It might have seemed a routine three points at Highfield Road, despite the slender margin of success, but there is now an incredible fact about the line-up that day in the west Midlands, as you can see in the tweet below...
Wednesday Feb 20 marks exactly 20 years since the only time Man Utd started a PL game with an XI of Schmeichel, G Neville, Irwin, Johnsen, Stam; Beckham, Keane, Scholes, Giggs; Yorke & Cole
Won 1-0 at Coventry. Fergie should have given them a chance, they could have been decent pic.twitter.com/44VFCxxWXh — Duncan Alexander (@oilysailor) February 19, 2019Opta's Duncan Alexander has researched the incredible stat that the XI fielded by Alex Ferguson was the only time he selected that particular starting line-up, even though it is one many fans would identify strongly with that 1998/99 campaign.