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What if... Alex Ferguson didn't win the 1990 FA Cup for Manchester United?

talkSPORT looks at key moments in football history, where events could so easily have taken a different course and asks, what if? This week, we ponder what if Manchester United DIDN'T win the FA Cup in 1990?

What happened:
You know how it goes: you spend four years waiting for a trophy and then 38 turn up. At the start of the 1990s, Man United were struggling in the league under Alex Ferguson – who'd been in charge for more than three years with no success – and were hovering above the relegation zone, having lost 11 of their league games by the time their FA Cup campaign began away to Nottingham Forest on 7 January, 1990.