Ole Gunnar Solskjaer spoke passionately about the games during his pre-match press conference on Thursday, highlighting the 1999 semi-final at Villa Park as his standout memory.
Of course, many matches between Sir Alex Ferguson’s Reds and Arsene Wenger’s Gunners became iconic, and the rivalry arguably reached a peak during the mid-2000s when the two clubs consistently fought it out for supremacy in the Premier League.
Darren Fletcher was part of that famous era and, in a recent issue of Inside United magazine, the highly-respected Academy graduate recounted exactly what it was like to face Wenger’s Arsenal…
“We were always hard and fair whenever we faced Arsenal.