'Roy Keane was laughing' - The Manchester United player who made Premier League history in two seconds

Sir Alex Ferguson's Premier League champions Manchester United visited Highbury to play Arsenal on Sunday, 22 August 1999.

It was an early season encounter between the Premier League's best sides and the tension was palpable. Arsenal were leading at half-time, but Roy Keane scored two goals after the break to condemn the hosts to their first defeat at Highbury in 20 months.

Keane scored his second goal in the 88th minute and Arsenal responded by 'throwing the kitchen sink at it'. That's according to Nick Culkin, who was watching from the bench as Freddie Ljungberg and Dennis Bergkamp converged around the United goal.

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Culkin had just spent the season as United's third-choice goalkeeper for the historic Treble and he was the only goalkeeper on the bench at Highbury on that afternoon in North London, with Raimond van der Gouw starting in between the sticks.

Van der Gouw had an outstanding game, but with Arsenal desperate to equalise, he collided with Martin Keown in injury time. The Dutchman was unable to continue and Ferguson turned to 19-year-old Culkin, who was yet to make his debut for the club.

Culkin was substituted on and he made history by making the shortest Premier League debut of all time - it was just two seconds. It has been 23 years since Culkin made that debut, but he vividly remembers it, as he explained to the Manchester Evening News.

"That’s when there were proper rivalries between Man United and Arsenal," Culkin recalled. "The Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira era, which was phenomenal. I remember it all clearly. The build-up, the team talks, the hotel, it was just business for me."

That Premier League record is what Culkin is