Pounds 790m and Glazer Ends Potless ; Chance After Chance but United Fail to Deliver That First Dividend

Mail on SundayMay 23, 2005

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The IT was just before lunchtime in Palm Beach, Florida, when they broke the bad news to Malcolm Glazer. The team for which he has just paid Pounds 790million had lost the final of the FA Cup and had therefore finished their season officially potless. Sorry about that.

They may have added that the result was a travesty, that Manchester United had done enough to win several finals and that the penalty shootout seemed even more merciless than ever. Mr Glazer would not have been impressed. His enormous investment will have to wait a while for its first dividend.

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Pounds 790m and Glazer Ends Potless ; Chance After Chance but United Fail to Deliver That First Dividend

As FA Cup Finals go, it was possibly more onesided even than last year's, when United defeated Millwall in a disdainful canter. Yet, having made a veritable gush of chances, they missed them all, and they paid the ridiculous price when Patrick Vieira struck the conclusive penalty ...

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