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'Crazy and incredible' - Inside the Manchester United season Man City desperately want to replicate

Raimond van der Gouw turned to Phil Neville and said: "Well it's going to be very difficult."

The pair were sat next to each other on the Manchester United subs bench in the Nou Camp. Sir Alex Ferguson's side were one down heading into the closing stages of the Champions League final against Bayern Munich.

The Dutch goalkeeper, a reliable understudy to Peter Schmeichel during his time at Old Trafford, had been asked by the younger Neville brother for a score prediction before kick off. He'd gone 2-1. Now, with time ticking down, Neville asked him again.

"Then we scored twice in injury time!" said Van der Gouw, speaking to the Manchester Evening News. "It was a theme of that season. It was crazy, the whole season was crazy.

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"That season we scored a lot of goals in the last part of the game. We were 1-0 down a lot. In that last game of the Premier League against Tottenham, we needed to win at a full stadium at Old Trafford and Tottenham scored. It was like a funeral but we came back to win.

"In the semi-final of the FA Cup against Arsenal we won it in extra time with a crazy action from Ryan Giggs. It was typical that season. In the Champions League final we were 1-0 down after five or 10 minutes and scored twice in injury time.

"That team was like a big puzzle and it was completed in 1999 winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in such a short space of time. It was a crazy two weeks!"

No English side has repeated the feat in the 24 years since. Now, Manchester City stand two games away from replicating the Reds' achievement. United can stop them this afternoon. Van der Gouw will be

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