three flips and five rolls from that challenge.

[@bSiddhartharodi]

If he dived he would have got the penalty......and isn't that the point?

[@julioroy4498]

I dont mean to be so offtopic but does someone know of a tool to get back into an instagram account?? I somehow lost the account password. I would love any tips you can offer me!

[@claytonryder7948]

@Julio Roy instablaster ;)

[@anthonymcken6050]

Andy Cole was an exceptional player but I agree with you as dribbler back then you knew how to instinctively know when the challenge was coming and how to ride it.

[@simonthomson217]

Sheringham's header to Beckham was typically clever of him. He always knew where everyone was.

[@daveglynn748]

It’s a pity Pallister didn’t🙈

[@jaywalkercrew4446]

@@daveglynn748 to thick

[@haku0282]

I miss old day so much!

[@ahmednoman8277]

Back when even playing an Fa Cup means a lot to the legendary line up.

[@Hard-Boiled-Bollock]

I remember watching this live when I was 13, still one of the most bizarre games I've ever seen

[@DelPiero-us7su]

Andrew Cole was underrated player. Cole and York were unplayable in 90s and early 2000 when United won the treble.

[@enzoac]

*Yorke

[@MrKAKARONALDOMESSI]

How I wish I could go back to 1998

[@cefev]

How nice, maybe the stadiums were simpler, but you can see that they played with more passion.

[@coreym8145]

that backpass that led to a chelsea goal..... i cant imagine what it would have been like to look at roy keanes face in the locker room haha

[@oddities-whatnot]

Stuck at home March 2020. Living the dream.

[@TheChico868]

The quality of Beckham is remarkable in his prime

[@gunternetzer9621]

At club level but couldn't dominate in the international arena unlike my avatar - Moenchengladbach's finest.

[@dangermouse_]

@@gunternetzer9621 Who is it?

[@gunternetzer9621]

@@dangermouse_ Gunter Netzer.

[@cloudvoid0]

Beckham was an absolute gem. Criminally underrated.

[@rannyranny64]

Seeing Mark Hughes in blue breaks my heart😭

[@stevenmassey146]

same sparky was a class player

[@crimsonlightbinder]

Petrescu was such a great team player. The way he selflessly passed the ball back to Viali, you wouldn't ever see that in today's foolball

[@weetabixharry]

I miss this no-nonsense football. There would have been about 25 red cards by today's standards.

[@dosomethings7803]

Unbelievable Beckham, 2 goals 2 assists, 1 assist for Chelsea

[@Gfresh844]

Cole used to miss his fair share of chances but you knew he'd score eventually. Should have got far more chances for England.

[@anthonymcken6050]

Strikers always miss more chances than they score don't let the media fool with these stat padding strikers. Shearer scored 56 pens in the Prem out of his 260 tally as well as a fair share of freekicks. Cole scored everything from open play.

[@TheIdiotictom]

Lol horrible defending from both sides ahaha, still what a game

[@mastibaji]

what defense...let there be no defense in football! :)

[@finbarobruadair2761]

What a United team that was. Not a snowflake or social media 'influencer' in sight.

[@fafaic228]

Don't you think the third goal of Chelsea at 06:11 was a pure genius anticipation? Vialli knew the MU defender had no other options than pass it to the keeper, then he went to intercept it.

[@martinkopberg1591]

Love these kind of clips, you know it was a different ERA where players weren´t swarming the referee 25-26 times per match.

[@shesbaldbutiwould]

they definitely were,keane and that mob probably the biggest culprits

[@ashokneelakandhan8712]

The third chelsea goal is where maguire draws his inspiration from.

[@sg-legend5244]

im a man united fan, but i always liked chelsea then, lots of talented players, it was great watching them and i was with the team through the cup winners cup victory in 1998..but they got their ass handed to them by us and not only in this match..always good games back then until they started defending properly.

[@yreally5139]

U sure?

[@yi160]

Chelsea? Talented players??? ..... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I got nothing to say now

[@yreally5139]

@@yi160 hahaha🤣

[@yi160]

Ricardo Milos Everybody knows Chelsea is founded in 2004

[@adamwyatt-lowe2833]

They did... Zola vialli to name a few

[@pandjiaryopoerwono3789]

Soul and Passion, things that lost from nowadays football.

[@pongbodinploysee259]

Lukaku look!!! How to Andy Cole scored!!!

[@administratortor8946]

Bulls eye...

[@michaelkirkland9836]

Back when Beckham was just about the football.

[@USCFlash]

nah he'd already met Posh by now and they'd been dating nearly a year. this was january 4 1998, he had met her the year before in early 97. Three weeks to the day after this match, he and Posh announced their engagement in a preposterous photo shoot together in London, with them showing off their rings to the press and a horde of photographers, etc. Meeting Posh was the end of Beckham, dedicated professional. He was still great, but i believe he could have been better, in football terms, without her and all her celebrity pr people etc etc. It was such a distraction, even if it only distracted him, say, 2%, that is still more than enough for you to be great, but to keep you from your full potential.

[@USCFlash]

@Jack Cubitt thank you for the compliment.

[@USCFlash]

@dogs aren't dangerous Nonsense to you. Learn to read. I never said he was not a major part of our double and treble winning teams. Of course he was. I never said he did not have the best right foot ever to take a cross or a dead ball. Learn to read. This is what I said: "He was still great, but i believe he could have been better, in football terms, without her and all her celebrity pr people etc etc. It was such a distraction, even if it only distracted him, say, 2%, that is still more than enough for you to be great, but to keep you from your full potential." I believe all the Posh/PR, driving all the way to and fro from London half the time, and all the rest of that BS kept him from his *FULL POTENTIAL* I *believe* he could have been even BETTER than he already *WAS*, had he remained the same *TOTALLY* dedicated professional he was before he met her. Just that *SLIGHT* let down in effort, is enough to keep a GREAT footballer from becoming even better. Fact is, Fergie shipped Becks out at only *28* years of age, when he had already peaked and was starting to decline...and replaced him with a young phenom from Portugal who became arguably the greatest player in history. People like you need to take a breath and go back to remedial reading class.

[@rezad6610]

Madrid that make beckham "galacticos"

[@AkramDeX]

@@USCFlash totally agree with u sir , he could've been the greatest midfielder of all time

[@rannyranny64]

3:19 and Chris Brown's dad was brought in

[@Chelsea2012goals]

1998 was actually a good year for Chelsea. We won the UEFA Cup Winners Cup and the UEFA Super Cup

[@Primus-ue4th]

Chelsea2012goals The what? And the what?

[@aarav631]

and FA cup

[@gunternetzer9621]

And the League Cup.

[@gunternetzer9621]

And league cup.

[@plumanuspranks4899]

That goal from Graham Le Saux 👌

[@dustinrobinson58]

Andy Cole was something else.👌

[@anthonymcken6050]

World class. His first goal was tremendous he ran at least 40 yards with the ball.

[@matteozolin]

Best years of football 😉🇬🇧 !!! I love Premier League ❤ 🦁 !!!

[@velouris76]

Can remember watching this live on TV: Man Utd ran them ragged for 75 minutes, then Utd just seemed to totally switch off, they made it so unnecessarily hard for themselves. What isn't shown here is that Mark Hughes had a half chance from at cross when score was 5-3, that would have made things very interesting.

[@damarfadlan9251]

This match makes me remembered when slide tackling was allowed.

[@koenbordewijk5966]

Watching this while looking forward to the match next week

[@Brad_Horn]

So man legend on one pitch

[@johnomolaye9957]

The Man Utd then far better than the now United.The moves, passes,coordination superb

[@TheSaeghe]

1:24 I just wanna point out the difference in the integrity of great players from back then and today, 90% of the time these days if someone tackles you like that, the striker will dive, but look at Andy Cole, he could have gone down and be given an easy penalty.

[@TheSaeghe]

@@dsj82 How was it worse? In the past decade anytime you watched an el Classico, there was at least 10 minutes of players fighting each other each game. This was not apparent before 2010.

[@lb2120]

That tackle would of been a straight red nowadays sad how times have changed

[@MrChrisBarker]

Sparky.. my hero. One Love.

[@alexflips393]

3:52 would have been a red card in today’s game yet back then the player, commentator and referee thought nothing of it.

[@johnnyboy3949]

Back when the fa cup still meant something

[@miamitten1123]

It still does you clampet

[@dangermouse_]

@@miamitten1123 Not like them days

[@sammullett17]

99.9% of these tackles would be reds now haha 🤣🤔

[@purwantiallan5089]

2020 and everyone still remember this 1998 FA Cup match especially during covid19.

[@nehemiekouadio3693]

FULL AND WONDERFUL GAME

[@ASuwan22]

if this game was played today, we would of seen 3 red cards. this is proper committed football.

[@Timbone07]

That destroyed player's careers. You must love De Jong the leg breaker

[@meditatewithcastidy6684]

I believe this was before tackles from behind could earn you an instant red

[@carljones1676]

How football should be , uninterrupted and full of contact with no VAR

[@mk310174]

That 5th goal was the final act of United's season. They were rubbish from that moment on.

[@MjB12345]

Wow Chelsea’s 3rd goal was a bad one for United to allow.

[@marklanky1549]

Went to this game .thousands of us down the side with no roof on .great away game ..nearly through it away..RED ARMY !

[@mickfoskett6629]

mark lanky..red army everywhere at every ground!!👹

[@enuabanosadavido3022]

I believe our referees in 1998 are no more in our present premier league games

[@tonyspyrou2450]

Coming from a Chelsea fan was at the game a feel classic.i bet man u would love that team now not some of the average players you got now

[@DJ-ed4nz]

What about the average players you have/had

[@ianhitman]

You either loved Sheringham or you hated him if you were his team mate. Watch any game from the 90s, and he generally gets into a scrap with an England team mate.

[@keithbyrne5478]

What a classic FA cup tie

[@chamakh2917]

shirts were a lot more baggy back then

[@Comewithmeifuwant2live]

That was the 90's style. Even in regular clothes they were quite baggy. Looks awful haha!

[@muhammadkhoirin1528]

glory glory man.united

[@M-yl2op]

Who saw a Chelsea player say f off at 1:56

[@jaikhantshikhuli6923]

Me

[@robertchilver2880]

Should’ve been sent off

[@sjewitt22]

That Chelsea team was weird quality mixed with shit.

[@dapo7708]

same as now lmao

[@nigelmanners4595]

All ways been shit about mix really can't hide between the shit

[@Trail717]

That's what football was like before all the billionaire buyouts and bottomless bank accounts that have consumed english football today. Clubs couldn't just go and buy 11 mega stars they had to put together a team with what they had.

[@eddyvideostar]

@@Trail717 To: Trail 717: Excellent alliterative prose, along with a wise well-written paragraph of truth.

[@azertu2u2]

Back in the day when a wrecked pitch, ballons and toilet paper were all over the place 😂😂😂

[@9and7]

I miss this angle I miss this football...

[@kelincioranye7283]

Outstanding match

[@jjrj8568]

I've always thought Leboeuf was a flashy flop

[@dntino1340]

Zola 💙💙💙

[@SmellyFartSoHard]

The illegal rushing wall but still produce such a beauty free-kick goal

[@joebert7255]

Can you make the music at the end a bit louder please

[@LauritZenc]

Perhaps United's awful defending towards the end shows why they didn't win the league that season.

[@seanoriordan]

Keane was injured in October out for the season, Giggs and Schmeichel were missing in the last two months. That's the main reason they didn't win the league that season. But United did manage to win every big trophy the next season. The Treble 🏆

[@dwijack6579]

Kangen masa" ini,,,,

[@marstonrobert]

When man united were great!!!!

[@chrisguppy8426]

Mark Hughes United great

[@markwelsh4018]

fergie had some great players ...

[@mohammadhasanzadeh2836]

Ilove zollla. Ilove chellsea

[@woshintonsantossantos5417]

gosto muito macheste

[@viralpranksters3064]

Manchester United all the way

[@connorbutler5900]

Imagine the bollocking the lads must’ve gotten from Fergie in that changing room. Hairdryer treatment time.

[@dev09ify]

Okay you tube you win. Watching it .11th time recommendation.

[@leonhuggins7579]

Cole was just something else

[@gunternetzer9621]

Only at club level.

[@pamh66]

Why oh why did Newcastle sell Andy Cole? Biggest mistake they ever made.

[@CB-xr1eg]

Hardly! They replaced him with Shearer!!

[@g.g.6362]

@@CB-xr1eg Won F.A. though.....compared with Cole's horde of winners medals.

[@velouris76]

I've read Keegan's novel: he was no longer playing for the team at Newcastle, Keegan decided to transfer him, and Man Utd came in at right moment.

[@johnnyb9605]

What a man united team Keane and sherringham! I’m sure as a forest fan we found Keane and we had sherringham too 😎

[@aktario]

Beckham, 2 goals, 1 assist. Man of the match

[@shankaryare7783]

it was agood geam

[@IztokGolob-Naklo]

Lukaku. Watch and learn.

[@hishamfahmy6169]

Giggs looked like a typical young English vampire..

[@joemarsland9802]

Welsh**😂

[@howardchambers9679]

@@joemarsland9802 kinda

[@Ar1AnX1x]

the commentator is a legend who ever he is

[@mbahtop1]

John Helm

[@anilgatto25]

Sono Tifoso Chelsea dal 96.. nel 98 Vincemmo la coppa delle coppe.. e la Supercoppa Europea

[@tuandattienpham2820]

Đỉnh cao Mu. Beck chuyền như đặt vào đầu.sút phạt đẳng cấp

[@tomzosooox7564]

Becks 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@mituro46]

懐かしいなぁ、シュマイケルにギグス、スコールズ、ネヴィル、ベッカム、そしてベビーギャングが今監督か

[@Tony.L9793]

those were the glory days of United, now no more glory days, wait for 10 years

[@BigSmokeMUFC]

One day we shall rise.

[@Topsey2000]

My English teacher was one of those fans who was on their way out at 0-4 lol. He said he got to the pub and it was 2-5, then Chelsea made it 3-5. That got him a bit excited but there was no time left! I hated Man U down to my guts back then lol

[@sg-legend5244]

too bad u didnt learn the english language, even with a teacher. its excited dummy. and no, they were never going to come back to equalise...lol

[@duandaocong185]

MU-my love

[@BigSmokeMUFC]

Back when Chelsea were a small club with less league titles than Burnley 😂

[@pandjiaryopoerwono3789]

John Helm's voice

[@landak774]

4everMU.....MUFC Onto Victoryyy👏👏👏👏💥🇲🇾💥👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@johnng2004]

Peter schmeichel is definitely overstated

[@SillyKoala]

I enjoyed a lot! GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED! Beckham!

[@peterwickendon258]

Fast forward to 2019