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“I got 12 goals in 12 games when Newcastle got promoted, but people questioned how I’d do in the top division. I scored my first Premier League goal at Old Trafford, in our third game after going up [top picture]. Nikki Papavasiliou fed me and I slipped the ball past Peter Schmeichel. United were champions but we got a draw and it was a top display. That game was one of the reasons I got a move to United. Sir Alex [Ferguson] was impressed with my movement. I ended up with 41 goals that season.”
“Hoddle said I needed ve or six chances to score, but if I’d taken all of them I’d have scored 500 goals”
My goals were all tap-ins but the Premier League is the hardest league in the world so it felt surreal to score five.” “I don’t think anyone fancied us to reach the Champions League final after drawing 1-1 in the first leg at Old Trafford. Then we went 2-0 down in the second leg to avery special Juventus team. But once Roy Keane pulled a goal back, we played like men possessed. I crossed the ball for the second goal and Dwight headed it in. Everyone talks about me scoring the third [left picture] but I always play it down because the game was over by then; we were already going through to the final on away goals. It was special to be involved in that game. We should have got to the Champions League final many years before that, but... wow. What a feeling.” “Winning the Worthington Cup with Blackburn [right picture] was as special to me as my first Premier League trophy. I’d won the Champions League and FA Cup, so it completed the set. I got the winner in the final but it was a strange goal; I just got enough on it to put it in the corner. A lot was made of it because Spurs were managed by Glenn Hoddle, and when he was England boss he said Ineeded five or six chances to score. But if I had taken all five or six chances, I’d have scored about 500 goals. I’m more than happy with my overall goal record.”
Andy Cole is an ambassador for Manchester United