August 10 – Fox on the Rocks as Sharpey Shuffles to Leeds
This pair have had almost £20m spent on transfers between them, but have only managed to produce nine England caps, a signature dance move, a reality TV show career and Wenger’s aversion to signing England players.
AS PORTSMOUTH and Manchester United get the ball rolling on another season of Premier League action in today’s Community Shield (sic), we thought we’d take you back the 2003 curtain raiser when Man United took on Arsenal at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Read the full story from 2008 here.
1996 – Sharpey Shuffles off to Leeds
FOR the benefit of our younger readers, the reality TV star Lee Sharpe was actually once a footballer. A very fine one too, who jostled with Ryan Giggs and John Barnes for a place on the left wing of Manchester United and England respectively. Like Brando in On The Waterfront, Sharpe ‘coulda been a contender.’ But it was on this day in 1996 that Sir Alex Ferguson gave up on the injury-prone party animal from Halesowen and sold him to their cross-Pennines rivals Leeds United. Shuffle your way here for the full story.
Sharpey circa 1990. Ryan who?
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