It would be easy to overlook the Premier League leg of the incredible, some said impossible, Treble, but in its way, the championship success was every bit as dramatic as events in the Nou Camp.
Not until the final whistle of the final game of the season was the destination of the title confirmed, with Arsene Wenger's Arsenal pushing the Reds all the way in the bid for domestic supremacy.
United's task at the start of the 1998/99 campaign was to surpass the Gunners, takers of our Premier League crown the previous season – and a side that Gary Neville has since labelled
“the best domestic team”
he ever faced.