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Why Alan Hansen’s ‘you can’t win anything with kids’ line is still iconic 30 years on

Summary by The Independent
On the first Match of the Day of the 1995-96 season, Alan Hansen made his famous – and ultimately incorrect – declaration about a youthful Man United side which, as Miguel Delaney explains, still resonates three decades later

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Why Alan Hansen’s ‘you can’t win anything with kids’ line is still iconic 30 years on

On the first Match of the Day of the 1995-96 season, Alan Hansen made his famous – and ultimately incorrect – declaration about a youthful Man United side which, as Miguel Delaney explains, still resonates three decades later

·London, United Kingdom
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