David Beckham says Manchester City will never be able to match Manchester United's treble win as the Reds will always be remembered as the first time to achieve the feat.
Manchester City’s 2-1 FA Cup final win over United means the Blues can do their own treble should they beat Inter Milan in next weekend’s Champions League final in Istanbul. Nobody has achieved the feat in the 24 years since United’s triumph.
David Beckham was one of many club legends seen at Wembley on Saturday to watch their former side take on City. He was asked by the FA’s media team pre-match what his thoughts were on City potentially replicating the feat he had achieved himself nearly two-and-a-half decades ago.
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“We’re all divided in our opinions of that,” Beckham said. “I said to Noel [Gallagher] the other day even if you guys [City] go on to win the trophy today and the Champions League and they do do the treble, obviously that’s a special thing for any club to do.
“But there’s only one club that can ever win the first time - and we were that club. So in all honesty, as a United fan, if these guys get to win the treble, that feeling as a player of lifting all three trophies and creating history, that was an amazing thing.
“We were all hometown players that had lived and breathed United all the way through and then to win the treble, the way we won it, and also for the first time, can never be done again.
“But that moment of lifting all three trophies and doing the treble, you always want others to feel that. So if these guys get to do that then it’s an amazing moment for them but there’s only one team that’s won for the first time.”
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