It is fair to say that Saints record at Manchester United in the top flight is terrible and there aren't many places where we have fared worse over the years.

Saints travel to Manchester United on Sunday looking to win for the first time in the League in almost 27 years.

Of course we won an FA Cup replay on penalties back in 1992 but our last win at Old Trafford in the league was on 16th January 1988.

We headed to Manchester that day without much hope of gaining our first win for over 18 years, when we beat United 4-1 in August 1969 with four goals from Ron Davis, the then Alex Ferguson was in his first full season and it was going well, United were in 3rd place although they were trailing eventual winners Liverpool by a long way, whilst we sat in 13th after a 2-0 home defeat to Portsmouth in our previous game had given them hope of staying up and made us look over our shoulders a little.

But the frm book would be turned upside down, on 7 minutes Colin Clarke stole in to score from Jimmy Case's free kick and it was Clarke again on 74 minutes who sealed the 2-0 win and United's first home reverse of the season and indeed what would be their only defeat in the league all season at Old Trafford.

Come the end of the season United finished second to Liverpool although they were 11 points behind so it was never close, we finished 12th on 50 points and never really looked like getting into relegation trouble although it would be another 6 games before we would win again.

For Pompey it was a different matter, although they looked like they might pull out of the relegation zone with 7 games to go, it was a brief respite and they only gained 2 points in those final 7 games and went down 7 points adrift of 4th from bottom Chelsea who themselves went down on goal difference, as this season 4 teams were relegated with the league being reduced from the 21 clubs of this season down to 20 the next

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