its grim up north
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I think they were a bit gutted that it stopped being all about them so soon. Certainly in Manchester anyway. Yeah the achievements at the time were incomparable but the nature of the win v Gillingham and the joy it gave all blues was amazing. Perhaps it could be compared to how we may have felt had Liverpool not failed so spectacularly in the CL final this year.
In the big picture that win over Gillingham was a lot more important to us than the treble was to them. OK our win did not have the world wide exposure and they still dine out on it, but if we had failed that afternoon it doesn't bear thinking about where we were going.