Official Site of Man U · Jun 26, 2019
The Red whose first match was Galatasaray away!
Very, very few Reds made their match-going debut at the Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Istanbul in November 1993, where United faced Galatasaray in the Champions League second round.
It was an infamous night, and one of United’s landmark European fixtures during the 1990s – a decade which saw Alex Ferguson’s side develop from an inconsistent force heavily affected by the three-foreigner rule to all-conquering Champions League winners in 1999.
United were greeted in Turkey by one banner that read: ‘Welcome to the Hell.’ Before they returned, Eric Cantona had been sent off, an opposition fan had told Paul Parker he would ‘die’, and we’d been eliminated from Europe.