The achievements of the 'Manchester United's 92** generation' have fulfilled almost all of everyone's fantasies about football, which is why they are still talked about today.
In the 21st century of modular mass production of youth training, those Manchester United teenagers 30 years ago used the most beautiful way to interpret the blood-soaked terms of "dream", "blood", "blood" and "champion" vividly.
But it is understood that Everton's points deduction for breaching the Finance Act is just a microcosm of the Premier League's golden era, and it is not an unsustainable model, but it is true that clubs are given less and less time to develop their youth teams.
Alex Ferguson
In 1986, Ferguson was still in charge of Aberdeen, Scotland, where he led the team to successive victories over Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich in the European Cup Winners' Cup, before beating Real Madrid in the final.
United were languishing in league and cup competitions at the time, and the team's board sacked then-manager Atkinson immediately after a League Cup match.
Three hours later, Edwards, then chairman of Manchester United, left for Scotland to meet Alex Ferguson, who had a great conversation.
However, English football is not optimistic about this signing, "Manchester United brought in a Scotsman named 'Alex Ferguson' to replace Atkinson, but Manchester United only gave him a quarter of Atkinson's job. ”
At Ferguson's suggestion, United set up four levels of reserve teams, enriched the coaching staff of all ages, increased the number of scouts from two to eight, and implemented a plan to poach the wall.
He would point to a map of England hanging on the wall and "gather all the scouts and get me all the football geniuses in the map." ”
Contrary to the rush of the Academy, Ferguson's defeat to Oxford United in his first game at United became the tone of his first three years in charge of the Reds, with his side finishing 11th in the league in his first year in England.
The following year, the situation improved, but they were trampled on by Liverpool and relegated to second place in the league. In the third year, United got nothing, and even narrowly escaped relegation at the end of the season.
The year 19** was the darkest period I have ever experienced in football", Ferguson admits personally.
In the midst of a dark season, the kids in the Academy may be the only light for Ferguson. In this year, the vast majority of the children of the 'Manchester United 92** generation signed their first professional contracts.
In May 1990, Alex Ferguson led the team to win the FA Cup, temporarily stabilizing his position, and the situation gradually improved.
In November of the same year, Ferguson promoted the 17-year-old Ryan Giggs from the Academy to the first team, and the story of the '92 class' began.
"Manchester United's ** generation".
In 1991, Manchester United defeated Barcelona in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Ferguson then said, "We will win the league next season." ”
But in the end, Manchester United lost to Leeds United in the final stage of the league title race to finish runners-up. But Ferguson still has hope, as United's youth team won all eight of their FA Youth Cup games that season, beating their opponents by more than three goals in each game.
At a time when Manchester United fans weren't ready, these kids couldn't wait.
If Britain was influenced by Liverpool's culture, then from the nineties onwards, Manchester began to appear on the stage of history. The Beatles were followed by Oasis, while Liverpool gradually gave way to Manchester United.
In the summer of 1995, Canchelski, Ince and Hughes were all sent off by Manchester United, and Cantona kicked fans during the ban period.
As a result, David Beckham, Philip Neville and Paul Scholes were all promoted to the first team, and then they lost 3-1 to Villa in the first round of the league.
After the game, Alan Hansen famously said, "You can't win anything with a bunch of kids." ”
However, with Eric Cantona's return from suspension, United made a spurt in the second half to win the league title by reversing Newcastle, who had a twelve-point lead before Christmas.
In the FA Cup final against Liverpool, the Reds won the season with the winner from Eric Cantona.
Bart, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham and Gary Neville have grown into the mainstays of Manchester United, and they have burst into great energy under the leadership of the King.
At the moment of winning the cup, many Manchester United fans cried bitterly. Sir Busby had passed away two years earlier, but what the youth team was doing at the time was too much like the "Busby kids".
David Beckham naturally took over George Best's number seven shirt for Manchester United, the most legendary man in English history, who was once the greatest regret in English football history, with alcohol, drugs and beautiful women burying the genius known as the "fifth Beatle".
Beckham had fulfilled almost all of a woman's fantasies of the perfect man, and his 60-metre lob shot from Wimbledon in 1996 was the prelude to his football career.
He is not a commander like Zidane, but he is redefining the ancient art of long passing with the "Full Moon Scimitar" that his teammates can trust.
Time continued until 1999, when the story of "Class 92" began to come to an end.
In 1999
On 14 April 1999, in the FA Cup semi-final replay, Ryan Giggs scored a goal that made him the focus of the young Manchester United team and added the heaviest weight to his future title of 'King of the Left Side'.
More crucially, United faced Arsenal in that game, and he faced Patrick Vieira, Martin Keown, Lee Dixon, Tony Adams and David Seaman.
On May 26, 1999, in the Champions League final, Manchester United played Bayern. Paul Scholes and Keane are sidelined, with reserves Bart and David Beckham in the middle, and Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville on the right flank.
In the sixth minute, Bayern took the lead and then they had a whole bunch of chances. Luckily United didn't concede any more goals and unfortunately they didn't score until stoppage time.
With fifteen minutes remaining, Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came on and Gary Neville felt the scales tip in their favour.
In the stands, UEFA President Johansson had already gotten up and left, ready to go to the stadium to present the trophy to Bayern. In three minutes of stoppage time, UEFA staff were already planning to tie the colourful ribbon representing Bayern to the "Big Ears Cup".
However, David Beckham changed everything with two pinpoint corners, with veteran Sheringham and always-on 'Mr. Key' Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scoring the most important goal of their lives.
The score was eventually set at 2-1 as United completed a great comeback against a mighty Bayern Munich.
At the ceremony, the commentator was thrilled, "Gary Neville is twenty-four, Phil Neville is twenty-two, David Beckham is twenty-four, Nicky Bart is twenty-four, Ryan Giggs is twenty-five, whatever they win in the future, it probably won't be better than tonight." ”
However, when the cup was celebrated, the players from the 92 class did not know that this trophy was not only the pinnacle symbol of the 92 class, but also the prelude to their parting.
The last ninety-two class
In the eyes of many domestic fans, "Manchester United Class 92" is their initial impression of the Premier League.
But what many people don't know is that although 1992 was the first year of the Premier League, it was so depressed because of the turbulent external environment that it was difficult to imagine the glory of the league 20 years later.
In Britain at that time, Major Major, the leader of the Conservative Party, blocked the offensive of the Labour Party in the name of protecting "Thatcher's legacy" and continued to lead this old powerhouse with heavy steps.
After Soros's blockade of the pound in the foreign exchange market, it completely hit the new **, and Black Wednesday "forced Britain to withdraw from the European Monetary Exchange Rate Mechanism, which is not good news for the Premier League, which is eager to bring in foreign aid."
In such an environment, Ferguson knew what he could not do, and finally created the myth of "Manchester United's 92 class", which also made Chinese fans who were just full of expectations for football look forward to the domestic football environment on the eve of professionalization.
In 1992, Schlapner led the national football team to a third-place finish in the Asian Cup in Hiroshima, and in that team, young people such as Fan Zhiyi, Li Ming, and Ou Chuliang never imagined that ten years later they would represent China on the World Cup stage.
Time has passed, many expectations have not been realized, many stories are still continuing, and the story of Class 92 has also been made into a movie.
In that documentary, when the core members of the "Class of '92" gathered and stood in the "Dream Theater" looking at the empty stands, their minds seemed to recall their own roar back then. They even forgot that they had played here, as if they had had a wonderful dream.
And those Chinese fans who have followed them are the same, they may still be alone, they may be parents, they may have experienced changes, they may be happy, but once they see those familiar figures and familiar pictures, they may have a small echo in their hearts, and they will never forget.