United Pile Pressure on Beleaguered Bruce

Brace
By Chris O'Brien
March 30 2006

As the biggest ever Premiership crowd watched on, Manchester United swept aside Birmingham City with a comfortable 3-0 victory. Ryan Giggs netted a brace with Wayne Rooney slamming home the winning goal as the Red Devils heaps more misery on Blues boss Steve Bruce.

Full Time - Manchester United 3-0 Birmingham City
Attendance - 69,070

Manchester United: Van der Sar, Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, Silvestre, Ronaldo, O'Shea, Giggs (Fletcher 77), Richardson (Park 39), Rooney, Saha (van Nistelrooy 73).
Substitutes Not Used: Howard, Evra.

Birmingham City: Maik Taylor, Melchiot (Tebily 82), Cunningham, Latka, Lazaridis (Bruce 87), Jarosik, Clemence, Johnson, Pennant, Heskey (Kilkenny 87), Campbell. Substitutes Not Used: Vaesen, Forssell.