sport news What happened to Man United's 1999 Champions League winners?

We've reached the 20th anniversary of Manchester United's historic Treble triumph, which saw Sir Alex Ferguson's side win the Premier League, FA Cup and the Champions League.

An extraordinary unbeaten run of 33 matches saw United sweep all before them to achieve something no English club had done before.

Using the starting line-ups for United's dramatic Champions League final win over Bayern Munich in the Nou Camp, we tell the story of what happened next to each of the players and what they're up to now.

STARTED IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL

Peter Schmeichel

The giant Dane was a colossus during the Treble season, making a number of important interventions during the 56 matches he played that season.

Particularly memorable is the stoppage-time penalty save he made from Dennis Bergkamp in the FA Cup semi-final replay with Arsenal.

The Champions League final, in which he wore the captain's armband in Roy Keane's absence, proved to be Schmeichel's last as he moved to Sporting Lisbon that summer.

With his natural authority, Schmeichel would easily have gone into management but he has instead worked as a television pundit, including for the BBC.

Schmeichel's forays into television have also included appearances on Strictly Come Dancing and The Weakest Link... plus a programme called The Schmeichel Show on the controversial Russia Today network.

Gary Neville

Right back Neville played 54 club matches during the Treble campaign and established himself as a reliable figure in the United back line - as he would be for the next 12 years.

Neville only scored seven goals during his career at United but one of those came in a 3-1 home win against Everton at the end of March.

He worked effectively in tandem with his England colleague David Beckham on the right flank, often providing support and overlapping runs.

Following retirement, Neville has proved himself one of the most insightful pundits in the game with his work on Sky Sports.

A foray into management with Spanish club Valencia proved unsuccessful though he was a member of the England backroom staff under Roy Hodgson.

Neville is also one of the co-owners of National League club Salford City along with fellow Class of 92 graduates Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Phil Neville and David Beckham.

Ronny Johnsen

Norwegian centre-half Johnsen played a major role that season, lining up alongside either Jaap Stam or his compatriot Henning Berg at the heart of United's defence.

During the semi-final against Juventus, he even covered in midfield, and he completed the whole of the final alongside Stam.

Johnsen left United in 2002 and retired in 2008. Since then, he has worked as a pundit for Norwegian channel TV2 and as one of United's ambassadors.

He considered making the leap into management but that hasn't materialised. Enjoys cross-country skiing in his spare time.

Jaap Stam

The defensive rock upon which this United side was built, big Dutchman Stam had arrived as the most expensive defender ever at £10.6million the previous summer.

It proved money well spent with Stam tormenting rival attackers during the 51 matches he played, scoring memorably in a 6-2 away win at Leicester, his only goal for the club.

Stam's time at United ended acrimoniously in 2001 when Ferguson took exception to remarks made in his autobiography, selling him to Lazio for £16m.

It was one of the rare occasions when Ferguson later admitted he had made an error of judgement and United certainly struggled to find someone of his poise and presence.

After hanging up his boots, Stam entered management, first in various coaching roles and then with English Championship club Reading between 2016 and 2018.

In his first season, Stam guided the Royals to the play-off final, only to lose agonisingly on penalties to Huddersfield Town at Wembley.

His second season was less successful and Stam was sacked in March 2018. He is now in charge of the Dutch Eredivisie side PEC Zwolle.

Denis Irwin

It's little wonder Ferguson regarded Irish left-back Irwin as one of his greatest pound-for-pound signings.

United's Mr Dependable made 529 appearances over 12 years and won 19 honours with the Old Trafford club.

He excelled during the Treble season, bombing down the left flank in support of Ryan Giggs and taking a number of penalties.

After concluding his playing days with a couple of years at Wolves, Irwin has since worked as a presenter on United's in-house MUTV channel as well as a pundit on Irish network RTE.

Also an ambassador for the club, this consummate professional and unsung hero remains popular with United fans around the world.

Ryan Giggs

The ultimate one-club man, Welsh wing wizard Giggs played a remarkable 963 matches and scored 168 goals for United over a storied career spanning 24 years.

There were numerous highlights during that time but many came during the Treble campaign - who will ever forget that slaloming solo goal against Arsenal in the FA Cup semi-final?

Curiously, Ferguson asked Giggs to play on the right-side of United's midfield in the 1999 final as part of a reshuffle that saw Jesper Blomqvist on the left and Beckham in the centre.

It was Giggs's mis-hit shot that fell to Sheringham to sweep home United's dramatic equaliser at the beginning of stoppage time.

After retirement in 2014, Giggs was United's caretaker manager following the dismissal of David Moyes in 2014 and then right-hand man to Louis van Gaal for two years.

That coaching experience came in handy when he was appointed manager of the Wales national team in January 2018.

David Beckham

Beckham responded magnificently to his national vilification during the 1998 World Cup with a series of outstanding performances during the 1998-99 campaign.

His crossing and passing were instrumental to United's attacking threat, not to mention his prowess from free-kicks.

Becks scored a crucial equaliser against Tottenham to secure the Premier League title on the final day and delivered both corners in that dramatic Nou Camp finale.

After retiring in 2013, Beckham has certainly been as busy as you'd expect for one of the most recognisable figures in the world.

Whether it's his charity work for UNICEF, modelling for a range of lucrative sponsors, various TV and film appearances or starting up his MLS franchise in Miami, Beckham, who now also has a stake in Salford City, has plenty going on.

Nicky Butt

An uncompromising midfielder, Butt played 47 times during the Treble campaign, taking the place of Roy Keane in the Champions League final with the Irishman suspended.

Butt left United for Newcastle in 2004 but is now very much back at the club in his position as academy director.

He had originally returned to coach the reserve team in October 2012 before taking on his current role in February 2016 following the departure of another former player Brian McClair.

It allows Butt to preserve United's proud record of producing players from their own academy, with Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard two of the latest examples.

Jesper Blomqvist

The Swedish winger was bought really as back-up to Giggs but he ended up playing enough games to win a Premier League winners' medal and then started the Champions League final.

But the 67 minutes he played in the Nou Camp before being replaced by Teddy Sheringham proved to be his last for United as injuries struck.

Initially post-retirement, Blomqvist worked as a pundit in his native Sweden but now he is the owner of a pizza restaurant on Lidingo Island in Stockholm.

Perhaps the seeds were sown during his long injury lay-off when he presented a show called 'Cooking with Jesper' on MUTV.

Dwight Yorke

Yorke, signed for £12.6m from Aston Villa at the start of the Treble season, proved one of the missing pieces in the United forward line.

The smiling Tobagonian scored 29 goals in all, forming a deadly strike partnership with Andrew Cole that saw United past a number of tricky obstacles.

Retiring from football in 2009, Yorke took his coaching badges and was involved in occasional punditry work for Sky Sports. He was assistant manager to the Trinidad and Tobago national side in 2009 and 2010.

Things haven't been too good for Yorke lately as he was the subject of a bankruptcy petition by HM Revenue and Customs last year which he narrowly avoided by paying a £1.5m tax debt.

Andrew Cole

The other half of that highly effective strike partnership, Cole found the net 24 times in the Treble year, including the lobbed winner against Tottenham that secured the Premier League title.

The England international ultimately left United in 2002 after eight successful years in which he scored 121 goals for the club.

Post-playing, Cole completed his coaching badges with the help of MK Dons, Huddersfield Town and then United.

Cole has suffered from health problems in recent years after contracting a virus on a trip to Vietnam as a United ambassador in 2015 and required a kidney transplant to save his life in April 2017.

Now back in better health, Cole has joined the coaching staff of League Two club Macclesfield Town, where his former England team-mate Sol Campbell is the manager.

USED SUBSTITUTES IN THE FINAL

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

The man whose outstretched leg in stoppage time in the Nou Camp capped United's extraordinary Treble season.

Happy-go-lucky Norwegian striker Solskjaer had never complained about playing the super-sub role from the moment he arrived at Old Trafford in the summer of 1996.

And though most of his appearances during the campaign came off the bench, Solskjaer still scored 18 goals - many of them absolutely priceless.

That immortal moment in the Champions League final aside, he also scored a stoppage-time winner against Liverpool in the FA Cup fourth round and four goals in just over 10 minutes in an 8-1 win at Nottingham Forest.

Having assured that he would never have to buy a pint in the vicinity of Old Trafford ever again, Solskjaer stayed with United until 2007, scoring 126 goals for them in all.

And, as you might of heard, he returned there this year in some kind of managerial capacity.

Teddy Sheringham

Like Solskjaer, Sheringham found his opportunities limited following the signing of Yorke but, goodness me, did he make an impact when called from the bench.

Two minutes before Solskjaer's winner, it was the England forward who swept home United's equaliser in the Nou Camp.

Sheringham also came off the bench to score United's opening goal in the FA Cup final against Newcastle United and duly won the first major silverware of his career at

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