The purchases of Henning Berg and Jaap Stam as well as the emergence of Wes Brown limited his chances further during the late 1990s and he saw very little action with the first team. However, towards the end of the treble-winning 1998–99 season, May enjoyed a brief comeback as Ferguson rotated his squad to cope with the mounting fixture congestion and United were challenging for the league title, FA Cup and European Cup. He was also named in the starting line-up for the 1999 FA Cup Final as Stam was being rested for the Champions League Final against Bayern Munich. May was named on the bench for that match, and is remembered for the way he led the celebrations after the match, despite not playing one single minute in the Champions League that season. A popular chant with the crowd was "David May, superstar! Got more medals than Shearer!" – in reference to the lack of success enjoyed by May's former Blackburn colleague Alan Shearer, who was one of the finest strikers of his generation but won just one trophy in a career which lasted nearly 20 years at the highest level.