Edwin Completes Unblemished League Campaign

The Dutch goalkeeper is only the fourth player to do start all league matches for the Reds in the Premiership. Gary Pallister was the last player to do it in 1994/95.

Pallister was also part of the defensive trio, alongside Steve Bruce and Peter Schmeichel, that started every Premiership match as United clinched their first league title in 26 years in 1992/93.

"My form has been ok," van der Sar says of his debut season. "There's always room for improvement, I think, but it has gone fine for me so far, 

Apart from one or two games here or there, everything has gone fine so far. We won the Carling Cup.

"But it has to be the start for myself and the younger guys and a restart for the players who have been here a long time to get more trophies in the next couple of years. It has to be the beginning of more success for United."

United secured the runners up spot in the Premiership with a comprehensive 4-0 victory over Charlton on the final day of the season. The Dutchman was rarely called into action as he kept his 24th clean sheet of the season in all competitions.

The victory took United’s points total to 83, just one short of the tally in 1992/93, and equal to or better than achieved in the title-winning seasons 1996/97, 1998/99, 2000/01 and the Reds’ last success in 2002/03.

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