Andy Ritchie

... makes just 12 appearances, nine of those in the league before he moves to Crewe.

Um, Andy Ritchie, just six appearances, four of those in league before he's sold to Brighton to raise the m- money to sign Gary Bertels, who we will come onto right now.

Gary Bertels then, um, signed from Forest for 1.25 million.

One goal in 28 games this season.

It was a strange period because at least United win the game and then from that moment for four or five weeks, it looks like Sexton's team are back in with a chance of winning the title because Liverpool drop a few more points in draws and The funniest thing for me is throughout this run, you've got a win at Bolton, McQueen and Thomas scoring it.

You've got a win at Hunter Spurs, Wilkins scores, and Andy Ritchie gets his next out trick.

Joe Jordan scores twice at Norwich.

Joe Jordan scores twice at Hunter Aston Villa.

One of those was a substitute appearance, all of those in the league.

Joe Jordan, as Paddy mentioned earlier, 13 goals in 36 games, 13 in 32 in the league.

And that brings us finally to Andy Ritchie.

I didn't have the screen grab for him last time.

So United were sort of picking up in the league, um, after the, the cup form sort of helped them along.

Um, you know, at that point you've got, um, a run of form in the league where Andy Ritchie comes into the side.

He's a young striker.

Mm.

... of getting all the numbers, so he, he really, that is a good number for Jimmy this season.

Yeah.

Um, and finally, although his name's not on the screen, and I'll get a graphic for him next season, Andy Ritchie is introduced into the team this season.

10 goals in 21 appearances.

player, yeah.

And Andy Ritchie was the other striker.

He played just four times this season.

He came through the youth ranks, locally born in Manchester, scored a hat-trick for England's schoolboys against Germany earlier in his campaign, so a lot of attention was on him.

So he was rewarded with four appearances in this season without scoring.

Yeah,

I can remember being very, very excited when he came into the equation, Andy Ritchie.

What I think, one or two of us didn't take into account was he wasn't just quite quick enough to be a really, really top player, but he did score exciting goals.

Hello and welcome to the Boundary Park Alert System with me, Matt Dean.

Andy, as he said last week, has decided to put cricket before classics.

Unbelievable, Jeff.

Unbelievable, Adam.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Who was your first favourite player?

I think it was my first, and I think he'll always be my favourite player, which is obviously Stitch, Andy Ritchie, the God himself.

A lot of memories from him playing in the late 80s, 90s, and then becoming Oldham manager.

a minute at halftime and four minutes after the game from inside the ground.

So what we had to do, and I remember I was working with Andy Ritchie, the ex-League United Man U Brighton player at the time.

So we weren't allowed to do full commentary for the home game.

So we had to go and put an ISDN line in at the Peacock pub over the road, the old Peacock pub over the road.

plug

in.

I do four 30-second reports in a half, do a half-time report, leg it back out to the Peacock for 10 minutes, do a bit of two-way in there, whatever, run back for the second half, which is crazy, and then do the same thing in it full-time, wrap up, do a report, leg it to the Peacock, and do the final sort of hour till six o'clock from there with Andy Ritchie.

It was mad.