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Friends, rivals...

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lend me your eyes and ears.

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This is not my story.

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This is our story.

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A story
about the soul of a city.

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A working-class city.

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And its community.

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Its people. My tribe.

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Manchester
is a... is an intriguing city.

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A city like Manchester

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is a special place.

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The people celebrate life

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against all the odds.

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No one is more important
than anyone else.

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We're all workers.
We're all pulling together here.

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Home
of the Industrial Revolution.

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Hard work
is in the people's blood.

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I think
it's about having humility

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and for anything you get out
in life, you have to work hard.

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After the war,
they craved for release.

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A pastime to unite them.

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These people had a tough week.

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They had nothing
but their football.

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You gotta go out there
and entertain them.

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The club's DNA is the
pioneering gene.

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You see that in the city, too.

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It's had its tough times
and its bad times.

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But it's always related
to the community.

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There's a certain responsibility

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that came with wearing
the red shirt of Man United.

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Every single game
carries importance

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for the people
who sit there and watch it.

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Your responsibility
is to play for them.

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Young players,
academy players, youth.

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Attractive football,
attacking football

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that should bring Mancunians
to Old Trafford.

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They're the ones
you're playing for.

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Then the significance
of football

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just becomes so much greater.

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United has always
been renowned as a family.

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That's what United was.

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That's what United is.

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The story of hope and fear.

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Of delight and despair.

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And all in between.

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Manchester United

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on the verge
of true sporting greatness.

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We, players,
are just guardians of the shirt.

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Handed down from one
generation to another.

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To understand the United Way

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means understanding
the Busby Babes.

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The man you are looking at

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is a football manager.

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There are 91 others of his kind

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in the football league
at the moment.

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Yet few would deny
that this one is the greatest.

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He's the man who's
the personification of his club

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and of all that's good
in the game of football.

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Matthew Busby was born to
the pit country of Lanarkshire,

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son of an Orbiston miner.

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And in that distinctive
Scottish way

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was crazy about football.

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When Matt Busby came
we were not a successful club

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by any stretch
of the imagination.

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So he had
a little bit of time to build.

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The Busby Babes, they call them.

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The harvest of young talent

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which attracted
the attention of the world.

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The darlings
of British football.

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The public
couldn't have enough of them.

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Busby Babes.

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A band of brothers
with the world at their feet.

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Duncan Edwards,
signed at 15 years.

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Bobby Charlton,
signed at 15 years of age.

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Eddie Colman, Geoff Bent.
You go on and on and on.

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They were sought out
as schoolboy footballers.

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When Matt came
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he put a lot of emphasis

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into young players.

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It was
a tremendously happy time.

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There were boys that'd come to
this club from leaving school.

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We lived with them.

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They came, we nurtured them,
we watched them,

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we looked after them,
they were coached.

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We were sort of
all together type of thing.

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You become a sort of family.

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Under Busby
a philosophy came together.

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The United Way is born.

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After the horrors of the War,

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people were looking
to rebuild lives.

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United come along
with these fresh-face kids,

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playing absolutely
wonderful football

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and the whole nation
took them to heart.

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They admired the football
that they played.

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They admired the kind of man
Matt Busby was.

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They resonated with so
many people across the country.

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Those Busby Babes,

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with their unmatched
post-war record

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in cup and league football.

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This team
conquered all before them.

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And now Europe awaits.

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United go into
this match with a 2-1 lead

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from the first leg.

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Over 50,000 are packed
into this JNA stadium.

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We arrived in Belgrade.

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It was such a thrill
to see the team lined up

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before the kick-off.

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I felt so proud of them.

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United march on
to the next round.

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We set off the following morning

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with a scheduled stop in Munich
for a refuelling.

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There was quite a lot of snow
on the ground in Munich.

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We set off on the third attempt
and one of the crew said,

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"Christ, we're not going
to make it."

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We hit something.

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There was an eerie silence.

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I could see
quite a few seats strewn.

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People were still strapped
in them, but they were dead.

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Harry Gregg, the goalie,

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had somehow
got out of the cabin.

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Had heard a baby crying
and had rescued it

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and he called to me to come
and take it from him.

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The team were very modest

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and they were
very sound young men.

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They never had a chance
to say goodbye.

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This tragedy...

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touched the everyman.

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This is Old Trafford

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and today it's the heart
of a mourning city.

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Everybody in Manchester,
everybody in Britain nearly

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is looking to this ground.

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How did you feel when you heard
the news of the crash yesterday?

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Very upset. I'm sure it's upset
most of the people around here.

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I'm sure it's a great loss
to everybody in Manchester.

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Too awful for words, really.

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I feel like the loss
of great sportsmen

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and terribly upset.

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The fact you're not a Manchester
man made no difference?

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It makes no difference. They're
a fine team and I'm very sorry.

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The one question
that's in everybody's mind is,

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how's Matt Busby getting along?

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This is the first thing
that the taxi driver asked me

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when I got out of the train
at the station just now.

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I can remember the matron coming
into the dormitory early evening

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and telling me
that the plane had crashed.

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I knew Matt very well.
He was a friend of my father's.

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I used to call him Uncle Matt.

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What would
become of Manchester United?

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Eight of your players... gone.

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Duncan Edwards killed.

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David Pegg killed.

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Bill Foulkes injured.

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Mark Jones killed.

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Ray Wood injured.

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Eddie Coleman killed.

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John Berry injured.

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Roger Byrne killed.

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Tommy Taylor killed.

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Dennis Viollet injured.

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Bill Whelan killed.

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And Geoff Bent killed.

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And the fact that the club
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ten or 11 days
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has never, never ceased
to astound me.

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My dad, working
in and around the city,

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he went to Old Trafford

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the first game after Munich.

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And people of all football
allegiances, like my dad,

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were actually asking, "Can
this club recover from this?"

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And wanted the club to recover.

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We went to the match
in our normal corner

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and it was electric.

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That's the match with the
programme with no names in it.

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And United won.

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And so for a 12-year-old
football life went on normally.

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There was a need for solidarity.

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The whole country
was with them in that moment.

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To lose all those players,

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who he'd known since boys

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and had nurtured
and made into English champions

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took a huge toll at the time.

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And I don't think
he ever recovered from Munich.

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We didn't bring Munich up
in front of him.

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Mentally,
it was a terrible time.

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They'd known not to discuss
anything at all at the time.

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And all of a sudden,
Jean had said something about,

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"Look, this is your life."

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"This is something you've got
to do. You've got to face it."

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"Er, you've got it
in your mind."

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"And these boys probably would
want you to go back and all..."

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All on their lines and
it started a little seed again.

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And I got this obsession, again,

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that Manchester United
were going to the top.

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A tragedy that unifies.

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That brings people together.

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That makes you stronger.

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They were a team
that had been devastated

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and people wanted
to see them grow again.

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♪ When I look up to the sky

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♪ I see your eyes
a funny kind of yellow

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How would
they rebuild from this tragedy?

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♪ I rush home to bed
I sunk my head

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Everyone
that he brought into the club

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or came through
from the youth system...

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It was like a jigsaw puzzle.

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Jimmy Murphy was with him.
His number two was with him.

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We gelled. We gelled.

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That was the Matt Busby way.
That was the United way.

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Manchester is coming alive.

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Freedom. Joy.

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Anything was possible.

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Manchester was very lucky
to have a great mix of players.

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Bobby was such a gentleman.

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But he was demanding, Bobby.
He was a winner.

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And Denis
was a fantastic goal scorer.

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Was a finisher.

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And then
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who was out of this world.

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He had everything. Just sublime.

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Charlton, Best, Law.
The trinity.

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Best again!

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Goal! Superb!

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This was football that
made cynics fall in love again.

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Best. Charlton.

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It's telepathic
between the two of them.

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And it's number two!

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Oh, what a finish!

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♪ You in the sky,
you with the sky

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♪ You make me cry, your eyes

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♪ You in the sky,
you with the sky

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♪ You make me cry, your eyes

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United have scored!

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Busby has masterminded
a quite astonishing rebuild.

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Both sporting and spiritually.

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Europe beckons once more.

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For there lies greatness.

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I still want Manchester United
to be the best team in Europe.

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The only way they can be
the best team in Europe

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is by winning the European Cup.

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We knew... Each and everyone
of us knew the task ahead,

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reflecting on ten years before.

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We had to do it for them.

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We've got to win.

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Manchester United manager,
Matt Busby,

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this moment, stands
on the threshold of a dream.

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A dream of leading
the first English club

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ever to capture
the European Cup.

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It was like the Holy Grail.

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Everybody wanted to win it
for Sir Matt.

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And, obviously, everybody
that perished at Munich.

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Benfica frustrating United here.

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We didn't play that well.

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Eusébio waltzing past defenders

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like they aren't there.

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Every one of us,
our heads were down.

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00:15:21,201 --> 00:15:24,691
United failing
to find any kind of rhythm.

259
00:15:24,727 --> 00:15:27,664
In life, sometimes
terrible things happen,

260
00:15:27,666 --> 00:15:29,657
and it knocks you down.

261
00:15:29,692 --> 00:15:33,165
And sometimes
it pushes you forth.

262
00:15:33,167 --> 00:15:36,126
Sadler
into Charlton. And it's there!

263
00:15:36,162 --> 00:15:38,064
1-0 to Manchester United.

264
00:15:38,099 --> 00:15:40,062
Lovely header
guided into the bottom corner.

265
00:15:40,131 --> 00:15:43,423
Deep down,
each and every one of us,

266
00:15:43,491 --> 00:15:47,428
we knew it was for them.

267
00:15:47,497 --> 00:15:49,928
We've nurtured them.
We've watched them.

268
00:15:49,963 --> 00:15:51,995
We've looked after them.

269
00:15:52,030 --> 00:15:54,195
Oh, and three.

270
00:15:54,230 --> 00:15:56,562
You become a sort of family.

271
00:15:56,597 --> 00:16:01,163
Charlton loses
his man. Oh, yes, it's four.

272
00:16:01,165 --> 00:16:03,856
That's the game
and that's the European Cup.

273
00:16:03,892 --> 00:16:07,327
Manchester United
have well and truly done it.

274
00:16:07,362 --> 00:16:10,730
They're finally champions
of Europe.

275
00:16:10,766 --> 00:16:12,427
Matt Busby, this maestro,

276
00:16:12,429 --> 00:16:15,393
has groomed a side
ten years on from disaster

277
00:16:15,429 --> 00:16:17,858
to reach the very pinnacle
of football.

278
00:16:17,927 --> 00:16:22,065
It was unbelievable.
Absolutely incredible.

279
00:16:23,898 --> 00:16:26,096
We've done it. We've done it.

280
00:16:26,165 --> 00:16:28,725
It's took ten years,
but we've done it.

281
00:16:31,458 --> 00:16:33,099
It was a release.

282
00:16:33,135 --> 00:16:39,065
I think it was just everything
that involved going back

283
00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,923
to that terrible day,
February 6th, in Munich.

284
00:16:49,525 --> 00:16:52,230
The United Way is established.

285
00:16:58,364 --> 00:17:00,396
The damage
done to his body at Munich,

286
00:17:00,398 --> 00:17:04,697
never mind his mental state,
was quite horrific.

287
00:17:04,733 --> 00:17:06,263
He'd taken a battering.

288
00:17:08,326 --> 00:17:10,131
He'd done his shift.

289
00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,131
The Emperor stands down.

290
00:17:15,796 --> 00:17:17,230
What's next?

291
00:17:24,162 --> 00:17:27,659
All dynasties rise and fall.

292
00:17:30,430 --> 00:17:32,890
We hadn't won
the league since 1967.

293
00:17:32,892 --> 00:17:36,498
The season before,
I think we should have won it.

294
00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:37,999
Leeds won it.

295
00:17:39,461 --> 00:17:41,696
And one day,
I was sitting in my office,

296
00:17:41,732 --> 00:17:43,964
and the phone rang

297
00:17:44,033 --> 00:17:49,462
and it was the chief exec
of Leeds United.

298
00:17:49,498 --> 00:17:52,198
I said, "Would you be willing
to sell Eric Cantona?"

299
00:17:52,267 --> 00:17:55,791
Cos I'd read in the newspapers
that Wilkinson and Eric,

300
00:17:55,826 --> 00:17:58,231
there were problems
and there were clashes.

301
00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:01,930
I haven't had a problem
in my football career up to now

302
00:18:01,999 --> 00:18:04,125
with any player
I've worked with.

303
00:18:05,992 --> 00:18:09,558
He reads poetry.
He reads philosophy.

304
00:18:09,626 --> 00:18:13,327
He paints.
Maybe that's different.

305
00:18:13,363 --> 00:18:15,357
He said,
"What do you wanna pay for him?"

306
00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:16,962
I said, "A million."

307
00:18:16,964 --> 00:18:19,994
So, they said, "No, no. 1.5."

308
00:18:19,996 --> 00:18:21,130
"No, no. A million."

309
00:18:21,166 --> 00:18:24,000
And, eventually,
I got him down to the million.

310
00:18:24,002 --> 00:18:26,965
"Can we say it's 1.2
because we'll get slaughtered?"

311
00:18:26,967 --> 00:18:30,029
"The supporters
think the world of him."

312
00:18:30,065 --> 00:18:31,863
I said, "You say
what you like."

313
00:18:31,931 --> 00:18:33,197
Football and Manchester United

314
00:18:33,199 --> 00:18:35,457
have signed the French
international striker,

315
00:18:35,493 --> 00:18:37,258
Eric Cantona, from Leeds United

316
00:18:37,294 --> 00:18:39,857
for fee of £1.2 million.

317
00:18:53,032 --> 00:18:55,532
Well, ladies and gentlemen,

318
00:18:55,568 --> 00:18:56,658
we're pleased to announce

319
00:18:56,693 --> 00:19:00,161
that, we've agreed terms
with Leeds United

320
00:19:00,196 --> 00:19:02,594
for the transfer
of Eric Cantona.

321
00:19:02,629 --> 00:19:06,296
And he's agreed a new
three-and-a-half-year contract.

322
00:19:11,325 --> 00:19:12,857
The stage is mine.

323
00:19:14,566 --> 00:19:16,924
All eyes on me.

324
00:19:16,926 --> 00:19:19,160
The Leeds fans probably today
won't agree with me,

325
00:19:19,229 --> 00:19:20,956
but I think it's a shrewd sale.

326
00:19:22,199 --> 00:19:24,364
Wilkinson's done wonders
for that team.

327
00:19:24,366 --> 00:19:27,391
If he thought it was right for
him to get rid of Eric Cantona,

328
00:19:27,393 --> 00:19:29,297
he's made the right decision.

329
00:19:29,332 --> 00:19:32,928
Eric Cantona is 26 and
he's already had eight clubs.

330
00:19:32,964 --> 00:19:33,995
What does that tell us?

331
00:19:34,030 --> 00:19:36,829
Cantona doesn't fit the bill.

332
00:19:36,831 --> 00:19:38,195
The only thing I recall is

333
00:19:38,231 --> 00:19:41,657
seeing it on the news
that he'd signed.

334
00:19:41,692 --> 00:19:43,828
In them days
it was, like, rumours

335
00:19:43,863 --> 00:19:45,197
and social media.

336
00:19:45,233 --> 00:19:48,892
Basically, you were
the last to know, the players.

337
00:19:48,927 --> 00:19:53,660
Then I remember my mates going,
"What's this Cantona like?"

338
00:19:53,695 --> 00:19:57,527
I think it was fair to say
we all didn't quite realise

339
00:19:57,563 --> 00:20:01,298
how good he was until
he came and trained with us.

340
00:20:01,333 --> 00:20:05,764
The way he went about his
business on the training ground,

341
00:20:05,799 --> 00:20:07,659
he was a breath of fresh air.

342
00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:09,890
We were all in awe of Eric

343
00:20:09,926 --> 00:20:13,294
from the first moment
he arrived at the club.

344
00:20:13,363 --> 00:20:16,532
Cos he was really
the first foreign star

345
00:20:16,567 --> 00:20:18,230
that came into our club.

346
00:20:20,933 --> 00:20:24,498
To see him
walk about the corridors,

347
00:20:24,566 --> 00:20:25,697
to see him train,

348
00:20:25,766 --> 00:20:27,029
it was one of those moments

349
00:20:27,065 --> 00:20:29,462
where
there's youth team players,

350
00:20:29,497 --> 00:20:34,199
you just sit there in awe
of everything that Eric did.

351
00:20:34,267 --> 00:20:37,429
Eric, of course, had won
the league the year before,

352
00:20:37,464 --> 00:20:41,691
so he had that confidence
where he'd already done it.

353
00:20:41,727 --> 00:20:45,999
It was so huge.
We hadn't won it for 26 years.

354
00:20:48,001 --> 00:20:51,132
We'd found it so hard.
Got close a couple of times.

355
00:20:51,168 --> 00:20:56,858
He'd played a big part in
Leeds's win the previous year.

356
00:20:56,927 --> 00:20:59,997
So that was always in the back
of everybody's minds.

357
00:21:00,032 --> 00:21:03,459
The same narrative
was spoken about

358
00:21:03,495 --> 00:21:05,659
at 26 years,
since they'd won the league.

359
00:21:05,695 --> 00:21:09,129
Every year that went on,
the harder that became.

360
00:21:09,164 --> 00:21:10,965
The players
are always being reminded

361
00:21:10,967 --> 00:21:14,524
that they hadn't won that
for so many years

362
00:21:14,526 --> 00:21:16,830
and you'll never be
as good a team

363
00:21:16,899 --> 00:21:19,230
as past teams that have done it.

364
00:21:26,860 --> 00:21:29,626
It's a big, big job.
It's a demanding job.

365
00:21:31,197 --> 00:21:34,556
And particularly
following Sir Matt.

366
00:21:34,625 --> 00:21:35,810
Who's gonna be the next manager?

367
00:21:35,834 --> 00:21:37,864
You all try
and make speculations

368
00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:41,195
because
it hadn't happened before.

369
00:21:41,263 --> 00:21:43,327
But, I mean,
he was there 25, 26 years.

370
00:21:43,329 --> 00:21:45,899
Well, there were
a series of managers,

371
00:21:45,934 --> 00:21:47,895
as there are
when you're not playing well.

372
00:21:47,931 --> 00:21:50,560
And it didn't really work.

373
00:21:51,725 --> 00:21:54,199
They gave it Wilf McGuiness.

374
00:21:54,267 --> 00:21:58,361
He was young, Wilf,
to take the job at that time.

375
00:21:58,397 --> 00:22:01,496
Frank O'Farrell,
who I really liked.

376
00:22:01,498 --> 00:22:04,290
That was a shame
cos he was a lovely man, Frank.

377
00:22:04,292 --> 00:22:06,065
Who was it after?

378
00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:08,964
Tommy Docherty, yes.

379
00:22:09,033 --> 00:22:11,296
Tommy Doc was the next manager.

380
00:22:13,259 --> 00:22:14,727
Tommy Doc took over

381
00:22:14,762 --> 00:22:18,296
and had a bit of a relegation
scrap on his hands right away.

382
00:22:20,201 --> 00:22:23,799
They were living in the
past. Members of the old team.

383
00:22:23,834 --> 00:22:27,032
Yes.
All the old school had to go.

384
00:22:30,459 --> 00:22:32,465
The end of an era.

385
00:22:32,534 --> 00:22:34,131
The bond is broken.

386
00:22:36,666 --> 00:22:38,395
The family is split.

387
00:22:44,097 --> 00:22:45,832
How do you replace people

388
00:22:45,867 --> 00:22:48,131
like Denis Law
and Bobby Charlton?

389
00:22:51,901 --> 00:22:53,899
Players were leaving.
Players were coming in.

390
00:22:53,901 --> 00:22:55,730
Tommy Docherty
was bringing these people in.

391
00:22:55,765 --> 00:22:56,897
Players were leaving.

392
00:22:57,033 --> 00:22:59,302
It was unbelievable the amount
of players that were coming in

393
00:22:59,326 --> 00:23:00,796
and playing for us.

394
00:23:00,798 --> 00:23:03,166
So you weren't settled.

395
00:23:03,202 --> 00:23:06,099
George Best was thinking he's
carrying the weight of the club

396
00:23:06,101 --> 00:23:08,890
because everybody looked up
to him to do something.

397
00:23:10,893 --> 00:23:13,528
Things weren't
happening on the football field.

398
00:23:13,530 --> 00:23:16,329
We were losing a lot of games.
We weren't scoring goals.

399
00:23:16,364 --> 00:23:19,626
Things were beginning
to happen off the field.

400
00:23:21,468 --> 00:23:22,956
I never saw George.

401
00:23:23,765 --> 00:23:25,892
He was never there.

402
00:23:25,927 --> 00:23:29,198
Maybe his drinking
started getting more regular.

403
00:23:29,234 --> 00:23:32,890
And the press were on his back
following him everywhere.

404
00:23:35,932 --> 00:23:39,456
A free spirit went down.

405
00:23:39,458 --> 00:23:40,997
George was a footballer.

406
00:23:40,999 --> 00:23:43,496
He never wanted
to be a role model.

407
00:23:43,564 --> 00:23:46,624
Manchester United
are bottom of the First Division

408
00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:49,991
facing the real prospect
of relegation.

409
00:23:50,026 --> 00:23:52,892
Remember people saying, "United
are too good to go down."

410
00:23:52,927 --> 00:23:56,824
I think certainly George Best
felt that was the case.

411
00:23:56,860 --> 00:23:59,423
I picked him
to play on a Saturday.

412
00:23:59,458 --> 00:24:01,361
About ten to three,

413
00:24:01,363 --> 00:24:03,529
there was knock
on the dressing room door.

414
00:24:03,565 --> 00:24:07,863
I opened it. George was there
with this gorgeous looking lady.

415
00:24:07,931 --> 00:24:09,009
He said, "I've come to play."

416
00:24:09,033 --> 00:24:11,158
I said, "You're in no condition
to play."

417
00:24:11,193 --> 00:24:12,096
Which he wasn't.

418
00:24:12,165 --> 00:24:17,098
He'd been a bit heavy
under the booze.

419
00:24:18,831 --> 00:24:20,262
Besty came in

420
00:24:20,297 --> 00:24:23,725
and I said,
"Everything all right, George?"

421
00:24:23,727 --> 00:24:26,362
"I'm not playing today,"
he said and walked out.

422
00:24:26,364 --> 00:24:28,762
That's the last I've seen him
at Old Trafford.

423
00:24:28,798 --> 00:24:31,099
It was a disaster.

424
00:24:31,134 --> 00:24:35,595
Just like that the most human
of heroes is gone.

425
00:24:35,597 --> 00:24:38,896
Gallagher! Oh,
it's looped in and United are...

426
00:24:38,931 --> 00:24:41,227
I let in 48 goals.

427
00:24:41,296 --> 00:24:42,660
Does that
not tell you something?

428
00:24:42,729 --> 00:24:46,390
It tells you we weren't playing
the Manchester United way

429
00:24:46,425 --> 00:24:48,196
And we got relegated.

430
00:24:48,231 --> 00:24:50,691
And across to Denis Law. Oh!

431
00:24:50,759 --> 00:24:54,290
Denis Law has scored
for Manchester City.

432
00:24:54,292 --> 00:24:55,466
What an irony.

433
00:24:55,501 --> 00:24:57,291
What a cruel irony.

434
00:24:57,326 --> 00:24:59,063
United are relegated.

435
00:24:59,099 --> 00:25:01,599
United are down
and it's chaos here.

436
00:25:01,634 --> 00:25:03,626
Utter chaos at Old Trafford.

437
00:25:13,067 --> 00:25:15,261
We decided
to stick with the team

438
00:25:15,297 --> 00:25:17,659
and bring in
one or two of the kids.

439
00:25:20,161 --> 00:25:21,227
We had a good young set.

440
00:25:21,295 --> 00:25:23,723
One or two good players
come in through the youth team.

441
00:25:23,792 --> 00:25:25,228
He brought them back

442
00:25:25,263 --> 00:25:26,823
into the top flight
two years ago

443
00:25:26,859 --> 00:25:29,832
and now Tommy Docherty
has won them the FA Cup.

444
00:25:29,867 --> 00:25:31,890
In '77 we won the FA Cup,

445
00:25:31,926 --> 00:25:34,691
but it'd been ten years
since we'd won our trophy.

446
00:25:34,726 --> 00:25:37,924
So, we weren't winning
a lot at the time.

447
00:25:37,959 --> 00:25:42,133
A meeting of the directors
has decided unanimously

448
00:25:42,168 --> 00:25:46,427
that Mr Docherty is in breach
of the terms of his contract

449
00:25:46,429 --> 00:25:49,791
and his engagement
is terminated forthwith.

450
00:25:49,827 --> 00:25:52,997
Tonight's decision
by Manchester United's directors

451
00:25:53,032 --> 00:25:54,829
followed a fortnight
of speculation

452
00:25:54,864 --> 00:25:56,066
about Docherty's future.

453
00:25:56,101 --> 00:25:58,764
That began with the news
that Docherty left his wife

454
00:25:58,799 --> 00:26:00,561
after 27 years of marriage,

455
00:26:00,629 --> 00:26:04,396
for the 31-year-old wife
of the club's physiotherapist.

456
00:26:04,465 --> 00:26:08,398
Not one player in that team
knew what was going on.

457
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,026
No one knew.

458
00:26:10,095 --> 00:26:11,396
Nobody saw it coming

459
00:26:11,431 --> 00:26:14,032
and Tommy Docherty obviously
felt a bit uncomfortable.

460
00:26:14,101 --> 00:26:17,261
He... he not only went off
with somebody's wife,

461
00:26:17,330 --> 00:26:20,131
he went off
with an employee of the club.

462
00:26:20,167 --> 00:26:22,829
Docherty,
manager of United since 1972,

463
00:26:22,865 --> 00:26:23,964
wouldn't talk to reporters

464
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,298
as he waited
for the directors' decision.

465
00:26:26,366 --> 00:26:29,325
They met at the home of Louis
Edwards, the club's chairman.

466
00:26:29,393 --> 00:26:30,439
Among them was Sir Matt Busby,

467
00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:32,326
the former manager,
who flew back from Dublin,

468
00:26:32,395 --> 00:26:34,526
specially
to attend today's meeting.

469
00:26:34,528 --> 00:26:38,165
So Matt wanted it
to be a family, you know.

470
00:26:38,234 --> 00:26:43,326
And that was what people...
thought of Manchester United.

471
00:26:43,362 --> 00:26:45,923
Especially those
who worked in it.

472
00:26:46,897 --> 00:26:47,798
Everyone was involved

473
00:26:47,867 --> 00:26:49,625
and the directors
took their stance

474
00:26:49,694 --> 00:26:52,164
that this can't happen
at Manchester United.

475
00:26:53,626 --> 00:26:57,031
Matt Busby was a hindrance.

476
00:26:57,033 --> 00:27:00,861
It was all down to Busby
that I got the sack.

477
00:27:00,863 --> 00:27:02,724
I was very bitter.

478
00:27:02,726 --> 00:27:06,494
They were the losers,
Manchester United.

479
00:27:06,530 --> 00:27:09,725
Not me. I wasn't a loser.
They were the losers.

480
00:27:16,166 --> 00:27:19,998
Great managers
rise to the challenge.

481
00:27:20,033 --> 00:27:22,565
They are not afraid
of special players.

482
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:23,956
They search them out.

483
00:27:37,860 --> 00:27:41,390
Well, I think
he's a Manchester United player.

484
00:27:41,458 --> 00:27:43,528
He's an exciting player.

485
00:27:43,564 --> 00:27:46,523
He's got all the assets
of the top players in the world.

486
00:27:46,558 --> 00:27:48,997
He's come to a big, big club.

487
00:27:49,066 --> 00:27:51,999
I just think they connected.
I just...

488
00:27:52,068 --> 00:27:56,357
They had this understanding
of what was required

489
00:27:56,393 --> 00:27:58,094
at that moment in time.

490
00:27:58,129 --> 00:28:01,032
But I also think the manager

491
00:28:01,034 --> 00:28:04,032
gave him that element
of freedom to perform,

492
00:28:04,068 --> 00:28:07,198
to really show his talents
on a football field.

493
00:28:07,267 --> 00:28:11,826
And everybody else sort of
moulded themselves around that.

494
00:28:11,861 --> 00:28:14,691
It was the first time
you really saw a player

495
00:28:14,726 --> 00:28:17,930
being treated different
for a reason.

496
00:28:17,966 --> 00:28:19,998
That's what makes
a great manager.

497
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,427
He understood that
to get the best out of Eric,

498
00:28:22,496 --> 00:28:25,428
he needed to be treated
in a different way.

499
00:28:26,832 --> 00:28:28,758
I needed to be loved.

500
00:28:30,928 --> 00:28:32,659
To belong.

501
00:28:33,633 --> 00:28:35,956
To be part of a family.

502
00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:40,194
The manager was
very good at managing people.

503
00:28:40,230 --> 00:28:42,064
He knew
who he could have a go at.

504
00:28:42,099 --> 00:28:44,130
He knew who he had
to put his arm round.

505
00:28:44,199 --> 00:28:45,495
He knew who to let
have a little bit of leeway

506
00:28:45,497 --> 00:28:48,393
'cos they expressed themselves
in certain different ways.

507
00:28:48,462 --> 00:28:50,457
Eric was one
that got away with quite a bit

508
00:28:50,492 --> 00:28:51,427
because he was just different.

509
00:28:51,462 --> 00:28:53,929
He was different,
the way he dressed, acted,

510
00:28:53,964 --> 00:28:56,327
the way he portrayed himself.

511
00:28:56,363 --> 00:28:58,198
I think
what the manager looks for

512
00:28:58,267 --> 00:29:01,627
was your character, where
you're from, your background.

513
00:29:01,662 --> 00:29:05,160
To make sure that you're
the right type of character.

514
00:29:05,195 --> 00:29:06,896
Forget the playing side of it.

515
00:29:06,898 --> 00:29:10,297
With Eric it's straightforward.

516
00:29:10,332 --> 00:29:14,263
99 things out 100 are
straightforward with the lad.

517
00:29:14,265 --> 00:29:17,291
He loves his training,
he loves to practise,

518
00:29:17,326 --> 00:29:18,499
he's got great pride.

519
00:29:18,534 --> 00:29:21,494
He's got a short fuse.

520
00:29:21,496 --> 00:29:23,597
People say he's this,
people say he's that.

521
00:29:23,666 --> 00:29:24,896
I'm not interested.

522
00:29:24,932 --> 00:29:26,197
So long as it doesn't interfere

523
00:29:26,266 --> 00:29:29,191
with the running of
Manchester United football club.

524
00:29:29,193 --> 00:29:30,591
And it doesn't.

525
00:29:30,626 --> 00:29:32,698
The thing about Eric

526
00:29:32,733 --> 00:29:33,966
is he's very much his own man.

527
00:29:33,968 --> 00:29:37,561
If you respect him fully,
he gives you everything.

528
00:29:37,596 --> 00:29:40,730
Yeah, he was the boss's
favourite by a country mile,

529
00:29:40,798 --> 00:29:42,858
but it didn't bother us.

530
00:29:42,893 --> 00:29:47,232
There was not one player
that would turn round and say,

531
00:29:47,234 --> 00:29:50,891
"It is a little bit unfair that
he treated Eric differently."

532
00:29:50,893 --> 00:29:53,890
Eric was different. He deserved
to be treated different.

533
00:29:55,264 --> 00:29:57,658
He felt like
a man of the people.

534
00:29:57,694 --> 00:30:01,427
He really did.
Like he belonged to the people.

535
00:30:01,496 --> 00:30:05,663
And nobody could believe
that a man of his talent

536
00:30:05,699 --> 00:30:08,593
was like one of us.

537
00:30:14,434 --> 00:30:16,032
I was an outsider.

538
00:30:20,597 --> 00:30:26,296
But I felt strongly the energy
of this club and this city.

539
00:30:26,365 --> 00:30:31,490
The energy only can come
from the soul of the people.

540
00:30:31,526 --> 00:30:34,865
And from the soul of the place.

541
00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:38,361
I went to places
like The Haçienda,

542
00:30:38,430 --> 00:30:43,324
to enjoy the music,
the city, the people.

543
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,756
That was important for me

544
00:30:44,792 --> 00:30:48,931
to absorb the vibe,
to understand it.

545
00:30:48,967 --> 00:30:52,964
In Marseille, growing up,
I felt free.

546
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,593
In Manchester,
I felt that freedom again.

547
00:31:00,059 --> 00:31:03,225
Marseille's a very,
very hard, working-class city.

548
00:31:03,260 --> 00:31:04,731
Same as Manchester.

549
00:31:04,766 --> 00:31:06,764
Marseille's not establishment.

550
00:31:06,833 --> 00:31:08,565
Manchester's not establishment.

551
00:31:08,567 --> 00:31:09,865
That's what Eric was like.

552
00:31:09,901 --> 00:31:12,061
I think he recognises
his background

553
00:31:12,096 --> 00:31:13,262
in the people of Manchester.

554
00:31:13,297 --> 00:31:15,923
Eric found the right place
for himself.

555
00:31:17,434 --> 00:31:20,028
I feel at one

556
00:31:20,030 --> 00:31:22,228
with cities built on defiance.

557
00:31:22,263 --> 00:31:24,824
That stand
on their own two feet.

558
00:31:27,827 --> 00:31:31,957
I remember knowing
Manchester as a real dark place.

559
00:31:31,993 --> 00:31:35,094
The late-'70s, there wasn't
an awful lot to enthuse you

560
00:31:35,163 --> 00:31:38,097
about coming over to Manchester.

561
00:31:38,133 --> 00:31:40,261
You think, somebody
please put the lights on.

562
00:31:40,297 --> 00:31:43,227
Brighten up
the place a little bit.

563
00:31:43,263 --> 00:31:45,127
The late-'70s was a time

564
00:31:45,129 --> 00:31:48,030
when the Northwest suffered.

565
00:31:48,098 --> 00:31:49,562
And that area
around Old Trafford,

566
00:31:49,597 --> 00:31:54,923
I think, was an area of a lot
of dereliction, unemployment.

567
00:31:58,765 --> 00:32:00,396
The starting point

568
00:32:00,431 --> 00:32:04,490
was the social breakdown
of the Winter of Discontent

569
00:32:04,492 --> 00:32:07,857
under Mr Callaghan in 1978.

570
00:32:07,859 --> 00:32:12,330
And the Northwest
was particularly badly affected.

571
00:32:12,365 --> 00:32:17,658
The cosy world which we were
told would go on for ever,

572
00:32:17,694 --> 00:32:19,997
where full employment
would be guaranteed

573
00:32:20,065 --> 00:32:23,399
by a stroke
of the chancellor's pen,

574
00:32:23,434 --> 00:32:25,993
cutting taxes,

575
00:32:25,995 --> 00:32:27,390
deficit spending,

576
00:32:27,425 --> 00:32:29,999
that cosy world is gone.

577
00:32:34,865 --> 00:32:38,093
Destitution, demoralisation,

578
00:32:38,162 --> 00:32:41,059
huge levels of unemployment.

579
00:32:41,094 --> 00:32:42,263
Real poverty.

580
00:32:42,298 --> 00:32:46,325
That's, that's what life
was like then, you know.

581
00:32:46,393 --> 00:32:47,865
People's lives weren't great.

582
00:32:47,901 --> 00:32:49,339
Football was
the be all and end all.

583
00:32:49,363 --> 00:32:53,457
And it created
a kind of atmosphere at times

584
00:32:53,493 --> 00:32:56,659
that spilled over into violence.

585
00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:02,664
The game
had become unattractive.

586
00:33:02,666 --> 00:33:04,393
The grounds were dreadful.

587
00:33:04,428 --> 00:33:08,230
The obvious place
for the hooligans.

588
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:12,930
Manchester United

589
00:33:12,999 --> 00:33:14,393
are banned
from European football

590
00:33:14,462 --> 00:33:16,730
after the fighting
involving their fans

591
00:33:16,765 --> 00:33:17,765
in France last month.

592
00:33:17,826 --> 00:33:19,823
Chelsea supporters were involved

593
00:33:19,858 --> 00:33:22,160
in more fighting
with United supporters.

594
00:33:22,162 --> 00:33:24,132
This time outside Old Trafford.

595
00:33:24,168 --> 00:33:26,494
United have had
to put up with the hooligans

596
00:33:26,530 --> 00:33:29,393
amongst their supporters
for several years now.

597
00:33:29,395 --> 00:33:32,097
But never before
has the team itself

598
00:33:32,132 --> 00:33:35,230
actually lost a match
because of them.

599
00:33:39,832 --> 00:33:42,057
The beautiful game is broken.

600
00:33:42,092 --> 00:33:43,357
Sullied.

601
00:33:43,392 --> 00:33:45,263
These are testing times.

602
00:33:47,893 --> 00:33:50,495
We hadn't won
the league for a number of years

603
00:33:50,530 --> 00:33:54,395
and I just felt that the team
wasn't progressing.

604
00:33:55,930 --> 00:33:59,265
We needed a new manager.

605
00:34:01,159 --> 00:34:05,394
There was just a little bit of
a quibble over the company car.

606
00:34:05,430 --> 00:34:07,931
At the time I'd got
a top-of-the-range Merc.

607
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,833
They offered me,
I think, it was a Rover.

608
00:34:10,868 --> 00:34:13,465
I said, "I've got a dog
called Charlie."

609
00:34:13,501 --> 00:34:15,791
"Let's talk cars."

610
00:34:18,825 --> 00:34:20,858
I really can't stand
the word "pressure"

611
00:34:20,893 --> 00:34:23,924
because I think we look
for self-sympathy in the game,

612
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:29,361
whether it's footballers,
managers, directors, whatever.

613
00:34:29,396 --> 00:34:31,364
He came
with a bit of flamboyancy.

614
00:34:31,399 --> 00:34:35,198
And it was like as if they
were trying to change the image.

615
00:34:35,266 --> 00:34:37,925
Not so much the look of
the club, but the image of it,

616
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,691
from a point of view of what
was being portrayed to the fans.

617
00:34:40,726 --> 00:34:44,261
Ron saw himself
as first-team manager only.

618
00:34:44,330 --> 00:34:46,161
And I don't think
he got much involved

619
00:34:46,197 --> 00:34:49,164
in a great deal outside of that.

620
00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:52,061
There was still young players
floating around,

621
00:34:52,063 --> 00:34:54,023
but Ron had the cheque book.

622
00:34:54,059 --> 00:34:58,624
There was never a question
of neglecting the youth side.

623
00:34:58,659 --> 00:35:01,391
But we had
to get the first team right.

624
00:35:01,393 --> 00:35:02,473
That was the first priority.

625
00:35:02,497 --> 00:35:05,331
I mean, you can't go around
to the fans and say,

626
00:35:05,366 --> 00:35:08,764
"Hey, we ain't half gonna have
a side in five years' time."

627
00:35:08,766 --> 00:35:09,909
The first thing he said to me,

628
00:35:09,933 --> 00:35:11,657
"We've got
to have Bryan Robson."

629
00:35:11,725 --> 00:35:15,197
Don't worry.
You're buying solid gold.

630
00:35:17,097 --> 00:35:18,799
This is biggest deal

631
00:35:18,834 --> 00:35:20,566
in the history
of English football.

632
00:35:20,601 --> 00:35:21,892
What does that mean to you?

633
00:35:21,894 --> 00:35:24,799
Well, I'm proud that something
like that is happening,

634
00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:27,390
but I like
to just get on with the game.

635
00:35:27,425 --> 00:35:29,294
I knew Ron really well

636
00:35:29,329 --> 00:35:31,463
and I knew
how he wanted me to play.

637
00:35:31,498 --> 00:35:35,795
I wanted to win things and
I knew I had a far better chance

638
00:35:35,864 --> 00:35:36,865
at Manchester United.

639
00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:39,556
Hurry up, lan,
and let's get ready.

640
00:35:39,558 --> 00:35:40,668
We're working this afternoon.

641
00:35:40,692 --> 00:35:43,795
Got you. He's there now.

642
00:35:43,830 --> 00:35:46,532
The new Emperor.

643
00:35:46,568 --> 00:35:50,857
His new clothes. His way.

644
00:35:54,399 --> 00:35:58,028
Nothing happened on a Friday.
We just played five-a-sides.

645
00:35:58,063 --> 00:35:59,797
And Ron was integral to that.

646
00:35:59,832 --> 00:36:01,496
He loved to join in himself.

647
00:36:02,663 --> 00:36:05,964
Which was a bit unusual
because he couldn't really play.

648
00:36:05,999 --> 00:36:07,995
And they were doing
some crossing.

649
00:36:08,064 --> 00:36:09,957
Ron was again integral to that.

650
00:36:09,992 --> 00:36:12,327
He passed the ball out
from the centre of the pitch.

651
00:36:12,363 --> 00:36:14,565
Get out in the right back
and curl it in

652
00:36:14,601 --> 00:36:15,863
and get on the end of it.

653
00:36:15,932 --> 00:36:17,111
All you have to do is put it in.

654
00:36:17,135 --> 00:36:21,195
Generally wisecrack his way
through the training session.

655
00:36:21,230 --> 00:36:22,999
"Right, lads,
see youse tomorrow."

656
00:36:23,035 --> 00:36:25,858
Er, right, OK what happens now?
Who's playing?

657
00:36:25,893 --> 00:36:29,090
Turned up on a Saturday.
Went to the Midlands Hotel.

658
00:36:29,092 --> 00:36:33,090
Still nothing before the meal,
we thought, "What's happening?"

659
00:36:33,126 --> 00:36:36,863
And then he would open up his
briefcase and I thought, "Yes."

660
00:36:36,898 --> 00:36:38,325
He'll have all the team talks.

661
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,405
He would pass folders round

662
00:36:39,429 --> 00:36:41,764
and we can see
who we're playing against.

663
00:36:41,766 --> 00:36:43,162
So he lifted up his briefcase.

664
00:36:43,197 --> 00:36:46,797
It was full
of aftershave, hairspray.

665
00:36:46,866 --> 00:36:48,130
Done himself up a bit, and went,

666
00:36:48,132 --> 00:36:50,324
"OK, lads,
this is the way we're playing."

667
00:36:50,359 --> 00:36:51,394
"Two big guys up front."

668
00:36:51,396 --> 00:36:54,094
Bump, diddly, bump.
Winger, da, da, da.

669
00:36:54,129 --> 00:36:55,296
And that was the team talk.

670
00:36:55,365 --> 00:36:58,659
I thought, "No, no,
that's it then." Quite simple.

671
00:37:00,666 --> 00:37:02,763
It was larger than life.

672
00:37:02,832 --> 00:37:03,865
And that was his thing.

673
00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:05,832
Making you feel good
all the time.

674
00:37:05,868 --> 00:37:07,956
Saying things
that make you feel good.

675
00:37:11,465 --> 00:37:15,196
Probably his weaknesses, the
only weakness, I'd say, was...

676
00:37:15,198 --> 00:37:19,626
"You can do what you want
outside football,

677
00:37:19,695 --> 00:37:21,159
as long as you turn up
on a Saturday and play.

678
00:37:21,161 --> 00:37:22,799
Life's too short, really.

679
00:37:22,835 --> 00:37:27,599
Socially,
we all lived reasonably close

680
00:37:27,634 --> 00:37:30,262
to each other in those days.

681
00:37:30,264 --> 00:37:33,390
There was always
captains' team meetings

682
00:37:33,426 --> 00:37:35,230
on Tuesdays or Wednesdays

683
00:37:35,232 --> 00:37:38,331
and Robbo would say,
"Right, it's captains' day,"

684
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,690
which meant, basically, you had
to go to the pub and stay there

685
00:37:41,725 --> 00:37:45,065
for as long
as you could bear it.

686
00:37:46,331 --> 00:37:49,799
I'd go into the bars
and just say,

687
00:37:49,868 --> 00:37:51,724
"We're having
a bonding session, gaffer."

688
00:37:51,759 --> 00:37:53,697
"We're going out here,
going out there."

689
00:37:53,732 --> 00:37:57,991
The boss was all for it.

690
00:37:58,027 --> 00:38:01,231
I went out with them
once, when I first got there,

691
00:38:01,233 --> 00:38:03,890
and I ride back in the boot
of Bryan Robson's car.

692
00:38:03,892 --> 00:38:06,060
Whiteside, Robson, McGrath
are the three names

693
00:38:06,096 --> 00:38:08,891
that always get mentioned.

694
00:38:08,927 --> 00:38:12,727
And we did, we did like
to go out and have a few pints.

695
00:38:12,729 --> 00:38:16,456
Well, I say to them boys,
"You were our three best players

696
00:38:16,491 --> 00:38:17,557
week in and week out.

697
00:38:17,592 --> 00:38:20,523
Why didn't you get the rest
of the boys out with you?"

698
00:38:20,558 --> 00:38:21,734
We would have been unbeatable.

699
00:38:21,758 --> 00:38:23,529
Oh, what a strike!

700
00:38:23,564 --> 00:38:26,790
If you can get people
enjoying what they're doing,

701
00:38:26,792 --> 00:38:28,372
then you're gonna get
more out of them.

702
00:38:28,396 --> 00:38:31,030
A big trophy for Big Ron.

703
00:38:31,032 --> 00:38:32,862
We did have a good cup run.

704
00:38:32,931 --> 00:38:35,626
We won it in '83 and '85.

705
00:38:40,065 --> 00:38:42,797
I mean,
it's the biggest cup in Britain

706
00:38:42,833 --> 00:38:44,229
and we've got the best support.

707
00:38:44,264 --> 00:38:46,456
It's the league
that United fans want.

708
00:38:46,492 --> 00:38:48,328
An FA Cup is six matches.

709
00:38:48,330 --> 00:38:50,361
It's not hard.
Any club can win an FA Cup.

710
00:38:50,430 --> 00:38:52,857
It's the league
that's the big one; 42 matches.

711
00:38:52,892 --> 00:38:54,957
FA Cup triumph for Man United.

712
00:38:54,959 --> 00:38:58,891
I got that family
feeling when I was there.

713
00:38:58,926 --> 00:39:01,931
They had a humility about them.
All these guys.

714
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,995
And a friendliness.
And a camaraderie.

715
00:39:05,031 --> 00:39:07,589
But they never excluded anybody.

716
00:39:07,625 --> 00:39:08,898
I think your liver excluded you

717
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:10,323
from these parties,
now and then.

718
00:39:10,392 --> 00:39:11,457
It wasn't parties.

719
00:39:11,526 --> 00:39:14,461
It was just going to pubs
and sitting down and drinking.

720
00:39:14,463 --> 00:39:18,131
And that held us back.
There's no doubt about it.

721
00:39:18,133 --> 00:39:22,030
Because I spoke
to Jesper Olsen's fitness coach

722
00:39:22,098 --> 00:39:23,957
and he says,
"Youse are losing players

723
00:39:23,959 --> 00:39:26,731
left, right and centre
of injuries cos of the alcohol."

724
00:39:26,766 --> 00:39:28,359
We were reasonably successful.

725
00:39:28,395 --> 00:39:29,998
We were never
out of the top four.

726
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,962
We qualified for Europe
nearly every year.

727
00:39:32,997 --> 00:39:34,995
We won a couple of FA Cups.

728
00:39:35,030 --> 00:39:37,723
So, we weren't unsuccessful,

729
00:39:37,758 --> 00:39:39,966
but, again,
after four, five years

730
00:39:40,001 --> 00:39:43,099
we weren't looking like
winning the league.

731
00:39:43,168 --> 00:39:45,865
It was still 18
years since we won the league.

732
00:39:45,867 --> 00:39:48,065
Nineteen years
since we won the league.

733
00:39:48,101 --> 00:39:51,890
At that time, Liverpool
were absolutely a machine,

734
00:39:51,926 --> 00:39:55,730
but I did feel that
with the players that we had,

735
00:39:55,732 --> 00:39:57,362
we could win the league.

736
00:40:03,330 --> 00:40:06,097
Things had gone
a little bit wrong

737
00:40:06,133 --> 00:40:10,229
and I wasn't sure
that we could pull it round.

738
00:40:10,298 --> 00:40:13,731
I just felt a change
was needed at that stage.

739
00:40:13,767 --> 00:40:18,231
We went in training one morning.

740
00:40:18,266 --> 00:40:22,489
My boots aren't out for training
and I get a message,

741
00:40:22,558 --> 00:40:24,890
"Chairman wants to see you."

742
00:40:24,959 --> 00:40:27,166
And Mick Brown says,
"The Chairman wants to see us."

743
00:40:27,201 --> 00:40:31,394
I just remember Mick saying,
"What do you think he wants?"

744
00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:34,063
I said, "Don't ask
for a rise today, Mick."

745
00:40:34,099 --> 00:40:37,024
"I don't think
that's gonna happen."

746
00:40:37,059 --> 00:40:40,928
Manchester United Football Club
sacked their manager,

747
00:40:40,963 --> 00:40:42,362
Ron Atkinson, today

748
00:40:42,397 --> 00:40:46,396
and with him goes his
assistant, Mick Brown.

749
00:40:46,464 --> 00:40:49,126
I actually had no indication
what was gonna happen.

750
00:40:49,128 --> 00:40:50,128
I've come down today

751
00:40:50,195 --> 00:40:53,898
expecting, a nice five-a-side
and what have you.

752
00:40:53,934 --> 00:40:56,230
The Chairman
called for me at 10.30.

753
00:40:56,266 --> 00:40:58,823
They told me, reluctantly,
I felt reluctantly,

754
00:40:58,825 --> 00:41:02,461
that they decided
to dispense with my services

755
00:41:02,463 --> 00:41:04,730
because of the results
over the last few months.

756
00:41:04,766 --> 00:41:08,296
And I accept that totally.

757
00:41:09,193 --> 00:41:10,264
Bump.

758
00:41:10,299 --> 00:41:13,398
We went, "Well, what do
you mean, gone?" "I'm away."

759
00:41:13,467 --> 00:41:14,467
"Right, OK."

760
00:41:14,534 --> 00:41:17,991
So, we just looked at
each other a bit and he went,

761
00:41:17,993 --> 00:41:22,423
"Everybody at my house tonight.
Eight o'clock, party."

762
00:41:22,459 --> 00:41:23,459
And that's what it was.

763
00:41:23,525 --> 00:41:25,265
Round to Ron's for a party.

764
00:41:26,102 --> 00:41:28,999
To celebrate him
getting the sack.

765
00:41:30,831 --> 00:41:32,491
Right, here's Fergie.

766
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,995
There was
only one target for me.

767
00:41:34,030 --> 00:41:35,890
And that was Alex Ferguson.

768
00:41:35,892 --> 00:41:37,836
I knew that if I rang up
Aberdeen at switchboard

769
00:41:37,860 --> 00:41:40,461
and just said it was
Martin Edwards, the Chairman,

770
00:41:40,496 --> 00:41:42,832
and I suddenly wanted
to speak to Alex Ferguson,

771
00:41:42,868 --> 00:41:44,632
then I may not
have been put through.

772
00:41:44,667 --> 00:41:46,898
So we went straight to Mike.

773
00:41:46,933 --> 00:41:49,263
"Hello.
Can I speak to Alex, please?"

774
00:41:50,893 --> 00:41:54,330
I think he was pretending
to be Gordon Strachan's agent.

775
00:41:54,366 --> 00:41:56,997
She said, "Oh, John, how are
you? How are the children?"

776
00:41:57,032 --> 00:41:59,394
And I saw the sweat
was pouring down.

777
00:41:59,396 --> 00:42:01,763
I said, "They're fine,
thank you. Fine."

778
00:42:01,832 --> 00:42:02,997
Can I speak to Alex, please?

779
00:42:03,033 --> 00:42:05,428
She said,
"Sure. I'll put you through."

780
00:42:06,501 --> 00:42:08,994
Welcome to Manchester.

781
00:42:13,927 --> 00:42:18,065
Ooh! This is different, lads.
This is seriously different.

782
00:42:19,799 --> 00:42:21,327
"I'm Alex Ferguson."

783
00:42:21,329 --> 00:42:24,166
"I'm manager
of Manchester United now."

784
00:42:24,201 --> 00:42:26,799
"I don't care who you are. I
don't care if you're Whiteside,

785
00:42:26,834 --> 00:42:28,763
Robson, McGrath,
Strachan. Whatever."

786
00:42:28,765 --> 00:42:30,525
He said, "I am the manager

787
00:42:30,561 --> 00:42:32,391
of Manchester United
from this day."

788
00:42:32,426 --> 00:42:33,624
I woke up this morning, Alex,

789
00:42:33,626 --> 00:42:35,330
to read
that you're gonna win the title.

790
00:42:35,399 --> 00:42:39,396
Well, what I've said is that
starting today we have to win.

791
00:42:39,432 --> 00:42:42,262
And we have to start thinking
of winning every game now.

792
00:42:42,297 --> 00:42:45,090
The first
pre-match meal we ever had

793
00:42:45,092 --> 00:42:50,129
he got the waitresses to take
away butter and bring margarine.

794
00:42:50,164 --> 00:42:52,891
He wouldn't allow us
to have salt.

795
00:42:52,926 --> 00:42:55,624
Oh, he was authoritative.
There's no doubt about that.

796
00:42:55,693 --> 00:42:57,764
He was a man in control.
He was the boss.

797
00:42:57,766 --> 00:42:59,463
Yeah, he was more disciplined.

798
00:42:59,499 --> 00:43:04,890
There were more boundaries and
rules that you had to abide by.

799
00:43:07,002 --> 00:43:09,399
The structure
of the club and the scouting,

800
00:43:09,434 --> 00:43:10,294
to the youth team

801
00:43:10,396 --> 00:43:13,127
to the way that everything
was sort of run,

802
00:43:13,196 --> 00:43:15,924
it was all geared to be his way.

803
00:43:15,959 --> 00:43:19,133
And there goes
the final whistle.

804
00:43:19,135 --> 00:43:23,697
Manchester United, one goal
only in the last six games now.

805
00:43:23,733 --> 00:43:26,766
No win in their last six.

806
00:43:26,801 --> 00:43:29,197
The vultures
are already circling.

807
00:43:30,897 --> 00:43:32,956
And the knives are out.

808
00:43:42,530 --> 00:43:45,965
The atmosphere
sometimes could be critical.

809
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,032
The media certainly
could be critical.

810
00:43:57,764 --> 00:43:59,099
There were moments

811
00:43:59,134 --> 00:44:02,231
when you thought he was
coming under real pressure.

812
00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:05,031
I think he knew himself that
he needed to turn it around.

813
00:44:05,067 --> 00:44:08,000
I was just hopeful
that he could turn it round

814
00:44:08,035 --> 00:44:10,890
before we had to make
any decisions to the contrary.

815
00:44:12,265 --> 00:44:14,898
We knew how hard
he was working with the scouts,

816
00:44:14,966 --> 00:44:17,624
we knew the emphasis
he put on youth.

817
00:44:17,659 --> 00:44:19,127
The time and effort
he put into it

818
00:44:19,195 --> 00:44:20,924
was just unbelievable, really.

819
00:44:20,926 --> 00:44:24,426
He was there first thing
in the morning, last to leave.

820
00:44:24,462 --> 00:44:26,294
He's one of those believers,

821
00:44:26,329 --> 00:44:27,701
the more you put in,
you get out.

822
00:44:27,725 --> 00:44:31,791
And it is
that working-class ethic.

823
00:44:32,766 --> 00:44:35,933
Patience. Rare in football.

824
00:44:35,935 --> 00:44:39,098
But a most precious commodity
for a manager.

825
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,923
I think that Cup run
was the biggest pressure of all.

826
00:44:51,564 --> 00:44:54,599
The media were trying
to build that game up to be

827
00:44:54,634 --> 00:44:56,230
a crucial game for his future.

828
00:45:03,299 --> 00:45:06,356
We just knew, as a group,
that we had to do better.

829
00:45:06,392 --> 00:45:08,990
We had to do more.

830
00:45:09,026 --> 00:45:13,324
We just felt if he
could just get some success

831
00:45:13,359 --> 00:45:14,857
it would all come right.

832
00:45:18,231 --> 00:45:20,060
He was fearless
in what he'd done.

833
00:45:20,096 --> 00:45:21,263
He would just stick by it

834
00:45:21,299 --> 00:45:23,724
and he'd always believe
he could make it work

835
00:45:23,793 --> 00:45:26,323
to suit Manchester United
as a football team

836
00:45:26,392 --> 00:45:27,791
and a football club.

837
00:45:34,768 --> 00:45:36,560
You've gotta win
your domestic title.

838
00:45:36,596 --> 00:45:38,899
That's what you're judged on.
Your competition.

839
00:45:38,934 --> 00:45:41,791
The competition
in your own environment.

840
00:45:43,693 --> 00:45:47,328
And that was always
the, uh, the holy grail.

841
00:45:47,363 --> 00:45:49,031
And the players
are always being reminded

842
00:45:49,033 --> 00:45:52,857
that they hadn't won that
for so many years.

843
00:45:54,066 --> 00:45:56,196
Arch-rivals take to the field

844
00:45:56,232 --> 00:45:59,489
with United still
in this race for the title.

845
00:45:59,558 --> 00:46:01,427
Up until Christmas,

846
00:46:01,462 --> 00:46:04,857
we looked as if
we were odds on favourites.

847
00:46:04,893 --> 00:46:07,361
We, you know, we played
some fantastic football.

848
00:46:07,397 --> 00:46:11,763
And, um, and if we're being
brutally honest,

849
00:46:11,799 --> 00:46:13,494
we, uh, bottled it a bit.

850
00:46:13,529 --> 00:46:16,731
And Walters on the follow-up!

851
00:46:16,767 --> 00:46:18,227
And the title will go to Leeds!

852
00:46:18,229 --> 00:46:19,991
Manchester United have blown it.

853
00:46:20,026 --> 00:46:23,562
We'd handed the opportunity
to Leeds to go on and win it.

854
00:46:23,598 --> 00:46:28,264
It's the most disappointed I'd
ever been, really, in football.

855
00:46:28,299 --> 00:46:31,298
After the game someone asked me
for my autograph.

856
00:46:31,300 --> 00:46:33,799
And I signed it and they ripped
it up in front of me.

857
00:46:33,835 --> 00:46:35,374
They said,
"You'll never win the league."

858
00:46:35,398 --> 00:46:39,162
Sir Alex used that as a tool
to, um, to make it,

859
00:46:39,231 --> 00:46:42,032
"It's us against the world,"
basically.

860
00:46:44,134 --> 00:46:47,456
He made a point of
saying it on the coach,

861
00:46:47,491 --> 00:46:50,199
"This is what happened."

862
00:46:50,201 --> 00:46:54,127
"Next year, we come back, and
we don't let this happen again."

863
00:46:54,162 --> 00:46:55,242
"Right, we'll show people."

864
00:46:55,366 --> 00:46:57,928
"We'll show them what we're
about and what we're gonna do

865
00:46:57,964 --> 00:47:00,228
and we will overcome it."

866
00:47:00,230 --> 00:47:02,899
We've got to assemble a squad

867
00:47:02,935 --> 00:47:05,692
which is good enough
to win the Premier League.

868
00:47:08,331 --> 00:47:12,462
We had a great
presence about that team.

869
00:47:12,497 --> 00:47:17,129
And so, that dressing room could
handle a character.

870
00:47:17,165 --> 00:47:20,599
And Eric was definitely
a character.

871
00:47:20,601 --> 00:47:22,626
Manchester United needed me.

872
00:47:24,259 --> 00:47:25,824
And I needed them.

873
00:47:29,198 --> 00:47:33,065
I was an outsider, but...
I was accepted.

874
00:47:34,693 --> 00:47:36,891
I was born to play
for Manchester United.

875
00:47:40,001 --> 00:47:41,990
It's a good cross,
and Cantona...

876
00:47:42,059 --> 00:47:44,731
Beautiful turn on his first goal
for Manchester United.

877
00:47:44,733 --> 00:47:47,297
Eric became a catalyst in a way.

878
00:47:47,332 --> 00:47:50,690
He was different.
He trained differently.

879
00:47:50,726 --> 00:47:52,792
He looked after himself
differently.

880
00:47:52,861 --> 00:47:56,893
As time went on, he just changed
everybody's mentality.

881
00:47:56,928 --> 00:47:59,308
A lot of people say a talisman,
but I think it's more than that.

882
00:47:59,332 --> 00:48:04,124
When we bought Cantona,
everything seemed to kick off.

883
00:48:06,464 --> 00:48:08,865
There was
a different culture at the club.

884
00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:10,665
You were seeing
these young kids,

885
00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:12,128
like little cats, sneaking up,

886
00:48:12,130 --> 00:48:14,133
getting closer and closer
to Eric.

887
00:48:14,135 --> 00:48:18,065
And before we knew it, they
were doing the same as he did.

888
00:48:18,100 --> 00:48:21,464
From that point on,
we never really looked back.

889
00:48:22,762 --> 00:48:30,031
♪ Don't waste your words,
I don't need anything from you

890
00:48:30,066 --> 00:48:33,862
♪ I don't care
where you've been or what...

891
00:48:33,930 --> 00:48:35,626
Hughes!

892
00:48:38,630 --> 00:48:41,691
We really believed that we could
win the league that year.

893
00:48:41,693 --> 00:48:43,724
The boys had loads of belief
in themselves.

894
00:48:43,792 --> 00:48:46,098
There was a determination
amongst us all.

895
00:48:47,429 --> 00:48:49,960
Cantona picks out Hughes.

896
00:48:50,029 --> 00:48:51,929
And another cracker.

897
00:48:51,965 --> 00:48:54,692
The fans, the culture, the city.

898
00:48:54,727 --> 00:48:57,758
That was the energy
that pushed us forward.

899
00:49:00,529 --> 00:49:03,096
We were taught to be brave,
to take chances...

900
00:49:03,165 --> 00:49:05,461
- Cantona.
- ..be confident.

901
00:49:05,463 --> 00:49:09,032
It's a night where you can relax
and play but win.

902
00:49:09,034 --> 00:49:11,123
It was just there,
you could feel it.

903
00:49:11,192 --> 00:49:15,323
Determination to make sure that
we got over the line this time.

904
00:49:19,897 --> 00:49:20,866
Bruce!

905
00:49:20,901 --> 00:49:23,890
♪ I am the resurrection
and I am the life

906
00:49:26,096 --> 00:49:28,729
Unbelievable!

907
00:49:34,795 --> 00:49:38,824
They've come back
from the dead in this one.

908
00:49:48,564 --> 00:49:54,190
United are Kings of England once
more. Champions, once again.

909
00:49:54,225 --> 00:49:55,932
Champions.

910
00:49:55,934 --> 00:50:02,556
♪ I am the resurrection
and I am the life

911
00:50:02,625 --> 00:50:04,791
♪ I couldn't ever bring myself

912
00:50:05,930 --> 00:50:13,329
♪ To hate you as I'd like

913
00:50:18,934 --> 00:50:22,257
We all felt the joy
that we'd brought to Man U

914
00:50:22,325 --> 00:50:23,758
after 26 years.

915
00:50:24,766 --> 00:50:26,031
I can always remember

916
00:50:26,066 --> 00:50:29,291
Sir Matt's smiling face
in the stand.

917
00:50:29,359 --> 00:50:30,691
He was just so delighted

918
00:50:30,727 --> 00:50:33,698
that the club had won it
after so many years.

919
00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:35,127
It was like a weight was lifted

920
00:50:35,129 --> 00:50:37,866
and it really meant everything

921
00:50:37,901 --> 00:50:42,230
to the group of players
and to the city.

922
00:50:48,531 --> 00:50:52,797
Manchester did feel like
the centre of the universe.

923
00:50:52,832 --> 00:50:54,393
You just felt this connection

924
00:50:54,428 --> 00:50:57,032
between the music
and the football.

925
00:50:58,399 --> 00:51:02,532
Old Trafford in the afternoon.
The Haçienda in the night time.

926
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,864
What a perfect weekend.

927
00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:06,165
The music scene was flying.

928
00:51:06,234 --> 00:51:10,724
We had all the best bands
around the world were all local.

929
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,462
Added to that, football,
we were taking off.

930
00:51:14,497 --> 00:51:18,325
Goes for
the chip, and, oh, exquisite!

931
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,923
The city was upbeat.

932
00:51:20,959 --> 00:51:23,393
You realise that something
special is going on,

933
00:51:23,429 --> 00:51:25,229
something's really,
really happening.

934
00:51:25,265 --> 00:51:29,862
Definitely did feel
that the pressure was off.

935
00:51:29,864 --> 00:51:31,066
And the shackles were off.

936
00:51:31,068 --> 00:51:33,298
He's made
an opening, can he finish it?

937
00:51:33,367 --> 00:51:34,266
He can!

938
00:51:34,334 --> 00:51:36,731
Every time we went up
against opposition,

939
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,196
we'd look across and believe

940
00:51:39,232 --> 00:51:41,261
that the opposition
were beaten in the tunnel.

941
00:51:41,296 --> 00:51:44,626
We had that... arrogance,
really,

942
00:51:44,661 --> 00:51:47,224
and that confidence that we were
gonna win games.

943
00:51:50,501 --> 00:51:52,890
We felt unbeatable.

944
00:51:54,725 --> 00:51:56,763
Oh, c'est magnifique!

945
00:51:56,798 --> 00:51:58,593
We felt unstoppable.

946
00:52:00,293 --> 00:52:01,626
Irwin!

947
00:52:04,296 --> 00:52:07,923
Oh! An absolute rocket
from Cantona!

948
00:52:09,666 --> 00:52:11,924
United, champions again.

949
00:52:11,959 --> 00:52:15,725
And this time winners,
of the League and Cup double.

950
00:52:17,397 --> 00:52:21,323
The winner of the PFA
Player of the Year Award

951
00:52:21,358 --> 00:52:24,131
for 1994 is...

952
00:52:25,325 --> 00:52:26,325
Eric Cantona.

953
00:52:29,765 --> 00:52:30,824
Well done.

954
00:52:30,860 --> 00:52:34,661
You thoroughly deserve that.
Really, well done.

955
00:52:34,730 --> 00:52:36,462
Well done.

956
00:52:36,464 --> 00:52:42,830
I'm very happy and very proud
to get this prize tonight.

957
00:52:42,866 --> 00:52:45,823
And I would like to say, first,

958
00:52:45,859 --> 00:52:50,929
I owe all my success
to Manchester United.

959
00:52:50,931 --> 00:52:54,664
To my manager, Alex Ferguson.

960
00:52:54,699 --> 00:52:56,296
My coach, Brian Kidd.

961
00:52:56,298 --> 00:52:59,931
All my team mates, the staff,
and the fans.

962
00:52:59,967 --> 00:53:03,262
After that I would like,
uh, congratulate

963
00:53:03,297 --> 00:53:06,493
all the people from football
in England.

964
00:53:06,561 --> 00:53:09,091
Even the player
who didn't vote for me.

965
00:53:10,297 --> 00:53:12,723
For... for all the pleasure
they give me

966
00:53:12,792 --> 00:53:14,924
to play in this
magnificent football.

967
00:53:14,926 --> 00:53:17,728
English football. Thank you
very much, to everybody.

968
00:53:40,034 --> 00:53:43,198
Always around that time,
January, Selhurst Park.

969
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,857
They're the.. These are
the games that win you leagues.

970
00:53:51,898 --> 00:53:53,099
We knew it was gonna be tough.

971
00:53:53,101 --> 00:53:56,724
You know, it's blustery,
it's pouring down, it's windy.

972
00:53:56,726 --> 00:54:00,362
Bobbly pitch.
Not great conditions to play in.

973
00:54:01,692 --> 00:54:03,430
Whenever we went away
to away grounds,

974
00:54:03,432 --> 00:54:07,797
you hear the sound of the crowd
and the baying of the crowd.

975
00:54:07,832 --> 00:54:09,461
That was just to-to irritate

976
00:54:09,530 --> 00:54:12,065
and try and get a reaction
out of the players.

977
00:54:14,035 --> 00:54:17,297
Some of the abuse that
we used to get was ridiculous.

978
00:54:17,299 --> 00:54:19,664
It's a cold
and windy winter night

979
00:54:19,699 --> 00:54:20,699
here in South London.

980
00:54:20,792 --> 00:54:23,430
This will be a test
of United's credentials.

981
00:54:23,465 --> 00:54:26,096
It was a frustrating game.
Uh, Palace were frustrating us.

982
00:54:26,131 --> 00:54:29,823
We weren't playing
flowing football.

983
00:54:29,892 --> 00:54:32,390
Cantona, strongly dispossessed

984
00:54:32,458 --> 00:54:34,324
and claiming the foul.

985
00:54:34,359 --> 00:54:35,527
But not getting it.

986
00:54:35,563 --> 00:54:40,730
But what you don't see,
for the first 60 minutes,

987
00:54:40,766 --> 00:54:42,493
is Eric getting kicked.

988
00:54:42,561 --> 00:54:45,029
Shaw comes right through him.

989
00:54:45,031 --> 00:54:46,825
You gotta let it
go over your head,

990
00:54:46,827 --> 00:54:50,164
but sometimes it gets a bit much
for you, doesn't it?

991
00:54:51,260 --> 00:54:52,226
I was injured,

992
00:54:52,261 --> 00:54:55,199
so I was listening to the game
on the radio.

993
00:54:55,234 --> 00:54:59,999
I always felt I could read
when his eyes used to go black.

994
00:55:00,035 --> 00:55:02,990
So when those occasions
occurred, I always felt,

995
00:55:03,059 --> 00:55:06,033
"OK, Eric, don't worry about
it. I'll-I'll sort this guy."

996
00:55:06,102 --> 00:55:09,223
"You go look for space over
there while you calm down."

997
00:55:10,564 --> 00:55:13,999
Cantona gets
to his feet, quite gingerly.

998
00:55:16,228 --> 00:55:18,162
Long clearance from Schmeichel.

999
00:55:18,198 --> 00:55:19,964
And a problem off the ball
immediately.

1000
00:55:19,999 --> 00:55:22,830
Cantona and Shaw
tangle once more.

1001
00:55:22,865 --> 00:55:24,261
And the referee is coming over

1002
00:55:24,297 --> 00:55:26,258
and immediately
shows the red card!

1003
00:55:26,293 --> 00:55:27,459
Cantona is dismissed!

1004
00:55:27,495 --> 00:55:30,162
Where can there be a place
in the game

1005
00:55:30,231 --> 00:55:33,865
for a man of such
extravagant talent?

1006
00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:36,294
A man of such wicked
temperament?

1007
00:55:36,329 --> 00:55:37,924
For the fifth time

1008
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:43,263
as a Manchester United player,
Eric Cantona is sent off.

1009
00:55:45,231 --> 00:55:47,890
Sir Alex
isn't even looking at him.

1010
00:55:49,099 --> 00:55:51,626
So, I don't know if Eric's
caught, sort of,

1011
00:55:51,661 --> 00:55:54,531
the sight of the manager
not even looking at him,

1012
00:55:54,567 --> 00:55:55,790
and that, sort of,

1013
00:55:55,792 --> 00:55:58,364
added a little bit more fire
in his belly.

1014
00:55:58,399 --> 00:56:01,724
And then it's just, obviously
something's just... switched.

1015
00:56:01,759 --> 00:56:03,363
Dismissed and has now...

1016
00:56:03,398 --> 00:56:07,991
Oh my goodness me! He just
kicked, he's punched a fan!

1017
00:56:08,060 --> 00:56:13,832
Eric Cantona has jumped in and
scissor, kung-fu kicked, a fan!

1018
00:56:13,901 --> 00:56:15,626
Manchester United fans
are coming across!

1019
00:56:15,628 --> 00:56:20,028
I have never seen
as disgraceful incident as that

1020
00:56:20,030 --> 00:56:22,065
in all my years in football!

1021
00:56:22,067 --> 00:56:25,159
Eric Cantona should be
thrown out of the game

1022
00:56:25,195 --> 00:56:26,691
for that sort of incident!

1023
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:30,528
He launched himself
six feet into the crowd

1024
00:56:30,597 --> 00:56:35,027
and kung-fu kicked a supporter
who was eye-witness...

1025
00:56:43,759 --> 00:56:45,763
I have been insulted
thousands of times

1026
00:56:45,765 --> 00:56:47,857
and I have never reacted.

1027
00:56:49,368 --> 00:56:50,758
But sometimes...

1028
00:56:53,632 --> 00:56:55,164
you're fragile.

1029
00:57:04,659 --> 00:57:06,560
I think within
the changing room,

1030
00:57:06,629 --> 00:57:09,231
it was more about the game,
the disappointment,

1031
00:57:09,300 --> 00:57:14,362
but you knew there was something
else that had happened...

1032
00:57:15,793 --> 00:57:17,929
that was at the back
of everyone's mind.

1033
00:57:17,965 --> 00:57:20,956
Uh, back of the manager's mind.

1034
00:57:23,197 --> 00:57:25,329
"How am I gonna
deal with this now?"

1035
00:57:29,068 --> 00:57:31,564
Keep back, please.
Can you keep back.

1036
00:57:36,467 --> 00:57:38,098
Alex!

1037
00:57:51,266 --> 00:57:53,726
The directors of Manchester
United are meeting now

1038
00:57:53,762 --> 00:57:57,395
to discuss the future of their
fallen star, Eric Cantona.

1039
00:57:57,430 --> 00:57:59,895
The man promoted
as the greatest player in Europe

1040
00:57:59,930 --> 00:58:00,930
is tonight best known

1041
00:58:01,001 --> 00:58:02,668
for the most outrageous
piece of behaviour

1042
00:58:02,692 --> 00:58:03,976
in the history
of the British game.

1043
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,229
Should Eric Cantona
be banned for life?

1044
00:58:06,264 --> 00:58:08,391
No, he shouldn't.
He's got to be banned

1045
00:58:08,427 --> 00:58:09,525
and he's got to be disciplined.

1046
00:58:09,527 --> 00:58:11,627
But it would
just be such a waste.

1047
00:58:11,663 --> 00:58:14,832
What happened last night
was a stain on our game.

1048
00:58:14,868 --> 00:58:16,473
The Football Association
has this evening

1049
00:58:16,497 --> 00:58:19,561
charged Eric Cantona of
Manchester United and France

1050
00:58:19,597 --> 00:58:22,528
with misconduct that has
brought the game into disrepute.

1051
00:58:22,564 --> 00:58:25,561
Neither explanation
nor apology so far today

1052
00:58:25,597 --> 00:58:28,532
from Eric Cantona, the man who,
this time, it seems,

1053
00:58:28,567 --> 00:58:30,031
has simply gone too far.

1054
00:58:30,033 --> 00:58:32,329
What do you think's
gonna happen?

1055
00:58:39,164 --> 00:58:40,957
Good morning,
ladies and gentlemen.

1056
00:58:40,992 --> 00:58:44,490
Manchester United has today
suspended Eric Cantona

1057
00:58:44,492 --> 00:58:46,658
from all first team matches

1058
00:58:46,693 --> 00:58:50,129
for the remainder
of the 1994/95 season.

1059
00:58:50,198 --> 00:58:52,094
Most Manchester United fans

1060
00:58:52,129 --> 00:58:53,731
will clearly wait for Cantona.

1061
00:58:53,733 --> 00:58:55,430
But will Cantona wait for them?

1062
00:58:55,465 --> 00:58:58,665
When he was similarly punished
in France, he quit the game,

1063
00:58:58,700 --> 00:59:00,757
saying it was all beneath him.

1064
00:59:00,759 --> 00:59:03,896
Eric Cantona should be
suspended forthwith

1065
00:59:03,964 --> 00:59:06,360
from all football activities,

1066
00:59:06,396 --> 00:59:10,496
up to and including
September 1995.

1067
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,730
He has given a statement
to the police,

1068
00:59:15,732 --> 00:59:16,896
he has been charged.

1069
00:59:16,932 --> 00:59:19,528
The charge is of common assault.

1070
00:59:19,564 --> 00:59:22,832
Magistrate Jean
Perch ordered he go to jail.

1071
00:59:22,901 --> 00:59:24,732
Cantona's barrister argued

1072
00:59:24,768 --> 00:59:26,362
that they sent Cantona to prison

1073
00:59:26,364 --> 00:59:28,591
not because of the seriousness
of the offence,

1074
00:59:28,660 --> 00:59:30,895
but because
he was a public figure.

1075
00:59:41,033 --> 00:59:42,661
Stuart, from the gallery,

1076
00:59:42,663 --> 00:59:46,456
I think we're talking about him
almost coming in any moment.

1077
00:59:46,492 --> 00:59:48,263
Yeah, gallery, this is it.

1078
00:59:50,265 --> 00:59:52,329
First of all, I've got
a brief statement in English

1079
00:59:52,398 --> 00:59:55,230
and then Eric Cantona
would like to say a few words.

1080
00:59:57,567 --> 00:59:58,699
Eric Cantona's appeal

1081
00:59:58,735 --> 01:00:02,726
against the custodial sentence
of 14 days was allowed today

1082
01:00:02,762 --> 01:00:07,790
and a community service order
of 120 hours substituted.

1083
01:00:07,859 --> 01:00:10,131
Eric Cantona would like
to say a few words.

1084
01:00:11,329 --> 01:00:15,192
My mind was clear,
this was my time.

1085
01:00:15,227 --> 01:00:17,065
This was my message.

1086
01:00:19,831 --> 01:00:21,329
When the seagulls...

1087
01:00:23,864 --> 01:00:25,296
follow the trawler,

1088
01:00:25,996 --> 01:00:28,295
it's because they think

1089
01:00:28,297 --> 01:00:33,256
sardines will be thrown
into the sea.

1090
01:00:33,291 --> 01:00:34,398
Thank you.

1091
01:00:55,391 --> 01:00:57,663
I don't regret it.

1092
01:00:57,732 --> 01:00:59,658
I have one regret...

1093
01:00:59,727 --> 01:01:02,890
I would have loved to kick him
even harder.

1094
01:01:16,931 --> 01:01:18,956
I was banned for nine months.

1095
01:01:20,798 --> 01:01:22,758
I was very upset and...

1096
01:01:25,128 --> 01:01:27,131
and sad and disappointed.

1097
01:01:29,202 --> 01:01:33,664
They wanted me to be an example,
I didn't want to be an example.

1098
01:01:33,700 --> 01:01:35,762
I'm just a human being.

1099
01:01:44,132 --> 01:01:46,692
That was
a very difficult summer.

1100
01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:52,131
They'd lost the title
on the last day by a goal.

1101
01:01:54,096 --> 01:01:56,164
They lost the FA Cup final.

1102
01:01:57,197 --> 01:01:59,593
And then some
of the players left.

1103
01:02:00,826 --> 01:02:04,131
How do you let players
like Mark Hughes, Paul Ince

1104
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,427
and Andrei Kanchelskis,
who, all three of them

1105
01:02:06,462 --> 01:02:08,924
would have been
in every starting eleven.

1106
01:02:08,993 --> 01:02:11,823
Why do you let them go and
don't sign any other players?

1107
01:02:11,858 --> 01:02:15,899
And I asked him this, "Why?"
And he said,

1108
01:02:15,935 --> 01:02:18,496
"If I develop players
through my academy,

1109
01:02:18,531 --> 01:02:21,791
if I don't make room to them,
uh, for them in my first team,

1110
01:02:21,793 --> 01:02:23,997
they will stagnate and it's been
a waste of time."

1111
01:02:24,033 --> 01:02:27,133
If a youth team gives you one
player

1112
01:02:27,168 --> 01:02:30,363
that gets into the first team
each year, that's fantastic.

1113
01:02:30,398 --> 01:02:35,261
But we had, probably,
eight broke into the first team.

1114
01:02:35,329 --> 01:02:36,996
I remember him telling me,

1115
01:02:37,031 --> 01:02:38,566
"I think my lads
are good enough,

1116
01:02:38,601 --> 01:02:40,999
so I'm gonna promote them."

1117
01:02:41,034 --> 01:02:44,061
Beckham, Scholes, Butt,
the Nevilles.

1118
01:02:44,096 --> 01:02:46,099
All Manchester United fans.

1119
01:02:46,101 --> 01:02:48,890
And the Boss kept telling us
about them all the time.

1120
01:02:50,329 --> 01:02:52,324
If they've got the temperament,

1121
01:02:52,360 --> 01:02:53,694
they've got a good chance.

1122
01:02:53,729 --> 01:02:56,228
There's only one way you're
gonna find out, playing them.

1123
01:02:56,297 --> 01:02:58,492
They're good players, but...

1124
01:02:58,527 --> 01:03:00,997
It was a massive thing.

1125
01:03:01,032 --> 01:03:02,461
I mean, even,
I think, as players,

1126
01:03:02,463 --> 01:03:05,164
you're thinking,
"What are you doing?"

1127
01:03:07,463 --> 01:03:10,690
We'd come through
the youth team.

1128
01:03:10,692 --> 01:03:13,294
We'd come through
the reserve team.

1129
01:03:13,329 --> 01:03:15,999
We were a...
a very close family.

1130
01:03:18,725 --> 01:03:20,298
The players come through
the academy.

1131
01:03:20,334 --> 01:03:24,263
If they are good, they will be
better than any kind of player.

1132
01:03:26,331 --> 01:03:28,962
Because they will have
the soul of the club.

1133
01:03:28,997 --> 01:03:31,496
And the identity of the club.

1134
01:03:31,532 --> 01:03:34,192
Ferguson did what he
thought was right for the team,

1135
01:03:34,228 --> 01:03:35,589
and therefore the club.

1136
01:03:35,625 --> 01:03:37,598
He wanted to build a young team,

1137
01:03:37,633 --> 01:03:40,626
not unlike Matt Busby.

1138
01:03:43,399 --> 01:03:45,990
You could see what he was trying
to do with the youth team

1139
01:03:46,026 --> 01:03:49,429
and especially when he brought
Brian Kidd into the club.

1140
01:03:49,431 --> 01:03:53,725
Get all the best young players
around the Northwest area.

1141
01:03:53,794 --> 01:03:56,664
The emphasis went
more back with development

1142
01:03:56,666 --> 01:03:58,927
and particularly the, uh,

1143
01:03:58,963 --> 01:04:00,261
local development.

1144
01:04:00,296 --> 01:04:02,757
You know,
the Greater Manchester area.

1145
01:04:02,759 --> 01:04:05,423
Which was my role,
I was given that role,

1146
01:04:05,458 --> 01:04:07,131
local talent, really.

1147
01:04:08,759 --> 01:04:11,066
That's the heritage
at Manchester United.

1148
01:04:11,101 --> 01:04:14,459
You know, and Sir Matt
built teams, like Sir Alex did.

1149
01:04:14,461 --> 01:04:16,896
You know,
they rebuilt teams there.

1150
01:04:16,898 --> 01:04:19,032
That's what he was doing then.

1151
01:04:22,034 --> 01:04:25,830
It's not easily replaced,
these iconic figures.

1152
01:04:25,865 --> 01:04:27,164
Eric Cantona has said he wants

1153
01:04:27,233 --> 01:04:30,297
to leave Manchester United
and English football.

1154
01:04:30,299 --> 01:04:33,566
The FA inquiry into his
appearance in a friendly game

1155
01:04:33,568 --> 01:04:34,923
against Rochdale last month

1156
01:04:34,959 --> 01:04:38,031
appears to have triggered
his request to leave.

1157
01:04:38,100 --> 01:04:41,162
I played with the...
with the reserve team.

1158
01:04:41,197 --> 01:04:45,463
We closed all the doors,
and, uh...

1159
01:04:45,531 --> 01:04:49,064
I was not allowed to play with
a shirt of Manchester United.

1160
01:04:49,133 --> 01:04:51,460
So I play with the reserve team,
with that shirt.

1161
01:04:51,496 --> 01:04:54,799
Closed everything.
It was just a friendly game.

1162
01:04:54,835 --> 01:04:57,229
But a journalist
was on the top of the...

1163
01:04:57,231 --> 01:05:00,965
of a tree outside
and he took a picture.

1164
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,999
And, uh, unfortunately,
he didn't fall.

1165
01:05:05,296 --> 01:05:07,098
And the day, after it was
in the paper

1166
01:05:07,133 --> 01:05:10,000
and the FA wanted me...
to ban me even more.

1167
01:05:10,035 --> 01:05:12,132
Tonight, the star
himself is reported

1168
01:05:12,167 --> 01:05:15,066
to be in Paris contemplating
an uncertain future.

1169
01:05:15,135 --> 01:05:17,561
A spokesman for
Manchester United said tonight,

1170
01:05:17,596 --> 01:05:20,396
the board had considered
Cantona's request carefully,

1171
01:05:20,431 --> 01:05:23,362
but had decided they were not
prepared to release him.

1172
01:05:23,431 --> 01:05:25,932
Whether they can keep him here
against his will,

1173
01:05:26,001 --> 01:05:28,799
contract or not,
is another matter all together.

1174
01:05:28,834 --> 01:05:32,489
The siege mentality,
we just, uh...

1175
01:05:32,525 --> 01:05:33,924
we just circled the wagons

1176
01:05:33,926 --> 01:05:38,132
and everybody went inside
and then all stuck together.

1177
01:05:38,168 --> 01:05:40,966
The manager protected players
at our club, you know.

1178
01:05:40,968 --> 01:05:44,561
Because we all know that
when the manager was there

1179
01:05:44,596 --> 01:05:48,957
for the years that he was
and the success that he had,

1180
01:05:48,992 --> 01:05:51,430
it was because when you're
a Manchester United player

1181
01:05:51,465 --> 01:05:54,731
and something goes on in the
club or in your personal life,

1182
01:05:54,766 --> 01:05:58,362
you are treated like family.

1183
01:06:06,801 --> 01:06:08,791
The Boss had gone
to reassure him.

1184
01:06:09,864 --> 01:06:11,395
We was all behind him.

1185
01:06:13,500 --> 01:06:15,198
He was loved.

1186
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:19,163
I had a chat with Eric
yesterday morning.

1187
01:06:19,199 --> 01:06:21,323
I listened to him
and I can understand exactly

1188
01:06:21,358 --> 01:06:22,824
what he's saying.

1189
01:06:24,032 --> 01:06:27,660
He trained so hard
in the pre-season

1190
01:06:27,695 --> 01:06:30,791
and then all of a sudden
it was taken away from him.

1191
01:06:34,492 --> 01:06:36,330
You hear things and...

1192
01:06:36,332 --> 01:06:40,265
gradually you're not seeing
as much as... much of him.

1193
01:06:40,300 --> 01:06:42,627
Um...

1194
01:06:42,663 --> 01:06:46,394
So then you start to wonder,
you know, does he need this?

1195
01:06:46,463 --> 01:06:50,725
You know. Is he gonna go off
somewhere else?

1196
01:06:55,298 --> 01:06:57,228
Many United fans
see Eric Cantona

1197
01:06:57,297 --> 01:07:00,229
as the lynchpin
of Manchester United.

1198
01:07:00,264 --> 01:07:02,999
Do you see him as essential
to United?

1199
01:07:04,831 --> 01:07:06,461
Yeah, I think so.

1200
01:07:08,627 --> 01:07:10,797
In fact, what I-I-I'm probably
weak on

1201
01:07:10,866 --> 01:07:14,362
is, maybe, big game experience.

1202
01:07:14,364 --> 01:07:17,632
With players like Nicky Butt,
Paul Scholes,

1203
01:07:17,701 --> 01:07:20,529
the two Nevilles, David Beckham.

1204
01:07:20,565 --> 01:07:23,890
Can you win the
title next season if Eric stays?

1205
01:07:23,959 --> 01:07:26,999
Oh, yes.
I'm absolutely certain of that.

1206
01:07:28,725 --> 01:07:32,057
Can you win it if he goes?

1207
01:07:32,059 --> 01:07:35,626
We would have to
get a really good replacement.

1208
01:07:53,463 --> 01:07:57,157
He found
the right words, like always.

1209
01:08:00,001 --> 01:08:04,395
I loved him and I respected him
like a father.

1210
01:08:09,934 --> 01:08:12,923
When a manager does something
like this...

1211
01:08:14,467 --> 01:08:16,495
to his player...

1212
01:08:16,530 --> 01:08:22,194
for sure the player will
give his life to the manager.

1213
01:08:22,196 --> 01:08:25,596
And to the club.
And to the fans.

1214
01:08:25,631 --> 01:08:26,730
Everybody.

1215
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,597
Is he gonna play on Sunday?

1216
01:08:32,632 --> 01:08:35,360
Yes.

1217
01:08:35,396 --> 01:08:37,499
- Definitely.
- From the start?

1218
01:08:37,567 --> 01:08:39,032
Right from the start.

1219
01:08:39,067 --> 01:08:40,865
Welcome the King back in style!

1220
01:08:40,900 --> 01:08:43,063
Get your Eric the King
souvenirs!

1221
01:08:43,098 --> 01:08:46,291
Ooh, aah, ooh, aah, Cantona!

1222
01:08:48,464 --> 01:08:50,898
God is back, he's appearing
at Old Trafford today.

1223
01:08:50,933 --> 01:08:52,523
Miracles don't happen
that often.

1224
01:08:52,525 --> 01:08:53,892
What do you think about today?

1225
01:08:53,927 --> 01:08:56,129
Well, like every football fan
in the country, Martin,

1226
01:08:56,164 --> 01:08:58,097
I'm really excited
about the return

1227
01:08:58,132 --> 01:09:01,725
of the league's
most talented footballer.

1228
01:09:04,596 --> 01:09:08,896
I think it gave us as a club
and the team a real boost

1229
01:09:08,898 --> 01:09:11,092
to have Eric back on the pitch.

1230
01:09:19,063 --> 01:09:20,726
Cantona...

1231
01:09:20,728 --> 01:09:24,364
Puts it away. The script
is written. He's back again.

1232
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:25,557
Two-two.

1233
01:09:25,593 --> 01:09:27,063
The fans were behind me.

1234
01:09:27,099 --> 01:09:30,857
The-the-the...
Everybody at the club.

1235
01:09:30,926 --> 01:09:33,791
In some clubs, maybe they
would have sacked me,

1236
01:09:33,826 --> 01:09:37,791
and Manchester United
offered me a new contract.

1237
01:09:37,827 --> 01:09:39,961
That's the difference between
Manchester United

1238
01:09:39,996 --> 01:09:42,429
and the other ones.

1239
01:09:42,464 --> 01:09:44,660
Played across.
Oh, it's flying in.

1240
01:09:44,695 --> 01:09:47,997
And United have closed the gap
at the top of the table.

1241
01:09:48,032 --> 01:09:51,030
This combination
of what was there,

1242
01:09:51,065 --> 01:09:53,498
what came in
and then Eric returning...

1243
01:09:54,825 --> 01:09:58,756
it just made us
an incredible team.

1244
01:09:58,825 --> 01:10:00,360
Footballer of the year.

1245
01:10:00,429 --> 01:10:04,196
He came back
to drag United from nowhere.

1246
01:10:04,264 --> 01:10:06,799
To see Eric back playing,
the excitement.

1247
01:10:06,867 --> 01:10:09,923
It gave us that extra push
that season.

1248
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:17,630
James gets there,
just, first... Cantona!

1249
01:10:18,993 --> 01:10:24,295
United have done it. League
and Cup double winners again.

1250
01:10:24,364 --> 01:10:27,862
This double, for me,
means a lot.

1251
01:10:27,897 --> 01:10:30,832
It was a double, uh...

1252
01:10:30,867 --> 01:10:33,290
with a new generation
of players.

1253
01:10:37,267 --> 01:10:40,330
Ferguson thought he
was going to create this empire.

1254
01:10:40,365 --> 01:10:42,825
Cos most people don't think
about creating an empire,

1255
01:10:42,860 --> 01:10:45,092
they just think about,
"How do I win the next game?"

1256
01:11:00,430 --> 01:11:03,659
Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.

1257
01:11:04,966 --> 01:11:06,862
We have asked you
to come along today

1258
01:11:06,898 --> 01:11:08,097
so that we may announce

1259
01:11:08,166 --> 01:11:11,357
that Eric Cantona has indicated
his wish to retire from football

1260
01:11:11,392 --> 01:11:12,956
with immediate effect.

1261
01:11:18,692 --> 01:11:21,198
I didn't see it coming,
personally.

1262
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:25,363
Um, and I was devastated when,
when I heard the news.

1263
01:11:25,398 --> 01:11:28,231
I couldn't comprehend how
someone at such a young age,

1264
01:11:28,233 --> 01:11:30,396
with so much talent
would just leave the game and...

1265
01:11:30,398 --> 01:11:33,257
it was sad for us because,
you know, he was our talisman,

1266
01:11:33,293 --> 01:11:34,625
he was our leader.

1267
01:11:34,660 --> 01:11:37,261
It was really difficult
to understand

1268
01:11:37,296 --> 01:11:40,131
as a player and as a team mate.

1269
01:11:42,530 --> 01:11:47,932
But, I think once Eric makes
his mind up, you know,

1270
01:11:47,934 --> 01:11:50,357
he's that type of person
that, you know,

1271
01:11:50,426 --> 01:11:52,758
no one could change that.

1272
01:11:55,065 --> 01:11:57,797
The last game of the league
that season,

1273
01:11:57,799 --> 01:11:59,724
he rented a restaurant locally.

1274
01:11:59,759 --> 01:12:03,556
For me and Jordi and Eric
and our families.

1275
01:12:03,625 --> 01:12:05,898
We had a good time, great night.

1276
01:12:05,900 --> 01:12:08,890
Celebrated winning the league
again.

1277
01:12:10,066 --> 01:12:11,931
It was two days after,
I listened to the radio

1278
01:12:11,966 --> 01:12:14,130
and it was announced
that he'd retired.

1279
01:12:14,132 --> 01:12:16,490
And he never mentioned
one word to us.

1280
01:12:16,525 --> 01:12:17,958
We were dancing, having fun.

1281
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:20,997
Four o'clock in the morning,
we went home and not one word.

1282
01:12:21,066 --> 01:12:24,158
And that was Eric
in a nutshell for you.

1283
01:12:29,996 --> 01:12:31,923
I love the game.

1284
01:12:33,129 --> 01:12:34,966
I love the fire inside of me.

1285
01:12:35,001 --> 01:12:38,823
I love the adrenaline,
I love... I love that.

1286
01:12:38,859 --> 01:12:44,098
I played it as, like a kid.
It was my dream.

1287
01:12:47,901 --> 01:12:51,692
When this dream
became like a routine,

1288
01:12:54,330 --> 01:12:58,556
I don't want to play football
like this.

1289
01:12:58,558 --> 01:13:00,591
I want to be faithful to myself

1290
01:13:00,660 --> 01:13:04,658
and to the... to the fans
and everybody.

1291
01:13:04,694 --> 01:13:07,263
And there is so many things
to do in life.

1292
01:13:09,459 --> 01:13:11,428
I don't have time to waste.

1293
01:13:14,464 --> 01:13:18,296
It is time to pass the baton
on to the next generation.

1294
01:13:22,260 --> 01:13:23,697
My phone rang.

1295
01:13:23,733 --> 01:13:24,890
"David, it's the Boss."

1296
01:13:24,925 --> 01:13:28,926
And I was like, "OK, hi, Boss.
Uh, are you OK?"

1297
01:13:28,961 --> 01:13:31,823
And he said, "Yes, we're, we're
signing, um, Teddy Sheringham."

1298
01:13:31,892 --> 01:13:34,495
"And he's gonna take
the number 10 shirt."

1299
01:13:34,531 --> 01:13:37,496
And I was like, "Boss, I wanna
keep the number 10 shirt."

1300
01:13:37,565 --> 01:13:40,399
"I like wearing the number 10.
I enjoy wearing the number 10."

1301
01:13:40,434 --> 01:13:41,434
"Can I keep it?"

1302
01:13:41,535 --> 01:13:44,860
"Nope. Teddy's having it.
Don't worry about it, son."

1303
01:13:44,862 --> 01:13:46,164
Phone down.

1304
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:50,030
I was devastated for the
whole... the whole summer.

1305
01:13:50,032 --> 01:13:52,328
And then I went back
into pre-season

1306
01:13:52,396 --> 01:13:54,196
and the manager pulled me
into his office

1307
01:13:54,231 --> 01:13:56,262
and he was like, um,
"How you feeling?"

1308
01:13:56,298 --> 01:13:58,964
I was like, "Well, you know,
I'm OK, Boss."

1309
01:13:59,033 --> 01:14:01,424
I would never turn round
to him and say,

1310
01:14:01,493 --> 01:14:04,632
I'm-I'm, you know, a bit upset.

1311
01:14:04,667 --> 01:14:06,430
He said, "Oh, by the way, um,

1312
01:14:06,432 --> 01:14:09,857
yeah, you're gonna have the
number seven shirt this year."

1313
01:14:09,926 --> 01:14:12,690
And all of a sudden I went from
being devastated

1314
01:14:12,759 --> 01:14:15,261
to being one of
the happiest people.

1315
01:14:15,297 --> 01:14:17,891
Because, as a United fan,
you grow up

1316
01:14:17,927 --> 01:14:21,124
knowing that that number seven
shirt has been worn by

1317
01:14:21,193 --> 01:14:22,828
George Best,

1318
01:14:22,863 --> 01:14:25,125
Bryan Robson,

1319
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:26,626
Eric Cantona.

1320
01:14:28,358 --> 01:14:30,532
As much as I...

1321
01:14:30,568 --> 01:14:32,463
as I was gonna miss Eric,

1322
01:14:32,498 --> 01:14:34,892
I was kind of happy that I had
the number seven shirt.

1323
01:14:34,927 --> 01:14:37,961
And then kind of nervous that
I had to live up to anything

1324
01:14:37,996 --> 01:14:40,329
that he came close to.

1325
01:14:42,300 --> 01:14:44,929
You join us here
on this parade in North London

1326
01:14:44,964 --> 01:14:46,724
where you can see Arsenal...

1327
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:48,830
That year
was a tough year for us.

1328
01:14:48,832 --> 01:14:50,063
It was a really tough year.

1329
01:14:50,131 --> 01:14:52,890
'97-'98 was a,
you know, a fiasco.

1330
01:14:52,959 --> 01:14:56,098
What we were up against
was an incredible team.

1331
01:14:57,564 --> 01:15:01,797
Didn't end up winning anything.
That was a... a major blow.

1332
01:15:01,865 --> 01:15:04,130
Whenever you're not successful

1333
01:15:04,132 --> 01:15:06,995
of winning a league,
winning an FA Cup...

1334
01:15:07,030 --> 01:15:09,957
it's always tough at United.

1335
01:15:09,959 --> 01:15:13,994
But that came from, you know,
being a youth team player.

1336
01:15:14,029 --> 01:15:17,027
You know, defeat or...

1337
01:15:17,063 --> 01:15:20,060
having no success hurt.

1338
01:15:20,062 --> 01:15:23,263
It always hurt us, deeply.

1339
01:15:23,298 --> 01:15:26,991
It's together we experience
pain and glory.

1340
01:15:27,026 --> 01:15:28,731
We...

1341
01:15:28,799 --> 01:15:31,923
we fall and rise... together.

1342
01:15:38,162 --> 01:15:39,960
We had to make adjustments.

1343
01:15:39,962 --> 01:15:41,390
We had to change.

1344
01:15:41,459 --> 01:15:42,799
We knew what we had to do.

1345
01:15:42,801 --> 01:15:44,526
We had to
come back stronger and...

1346
01:15:44,528 --> 01:15:47,098
and that's what the manager
prepared us for.

1347
01:15:47,134 --> 01:15:49,561
The manager was a genius
at getting into your head.

1348
01:15:49,597 --> 01:15:52,631
Erm, he made us all believe
that everyone hated us.

1349
01:15:52,667 --> 01:15:54,023
All of the fans hated us.

1350
01:15:54,025 --> 01:15:57,824
He made us believe the referee
didn't like us.

1351
01:15:57,860 --> 01:16:00,858
The mentality, he had us in
like siege mentality.

1352
01:16:00,893 --> 01:16:04,365
"No-one likes you. Everyone
wants to beat Man United."

1353
01:16:04,367 --> 01:16:05,957
Right, OK.

1354
01:16:05,992 --> 01:16:09,131
What he instilled in
his players, week in, week out.

1355
01:16:09,166 --> 01:16:11,427
"You make sure you fight
till the bitter end."

1356
01:16:11,495 --> 01:16:14,132
That is a problem for them,
by the way.

1357
01:16:14,168 --> 01:16:16,965
We get the ball transferred
into these areas there.

1358
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,230
I don't think
they've a chance against us.

1359
01:16:33,296 --> 01:16:35,130
That particular season
epitomises

1360
01:16:35,199 --> 01:16:38,659
how Sir Alex Ferguson
worked as a manager.

1361
01:16:39,926 --> 01:16:41,966
Obviously,
going into that season,

1362
01:16:42,035 --> 01:16:46,757
we'd had the disappointment
of... the season before.

1363
01:16:46,792 --> 01:16:50,197
There was a lot of doubters
out there.

1364
01:16:50,199 --> 01:16:53,525
As a team, I don't think
we wanted to go through

1365
01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:56,330
another season
of disappointment.

1366
01:16:56,365 --> 01:16:59,228
That's a dangerous ball
in and, ah, it's there!

1367
01:16:59,263 --> 01:17:02,197
United with
a last-minute winner.

1368
01:17:02,232 --> 01:17:05,725
I'd never felt like that
playing football before.

1369
01:17:05,760 --> 01:17:08,063
That's when the pressure
was really, really on.

1370
01:17:08,098 --> 01:17:10,698
It was that
little bit different.

1371
01:17:10,734 --> 01:17:11,965
Just that little bit different.

1372
01:17:11,967 --> 01:17:14,523
Two heavyweights go toe-to-toe,

1373
01:17:14,559 --> 01:17:15,930
and the atmosphere is electric.

1374
01:17:15,966 --> 01:17:17,962
Oh, magnificent from
David Beckham!

1375
01:17:17,998 --> 01:17:21,098
Bergkamp strikes from distance!

1376
01:17:22,397 --> 01:17:25,360
It wasn't just a football match,
it was a battle.

1377
01:17:25,395 --> 01:17:26,998
Cynical from Keane.

1378
01:17:27,033 --> 01:17:29,930
And he's off.
The red card for Roy Keane.

1379
01:17:29,965 --> 01:17:33,031
Penalty...
saved by Schmeichel!

1380
01:17:33,067 --> 01:17:36,823
You just felt,
after that semi-final win that,

1381
01:17:36,859 --> 01:17:39,096
yes, there is something
special we can do.

1382
01:17:39,098 --> 01:17:41,792
Giggs... still going.

1383
01:17:41,827 --> 01:17:45,097
And twisting defenders
on the run. Oh, what a finish!

1384
01:17:45,132 --> 01:17:47,698
We played some
of the best football...

1385
01:17:47,733 --> 01:17:49,362
that we'd played in some time.

1386
01:17:50,362 --> 01:17:53,295
We did play
like a team possessed.

1387
01:17:53,330 --> 01:17:56,924
The focus on Europe
became more intense.

1388
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:01,424
I think that was... that was
always our goal... you know,

1389
01:18:01,459 --> 01:18:02,427
to be successful in Europe.

1390
01:18:02,462 --> 01:18:05,833
The manager always
spoke about us as a team,

1391
01:18:05,868 --> 01:18:08,696
as individuals
being successful in Europe.

1392
01:18:12,162 --> 01:18:14,862
Keane! It's 2-2!

1393
01:18:14,897 --> 01:18:17,165
Cole will finish it off.

1394
01:18:17,167 --> 01:18:21,061
Manchester United are in sight
of the European Cup Final.

1395
01:18:21,096 --> 01:18:23,194
Full speed ahead, Barcelona!

1396
01:18:23,196 --> 01:18:24,527
We kept winning, simple as that.

1397
01:18:24,529 --> 01:18:26,405
That's what it's about.
You get in that momentum

1398
01:18:26,429 --> 01:18:28,724
whereby you're winning
week in, week out.

1399
01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,624
It was one of those
superhuman feelings...

1400
01:18:31,626 --> 01:18:33,997
that the whole team
believed that...

1401
01:18:34,032 --> 01:18:35,790
"Nah, this is gonna
be our year."

1402
01:18:35,825 --> 01:18:38,490
And I just felt
that everything that year...

1403
01:18:38,559 --> 01:18:40,765
came down to the last 11 days.

1404
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:42,063
We'd done a couple of doubles,

1405
01:18:42,099 --> 01:18:45,032
but nobody had ever done...
a treble.

1406
01:18:46,693 --> 01:18:49,831
Eleven days
to fulfil a collective dream.

1407
01:18:49,867 --> 01:18:50,932
Manchester United

1408
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,362
- on the verge...
- -Just 11 days.

1409
01:18:55,262 --> 01:18:58,127
He's found Cole. Lovely
control.

1410
01:18:58,162 --> 01:19:00,065
Can he lift it over? He has!

1411
01:19:00,101 --> 01:19:03,998
What a finish! It's gone
right to the final whistle

1412
01:19:04,033 --> 01:19:06,295
on the final day
of the league season.

1413
01:19:06,364 --> 01:19:09,956
And Manchester United
have regained their crown.

1414
01:19:11,727 --> 01:19:13,999
I don't think any of us
were tired at that point

1415
01:19:14,034 --> 01:19:17,132
you know, because
we were running on adrenaline.

1416
01:19:17,201 --> 01:19:20,466
Part two of
Manchester United's pilgrimage

1417
01:19:20,501 --> 01:19:21,532
to the promised land.

1418
01:19:21,534 --> 01:19:23,226
Scholes slides it through.

1419
01:19:23,261 --> 01:19:26,362
Sheringham. Oh, what a start!

1420
01:19:32,999 --> 01:19:35,624
Whenever you, er...
had spare time

1421
01:19:35,692 --> 01:19:38,863
or you were ever
just sat at home...

1422
01:19:38,931 --> 01:19:40,426
not letting yourself drift off

1423
01:19:40,462 --> 01:19:43,165
to thinking about
winning the treble.

1424
01:19:43,201 --> 01:19:46,823
That was my like... cos
you could quite easily think...

1425
01:19:46,859 --> 01:19:49,965
"We could do something
unbelievable here."

1426
01:19:50,001 --> 01:19:51,796
We knew it was all leading up

1427
01:19:51,831 --> 01:19:53,529
to that final game.

1428
01:19:53,598 --> 01:19:58,227
We'd never played in, you know,
a Champions League Final before.

1429
01:19:58,263 --> 01:19:59,932
You know, to play
at the Nou Camp,

1430
01:19:59,967 --> 01:20:04,097
to play against...
the mighty Bayern Munich.

1431
01:20:04,133 --> 01:20:07,724
And it was probably
one of the only games...

1432
01:20:07,759 --> 01:20:10,998
in my career
that I was slightly nervous for.

1433
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:12,791
You just kept thinking
about the game.

1434
01:20:12,826 --> 01:20:15,363
And that was probably
the biggest in my career.

1435
01:20:15,398 --> 01:20:17,797
"Oh, come on, please.
Just get the game over with."

1436
01:20:17,833 --> 01:20:19,329
"I just want to play the game."

1437
01:20:19,365 --> 01:20:22,726
The one game in my life
I can honestly say...

1438
01:20:22,761 --> 01:20:25,028
yeah, I was nervous.
Cos I'd never been here before.

1439
01:20:25,063 --> 01:20:26,659
I was going into the unknown.

1440
01:20:29,692 --> 01:20:31,456
This is our moment...

1441
01:20:31,491 --> 01:20:33,797
to seek out greatness.

1442
01:20:33,832 --> 01:20:36,296
The footballing fates await.

1443
01:20:38,002 --> 01:20:41,690
And then finally,
you're actually there.

1444
01:20:41,725 --> 01:20:44,294
It was like,
"Oh, my... come on."

1445
01:20:44,296 --> 01:20:47,095
"This...
this is a dream come true."

1446
01:20:47,131 --> 01:20:49,295
Who are we?
What are we about?

1447
01:20:49,330 --> 01:20:52,197
How much are we prepared
to invest in this?

1448
01:20:52,199 --> 01:20:55,328
- How far are we prepared to go?

1449
01:20:55,364 --> 01:20:57,791
It's a chance of a lifetime.

1450
01:21:00,826 --> 01:21:03,932
We weren't playing well.
We didn't have that flow.

1451
01:21:03,934 --> 01:21:08,432
We didn't have that fluidity
that... we so...

1452
01:21:08,467 --> 01:21:09,956
we normally have.

1453
01:21:11,992 --> 01:21:14,063
People weren't
doing their jobs right.

1454
01:21:14,098 --> 01:21:16,130
Giggsy weren't
running past people.

1455
01:21:16,165 --> 01:21:17,931
Becks weren't putting
great crossing in.

1456
01:21:17,967 --> 01:21:19,797
Yorke and Coley
weren't linking up.

1457
01:21:19,799 --> 01:21:20,965
I was giving the ball away.

1458
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:23,290
The back four
were getting beat at the back.

1459
01:21:27,430 --> 01:21:31,593
Basler. Oh, deflected it in!

1460
01:21:34,868 --> 01:21:37,030
Sir Alex has come up to me
and he said,

1461
01:21:37,032 --> 01:21:39,295
"Ted, if the score
stays the same,

1462
01:21:39,297 --> 01:21:41,999
if it's still 1-0
after 15, 20 minutes,

1463
01:21:42,034 --> 01:21:44,659
you'll be going on.
So make sure you're ready."

1464
01:21:47,659 --> 01:21:50,961
They hit the bar.
They hit the post.

1465
01:21:50,963 --> 01:21:53,098
They had real chances.

1466
01:21:55,464 --> 01:21:58,357
We've still got a chance.
We can't play any worse.

1467
01:21:58,392 --> 01:21:59,428
We gotta play better.

1468
01:21:59,497 --> 01:22:04,228
We were a team that...
were prepared to take risks...

1469
01:22:04,264 --> 01:22:07,891
er, to gain,
or claw something back.

1470
01:22:07,893 --> 01:22:11,857
I'm ready here. This is what
I've been preparing for.

1471
01:22:14,292 --> 01:22:16,162
Always believe.

1472
01:22:16,231 --> 01:22:18,363
Three added minutes.

1473
01:22:18,365 --> 01:22:21,791
Even though there was only...
three minutes left,

1474
01:22:21,860 --> 01:22:25,956
we knew that... we just
needed that one opportunity.

1475
01:22:30,594 --> 01:22:32,197
In towards Schmeichel.

1476
01:22:34,968 --> 01:22:39,362
That group of players
refused to be beaten.

1477
01:22:39,397 --> 01:22:42,497
Giggs
with the shot. Sheringham!

1478
01:22:50,658 --> 01:22:53,692
From tragedy...
comes triumph.

1479
01:22:54,533 --> 01:22:56,032
From disaster...

1480
01:22:56,764 --> 01:22:58,361
comes glory.

1481
01:22:58,363 --> 01:23:01,060
Beckham. Into Sheringham...

1482
01:23:01,129 --> 01:23:03,362
And Solksjaer has won it!

1483
01:23:13,260 --> 01:23:14,494
Kings of Europe again.

1484
01:23:14,529 --> 01:23:18,061
And nobody will ever win
a European Cup Final

1485
01:23:18,063 --> 01:23:19,824
more dramatically than this.

1486
01:23:33,132 --> 01:23:36,189
This is a story of a community.

1487
01:23:36,191 --> 01:23:37,758
A tribe.

1488
01:23:40,933 --> 01:23:44,263
The years pass,
the tribe evolves.

1489
01:23:46,765 --> 01:23:50,098
Power fades and perishes.

1490
01:23:51,296 --> 01:23:54,532
The empire grows,
the dynasty expands,

1491
01:23:54,601 --> 01:23:57,857
but the soul remains intact.

1492
01:24:02,130 --> 01:24:04,426
What does your tribe
say about you?

1493
01:24:04,495 --> 01:24:08,999
About your heart. Your head.
Your soul.

1494
01:24:16,260 --> 01:24:17,229
What touched my heart,

1495
01:24:17,231 --> 01:24:20,424
and I'll-I'll never forget
is the scenes...

1496
01:24:20,460 --> 01:24:22,428
when we got back to Manchester.

1497
01:24:24,260 --> 01:24:27,031
We did it... for them.

1498
01:24:27,066 --> 01:24:29,697
Turning into Deansgate
will live with me

1499
01:24:29,732 --> 01:24:31,131
for the rest of my life.

1500
01:24:34,967 --> 01:24:39,959
When... you see
the oceans of people...

1501
01:24:39,994 --> 01:24:43,824
you realise how much it meant
to so many people in Manchester.

1502
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:52,965
I'd like to think
that in its foundations...

1503
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:57,824
it is an ordinary club
doing its best.

1504
01:25:02,297 --> 01:25:04,328
Football has that power.

1505
01:25:04,363 --> 01:25:08,890
It has that power
to change people's lives.

1506
01:25:08,925 --> 01:25:11,160
There was many reasons
why Manchester United

1507
01:25:11,195 --> 01:25:12,825
were successful at that time.

1508
01:25:12,827 --> 01:25:16,429
You know, Sir Alex Ferguson,
the manager, the boss...

1509
01:25:16,465 --> 01:25:20,829
bringing the youth team players
through that he did.

1510
01:25:20,865 --> 01:25:23,791
Those players before us...

1511
01:25:23,827 --> 01:25:28,499
you know, to understand
the history, the city.

1512
01:25:28,501 --> 01:25:31,490
The club, the fans.

1513
01:25:31,526 --> 01:25:34,065
To give everything on the pitch.

1514
01:25:35,764 --> 01:25:37,362
And then Eric.

1515
01:25:39,264 --> 01:25:42,165
And when you're
a Manchester United player...

1516
01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,766
there's nothing more
important than being...

1517
01:25:44,801 --> 01:25:47,725
taught by players
like Eric Cantona.

1518
01:25:53,032 --> 01:25:55,031
To understand United
is to understand

1519
01:25:55,033 --> 01:25:59,656
the fundamental aspect
of the human mosaic.

1520
01:25:59,658 --> 01:26:03,126
What thrills us.
What scares us.

1521
01:26:03,162 --> 01:26:05,791
What makes us feel alive.

1522
01:26:59,234 --> 01:27:02,299
Maybe I should wear my collar...
collars up for this interview.

1523
01:27:06,733 --> 01:27:08,427
We had to wear club blazers.

1524
01:27:08,462 --> 01:27:12,258
Eric would turn up
in crushed velvet jackets

1525
01:27:12,293 --> 01:27:13,192
and open-neck shirts,

1526
01:27:13,294 --> 01:27:15,732
while we were all stiff-collared
and club ties.

1527
01:27:15,768 --> 01:27:18,130
If Eric... put on
a black bin bag,

1528
01:27:18,132 --> 01:27:20,295
somehow he would
put something on the bin bag

1529
01:27:20,330 --> 01:27:22,195
to make it look
like a designer bin bag.

1530
01:27:22,230 --> 01:27:24,791
We all tried to do
the collar thing,

1531
01:27:24,827 --> 01:27:27,228
and we all thought that
we could get away with it

1532
01:27:27,230 --> 01:27:29,525
but erm, none of us could,
you know?

1533
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:31,327
It never looked as good.
It never...

1534
01:27:31,396 --> 01:27:33,865
we always felt like,
that we were...

1535
01:27:33,867 --> 01:27:35,866
copying Eric,
and not in a cool way.

1536
01:27:35,868 --> 01:27:38,565
So, you know,
we tried it in a few games,

1537
01:27:38,634 --> 01:27:40,456
but then it was like, no.

1538
01:27:40,491 --> 01:27:41,665
Just let Eric do that.

1539
01:27:41,701 --> 01:27:43,594
We used to go to the local pub.

1540
01:27:43,630 --> 01:27:46,966
And erm... and of course,
the typical British they are,

1541
01:27:47,035 --> 01:27:50,023
the round was four pints
of Guinness, four lagers,

1542
01:27:50,059 --> 01:27:53,565
five... five pints of bitter.
And, of course, for Eric,

1543
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:54,791
a glass of champagne.

1544
01:27:54,860 --> 01:27:56,995
Everybody's grateful
for what Eric did for the club

1545
01:27:56,997 --> 01:28:00,358
because, even now, what...

1546
01:28:00,394 --> 01:28:03,599
23, 24 years after he's left...

1547
01:28:03,634 --> 01:28:05,097
people still sing his song.

1548
01:28:05,099 --> 01:28:07,096
That's how special
he is to this club.

1549
01:28:07,132 --> 01:28:09,394
He was with us
for five full seasons.

1550
01:28:09,429 --> 01:28:12,928
We won the league
in four of those seasons.

1551
01:28:12,930 --> 01:28:15,489
We did the double twice.

1552
01:28:15,525 --> 01:28:17,725
We... We lost one season.

1553
01:28:19,063 --> 01:28:23,164
While I was banned.

1554
01:28:26,368 --> 01:28:28,626
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