On This Day – 19th May
After 27 years as the manager of Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson took charge of the club for the 1,500th and final time.
West Bromwich Albion were the last team that Ferguson would face and the match was an absolute thriller as the match finished 5-5!
United had already won the league and so didn’t have the extra drama of trying to win the title on the final days as they had done 12 months before. The Premier League win was the 38th trophy that Ferguson won during his reign at Old Trafford.
Shinji Kagawa nodded in the first goal of the game after six minutes to give United the lead. Three minutes later, United were 2-0 up after Jonas Olsson diverted a cross from Antonio Valencia into his own net.
Alexander Buttner drove a hard and low shot across goal to give United a three-goal lead on the half-hour mark before James Morrison completed the scoring in the first half by netting the host’s first goal of the game five minutes before the interval.
Half time substitute Romelu Lukaku hit a low shot into the bottom corner of the net from 20 yards out to make it 2-3. However, it took Manchester United just three minutes to score again as Robin van Persie jabbed in from a low cross from Antonio Valencia.
Javier Hernandez added United’s fifth in the 63rd minute but no one expected what would happen next!
Between the 81st and 86th minute, West Brom scored three times to level the score at 5-5! Lukaku scored the first, Youssouf Mulumbu made it 5-4 less than a minute later and then in the 86th minute Romelu Lukaku bundled in an equaliser on the goal line!
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