Spring is already here and the big series of European football is approaching their clinicians. However, the English Premier League Giant Manchester United is only ranked 13th. Through the catastrophic bad.
On Friday night, one of Manchester United’s largest legends, however, was found in downtown Helsinki, which, however, has experienced even with a miserable season, that is, falling. In the twelve seasons 433 matches in Manchester United, the 1968 European Cup champion Alex Stepney82, spent an invited guest in Helsinki Red Room.
Stepney was a weekend’s passionate Manchester United supporter Jere Virtanen as a guest. Virtanen organized a historical European Cup, the now Champions League, a supporter of the winning legends in Finland.
However, let’s go first to Manchester United.
Talking about the modern team makes Stepney tighten his teeth. His former teammate, the best player in the European Cup in the final of the 1968 John Aston77, I think the club is messed up like a soup.
– It’s like cooking soup. You put the ingredients in the soup, but sometimes the ingredients are wrong. Sometimes you change the chef (head coach). All of this has a dripping effect. The water just drips away. It hurts the team and the whole company. Above all, the club now needs balance. I hope a new manager (Ruben Amorim) Bring it, says Aston.
Stepney has previously criticized Manchester United goalkeeper Andre onana poor control work. However, Stepney wants to choose his word carefully when criticizing a player who still pays him a salary as an ambassador.
– I don’t want to kick any player. I just want to say this. During my time, I didn’t even wear gloves, my job was just to fight the balls. He has made a few mistakes, everyone makes mistakes. When the team is not doing well, his mistakes are emphasized. I think he just has to organize and keep zero games now. I don’t know if it’s allowed today, I can’t say any more, Stepney spins.
The guests’ Guard Red Room was diverse. David Beckham father Ted beckham was in Finland for the first time. Manchester United’s supporter has attended supporters around the world, but is particularly enthusiastic about Finland. Virtanen had even a few David’s jerseys, which he was eager to present.
– I never thought the club could sink down so. I always went to United, even when my son played in America and Spain. It is a pity how things have gone now over the years, Ted Beckham said, spinning his head.
“The bottom of the club has been rotted for 20 years”
Virtanen wanted to distinguish two things while analyzing Manchester United.
– It’s what gaming looks like on the field. How frustrating it is to watch when nothing succeeds. Then there is an understanding of why we are in this situation. This is just the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the bottom of the club has been rotted. This will not be removed without painful changes. I wish I would change, but I do not expect immediate changes as long as the club’s structures are, Virtanen said.
He refers to the club’s main owners, the Glazerie family, who bought the club on a leverage loan 20 years ago. The club is in bad debts and has spent over one billion euros to repay interest rates. This means that Man United has to save and there may not be money for new big player purchases. Virtanen does not believe in big changes until the Glazers sell the club completely.
In Manchester matches since 1979 Leo Autio was extremely frustrated with the team’s grip on the field.
– The team’s neck breaks out of the setbacks insanely easily. They just don’t get the game started if the team is in a loss. Of course there are big problems on the board, but that’s the whole package. Players on the field do not play badly just because of the upstairs. Yes, it’s up to the players, Autio says.
Experience of falling
The Manchester United supporters, official employees and legends who came to Helsinki over the weekend celebrated the 1968 European Cup of Benfica, who won the first English club.
Together, the guests looked at the finals at Helsinki Red Room. Stepney stops one of the best of his time Eusébion through the passage. The audience clapped wildly. Aston, a Manchester boy, was moved only 10 years before the tournament victory in Munich’s air accident died.
The victory of the tournament was one of the last great achievements of the team at that time. Champion coach Sir Matt Busby stopped, George Best alcoholized. Manchester United fell to the second highest series staircase in 1974.
The club went to the bottom at the time, but Stepney does not see much of the similarities to modern united.
– Something the same thing in the season. I played all 42 games during the season and scored 48 goals. Our problem was scoring. We lost several games 0-1. Still, it wasn’t the same, says goalkeeper Stepney.