Now we've won 10 Premier League titles, how does everyone else rank them?
Here are my rankings from George Best to Pete Best.
93/94 - This side won the double and were unlucky not to have won a domestic treble. But the 93/94 side had the best United XI that I'd ever seen: Schmeichel, Parker, Pallister, Bruce, Irwin, Kanchelskis, Ince, Keane, Giggs, Hughes, Cantona. Some of the football this side played was just sublime.
98/99 -The treble winning side. Some of our football in the first half of the season was ordinary, but we got results. As the season went on, the side got stronger and better. There was an unbelievable self-belief in the side as seen in the escape acts we did against Liverpool (FA Cup), Arsenal (FA Cup), Juventus (Champions League), and Bayern Munich (Champions League).
92/93 - This was the drought breaking team. Kids that Fergie had nurtured in the late 80s were starting to mature, and the final 10 point margin belied just how tight the title race was for most of the season. AS an aside, to show how much football has changed, Aston Villa, Norwich City, Blackburn Rovers and Queens Park Rangers were the other sides that finished in the top 5.
02/03 - The team that came from about 7 points behind Arsenal with about 2 months left. Arsenal self-destructed, and I reckon that part of that was due to the mind games that Fergie was employing against Arsenal.
95/96 - This season is famed for two comments. Hansen's "You won't win anything with kids" and Keegan's "I'd love it, just love it". At one stage, we were 12 points behind Newcastle, but we kept on closing the gap. But the real joy was seeing players like Scholes, Neville, Beckham, and...er....Nicky Butt....making their mark on the team.
06/07 - It looked like Arsenal and Chelsea had taken football to a level that was beyond Fergie's thinking, and yet, he re-invented himself and the team. Some of the football that this team played was as good as the 93/94 side, and I remember posting last season about how gutted I would be if the football they played wasn't rewarded with the title. Chelsea kept up the chase, and we got over the line. The team looked exhausted by the end of the season.
07/08 - This season's side. In terms of beautiful football, I don't think we played as well as 06/07. But in terms of effectiveness, the team got the job done. It was a see sawing season with Arsenal setting the pace and, twice, they broke away from us. Twice we closed the gap, and when we had the title within reach, Chelsea made their run. We might have moaned about Fergie's late season team selections, but as he often shows, he's a great strategic thinker.
00/01 and 01/02 - These two sides are on par with each other. These were United's two most comfortable title wins, with both titles pretty much sealed before Christmas. But as United fans sang at the end of the 01/02 season, "We won the league again, this time in second gear". These wins were more about the crapness of our opposition than our own excellence. In some ways, the lack of competition cost us in Europe as we lost that hard edge that you get from facing tough domestic opponents.
96/97 - Another title, but the football was uninspiring.
United pretty much strolled to the title, and the most notable thing about this season was that it was Cantona's last.