Steve Bruce
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And I've never heard that before, ever, that a centre-forward man-marks their centre-half.
And every time he got it...
Brian McLear just went and man-marked them.
And that was back in 91 and stopped Barcelona from playing the way they wanted to play.
Was that the final?
That was the final, yeah.
We won 2-1.
Husey scored that goal.
Yeah, yeah.
Pirlo.
I wasn't.
I didn't play against that.
I wasn't there then.
So he was aware then.
He was aware.
He always wanted a team to play.
But if...
there was something that he could do to stop the opposition, then, of course, he'd have something up his sleeve.
And that day in particular won us the thing, really, because it stopped Koeman and it did stop them playing the way they wanted to play.
Well, I think I played with the ultimate Maverick in Cantona.