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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
straight after the War,

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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
came back to play a match,

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ten or 11 days
after such a tragedy,

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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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How would
they rebuild from this tragedy?

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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
you, obviously, had George,

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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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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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United failing
to find any kind of rhythm.

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In life, sometimes
terrible things happen,

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and it knocks you down.

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And sometimes
it pushes you forth.

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Sadler
into Charlton. And it's there!

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1-0 to Manchester United.

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Lovely header
guided into the bottom corner.

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Deep down,
each and every one of us,

257
00:15:45,291 --> 00:15:49,228
we knew it was for them.

258
00:15:49,297 --> 00:15:51,728
We've nurtured them.
We've watched them.

259
00:15:51,763 --> 00:15:53,795
We've looked after them.

260
00:15:53,830 --> 00:15:55,995
Oh, and three.

261
00:15:56,030 --> 00:15:58,362
You become a sort of family.

262
00:15:58,397 --> 00:16:02,941
Charlton loses
his man. Oh, yes, it's four.

263
00:16:02,965 --> 00:16:05,656
That's the game
and that's the European Cup.

264
00:16:05,692 --> 00:16:09,127
Manchester United
have well and truly done it.

265
00:16:09,162 --> 00:16:12,530
They're finally champions
of Europe.

266
00:16:12,566 --> 00:16:14,205
Matt Busby, this maestro,

267
00:16:14,229 --> 00:16:17,193
has groomed a side
ten years on from disaster

268
00:16:17,229 --> 00:16:19,658
to reach the very pinnacle
of football.

269
00:16:19,727 --> 00:16:23,865
It was unbelievable.
Absolutely incredible.

270
00:16:25,698 --> 00:16:27,896
We've done it. We've done it.

271
00:16:27,965 --> 00:16:30,525
It's took ten years,
but we've done it.

272
00:16:33,258 --> 00:16:34,899
It was a release.

273
00:16:34,935 --> 00:16:40,865
I think it was just everything
that involved going back

274
00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:44,723
to that terrible day,
February 6th, in Munich.

275
00:16:51,325 --> 00:16:54,030
The United Way is established.

276
00:17:00,164 --> 00:17:02,174
The damage
done to his body at Munich,

277
00:17:02,198 --> 00:17:06,497
never mind his mental state,
was quite horrific.

278
00:17:06,533 --> 00:17:08,063
He'd taken a battering.

279
00:17:10,126 --> 00:17:11,931
He'd done his shift.

280
00:17:14,159 --> 00:17:15,931
The Emperor stands down.

281
00:17:17,596 --> 00:17:19,030
What's next?

282
00:17:25,962 --> 00:17:29,459
All dynasties rise and fall.

283
00:17:32,230 --> 00:17:34,668
We hadn't won
the league since 1967.

284
00:17:34,692 --> 00:17:38,276
The season before,
I think we should have won it.

285
00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:39,799
Leeds won it.

286
00:17:41,261 --> 00:17:43,496
And one day,
I was sitting in my office,

287
00:17:43,532 --> 00:17:45,764
and the phone rang

288
00:17:45,833 --> 00:17:51,262
and it was the chief exec
of Leeds United.

289
00:17:51,298 --> 00:17:53,998
I said, "Would you be willing
to sell Eric Cantona?"

290
00:17:54,067 --> 00:17:57,591
Cos I'd read in the newspapers
that Wilkinson and Eric,

291
00:17:57,626 --> 00:18:00,031
there were problems
and there were clashes.

292
00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:03,730
I haven't had a problem
in my football career up to now

293
00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:05,925
with any player
I've worked with.

294
00:18:07,792 --> 00:18:11,358
He reads poetry.
He reads philosophy.

295
00:18:11,426 --> 00:18:15,127
He paints.
Maybe that's different.

296
00:18:15,163 --> 00:18:17,135
He said,
"What do you wanna pay for him?"

297
00:18:17,159 --> 00:18:18,740
I said, "A million."

298
00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:21,772
So, they said, "No, no. 1.5."

299
00:18:21,796 --> 00:18:22,930
"No, no. A million."

300
00:18:22,966 --> 00:18:25,778
And, eventually,
I got him down to the million.

301
00:18:25,802 --> 00:18:28,743
"Can we say it's 1.2
because we'll get slaughtered?"

302
00:18:28,767 --> 00:18:31,829
"The supporters
think the world of him."

303
00:18:31,865 --> 00:18:33,663
I said, "You say
what you like."

304
00:18:33,731 --> 00:18:34,975
Football and Manchester United

305
00:18:34,999 --> 00:18:37,257
have signed the French
international striker,

306
00:18:37,293 --> 00:18:39,058
Eric Cantona, from Leeds United

307
00:18:39,094 --> 00:18:41,657
for fee of £1.2 million.

308
00:18:54,832 --> 00:18:57,332
Well, ladies and gentlemen,

309
00:18:57,368 --> 00:18:58,458
we're pleased to announce

310
00:18:58,493 --> 00:19:01,961
that, we've agreed terms
with Leeds United

311
00:19:01,996 --> 00:19:04,394
for the transfer
of Eric Cantona.

312
00:19:04,429 --> 00:19:08,096
And he's agreed a new
three-and-a-half-year contract.

313
00:19:13,125 --> 00:19:14,657
The stage is mine.

314
00:19:16,366 --> 00:19:18,702
All eyes on me.

315
00:19:18,726 --> 00:19:20,960
The Leeds fans probably today
won't agree with me,

316
00:19:21,029 --> 00:19:22,756
but I think it's a shrewd sale.

317
00:19:23,999 --> 00:19:26,142
Wilkinson's done wonders
for that team.

318
00:19:26,166 --> 00:19:29,169
If he thought it was right for
him to get rid of Eric Cantona,

319
00:19:29,193 --> 00:19:31,097
he's made the right decision.

320
00:19:31,132 --> 00:19:34,728
Eric Cantona is 26 and
he's already had eight clubs.

321
00:19:34,764 --> 00:19:35,795
What does that tell us?

322
00:19:35,830 --> 00:19:38,607
Cantona doesn't fit the bill.

323
00:19:38,631 --> 00:19:39,995
The only thing I recall is

324
00:19:40,031 --> 00:19:43,457
seeing it on the news
that he'd signed.

325
00:19:43,492 --> 00:19:45,628
In them days
it was, like, rumours

326
00:19:45,663 --> 00:19:46,997
and social media.

327
00:19:47,033 --> 00:19:50,692
Basically, you were
the last to know, the players.

328
00:19:50,727 --> 00:19:55,460
Then I remember my mates going,
"What's this Cantona like?"

329
00:19:55,495 --> 00:19:59,327
I think it was fair to say
we all didn't quite realise

330
00:19:59,363 --> 00:20:03,098
how good he was until
he came and trained with us.

331
00:20:03,133 --> 00:20:07,564
The way he went about his
business on the training ground,

332
00:20:07,599 --> 00:20:09,459
he was a breath of fresh air.

333
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:11,690
We were all in awe of Eric

334
00:20:11,726 --> 00:20:15,094
from the first moment
he arrived at the club.

335
00:20:15,163 --> 00:20:18,332
Cos he was really
the first foreign star

336
00:20:18,367 --> 00:20:20,030
that came into our club.

337
00:20:22,733 --> 00:20:26,298
To see him
walk about the corridors,

338
00:20:26,366 --> 00:20:27,497
to see him train,

339
00:20:27,566 --> 00:20:28,829
it was one of those moments

340
00:20:28,865 --> 00:20:31,262
where
there's youth team players,

341
00:20:31,297 --> 00:20:35,999
you just sit there in awe
of everything that Eric did.

342
00:20:36,067 --> 00:20:39,229
Eric, of course, had won
the league the year before,

343
00:20:39,264 --> 00:20:43,491
so he had that confidence
where he'd already done it.

344
00:20:43,527 --> 00:20:47,799
It was so huge.
We hadn't won it for 26 years.

345
00:20:49,801 --> 00:20:52,932
We'd found it so hard.
Got close a couple of times.

346
00:20:52,968 --> 00:20:58,658
He'd played a big part in
Leeds's win the previous year.

347
00:20:58,727 --> 00:21:01,797
So that was always in the back
of everybody's minds.

348
00:21:01,832 --> 00:21:05,259
The same narrative
was spoken about

349
00:21:05,295 --> 00:21:07,459
at 26 years,
since they'd won the league.

350
00:21:07,495 --> 00:21:10,929
Every year that went on,
the harder that became.

351
00:21:10,964 --> 00:21:12,743
The players
are always being reminded

352
00:21:12,767 --> 00:21:16,302
that they hadn't won that
for so many years

353
00:21:16,326 --> 00:21:18,630
and you'll never be
as good a team

354
00:21:18,699 --> 00:21:21,030
as past teams that have done it.

355
00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:31,426
It's a big, big job.
It's a demanding job.

356
00:21:32,997 --> 00:21:36,356
And particularly
following Sir Matt.

357
00:21:36,425 --> 00:21:37,610
Who's gonna be the next manager?

358
00:21:37,634 --> 00:21:39,664
You all try
and make speculations

359
00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:42,995
because
it hadn't happened before.

360
00:21:43,063 --> 00:21:45,105
But, I mean,
he was there 25, 26 years.

361
00:21:45,129 --> 00:21:47,699
Well, there were
a series of managers,

362
00:21:47,734 --> 00:21:49,695
as there are
when you're not playing well.

363
00:21:49,731 --> 00:21:52,360
And it didn't really work.

364
00:21:53,525 --> 00:21:55,999
They gave it Wilf McGuiness.

365
00:21:56,067 --> 00:22:00,161
He was young, Wilf,
to take the job at that time.

366
00:22:00,197 --> 00:22:03,274
Frank O'Farrell,
who I really liked.

367
00:22:03,298 --> 00:22:06,068
That was a shame
cos he was a lovely man, Frank.

368
00:22:06,092 --> 00:22:07,865
Who was it after?

369
00:22:09,126 --> 00:22:10,764
Tommy Docherty, yes.

370
00:22:10,833 --> 00:22:13,096
Tommy Doc was the next manager.

371
00:22:15,059 --> 00:22:16,527
Tommy Doc took over

372
00:22:16,562 --> 00:22:20,096
and had a bit of a relegation
scrap on his hands right away.

373
00:22:22,001 --> 00:22:25,599
They were living in the
past. Members of the old team.

374
00:22:25,634 --> 00:22:28,832
Yes.
All the old school had to go.

375
00:22:32,259 --> 00:22:34,265
The end of an era.

376
00:22:34,334 --> 00:22:35,931
The bond is broken.

377
00:22:38,466 --> 00:22:40,195
The family is split.

378
00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:47,632
How do you replace people

379
00:22:47,667 --> 00:22:49,931
like Denis Law
and Bobby Charlton?

380
00:22:53,701 --> 00:22:55,677
Players were leaving.
Players were coming in.

381
00:22:55,701 --> 00:22:57,530
Tommy Docherty
was bringing these people in.

382
00:22:57,565 --> 00:22:58,697
Players were leaving.

383
00:22:58,833 --> 00:23:01,102
It was unbelievable the amount
of players that were coming in

384
00:23:01,126 --> 00:23:02,574
and playing for us.

385
00:23:02,598 --> 00:23:04,966
So you weren't settled.

386
00:23:05,002 --> 00:23:07,877
George Best was thinking he's
carrying the weight of the club

387
00:23:07,901 --> 00:23:10,690
because everybody looked up
to him to do something.

388
00:23:12,693 --> 00:23:15,306
Things weren't
happening on the football field.

389
00:23:15,330 --> 00:23:18,129
We were losing a lot of games.
We weren't scoring goals.

390
00:23:18,164 --> 00:23:21,426
Things were beginning
to happen off the field.

391
00:23:23,268 --> 00:23:24,756
I never saw George.

392
00:23:25,565 --> 00:23:27,692
He was never there.

393
00:23:27,727 --> 00:23:30,998
Maybe his drinking
started getting more regular.

394
00:23:31,034 --> 00:23:34,690
And the press were on his back
following him everywhere.

395
00:23:37,732 --> 00:23:41,234
A free spirit went down.

396
00:23:41,258 --> 00:23:42,775
George was a footballer.

397
00:23:42,799 --> 00:23:45,296
He never wanted
to be a role model.

398
00:23:45,364 --> 00:23:48,424
Manchester United
are bottom of the First Division

399
00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,791
facing the real prospect
of relegation.

400
00:23:51,826 --> 00:23:54,692
Remember people saying, "United
are too good to go down."

401
00:23:54,727 --> 00:23:58,624
I think certainly George Best
felt that was the case.

402
00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:01,223
I picked him
to play on a Saturday.

403
00:24:01,258 --> 00:24:03,139
About ten to three,

404
00:24:03,163 --> 00:24:05,329
there was knock
on the dressing room door.

405
00:24:05,365 --> 00:24:09,663
I opened it. George was there
with this gorgeous looking lady.

406
00:24:09,731 --> 00:24:10,809
He said, "I've come to play."

407
00:24:10,833 --> 00:24:12,958
I said, "You're in no condition
to play."

408
00:24:12,993 --> 00:24:13,896
Which he wasn't.

409
00:24:13,965 --> 00:24:18,898
He'd been a bit heavy
under the booze.

410
00:24:20,631 --> 00:24:22,062
Besty came in

411
00:24:22,097 --> 00:24:25,503
and I said,
"Everything all right, George?"

412
00:24:25,527 --> 00:24:28,140
"I'm not playing today,"
he said and walked out.

413
00:24:28,164 --> 00:24:30,562
That's the last I've seen him
at Old Trafford.

414
00:24:30,598 --> 00:24:32,899
It was a disaster.

415
00:24:32,934 --> 00:24:37,373
Just like that the most human
of heroes is gone.

416
00:24:37,397 --> 00:24:40,696
Gallagher! Oh,
it's looped in and United are...

417
00:24:40,731 --> 00:24:43,027
I let in 48 goals.

418
00:24:43,096 --> 00:24:44,460
Does that
not tell you something?

419
00:24:44,529 --> 00:24:48,190
It tells you we weren't playing
the Manchester United way.

420
00:24:48,225 --> 00:24:49,996
And we got relegated.

421
00:24:50,031 --> 00:24:52,491
And across to Denis Law. Oh!

422
00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,068
Denis Law has scored
for Manchester City.

423
00:24:56,092 --> 00:24:57,266
What an irony.

424
00:24:57,301 --> 00:24:59,091
What a cruel irony.

425
00:24:59,126 --> 00:25:00,863
United are relegated.

426
00:25:00,899 --> 00:25:03,399
United are down
and it's chaos here.

427
00:25:03,434 --> 00:25:05,426
Utter chaos at Old Trafford.

428
00:25:14,867 --> 00:25:17,061
We decided
to stick with the team

429
00:25:17,097 --> 00:25:19,459
and bring in
one or two of the kids.

430
00:25:21,961 --> 00:25:23,027
We had a good young set.

431
00:25:23,095 --> 00:25:25,523
One or two good players
come in through the youth team.

432
00:25:25,592 --> 00:25:27,028
He brought them back

433
00:25:27,063 --> 00:25:28,623
into the top flight
two years ago

434
00:25:28,659 --> 00:25:31,632
and now Tommy Docherty
has won them the FA Cup.

435
00:25:31,667 --> 00:25:33,690
In '77 we won the FA Cup,

436
00:25:33,726 --> 00:25:36,491
but it'd been ten years
since we'd won our trophy.

437
00:25:36,526 --> 00:25:39,724
So, we weren't winning
a lot at the time.

438
00:25:39,759 --> 00:25:43,933
A meeting of the directors
has decided unanimously

439
00:25:43,968 --> 00:25:48,205
that Mr Docherty is in breach
of the terms of his contract

440
00:25:48,229 --> 00:25:51,591
and his engagement
is terminated forthwith.

441
00:25:51,627 --> 00:25:54,797
Tonight's decision
by Manchester United's directors

442
00:25:54,832 --> 00:25:56,629
followed a fortnight
of speculation

443
00:25:56,664 --> 00:25:57,866
about Docherty's future.

444
00:25:57,901 --> 00:26:00,564
That began with the news
that Docherty left his wife

445
00:26:00,599 --> 00:26:02,361
after 27 years of marriage,

446
00:26:02,429 --> 00:26:06,196
for the 31-year-old wife
of the club's physiotherapist.

447
00:26:06,265 --> 00:26:10,176
Not one player in that team
knew what was going on.

448
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,826
No one knew.

449
00:26:11,895 --> 00:26:13,196
Nobody saw it coming

450
00:26:13,231 --> 00:26:15,832
and Tommy Docherty obviously
felt a bit uncomfortable.

451
00:26:15,901 --> 00:26:19,061
He... he not only went off
with somebody's wife,

452
00:26:19,130 --> 00:26:21,931
he went off
with an employee of the club.

453
00:26:21,967 --> 00:26:24,629
Docherty,
manager of United since 1972,

454
00:26:24,665 --> 00:26:25,764
wouldn't talk to reporters

455
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,098
as he waited
for the directors' decision.

456
00:26:28,166 --> 00:26:31,125
They met at the home of Louis
Edwards, the club's chairman.

457
00:26:31,193 --> 00:26:32,239
Among them was Sir Matt Busby,

458
00:26:32,263 --> 00:26:34,126
the former manager,
who flew back from Dublin,

459
00:26:34,195 --> 00:26:36,304
specially
to attend today's meeting.

460
00:26:36,328 --> 00:26:39,965
So Matt wanted it
to be a family, you know.

461
00:26:40,034 --> 00:26:45,126
And that was what people...
thought of Manchester United.

462
00:26:45,162 --> 00:26:47,723
Especially those
who worked in it.

463
00:26:48,697 --> 00:26:49,598
Everyone was involved

464
00:26:49,667 --> 00:26:51,425
and the directors
took their stance

465
00:26:51,494 --> 00:26:53,964
that this can't happen
at Manchester United.

466
00:26:55,426 --> 00:26:58,809
Matt Busby was a hindrance.

467
00:26:58,833 --> 00:27:02,639
It was all down to Busby
that I got the sack.

468
00:27:02,663 --> 00:27:04,502
I was very bitter.

469
00:27:04,526 --> 00:27:08,294
They were the losers,
Manchester United.

470
00:27:08,330 --> 00:27:11,525
Not me. I wasn't a loser.
They were the losers.

471
00:27:17,966 --> 00:27:21,798
Great managers
rise to the challenge.

472
00:27:21,833 --> 00:27:24,365
They are not afraid
of special players.

473
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:25,756
They search them out.

474
00:27:39,660 --> 00:27:43,190
Well, I think
he's a Manchester United player.

475
00:27:43,258 --> 00:27:45,328
He's an exciting player.

476
00:27:45,364 --> 00:27:48,323
He's got all the assets
of the top players in the world.

477
00:27:48,358 --> 00:27:50,797
He's come to a big, big club.

478
00:27:50,866 --> 00:27:53,799
I just think they connected.
I just...

479
00:27:53,868 --> 00:27:58,157
They had this understanding
of what was required

480
00:27:58,193 --> 00:27:59,894
at that moment in time.

481
00:27:59,929 --> 00:28:02,810
But I also think the manager

482
00:28:02,834 --> 00:28:05,832
gave him that element
of freedom to perform,

483
00:28:05,868 --> 00:28:08,998
to really show his talents
on a football field.

484
00:28:09,067 --> 00:28:13,626
And everybody else sort of
moulded themselves around that.

485
00:28:13,661 --> 00:28:16,491
It was the first time
you really saw a player

486
00:28:16,526 --> 00:28:19,730
being treated different
for a reason.

487
00:28:19,766 --> 00:28:21,776
That's what makes
a great manager.

488
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,227
He understood that
to get the best out of Eric,

489
00:28:24,296 --> 00:28:27,228
he needed to be treated
in a different way.

490
00:28:28,632 --> 00:28:30,558
I needed to be loved.

491
00:28:32,728 --> 00:28:34,459
To belong.

492
00:28:35,433 --> 00:28:37,756
To be part of a family.

493
00:28:39,660 --> 00:28:41,994
The manager was
very good at managing people.

494
00:28:42,030 --> 00:28:43,864
He knew
who he could have a go at.

495
00:28:43,899 --> 00:28:45,930
He knew who he had
to put his arm round.

496
00:28:45,999 --> 00:28:47,273
He knew who to let
have a little bit of leeway

497
00:28:47,297 --> 00:28:50,193
'cos they expressed themselves
in certain different ways.

498
00:28:50,262 --> 00:28:52,257
Eric was one
that got away with quite a bit

499
00:28:52,292 --> 00:28:53,227
because he was just different.

500
00:28:53,262 --> 00:28:55,729
He was different,
the way he dressed, acted,

501
00:28:55,764 --> 00:28:58,127
the way he portrayed himself.

502
00:28:58,163 --> 00:28:59,998
I think
what the manager looks for

503
00:29:00,067 --> 00:29:03,427
was your character, where
you're from, your background.

504
00:29:03,462 --> 00:29:06,960
To make sure that you're
the right type of character.

505
00:29:06,995 --> 00:29:08,674
Forget the playing side of it.

506
00:29:08,698 --> 00:29:12,097
With Eric it's straightforward.

507
00:29:12,132 --> 00:29:16,041
99 things out 100 are
straightforward with the lad.

508
00:29:16,065 --> 00:29:19,091
He loves his training,
he loves to practise,

509
00:29:19,126 --> 00:29:20,299
he's got great pride.

510
00:29:20,334 --> 00:29:23,272
He's got a short fuse.

511
00:29:23,296 --> 00:29:25,397
People say he's this,
people say he's that.

512
00:29:25,466 --> 00:29:26,696
I'm not interested.

513
00:29:26,732 --> 00:29:27,997
So long as it doesn't interfere

514
00:29:28,066 --> 00:29:30,969
with the running of
Manchester United football club.

515
00:29:30,993 --> 00:29:32,391
And it doesn't.

516
00:29:32,426 --> 00:29:34,498
The thing about Eric

517
00:29:34,533 --> 00:29:35,744
is he's very much his own man.

518
00:29:35,768 --> 00:29:39,361
If you respect him fully,
he gives you everything.

519
00:29:39,396 --> 00:29:42,530
Yeah, he was the boss's
favourite by a country mile,

520
00:29:42,598 --> 00:29:44,658
but it didn't bother us.

521
00:29:44,693 --> 00:29:49,010
There was not one player
that would turn round and say,

522
00:29:49,034 --> 00:29:52,669
"It is a little bit unfair that
he treated Eric differently."

523
00:29:52,693 --> 00:29:55,690
Eric was different. He deserved
to be treated different.

524
00:29:57,064 --> 00:29:59,458
He felt like
a man of the people.

525
00:29:59,494 --> 00:30:03,227
He really did.
Like he belonged to the people.

526
00:30:03,296 --> 00:30:07,463
And nobody could believe
that a man of his talent

527
00:30:07,499 --> 00:30:10,393
was like one of us.

528
00:30:16,234 --> 00:30:17,832
I was an outsider.

529
00:30:22,397 --> 00:30:28,096
But I felt strongly the energy
of this club and this city.

530
00:30:28,165 --> 00:30:33,290
The energy only can come
from the soul of the people.

531
00:30:33,326 --> 00:30:36,665
And from the soul of the place.

532
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:40,161
I went to places
like The Haçienda,

533
00:30:40,230 --> 00:30:45,124
to enjoy the music,
the city, the people.

534
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,556
That was important for me

535
00:30:46,592 --> 00:30:50,731
to absorb the vibe,
to understand it.

536
00:30:50,767 --> 00:30:54,764
In Marseille, growing up,
I felt free.

537
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,393
In Manchester,
I felt that freedom again.

538
00:31:01,859 --> 00:31:05,025
Marseille's a very,
very hard, working-class city.

539
00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:06,531
Same as Manchester.

540
00:31:06,566 --> 00:31:08,564
Marseille's not establishment.

541
00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:10,343
Manchester's not establishment.

542
00:31:10,367 --> 00:31:11,665
That's what Eric was like.

543
00:31:11,701 --> 00:31:13,861
I think he recognises
his background

544
00:31:13,896 --> 00:31:15,062
in the people of Manchester.

545
00:31:15,097 --> 00:31:17,723
Eric found the right place
for himself.

546
00:31:19,234 --> 00:31:21,806
I feel at one

547
00:31:21,830 --> 00:31:24,028
with cities built on defiance.

548
00:31:24,063 --> 00:31:26,624
That stand
on their own two feet.

549
00:31:29,627 --> 00:31:33,757
I remember knowing
Manchester as a real dark place.

550
00:31:33,793 --> 00:31:36,894
The late-'70s, there wasn't
an awful lot to enthuse you

551
00:31:36,963 --> 00:31:39,897
about coming over to Manchester.

552
00:31:39,933 --> 00:31:42,061
You think, somebody
please put the lights on.

553
00:31:42,097 --> 00:31:45,027
Brighten up
the place a little bit.

554
00:31:45,063 --> 00:31:46,905
The late-'70s was a time

555
00:31:46,929 --> 00:31:49,830
when the Northwest suffered.

556
00:31:49,898 --> 00:31:51,362
And that area
around Old Trafford,

557
00:31:51,397 --> 00:31:56,723
I think, was an area of a lot
of dereliction, unemployment.

558
00:32:00,565 --> 00:32:02,196
The starting point

559
00:32:02,231 --> 00:32:06,268
was the social breakdown
of the Winter of Discontent

560
00:32:06,292 --> 00:32:09,635
under Mr Callaghan in 1978.

561
00:32:09,659 --> 00:32:14,130
And the Northwest
was particularly badly affected.

562
00:32:14,165 --> 00:32:19,458
The cosy world which we were
told would go on for ever,

563
00:32:19,494 --> 00:32:21,797
where full employment
would be guaranteed

564
00:32:21,865 --> 00:32:25,199
by a stroke
of the chancellor's pen,

565
00:32:25,234 --> 00:32:27,771
cutting taxes,

566
00:32:27,795 --> 00:32:29,190
deficit spending,

567
00:32:29,225 --> 00:32:31,799
that cosy world is gone.

568
00:32:36,665 --> 00:32:39,893
Destitution, demoralisation,

569
00:32:39,962 --> 00:32:42,859
huge levels of unemployment.

570
00:32:42,894 --> 00:32:44,063
Real poverty.

571
00:32:44,098 --> 00:32:48,125
That's, that's what life
was like then, you know.

572
00:32:48,193 --> 00:32:49,665
People's lives weren't great.

573
00:32:49,701 --> 00:32:51,139
Football was
the be all and end all.

574
00:32:51,163 --> 00:32:55,257
And it created
a kind of atmosphere at times

575
00:32:55,293 --> 00:32:58,459
that spilled over into violence.

576
00:32:59,359 --> 00:33:04,442
The game
had become unattractive.

577
00:33:04,466 --> 00:33:06,193
The grounds were dreadful.

578
00:33:06,228 --> 00:33:10,030
The obvious place
for the hooligans.

579
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:14,730
Manchester United

580
00:33:14,799 --> 00:33:16,193
are banned
from European football

581
00:33:16,262 --> 00:33:18,530
after the fighting
involving their fans

582
00:33:18,565 --> 00:33:19,565
in France last month.

583
00:33:19,626 --> 00:33:21,623
Chelsea supporters were involved

584
00:33:21,658 --> 00:33:23,938
in more fighting
with United supporters.

585
00:33:23,962 --> 00:33:25,932
This time outside Old Trafford.

586
00:33:25,968 --> 00:33:28,294
United have had
to put up with the hooligans

587
00:33:28,330 --> 00:33:31,171
amongst their supporters
for several years now.

588
00:33:31,195 --> 00:33:33,897
But never before
has the team itself

589
00:33:33,932 --> 00:33:37,030
actually lost a match
because of them.

590
00:33:41,632 --> 00:33:43,857
The beautiful game is broken.

591
00:33:43,892 --> 00:33:45,157
Sullied.

592
00:33:45,192 --> 00:33:47,063
These are testing times.

593
00:33:49,693 --> 00:33:52,295
We hadn't won
the league for a number of years

594
00:33:52,330 --> 00:33:56,195
and I just felt that the team
wasn't progressing.

595
00:33:57,730 --> 00:34:01,065
We needed a new manager.

596
00:34:02,959 --> 00:34:07,194
There was just a little bit of
a quibble over the company car.

597
00:34:07,230 --> 00:34:09,731
At the time I'd got
a top-of-the-range Merc.

598
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,633
They offered me,
I think, it was a Rover.

599
00:34:12,668 --> 00:34:15,265
I said, "I've got a dog
called Charlie."

600
00:34:15,301 --> 00:34:17,591
"Let's talk cars."

601
00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:22,658
I really can't stand
the word "pressure"

602
00:34:22,693 --> 00:34:25,724
because I think we look
for self-sympathy in the game,

603
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:31,161
whether it's footballers,
managers, directors, whatever.

604
00:34:31,196 --> 00:34:33,164
He came
with a bit of flamboyancy.

605
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:36,998
And it was like as if they
were trying to change the image.

606
00:34:37,066 --> 00:34:39,725
Not so much the look of
the club, but the image of it,

607
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,491
from a point of view of what
was being portrayed to the fans.

608
00:34:42,526 --> 00:34:46,061
Ron saw himself
as first-team manager only.

609
00:34:46,130 --> 00:34:47,961
And I don't think
he got much involved

610
00:34:47,997 --> 00:34:50,964
in a great deal outside of that.

611
00:34:50,999 --> 00:34:53,839
There was still young players
floating around,

612
00:34:53,863 --> 00:34:55,823
but Ron had the cheque book.

613
00:34:55,859 --> 00:35:00,424
There was never a question
of neglecting the youth side.

614
00:35:00,459 --> 00:35:03,169
But we had
to get the first team right.

615
00:35:03,193 --> 00:35:04,273
That was the first priority.

616
00:35:04,297 --> 00:35:07,131
I mean, you can't go around
to the fans and say,

617
00:35:07,166 --> 00:35:10,542
"Hey, we ain't half gonna have
a side in five years' time."

618
00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:11,709
The first thing he said to me,

619
00:35:11,733 --> 00:35:13,457
"We've got
to have Bryan Robson."

620
00:35:13,525 --> 00:35:16,997
Don't worry.
You're buying solid gold.

621
00:35:18,897 --> 00:35:20,599
This is biggest deal

622
00:35:20,634 --> 00:35:22,366
in the history
of English football.

623
00:35:22,401 --> 00:35:23,670
What does that mean to you?

624
00:35:23,694 --> 00:35:26,599
Well, I'm proud that something
like that is happening,

625
00:35:26,635 --> 00:35:29,190
but I like
to just get on with the game.

626
00:35:29,225 --> 00:35:31,094
I knew Ron really well

627
00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:33,263
and I knew
how he wanted me to play.

628
00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:37,595
I wanted to win things and
I knew I had a far better chance

629
00:35:37,664 --> 00:35:38,665
at Manchester United.

630
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,334
Hurry up, lan,
and let's get ready.

631
00:35:41,358 --> 00:35:42,468
We're working this afternoon.

632
00:35:42,492 --> 00:35:45,595
Got you. He's there now.

633
00:35:45,630 --> 00:35:48,332
The new Emperor.

634
00:35:48,368 --> 00:35:52,657
His new clothes. His way.

635
00:35:56,199 --> 00:35:59,828
Nothing happened on a Friday.
We just played five-a-sides.

636
00:35:59,863 --> 00:36:01,597
And Ron was integral to that.

637
00:36:01,632 --> 00:36:03,296
He loved to join in himself.

638
00:36:04,463 --> 00:36:07,764
Which was a bit unusual
because he couldn't really play.

639
00:36:07,799 --> 00:36:09,795
And they were doing
some crossing.

640
00:36:09,864 --> 00:36:11,757
Ron was again integral to that.

641
00:36:11,792 --> 00:36:14,127
He passed the ball out
from the centre of the pitch.

642
00:36:14,163 --> 00:36:16,365
Get out in the right back
and curl it in

643
00:36:16,401 --> 00:36:17,663
and get on the end of it.

644
00:36:17,732 --> 00:36:18,911
All you have to do is put it in.

645
00:36:18,935 --> 00:36:22,995
Generally wisecrack his way
through the training session.

646
00:36:23,030 --> 00:36:24,799
"Right, lads,
see youse tomorrow."

647
00:36:24,835 --> 00:36:27,658
Er, right, OK what happens now?
Who's playing?

648
00:36:27,693 --> 00:36:30,868
Turned up on a Saturday.
Went to the Midlands Hotel.

649
00:36:30,892 --> 00:36:34,890
Still nothing before the meal,
we thought, "What's happening?"

650
00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:38,663
And then he would open up his
briefcase and I thought, "Yes."

651
00:36:38,698 --> 00:36:40,125
He'll have all the team talks.

652
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,205
He would pass folders round

653
00:36:41,229 --> 00:36:43,542
and we can see
who we're playing against.

654
00:36:43,566 --> 00:36:44,962
So he lifted up his briefcase.

655
00:36:44,997 --> 00:36:48,597
It was full
of aftershave, hairspray.

656
00:36:48,666 --> 00:36:49,908
Done himself up a bit, and went,

657
00:36:49,932 --> 00:36:52,124
"OK, lads,
this is the way we're playing."

658
00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:53,172
"Two big guys up front."

659
00:36:53,196 --> 00:36:55,894
Bump, diddly, bump.
Winger, da, da, da.

660
00:36:55,929 --> 00:36:57,096
And that was the team talk.

661
00:36:57,165 --> 00:37:00,459
I thought, "No, no,
that's it then." Quite simple.

662
00:37:02,466 --> 00:37:04,563
It was larger than life.

663
00:37:04,632 --> 00:37:05,665
And that was his thing.

664
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:07,632
Making you feel good
all the time.

665
00:37:07,668 --> 00:37:09,756
Saying things
that make you feel good.

666
00:37:13,265 --> 00:37:16,974
Probably his weaknesses, the
only weakness, I'd say, was...

667
00:37:16,998 --> 00:37:21,426
"You can do what you want
outside football,

668
00:37:21,495 --> 00:37:22,937
as long as you turn up
on a Saturday and play.

669
00:37:22,961 --> 00:37:24,599
Life's too short, really.

670
00:37:24,635 --> 00:37:29,399
Socially,
we all lived reasonably close

671
00:37:29,434 --> 00:37:32,040
to each other in those days.

672
00:37:32,064 --> 00:37:35,190
There was always
captains' team meetings

673
00:37:35,226 --> 00:37:37,008
on Tuesdays or Wednesdays

674
00:37:37,032 --> 00:37:40,131
and Robbo would say,
"Right, it's captains' day,"

675
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,490
which meant, basically, you had
to go to the pub and stay there

676
00:37:43,525 --> 00:37:46,865
for as long
as you could bear it.

677
00:37:48,131 --> 00:37:51,599
I'd go into the bars
and just say,

678
00:37:51,668 --> 00:37:53,524
"We're having
a bonding session, gaffer."

679
00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:55,497
"We're going out here,
going out there."

680
00:37:55,532 --> 00:37:59,791
The boss was all for it.

681
00:37:59,827 --> 00:38:03,009
I went out with them
once, when I first got there,

682
00:38:03,033 --> 00:38:05,668
and I ride back in the boot
of Bryan Robson's car.

683
00:38:05,692 --> 00:38:07,860
Whiteside, Robson, McGrath
are the three names

684
00:38:07,896 --> 00:38:10,691
that always get mentioned.

685
00:38:10,727 --> 00:38:14,505
And we did, we did like
to go out and have a few pints.

686
00:38:14,529 --> 00:38:18,256
Well, I say to them boys,
"You were our three best players

687
00:38:18,291 --> 00:38:19,357
week in and week out.

688
00:38:19,392 --> 00:38:22,323
Why didn't you get the rest
of the boys out with you?"

689
00:38:22,358 --> 00:38:23,534
We would have been unbeatable.

690
00:38:23,558 --> 00:38:25,329
Oh, what a strike!

691
00:38:25,364 --> 00:38:28,568
If you can get people
enjoying what they're doing,

692
00:38:28,592 --> 00:38:30,172
then you're gonna get
more out of them.

693
00:38:30,196 --> 00:38:32,808
A big trophy for Big Ron.

694
00:38:32,832 --> 00:38:34,662
We did have a good cup run.

695
00:38:34,731 --> 00:38:37,426
We won it in '83 and '85.

696
00:38:41,865 --> 00:38:44,597
I mean,
it's the biggest cup in Britain

697
00:38:44,633 --> 00:38:46,029
and we've got the best support.

698
00:38:46,064 --> 00:38:48,256
It's the league
that United fans want.

699
00:38:48,292 --> 00:38:50,106
An FA Cup is six matches.

700
00:38:50,130 --> 00:38:52,161
It's not hard.
Any club can win an FA Cup.

701
00:38:52,230 --> 00:38:54,657
It's the league
that's the big one; 42 matches.

702
00:38:54,692 --> 00:38:56,735
FA Cup triumph for Man United.

703
00:38:56,759 --> 00:39:00,691
I got that family
feeling when I was there.

704
00:39:00,726 --> 00:39:03,731
They had a humility about them.
All these guys.

705
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,795
And a friendliness.
And a camaraderie.

706
00:39:06,831 --> 00:39:09,389
But they never excluded anybody.

707
00:39:09,425 --> 00:39:10,676
I think your liver excluded you

708
00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:12,123
from these parties,
now and then.

709
00:39:12,192 --> 00:39:13,257
It wasn't parties.

710
00:39:13,326 --> 00:39:16,239
It was just going to pubs
and sitting down and drinking.

711
00:39:16,263 --> 00:39:19,909
And that held us back.
There's no doubt about it.

712
00:39:19,933 --> 00:39:23,830
Because I spoke
to Jesper Olsen's fitness coach

713
00:39:23,898 --> 00:39:25,735
and he says,
"Youse are losing players

714
00:39:25,759 --> 00:39:28,531
left, right and centre
of injuries cos of the alcohol."

715
00:39:28,566 --> 00:39:30,159
We were reasonably successful.

716
00:39:30,195 --> 00:39:31,776
We were never
out of the top four.

717
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,762
We qualified for Europe
nearly every year.

718
00:39:34,797 --> 00:39:36,795
We won a couple of FA Cups.

719
00:39:36,830 --> 00:39:39,523
So, we weren't unsuccessful,

720
00:39:39,558 --> 00:39:41,766
but, again,
after four, five years

721
00:39:41,801 --> 00:39:44,899
we weren't looking like
winning the league.

722
00:39:44,968 --> 00:39:47,643
It was still 18
years since we won the league.

723
00:39:47,667 --> 00:39:49,865
Nineteen years
since we won the league.

724
00:39:49,901 --> 00:39:53,690
At that time, Liverpool
were absolutely a machine,

725
00:39:53,726 --> 00:39:57,508
but I did feel that
with the players that we had,

726
00:39:57,532 --> 00:39:59,162
we could win the league.

727
00:40:05,130 --> 00:40:07,897
Things had gone
a little bit wrong

728
00:40:07,933 --> 00:40:12,029
and I wasn't sure
that we could pull it round.

729
00:40:12,098 --> 00:40:15,531
I just felt a change
was needed at that stage.

730
00:40:15,567 --> 00:40:20,031
We went in training one morning.

731
00:40:20,066 --> 00:40:24,289
My boots aren't out for training
and I get a message,

732
00:40:24,358 --> 00:40:26,690
"Chairman wants to see you."

733
00:40:26,759 --> 00:40:28,966
And Mick Brown says,
"The Chairman wants to see us."

734
00:40:29,001 --> 00:40:33,194
I just remember Mick saying,
"What do you think he wants?"

735
00:40:33,229 --> 00:40:35,863
I said, "Don't ask
for a rise today, Mick."

736
00:40:35,899 --> 00:40:38,824
"I don't think
that's gonna happen."

737
00:40:38,859 --> 00:40:42,728
Manchester United Football Club
sacked their manager,

738
00:40:42,763 --> 00:40:44,162
Ron Atkinson, today

739
00:40:44,197 --> 00:40:48,196
and with him goes his
assistant, Mick Brown.

740
00:40:48,264 --> 00:40:50,904
I actually had no indication
what was gonna happen.

741
00:40:50,928 --> 00:40:51,928
I've come down today

742
00:40:51,995 --> 00:40:55,698
expecting, a nice five-a-side
and what have you.

743
00:40:55,734 --> 00:40:58,030
The Chairman
called for me at 10.30.

744
00:40:58,066 --> 00:41:00,601
They told me, reluctantly,
I felt reluctantly,

745
00:41:00,625 --> 00:41:04,239
that they decided
to dispense with my services

746
00:41:04,263 --> 00:41:06,530
because of the results
over the last few months.

747
00:41:06,566 --> 00:41:10,096
And I accept that totally.

748
00:41:10,993 --> 00:41:12,064
Bump.

749
00:41:12,099 --> 00:41:15,198
We went, "Well, what do
you mean, gone?" "I'm away."

750
00:41:15,267 --> 00:41:16,267
"Right, OK."

751
00:41:16,334 --> 00:41:19,769
So, we just looked at
each other a bit and he went,

752
00:41:19,793 --> 00:41:24,223
"Everybody at my house tonight.
Eight o'clock, party."

753
00:41:24,259 --> 00:41:25,259
And that's what it was.

754
00:41:25,325 --> 00:41:27,065
Round to Ron's for a party.

755
00:41:27,902 --> 00:41:30,799
To celebrate him
getting the sack.

756
00:41:32,631 --> 00:41:34,291
Right, here's Fergie.

757
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,795
There was
only one target for me.

758
00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:37,668
And that was Alex Ferguson.

759
00:41:37,692 --> 00:41:39,636
I knew that if I rang up
Aberdeen at switchboard

760
00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:42,261
and just said it was
Martin Edwards, the Chairman,

761
00:41:42,296 --> 00:41:44,632
and I suddenly wanted
to speak to Alex Ferguson,

762
00:41:44,668 --> 00:41:46,432
then I may not
have been put through.

763
00:41:46,467 --> 00:41:48,698
So we went straight to Mike.

764
00:41:48,733 --> 00:41:51,063
"Hello.
Can I speak to Alex, please?"

765
00:41:52,693 --> 00:41:56,130
I think he was pretending
to be Gordon Strachan's agent.

766
00:41:56,166 --> 00:41:58,797
She said, "Oh, John, how are
you? How are the children?"

767
00:41:58,832 --> 00:42:01,172
And I saw the sweat
was pouring down.

768
00:42:01,196 --> 00:42:03,563
I said, "They're fine,
thank you. Fine."

769
00:42:03,632 --> 00:42:04,797
Can I speak to Alex, please?

770
00:42:04,833 --> 00:42:07,228
She said,
"Sure. I'll put you through."

771
00:42:08,301 --> 00:42:10,794
Welcome to Manchester.

772
00:42:15,727 --> 00:42:19,865
Ooh! This is different, lads.
This is seriously different.

773
00:42:21,599 --> 00:42:23,105
"I'm Alex Ferguson."

774
00:42:23,129 --> 00:42:25,966
"I'm manager
of Manchester United now."

775
00:42:26,001 --> 00:42:28,599
"I don't care who you are. I
don't care if you're Whiteside,

776
00:42:28,634 --> 00:42:30,541
Robson, McGrath,
Strachan. Whatever."

777
00:42:30,565 --> 00:42:32,325
He said, "I am the manager

778
00:42:32,361 --> 00:42:34,191
of Manchester United
from this day."

779
00:42:34,226 --> 00:42:35,402
I woke up this morning, Alex,

780
00:42:35,426 --> 00:42:37,130
to read
that you're gonna win the title.

781
00:42:37,199 --> 00:42:41,196
Well, what I've said is that
starting today we have to win.

782
00:42:41,232 --> 00:42:44,062
And we have to start thinking
of winning every game now.

783
00:42:44,097 --> 00:42:46,868
The first
pre-match meal we ever had

784
00:42:46,892 --> 00:42:51,929
he got the waitresses to take
away butter and bring margarine.

785
00:42:51,964 --> 00:42:54,691
He wouldn't allow us
to have salt.

786
00:42:54,726 --> 00:42:57,424
Oh, he was authoritative.
There's no doubt about that.

787
00:42:57,493 --> 00:42:59,542
He was a man in control.
He was the boss.

788
00:42:59,566 --> 00:43:01,263
Yeah, he was more disciplined.

789
00:43:01,299 --> 00:43:06,690
There were more boundaries and
rules that you had to abide by.

790
00:43:08,802 --> 00:43:11,199
The structure
of the club and the scouting,

791
00:43:11,234 --> 00:43:12,094
to the youth team

792
00:43:12,196 --> 00:43:14,927
to the way that everything
was sort of run,

793
00:43:14,996 --> 00:43:17,724
it was all geared to be his way.

794
00:43:17,759 --> 00:43:20,911
And there goes
the final whistle.

795
00:43:20,935 --> 00:43:25,497
Manchester United, one goal
only in the last six games now.

796
00:43:25,533 --> 00:43:28,566
No win in their last six.

797
00:43:28,601 --> 00:43:30,997
The vultures
are already circling.

798
00:43:32,697 --> 00:43:34,756
And the knives are out.

799
00:43:44,330 --> 00:43:47,765
The atmosphere
sometimes could be critical.

800
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,832
The media certainly
could be critical.

801
00:43:59,564 --> 00:44:00,899
There were moments

802
00:44:00,934 --> 00:44:04,031
when you thought he was
coming under real pressure.

803
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:06,831
I think he knew himself that
he needed to turn it around.

804
00:44:06,867 --> 00:44:09,800
I was just hopeful
that he could turn it round

805
00:44:09,835 --> 00:44:12,690
before we had to make
any decisions to the contrary.

806
00:44:14,065 --> 00:44:16,698
We knew how hard
he was working with the scouts,

807
00:44:16,766 --> 00:44:19,424
we knew the emphasis
he put on youth.

808
00:44:19,459 --> 00:44:20,927
The time and effort
he put into it

809
00:44:20,995 --> 00:44:22,702
was just unbelievable, really.

810
00:44:22,726 --> 00:44:26,226
He was there first thing
in the morning, last to leave.

811
00:44:26,262 --> 00:44:28,094
He's one of those believers,

812
00:44:28,129 --> 00:44:29,501
the more you put in,
you get out.

813
00:44:29,525 --> 00:44:33,591
And it is
that working-class ethic.

814
00:44:34,566 --> 00:44:37,711
Patience. Rare in football.

815
00:44:37,735 --> 00:44:40,898
But a most precious commodity
for a manager.

816
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:49,723
I think that Cup run
was the biggest pressure of all.

817
00:44:53,364 --> 00:44:56,399
The media were trying
to build that game up to be

818
00:44:56,434 --> 00:44:58,030
a crucial game for his future.

819
00:45:05,099 --> 00:45:08,156
We just knew, as a group,
that we had to do better.

820
00:45:08,192 --> 00:45:10,790
We had to do more.

821
00:45:10,826 --> 00:45:15,124
We just felt if he
could just get some success

822
00:45:15,159 --> 00:45:16,657
it would all come right.

823
00:45:20,031 --> 00:45:21,860
He was fearless
in what he'd done.

824
00:45:21,896 --> 00:45:23,063
He would just stick by it

825
00:45:23,099 --> 00:45:25,524
and he'd always believe
he could make it work

826
00:45:25,593 --> 00:45:28,123
to suit Manchester United
as a football team

827
00:45:28,192 --> 00:45:29,591
and a football club.

828
00:45:36,568 --> 00:45:38,360
You've gotta win
your domestic title.

829
00:45:38,396 --> 00:45:40,699
That's what you're judged on.
Your competition.

830
00:45:40,734 --> 00:45:43,591
The competition
in your own environment.

831
00:45:45,493 --> 00:45:49,128
And that was always
the, uh, the holy grail.

832
00:45:49,163 --> 00:45:50,809
And the players
are always being reminded

833
00:45:50,833 --> 00:45:54,657
that they hadn't won that
for so many years.

834
00:45:55,866 --> 00:45:57,996
Arch-rivals take to the field

835
00:45:58,032 --> 00:46:01,289
with United still
in this race for the title.

836
00:46:01,358 --> 00:46:03,227
Up until Christmas,

837
00:46:03,262 --> 00:46:06,657
we looked as if
we were odds on favourites.

838
00:46:06,693 --> 00:46:09,161
We, you know, we played
some fantastic football.

839
00:46:09,197 --> 00:46:13,563
And, um, and if we're being
brutally honest,

840
00:46:13,599 --> 00:46:15,294
we, uh, bottled it a bit.

841
00:46:15,329 --> 00:46:18,531
And Walters on the follow-up!

842
00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:20,005
And the title will go to Leeds!

843
00:46:20,029 --> 00:46:21,791
Manchester United have blown it.

844
00:46:21,826 --> 00:46:25,362
We'd handed the opportunity
to Leeds to go on and win it.

845
00:46:25,398 --> 00:46:30,064
It's the most disappointed I'd
ever been, really, in football.

846
00:46:30,099 --> 00:46:33,076
After the game someone asked me
for my autograph.

847
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:35,599
And I signed it and they ripped
it up in front of me.

848
00:46:35,635 --> 00:46:37,174
They said,
"You'll never win the league."

849
00:46:37,198 --> 00:46:40,962
Sir Alex used that as a tool
to, um, to make it,

850
00:46:41,031 --> 00:46:43,832
"It's us against the world,"
basically.

851
00:46:45,934 --> 00:46:49,256
He made a point of
saying it on the coach,

852
00:46:49,291 --> 00:46:51,977
"This is what happened."

853
00:46:52,001 --> 00:46:55,927
"Next year, we come back, and
we don't let this happen again."

854
00:46:55,962 --> 00:46:57,042
"Right, we'll show people."

855
00:46:57,166 --> 00:46:59,728
"We'll show them what we're
about and what we're gonna do

856
00:46:59,764 --> 00:47:02,006
and we will overcome it."

857
00:47:02,030 --> 00:47:04,699
We've got to assemble a squad

858
00:47:04,735 --> 00:47:07,492
which is good enough
to win the Premier League.

859
00:47:10,131 --> 00:47:14,262
We had a great
presence about that team.

860
00:47:14,297 --> 00:47:18,929
And so, that dressing room could
handle a character.

861
00:47:18,965 --> 00:47:22,377
And Eric was definitely
a character.

862
00:47:22,401 --> 00:47:24,426
Manchester United needed me.

863
00:47:26,059 --> 00:47:27,624
And I needed them.

864
00:47:30,998 --> 00:47:34,865
I was an outsider, but...
I was accepted.

865
00:47:36,493 --> 00:47:38,691
I was born to play
for Manchester United.

866
00:47:41,801 --> 00:47:43,790
It's a good cross,
and Cantona...

867
00:47:43,859 --> 00:47:46,509
Beautiful turn on his first goal
for Manchester United.

868
00:47:46,533 --> 00:47:49,097
Eric became a catalyst in a way.

869
00:47:49,132 --> 00:47:52,490
He was different.
He trained differently.

870
00:47:52,526 --> 00:47:54,592
He looked after himself
differently.

871
00:47:54,661 --> 00:47:58,693
As time went on, he just changed
everybody's mentality.

872
00:47:58,728 --> 00:48:01,108
A lot of people say a talisman,
but I think it's more than that.

873
00:48:01,132 --> 00:48:05,924
When we bought Cantona,
everything seemed to kick off.

874
00:48:08,264 --> 00:48:10,665
There was
a different culture at the club.

875
00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:12,465
You were seeing
these young kids,

876
00:48:12,500 --> 00:48:13,906
like little cats, sneaking up,

877
00:48:13,930 --> 00:48:15,911
getting closer and closer
to Eric.

878
00:48:15,935 --> 00:48:19,865
And before we knew it, they
were doing the same as he did.

879
00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:23,264
From that point on,
we never really looked back.

880
00:48:35,730 --> 00:48:37,426
Hughes!

881
00:48:40,430 --> 00:48:43,469
We really believed that we could
win the league that year.

882
00:48:43,493 --> 00:48:45,524
The boys had loads of belief
in themselves.

883
00:48:45,592 --> 00:48:47,898
There was a determination
amongst us all.

884
00:48:49,229 --> 00:48:51,760
Cantona picks out Hughes.

885
00:48:51,829 --> 00:48:53,729
And another cracker.

886
00:48:53,765 --> 00:48:56,492
The fans, the culture, the city.

887
00:48:56,527 --> 00:48:59,558
That was the energy
that pushed us forward.

888
00:49:02,329 --> 00:49:04,896
We were taught to be brave,
to take chances...

889
00:49:04,965 --> 00:49:07,239
- Cantona.
- ..be confident.

890
00:49:07,263 --> 00:49:10,810
It's a night where you can relax
and play but win.

891
00:49:10,834 --> 00:49:12,923
It was just there,
you could feel it.

892
00:49:12,992 --> 00:49:17,123
Determination to make sure that
we got over the line this time.

893
00:49:21,697 --> 00:49:22,697
Bruce!

894
00:49:27,896 --> 00:49:30,529
Unbelievable!

895
00:49:36,595 --> 00:49:40,624
They've come back
from the dead in this one.

896
00:49:50,364 --> 00:49:55,990
United are Kings of England once
more. Champions, once again.

897
00:49:56,025 --> 00:49:57,732
Champions.

898
00:50:20,734 --> 00:50:24,057
We all felt the joy
that we'd brought to Man U

899
00:50:24,125 --> 00:50:25,558
after 26 years.

900
00:50:26,566 --> 00:50:27,831
I can always remember.

901
00:50:27,866 --> 00:50:31,091
Sir Matt's smiling face
in the stand.

902
00:50:31,159 --> 00:50:32,491
He was just so delighted

903
00:50:32,527 --> 00:50:35,476
that the club had won it
after so many years.

904
00:50:35,500 --> 00:50:36,905
It was like a weight was lifted

905
00:50:36,929 --> 00:50:39,666
and it really meant everything

906
00:50:39,701 --> 00:50:44,030
to the group of players
and to the city.

907
00:50:50,331 --> 00:50:54,597
Manchester did feel like
the centre of the universe.

908
00:50:54,632 --> 00:50:56,193
You just felt this connection

909
00:50:56,228 --> 00:50:58,832
between the music
and the football.

910
00:51:00,199 --> 00:51:04,332
Old Trafford in the afternoon.
The Haçienda in the night time.

911
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,664
What a perfect weekend.

912
00:51:06,700 --> 00:51:07,965
The music scene was flying.

913
00:51:08,034 --> 00:51:12,524
We had all the best bands
around the world were all local.

914
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,262
Added to that, football,
we were taking off.

915
00:51:16,297 --> 00:51:20,125
Goes for
the chip, and, oh, exquisite!

916
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,723
The city was upbeat.

917
00:51:22,759 --> 00:51:25,193
You realise that something
special is going on,

918
00:51:25,229 --> 00:51:27,029
something's really,
really happening.

919
00:51:27,065 --> 00:51:31,640
Definitely did feel
that the pressure was off.

920
00:51:31,664 --> 00:51:32,844
And the shackles were off.

921
00:51:32,868 --> 00:51:35,098
He's made
an opening, can he finish it?

922
00:51:35,167 --> 00:51:36,066
He can!

923
00:51:36,134 --> 00:51:38,531
Every time we went up
against opposition,

924
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,996
we'd look across and believe

925
00:51:41,032 --> 00:51:43,061
that the opposition
were beaten in the tunnel.

926
00:51:43,096 --> 00:51:46,426
We had that... arrogance,
really,

927
00:51:46,461 --> 00:51:49,024
and that confidence that we were
gonna win games.

928
00:51:52,301 --> 00:51:54,690
We felt unbeatable.

929
00:51:56,525 --> 00:51:58,563
Oh, c'est magnifique!

930
00:51:58,598 --> 00:52:00,393
We felt unstoppable.

931
00:52:02,093 --> 00:52:03,426
Irwin!

932
00:52:06,096 --> 00:52:09,723
Oh! An absolute rocket
from Cantona!

933
00:52:11,466 --> 00:52:13,724
United, champions again.

934
00:52:13,759 --> 00:52:17,525
And this time winners,
of the League and Cup double.

935
00:52:19,197 --> 00:52:23,123
The winner of the PFA
Player of the Year Award

936
00:52:23,158 --> 00:52:25,931
for 1994 is...

937
00:52:27,125 --> 00:52:28,125
Eric Cantona.

938
00:52:31,565 --> 00:52:32,624
Well done.

939
00:52:32,660 --> 00:52:36,461
You thoroughly deserve that.
Really, well done.

940
00:52:36,530 --> 00:52:38,240
Well done.

941
00:52:38,264 --> 00:52:44,630
I'm very happy and very proud
to get this prize tonight.

942
00:52:44,666 --> 00:52:47,623
And I would like to say, first,

943
00:52:47,659 --> 00:52:52,707
I owe all my success
to Manchester United.

944
00:52:52,731 --> 00:52:56,464
To my manager, Alex Ferguson.

945
00:52:56,499 --> 00:52:58,074
My coach, Brian Kidd.

946
00:52:58,098 --> 00:53:01,731
All my team mates, the staff,
and the fans.

947
00:53:01,767 --> 00:53:05,062
After that I would like,
uh, congratulate

948
00:53:05,097 --> 00:53:08,293
all the people from football
in England.

949
00:53:08,361 --> 00:53:10,891
Even the player
who didn't vote for me.

950
00:53:12,097 --> 00:53:14,523
For... for all the pleasure
they give me

951
00:53:14,592 --> 00:53:16,702
to play in this
magnificent football.

952
00:53:16,726 --> 00:53:19,528
English football. Thank you
very much, to everybody.

953
00:53:41,834 --> 00:53:44,976
Always around that time,
January, Selhurst Park.

954
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,657
They're the.. These are
the games that win you leagues.

955
00:53:53,698 --> 00:53:54,877
We knew it was gonna be tough.

956
00:53:54,901 --> 00:53:58,502
You know, it's blustery,
it's pouring down, it's windy.

957
00:53:58,526 --> 00:54:02,162
Bobbly pitch.
Not great conditions to play in.

958
00:54:03,492 --> 00:54:05,208
Whenever we went away
to away grounds,

959
00:54:05,232 --> 00:54:09,597
you hear the sound of the crowd
and the baying of the crowd.

960
00:54:09,632 --> 00:54:11,261
That was just to-to irritate

961
00:54:11,330 --> 00:54:13,865
and try and get a reaction
out of the players.

962
00:54:15,835 --> 00:54:19,075
Some of the abuse that
we used to get was ridiculous.

963
00:54:19,099 --> 00:54:21,464
It's a cold
and windy winter night

964
00:54:21,499 --> 00:54:22,499
here in South London.

965
00:54:22,592 --> 00:54:25,230
This will be a test
of United's credentials.

966
00:54:25,265 --> 00:54:27,896
It was a frustrating game.
Uh, Palace were frustrating us.

967
00:54:27,931 --> 00:54:31,623
We weren't playing
flowing football.

968
00:54:31,692 --> 00:54:34,190
Cantona, strongly dispossessed

969
00:54:34,258 --> 00:54:36,124
and claiming the foul.

970
00:54:36,159 --> 00:54:37,327
But not getting it.

971
00:54:37,363 --> 00:54:42,530
But what you don't see,
for the first 60 minutes,

972
00:54:42,566 --> 00:54:44,293
is Eric getting kicked.

973
00:54:44,361 --> 00:54:46,807
Shaw comes right through him.

974
00:54:46,831 --> 00:54:48,603
You gotta let it
go over your head,

975
00:54:48,627 --> 00:54:51,964
but sometimes it gets a bit much
for you, doesn't it?

976
00:54:53,060 --> 00:54:54,026
I was injured,

977
00:54:54,061 --> 00:54:56,999
so I was listening to the game
on the radio.

978
00:54:57,034 --> 00:55:01,799
I always felt I could read
when his eyes used to go black.

979
00:55:01,835 --> 00:55:04,790
So when those occasions
occurred, I always felt,

980
00:55:04,859 --> 00:55:07,833
"OK, Eric, don't worry about
it. I'll-I'll sort this guy."

981
00:55:07,902 --> 00:55:11,023
"You go look for space over
there while you calm down."

982
00:55:12,364 --> 00:55:15,799
Cantona gets
to his feet, quite gingerly.

983
00:55:18,028 --> 00:55:19,962
Long clearance from Schmeichel.

984
00:55:19,998 --> 00:55:21,764
And a problem off the ball
immediately.

985
00:55:21,799 --> 00:55:24,630
Cantona and Shaw
tangle once more.

986
00:55:24,665 --> 00:55:26,061
And the referee is coming over

987
00:55:26,097 --> 00:55:28,058
and immediately
shows the red card!

988
00:55:28,093 --> 00:55:29,259
Cantona is dismissed!

989
00:55:29,295 --> 00:55:31,962
Where can there be a place
in the game

990
00:55:32,031 --> 00:55:35,665
for a man of such
extravagant talent?

991
00:55:35,700 --> 00:55:38,094
A man of such wicked
temperament?

992
00:55:38,129 --> 00:55:39,724
For the fifth time

993
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:45,063
as a Manchester United player,
Eric Cantona is sent off.

994
00:55:47,031 --> 00:55:49,690
Sir Alex
isn't even looking at him.

995
00:55:50,899 --> 00:55:53,426
So, I don't know if Eric's
caught, sort of,

996
00:55:53,461 --> 00:55:56,331
the sight of the manager
not even looking at him,

997
00:55:56,367 --> 00:55:57,568
and that, sort of,

998
00:55:57,592 --> 00:56:00,164
added a little bit more fire
in his belly.

999
00:56:00,199 --> 00:56:03,524
And then it's just, obviously
something's just... switched.

1000
00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:05,163
Dismissed and has now...

1001
00:56:05,198 --> 00:56:09,791
Oh my goodness me! He just
kicked, he's punched a fan!

1002
00:56:09,860 --> 00:56:15,632
Eric Cantona has jumped in and
scissor, kung-fu kicked, a fan!

1003
00:56:15,701 --> 00:56:17,404
Manchester United fans
are coming across!

1004
00:56:17,428 --> 00:56:21,806
I have never seen
as disgraceful incident as that

1005
00:56:21,830 --> 00:56:23,843
in all my years in football!

1006
00:56:23,867 --> 00:56:26,959
Eric Cantona should be
thrown out of the game

1007
00:56:26,995 --> 00:56:28,491
for that sort of incident!

1008
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,328
He launched himself
six feet into the crowd

1009
00:56:32,397 --> 00:56:36,827
and kung-fu kicked a supporter
who was eye-witness...

1010
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:47,541
I have been insulted
thousands of times

1011
00:56:47,565 --> 00:56:49,657
and I have never reacted.

1012
00:56:51,168 --> 00:56:52,558
But sometimes...

1013
00:56:55,432 --> 00:56:56,964
you're fragile.

1014
00:57:06,459 --> 00:57:08,360
I think within
the changing room,

1015
00:57:08,429 --> 00:57:11,031
it was more about the game,
the disappointment,

1016
00:57:11,100 --> 00:57:16,162
but you knew there was something
else that had happened...

1017
00:57:17,593 --> 00:57:19,729
that was at the back
of everyone's mind.

1018
00:57:19,765 --> 00:57:22,756
Uh, back of the manager's mind.

1019
00:57:24,997 --> 00:57:27,129
"How am I gonna
deal with this now?"

1020
00:57:30,868 --> 00:57:33,364
Keep back, please.
Can you keep back.

1021
00:57:38,267 --> 00:57:39,898
Alex!

1022
00:57:53,066 --> 00:57:55,526
The directors of Manchester
United are meeting now

1023
00:57:55,562 --> 00:57:59,195
to discuss the future of their
fallen star, Eric Cantona.

1024
00:57:59,230 --> 00:58:01,695
The man promoted
as the greatest player in Europe

1025
00:58:01,730 --> 00:58:02,730
is tonight best known

1026
00:58:02,801 --> 00:58:04,468
for the most outrageous
piece of behaviour

1027
00:58:04,492 --> 00:58:05,776
in the history
of the British game.

1028
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,029
Should Eric Cantona
be banned for life?

1029
00:58:08,064 --> 00:58:10,191
No, he shouldn't.
He's got to be banned

1030
00:58:10,227 --> 00:58:11,303
and he's got to be disciplined.

1031
00:58:11,327 --> 00:58:13,427
But it would
just be such a waste.

1032
00:58:13,463 --> 00:58:16,632
What happened last night
was a stain on our game.

1033
00:58:16,668 --> 00:58:18,273
The Football Association
has this evening

1034
00:58:18,297 --> 00:58:21,361
charged Eric Cantona of
Manchester United and France

1035
00:58:21,397 --> 00:58:24,328
with misconduct that has
brought the game into disrepute.

1036
00:58:24,364 --> 00:58:27,361
Neither explanation
nor apology so far today

1037
00:58:27,397 --> 00:58:30,332
from Eric Cantona, the man who,
this time, it seems,

1038
00:58:30,367 --> 00:58:31,809
has simply gone too far.

1039
00:58:31,833 --> 00:58:34,129
What do you think's
gonna happen?

1040
00:58:40,964 --> 00:58:42,757
Good morning,
ladies and gentlemen.

1041
00:58:42,792 --> 00:58:46,268
Manchester United has today
suspended Eric Cantona

1042
00:58:46,292 --> 00:58:48,458
from all first team matches

1043
00:58:48,493 --> 00:58:51,929
for the remainder
of the 1994/95 season.

1044
00:58:51,998 --> 00:58:53,894
Most Manchester United fans

1045
00:58:53,929 --> 00:58:55,509
will clearly wait for Cantona.

1046
00:58:55,533 --> 00:58:57,230
But will Cantona wait for them?

1047
00:58:57,265 --> 00:59:00,465
When he was similarly punished
in France, he quit the game,

1048
00:59:00,500 --> 00:59:02,535
saying it was all beneath him.

1049
00:59:02,559 --> 00:59:05,696
Eric Cantona should be
suspended forthwith

1050
00:59:05,764 --> 00:59:08,160
from all football activities,

1051
00:59:08,196 --> 00:59:12,296
up to and including
September 1995.

1052
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,508
He has given a statement
to the police,

1053
00:59:17,532 --> 00:59:18,696
he has been charged.

1054
00:59:18,732 --> 00:59:21,328
The charge is of common assault.

1055
00:59:21,364 --> 00:59:24,632
Magistrate Jean
Perch ordered he go to jail.

1056
00:59:24,701 --> 00:59:26,532
Cantona's barrister argued

1057
00:59:26,568 --> 00:59:28,140
that they sent Cantona to prison

1058
00:59:28,164 --> 00:59:30,391
not because of the seriousness
of the offence,

1059
00:59:30,460 --> 00:59:32,695
but because
he was a public figure.

1060
00:59:42,833 --> 00:59:44,439
Stuart, from the gallery,

1061
00:59:44,463 --> 00:59:48,256
I think we're talking about him
almost coming in any moment.

1062
00:59:48,292 --> 00:59:50,063
Yeah, gallery, this is it.

1063
00:59:52,065 --> 00:59:54,129
First of all, I've got
a brief statement in English

1064
00:59:54,198 --> 00:59:57,030
and then Eric Cantona
would like to say a few words.

1065
00:59:59,367 --> 01:00:00,499
Eric Cantona's appeal

1066
01:00:00,535 --> 01:00:04,526
against the custodial sentence
of 14 days was allowed today

1067
01:00:04,562 --> 01:00:09,590
and a community service order
of 120 hours substituted.

1068
01:00:09,659 --> 01:00:11,931
Eric Cantona would like
to say a few words.

1069
01:00:13,129 --> 01:00:16,992
My mind was clear,
this was my time.

1070
01:00:17,027 --> 01:00:18,865
This was my message.

1071
01:00:21,631 --> 01:00:23,129
When the seagulls...

1072
01:00:25,664 --> 01:00:27,096
follow the trawler,

1073
01:00:27,796 --> 01:00:30,073
it's because they think

1074
01:00:30,097 --> 01:00:35,056
sardines will be thrown
into the sea.

1075
01:00:35,091 --> 01:00:36,198
Thank you.

1076
01:00:57,191 --> 01:00:59,463
I don't regret it.

1077
01:00:59,532 --> 01:01:01,458
I have one regret...

1078
01:01:01,527 --> 01:01:04,690
I would have loved to kick him
even harder.

1079
01:01:18,731 --> 01:01:20,756
I was banned for nine months.

1080
01:01:22,598 --> 01:01:24,558
I was very upset and...

1081
01:01:26,928 --> 01:01:28,931
and sad and disappointed.

1082
01:01:31,002 --> 01:01:35,464
They wanted me to be an example,
I didn't want to be an example.

1083
01:01:35,500 --> 01:01:37,562
I'm just a human being.

1084
01:01:45,932 --> 01:01:48,492
That was
a very difficult summer.

1085
01:01:49,900 --> 01:01:53,931
They'd lost the title
on the last day by a goal.

1086
01:01:55,896 --> 01:01:57,964
They lost the FA Cup final.

1087
01:01:58,997 --> 01:02:01,393
And then some
of the players left.

1088
01:02:02,626 --> 01:02:05,931
How do you let players
like Mark Hughes, Paul Ince

1089
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,227
and Andrei Kanchelskis,
who, all three of them

1090
01:02:08,262 --> 01:02:10,724
would have been
in every starting eleven.

1091
01:02:10,793 --> 01:02:13,623
Why do you let them go and
don't sign any other players?

1092
01:02:13,658 --> 01:02:17,699
And I asked him this, "Why?"
And he said,

1093
01:02:17,735 --> 01:02:20,296
"If I develop players
through my academy,

1094
01:02:20,331 --> 01:02:23,569
if I don't make room to them,
uh, for them in my first team,

1095
01:02:23,593 --> 01:02:25,797
they will stagnate and it's been
a waste of time."

1096
01:02:25,833 --> 01:02:28,933
If a youth team gives you one
player

1097
01:02:28,968 --> 01:02:32,163
that gets into the first team
each year, that's fantastic.

1098
01:02:32,198 --> 01:02:37,061
But we had, probably,
eight broke into the first team.

1099
01:02:37,129 --> 01:02:38,796
I remember him telling me,

1100
01:02:38,831 --> 01:02:40,366
"I think my lads
are good enough,

1101
01:02:40,401 --> 01:02:42,799
so I'm gonna promote them."

1102
01:02:42,834 --> 01:02:45,861
Beckham, Scholes, Butt,
the Nevilles.

1103
01:02:45,896 --> 01:02:47,877
All Manchester United fans.

1104
01:02:47,901 --> 01:02:50,690
And the Boss kept telling us
about them all the time.

1105
01:02:52,129 --> 01:02:54,124
If they've got the temperament,

1106
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:55,494
they've got a good chance.

1107
01:02:55,529 --> 01:02:58,028
There's only one way you're
gonna find out, playing them.

1108
01:02:58,097 --> 01:03:00,292
They're good players, but...

1109
01:03:00,327 --> 01:03:02,797
It was a massive thing.

1110
01:03:02,832 --> 01:03:04,239
I mean, even,
I think, as players,

1111
01:03:04,263 --> 01:03:06,964
you're thinking,
"What are you doing?"

1112
01:03:09,263 --> 01:03:12,468
We'd come through
the youth team.

1113
01:03:12,492 --> 01:03:15,094
We'd come through
the reserve team.

1114
01:03:15,129 --> 01:03:17,799
We were a...
a very close family.

1115
01:03:20,525 --> 01:03:22,098
The players come through
the academy.

1116
01:03:22,134 --> 01:03:26,063
If they are good, they will be
better than any kind of player.

1117
01:03:28,131 --> 01:03:30,762
Because they will have
the soul of the club.

1118
01:03:30,797 --> 01:03:33,296
And the identity of the club.

1119
01:03:33,332 --> 01:03:35,992
Ferguson did what he
thought was right for the team,

1120
01:03:36,028 --> 01:03:37,389
and therefore the club.

1121
01:03:37,425 --> 01:03:39,398
He wanted to build a young team,

1122
01:03:39,433 --> 01:03:42,426
not unlike Matt Busby.

1123
01:03:45,199 --> 01:03:47,790
You could see what he was trying
to do with the youth team

1124
01:03:47,826 --> 01:03:51,207
and especially when he brought
Brian Kidd into the club.

1125
01:03:51,231 --> 01:03:55,525
Get all the best young players
around the Northwest area.

1126
01:03:55,594 --> 01:03:58,442
The emphasis went
more back with development

1127
01:03:58,466 --> 01:04:00,727
and particularly the, uh,

1128
01:04:00,763 --> 01:04:02,061
local development.

1129
01:04:02,096 --> 01:04:04,535
You know,
the Greater Manchester area.

1130
01:04:04,559 --> 01:04:07,223
Which was my role,
I was given that role,

1131
01:04:07,258 --> 01:04:08,931
local talent, really.

1132
01:04:10,559 --> 01:04:12,866
That's the heritage
at Manchester United.

1133
01:04:12,901 --> 01:04:16,237
You know, and Sir Matt
built teams, like Sir Alex did.

1134
01:04:16,261 --> 01:04:18,674
You know,
they rebuilt teams there.

1135
01:04:18,698 --> 01:04:20,832
That's what he was doing then.

1136
01:04:23,834 --> 01:04:27,630
It's not easily replaced,
these iconic figures.

1137
01:04:27,665 --> 01:04:28,964
Eric Cantona has said he wants

1138
01:04:29,033 --> 01:04:32,075
to leave Manchester United
and English football.

1139
01:04:32,099 --> 01:04:35,344
The FA inquiry into his
appearance in a friendly game

1140
01:04:35,368 --> 01:04:36,723
against Rochdale last month

1141
01:04:36,759 --> 01:04:39,831
appears to have triggered
his request to leave.

1142
01:04:39,900 --> 01:04:42,962
I played with the...
with the reserve team.

1143
01:04:42,997 --> 01:04:47,263
We closed all the doors,
and, uh...

1144
01:04:47,331 --> 01:04:50,864
I was not allowed to play with
a shirt of Manchester United.

1145
01:04:50,933 --> 01:04:53,260
So I play with the reserve team,
with that shirt.

1146
01:04:53,296 --> 01:04:56,599
Closed everything.
It was just a friendly game.

1147
01:04:56,635 --> 01:04:59,007
But a journalist
was on the top of the...

1148
01:04:59,031 --> 01:05:02,765
of a tree outside
and he took a picture.

1149
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:05,799
And, uh, unfortunately,
he didn't fall.

1150
01:05:07,096 --> 01:05:08,898
And the day, after it was
in the paper

1151
01:05:08,933 --> 01:05:11,800
and the FA wanted me...
to ban me even more.

1152
01:05:11,835 --> 01:05:13,932
Tonight, the star
himself is reported

1153
01:05:13,967 --> 01:05:16,866
to be in Paris contemplating
an uncertain future.

1154
01:05:16,935 --> 01:05:19,361
A spokesman for
Manchester United said tonight,

1155
01:05:19,396 --> 01:05:22,196
the board had considered
Cantona's request carefully,

1156
01:05:22,231 --> 01:05:25,162
but had decided they were not
prepared to release him.

1157
01:05:25,231 --> 01:05:27,732
Whether they can keep him here
against his will,

1158
01:05:27,801 --> 01:05:30,599
contract or not,
is another matter all together.

1159
01:05:30,634 --> 01:05:34,289
The siege mentality,
we just, uh...

1160
01:05:34,325 --> 01:05:35,702
we just circled the wagons

1161
01:05:35,726 --> 01:05:39,932
and everybody went inside
and then all stuck together.

1162
01:05:39,968 --> 01:05:42,744
The manager protected players
at our club, you know.

1163
01:05:42,768 --> 01:05:46,361
Because we all know that
when the manager was there

1164
01:05:46,396 --> 01:05:50,757
for the years that he was
and the success that he had,

1165
01:05:50,792 --> 01:05:53,230
it was because when you're
a Manchester United player

1166
01:05:53,265 --> 01:05:56,531
and something goes on in the
club or in your personal life,

1167
01:05:56,566 --> 01:06:00,162
you are treated like family.

1168
01:06:08,601 --> 01:06:10,591
The Boss had gone
to reassure him.

1169
01:06:11,664 --> 01:06:13,195
We was all behind him.

1170
01:06:15,300 --> 01:06:16,976
He was loved.

1171
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:20,963
I had a chat with Eric
yesterday morning.

1172
01:06:20,999 --> 01:06:23,123
I listened to him
and I can understand exactly

1173
01:06:23,158 --> 01:06:24,624
what he's saying.

1174
01:06:25,832 --> 01:06:29,460
He trained so hard
in the pre-season

1175
01:06:29,495 --> 01:06:32,591
and then all of a sudden
it was taken away from him.

1176
01:06:36,292 --> 01:06:38,108
You hear things and...

1177
01:06:38,132 --> 01:06:42,065
gradually you're not seeing
as much as... much of him.

1178
01:06:44,463 --> 01:06:48,194
So then you start to wonder,
you know, does he need this?

1179
01:06:48,263 --> 01:06:52,525
You know. Is he gonna go off
somewhere else?

1180
01:06:57,098 --> 01:06:59,028
Many United fans
see Eric Cantona

1181
01:06:59,097 --> 01:07:02,029
as the lynchpin
of Manchester United.

1182
01:07:02,064 --> 01:07:04,799
Do you see him as essential
to United?

1183
01:07:06,631 --> 01:07:08,261
Yeah, I think so.

1184
01:07:10,427 --> 01:07:12,597
In fact, what I-I-I'm probably
weak on

1185
01:07:12,666 --> 01:07:16,140
is, maybe, big game experience.

1186
01:07:16,164 --> 01:07:19,432
With players like Nicky Butt,
Paul Scholes,

1187
01:07:19,501 --> 01:07:22,329
the two Nevilles, David Beckham.

1188
01:07:22,365 --> 01:07:25,690
Can you win the
title next season if Eric stays?

1189
01:07:25,759 --> 01:07:28,799
Oh, yes.
I'm absolutely certain of that.

1190
01:07:30,525 --> 01:07:33,835
Can you win it if he goes?

1191
01:07:33,859 --> 01:07:37,426
We would have to
get a really good replacement.

1192
01:07:55,263 --> 01:07:58,957
He found
the right words, like always.

1193
01:08:01,801 --> 01:08:06,195
I loved him and I respected him
like a father.

1194
01:08:11,734 --> 01:08:14,723
When a manager does something
like this...

1195
01:08:16,267 --> 01:08:18,295
to his player...

1196
01:08:18,330 --> 01:08:23,972
for sure the player will
give his life to the manager.

1197
01:08:23,996 --> 01:08:27,396
And to the club.
And to the fans.

1198
01:08:27,431 --> 01:08:28,530
Everybody.

1199
01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,397
Is he gonna play on Sunday?

1200
01:08:34,432 --> 01:08:37,160
Yes.

1201
01:08:37,196 --> 01:08:39,299
- Definitely.
- From the start?

1202
01:08:39,367 --> 01:08:40,832
Right from the start.

1203
01:08:40,867 --> 01:08:42,665
Welcome the King back in style!

1204
01:08:42,700 --> 01:08:44,863
Get your Eric the King
souvenirs!

1205
01:08:44,898 --> 01:08:48,091
Ooh, aah, ooh, aah, Cantona!

1206
01:08:50,264 --> 01:08:52,698
God is back, he's appearing
at Old Trafford today.

1207
01:08:52,733 --> 01:08:54,301
Miracles don't happen
that often.

1208
01:08:54,325 --> 01:08:55,692
What do you think about today?

1209
01:08:55,727 --> 01:08:57,929
Well, like every football fan
in the country, Martin,

1210
01:08:57,964 --> 01:08:59,897
I'm really excited
about the return

1211
01:08:59,932 --> 01:09:03,525
of the league's
most talented footballer.

1212
01:09:06,396 --> 01:09:10,674
I think it gave us as a club
and the team a real boost

1213
01:09:10,698 --> 01:09:12,892
to have Eric back on the pitch.

1214
01:09:20,863 --> 01:09:22,504
Cantona...

1215
01:09:22,528 --> 01:09:26,164
Puts it away. The script
is written. He's back again.

1216
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:27,357
Two-two.

1217
01:09:27,393 --> 01:09:28,863
The fans were behind me.

1218
01:09:28,899 --> 01:09:32,657
The-the-the...
Everybody at the club.

1219
01:09:32,726 --> 01:09:35,591
In some clubs, maybe they
would have sacked me,

1220
01:09:35,626 --> 01:09:39,591
and Manchester United
offered me a new contract.

1221
01:09:39,627 --> 01:09:41,761
That's the difference between
Manchester United

1222
01:09:41,796 --> 01:09:44,229
and the other ones.

1223
01:09:44,264 --> 01:09:46,460
Played across.
Oh, it's flying in.

1224
01:09:46,495 --> 01:09:49,797
And United have closed the gap
at the top of the table.

1225
01:09:49,832 --> 01:09:52,830
This combination
of what was there,

1226
01:09:52,865 --> 01:09:55,298
what came in
and then Eric returning...

1227
01:09:56,625 --> 01:10:00,556
it just made us
an incredible team.

1228
01:10:00,625 --> 01:10:02,160
Footballer of the year.

1229
01:10:02,229 --> 01:10:05,996
He came back
to drag United from nowhere.

1230
01:10:06,064 --> 01:10:08,599
To see Eric back playing,
the excitement.

1231
01:10:08,667 --> 01:10:11,723
It gave us that extra push
that season.

1232
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:19,430
James gets there,
just, first... Cantona!

1233
01:10:20,793 --> 01:10:26,095
United have done it. League
and Cup double winners again.

1234
01:10:26,164 --> 01:10:29,662
This double, for me,
means a lot.

1235
01:10:29,697 --> 01:10:32,632
It was a double, uh...

1236
01:10:32,667 --> 01:10:35,090
with a new generation
of players.

1237
01:10:39,067 --> 01:10:42,130
Ferguson thought he
was going to create this empire.

1238
01:10:42,165 --> 01:10:44,625
Cos most people don't think
about creating an empire,

1239
01:10:44,660 --> 01:10:46,892
they just think about,
"How do I win the next game?"

1240
01:11:02,230 --> 01:11:05,459
Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.

1241
01:11:06,766 --> 01:11:08,662
We have asked you
to come along today

1242
01:11:08,698 --> 01:11:09,897
so that we may announce

1243
01:11:09,966 --> 01:11:13,157
that Eric Cantona has indicated
his wish to retire from football

1244
01:11:13,192 --> 01:11:14,756
with immediate effect.

1245
01:11:20,492 --> 01:11:22,976
I didn't see it coming,
personally.

1246
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:27,163
Um, and I was devastated when,
when I heard the news.

1247
01:11:27,198 --> 01:11:30,009
I couldn't comprehend how
someone at such a young age,

1248
01:11:30,033 --> 01:11:32,174
with so much talent
would just leave the game and...

1249
01:11:32,198 --> 01:11:35,057
it was sad for us because,
you know, he was our talisman,

1250
01:11:35,093 --> 01:11:36,425
he was our leader.

1251
01:11:36,460 --> 01:11:39,061
It was really difficult
to understand

1252
01:11:39,096 --> 01:11:41,931
as a player and as a team mate.

1253
01:11:44,330 --> 01:11:49,710
But, I think once Eric makes
his mind up, you know,

1254
01:11:49,734 --> 01:11:52,157
he's that type of person
that, you know,

1255
01:11:52,226 --> 01:11:54,558
no one could change that.

1256
01:11:56,865 --> 01:11:59,575
The last game of the league
that season,

1257
01:11:59,599 --> 01:12:01,524
he rented a restaurant locally.

1258
01:12:01,559 --> 01:12:05,356
For me and Jordi and Eric
and our families.

1259
01:12:05,425 --> 01:12:07,676
We had a good time, great night.

1260
01:12:07,700 --> 01:12:10,690
Celebrated winning the league
again.

1261
01:12:11,866 --> 01:12:13,731
It was two days after,
I listened to the radio

1262
01:12:13,766 --> 01:12:15,908
and it was announced
that he'd retired.

1263
01:12:15,932 --> 01:12:18,290
And he never mentioned
one word to us.

1264
01:12:18,325 --> 01:12:19,736
We were dancing, having fun.

1265
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:22,797
Four o'clock in the morning,
we went home and not one word.

1266
01:12:22,866 --> 01:12:25,958
And that was Eric
in a nutshell for you.

1267
01:12:31,796 --> 01:12:33,723
I love the game.

1268
01:12:34,929 --> 01:12:36,766
I love the fire inside of me.

1269
01:12:36,801 --> 01:12:40,623
I love the adrenaline,
I love... I love that.

1270
01:12:40,659 --> 01:12:45,898
I played it as, like a kid.
It was my dream.

1271
01:12:49,701 --> 01:12:53,492
When this dream
became like a routine,

1272
01:12:56,130 --> 01:13:00,334
I don't want to play football
like this.

1273
01:13:00,358 --> 01:13:02,391
I want to be faithful to myself

1274
01:13:02,460 --> 01:13:06,458
and to the... to the fans
and everybody.

1275
01:13:06,494 --> 01:13:09,063
And there is so many things
to do in life.

1276
01:13:11,259 --> 01:13:13,228
I don't have time to waste.

1277
01:13:16,264 --> 01:13:20,096
It is time to pass the baton
on to the next generation.

1278
01:13:24,060 --> 01:13:25,497
My phone rang.

1279
01:13:25,533 --> 01:13:26,690
"David, it's the Boss."

1280
01:13:26,725 --> 01:13:30,726
And I was like, "OK, hi, Boss.
Uh, are you OK?"

1281
01:13:30,761 --> 01:13:33,623
And he said, "Yes, we're, we're
signing, um, Teddy Sheringham."

1282
01:13:33,692 --> 01:13:36,295
"And he's gonna take
the number 10 shirt."

1283
01:13:36,331 --> 01:13:39,296
And I was like, "Boss, I wanna
keep the number 10 shirt."

1284
01:13:39,365 --> 01:13:42,199
"I like wearing the number 10.
I enjoy wearing the number 10."

1285
01:13:42,234 --> 01:13:43,234
"Can I keep it?"

1286
01:13:43,335 --> 01:13:46,638
"Nope. Teddy's having it.
Don't worry about it, son."

1287
01:13:46,662 --> 01:13:47,964
Phone down.

1288
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,808
I was devastated for the
whole... the whole summer.

1289
01:13:51,832 --> 01:13:54,128
And then I went back
into pre-season

1290
01:13:54,196 --> 01:13:55,996
and the manager pulled me
into his office

1291
01:13:56,031 --> 01:13:58,062
and he was like, um,
"How you feeling?"

1292
01:13:58,098 --> 01:14:00,764
I was like, "Well, you know,
I'm OK, Boss."

1293
01:14:00,833 --> 01:14:03,224
I would never turn round
to him and say,

1294
01:14:03,293 --> 01:14:06,432
I'm-I'm, you know, a bit upset.

1295
01:14:06,467 --> 01:14:08,208
He said, "Oh, by the way, um,

1296
01:14:08,232 --> 01:14:11,657
yeah, you're gonna have the
number seven shirt this year."

1297
01:14:11,726 --> 01:14:14,490
And all of a sudden I went from
being devastated

1298
01:14:14,559 --> 01:14:17,061
to being one of
the happiest people.

1299
01:14:17,097 --> 01:14:19,691
Because, as a United fan,
you grow up

1300
01:14:19,727 --> 01:14:22,924
knowing that that number seven
shirt has been worn by

1301
01:14:22,993 --> 01:14:24,628
George Best,

1302
01:14:24,663 --> 01:14:26,925
Bryan Robson,

1303
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:28,426
Eric Cantona.

1304
01:14:30,158 --> 01:14:32,332
As much as I...

1305
01:14:32,368 --> 01:14:34,263
as I was gonna miss Eric,

1306
01:14:34,298 --> 01:14:36,692
I was kind of happy that I had
the number seven shirt.

1307
01:14:36,727 --> 01:14:39,761
And then kind of nervous that
I had to live up to anything

1308
01:14:39,796 --> 01:14:42,129
that he came close to.

1309
01:14:44,100 --> 01:14:46,729
You join us here
on this parade in North London

1310
01:14:46,764 --> 01:14:48,524
where you can see Arsenal...

1311
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:50,608
That year
was a tough year for us.

1312
01:14:50,632 --> 01:14:51,863
It was a really tough year.

1313
01:14:51,931 --> 01:14:54,690
'97-'98 was a,
you know, a fiasco.

1314
01:14:54,759 --> 01:14:57,898
What we were up against
was an incredible team.

1315
01:14:59,364 --> 01:15:03,597
Didn't end up winning anything.
That was a... a major blow.

1316
01:15:03,665 --> 01:15:05,908
Whenever you're not successful

1317
01:15:05,932 --> 01:15:08,795
of winning a league,
winning an FA Cup...

1318
01:15:08,830 --> 01:15:11,735
it's always tough at United.

1319
01:15:11,759 --> 01:15:15,794
But that came from, you know,
being a youth team player.

1320
01:15:15,829 --> 01:15:18,827
You know, defeat or...

1321
01:15:18,863 --> 01:15:21,838
having no success hurt.

1322
01:15:21,862 --> 01:15:25,063
It always hurt us, deeply.

1323
01:15:25,098 --> 01:15:28,791
It's together we experience
pain and glory.

1324
01:15:28,826 --> 01:15:30,531
We...

1325
01:15:30,599 --> 01:15:33,723
we fall and rise... together.

1326
01:15:39,962 --> 01:15:41,738
We had to make adjustments.

1327
01:15:41,762 --> 01:15:43,190
We had to change.

1328
01:15:43,259 --> 01:15:44,577
We knew what we had to do.

1329
01:15:44,601 --> 01:15:46,304
We had to
come back stronger and...

1330
01:15:46,328 --> 01:15:48,898
and that's what the manager
prepared us for.

1331
01:15:48,934 --> 01:15:51,361
The manager was a genius
at getting into your head.

1332
01:15:51,397 --> 01:15:54,431
Erm, he made us all believe
that everyone hated us.

1333
01:15:54,467 --> 01:15:55,801
All of the fans hated us.

1334
01:15:55,825 --> 01:15:59,624
He made us believe the referee
didn't like us.

1335
01:15:59,660 --> 01:16:02,658
The mentality, he had us in
like siege mentality.

1336
01:16:02,693 --> 01:16:06,143
"No-one likes you. Everyone
wants to beat Man United."

1337
01:16:06,167 --> 01:16:07,757
Right, OK.

1338
01:16:07,792 --> 01:16:10,931
What he instilled in
his players, week in, week out.

1339
01:16:10,966 --> 01:16:13,227
"You make sure you fight
till the bitter end."

1340
01:16:13,295 --> 01:16:15,932
That is a problem for them,
by the way.

1341
01:16:15,968 --> 01:16:18,765
We get the ball transferred
into these areas there.

1342
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:21,030
I don't think
they've a chance against us.

1343
01:16:35,096 --> 01:16:36,930
That particular season
epitomises

1344
01:16:36,999 --> 01:16:40,459
how Sir Alex Ferguson
worked as a manager.

1345
01:16:41,726 --> 01:16:43,766
Obviously,
going into that season,

1346
01:16:43,835 --> 01:16:48,557
we'd had the disappointment
of... the season before.

1347
01:16:48,592 --> 01:16:51,975
There was a lot of doubters
out there.

1348
01:16:51,999 --> 01:16:55,325
As a team, I don't think
we wanted to go through

1349
01:16:55,360 --> 01:16:58,130
another season
of disappointment.

1350
01:16:58,165 --> 01:17:01,028
That's a dangerous ball
in and, ah, it's there!

1351
01:17:01,063 --> 01:17:03,997
United with
a last-minute winner.

1352
01:17:04,032 --> 01:17:07,525
I'd never felt like that
playing football before.

1353
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:09,863
That's when the pressure
was really, really on.

1354
01:17:09,898 --> 01:17:12,498
It was that
little bit different.

1355
01:17:12,534 --> 01:17:13,743
Just that little bit different.

1356
01:17:13,767 --> 01:17:16,323
Two heavyweights go toe-to-toe,

1357
01:17:16,359 --> 01:17:17,730
and the atmosphere is electric.

1358
01:17:17,766 --> 01:17:19,762
Oh, magnificent from
David Beckham!

1359
01:17:19,798 --> 01:17:22,898
Bergkamp strikes from distance!

1360
01:17:24,197 --> 01:17:27,160
It wasn't just a football match,
it was a battle.

1361
01:17:27,195 --> 01:17:28,798
Cynical from Keane.

1362
01:17:28,833 --> 01:17:31,730
And he's off.
The red card for Roy Keane.

1363
01:17:31,765 --> 01:17:34,831
Penalty...
saved by Schmeichel!

1364
01:17:34,867 --> 01:17:38,623
You just felt,
after that semi-final win that,

1365
01:17:38,659 --> 01:17:40,874
yes, there is something
special we can do.

1366
01:17:40,898 --> 01:17:43,592
Giggs... still going.

1367
01:17:43,627 --> 01:17:46,897
And twisting defenders
on the run. Oh, what a finish!

1368
01:17:46,932 --> 01:17:49,498
We played some
of the best football...

1369
01:17:49,533 --> 01:17:51,162
that we'd played in some time.

1370
01:17:52,162 --> 01:17:55,095
We did play
like a team possessed.

1371
01:17:55,130 --> 01:17:58,724
The focus on Europe
became more intense.

1372
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:03,224
I think that was... that was
always our goal... you know,

1373
01:18:03,259 --> 01:18:04,227
to be successful in Europe.

1374
01:18:04,262 --> 01:18:07,633
The manager always
spoke about us as a team,

1375
01:18:07,668 --> 01:18:10,496
as individuals
being successful in Europe.

1376
01:18:13,962 --> 01:18:16,662
Keane! It's 2-2!

1377
01:18:16,697 --> 01:18:18,943
Cole will finish it off.

1378
01:18:18,967 --> 01:18:22,861
Manchester United are in sight
of the European Cup Final.

1379
01:18:22,896 --> 01:18:24,972
Full speed ahead, Barcelona!

1380
01:18:24,996 --> 01:18:26,305
We kept winning, simple as that.

1381
01:18:26,329 --> 01:18:28,205
That's what it's about.
You get in that momentum

1382
01:18:28,229 --> 01:18:30,524
whereby you're winning
week in, week out.

1383
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,402
It was one of those
superhuman feelings...

1384
01:18:33,426 --> 01:18:35,797
that the whole team
believed that...

1385
01:18:35,832 --> 01:18:37,590
"Nah, this is gonna
be our year."

1386
01:18:37,625 --> 01:18:40,290
And I just felt
that everything that year...

1387
01:18:40,359 --> 01:18:42,565
came down to the last 11 days.

1388
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:43,863
We'd done a couple of doubles,

1389
01:18:43,899 --> 01:18:46,832
but nobody had ever done...
a treble.

1390
01:18:48,493 --> 01:18:51,631
Eleven days
to fulfil a collective dream.

1391
01:18:51,667 --> 01:18:52,732
Manchester United

1392
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:55,162
- on the verge...
- -Just 11 days.

1393
01:18:57,062 --> 01:18:59,927
He's found Cole. Lovely
control.

1394
01:18:59,962 --> 01:19:01,865
Can he lift it over? He has!

1395
01:19:01,901 --> 01:19:05,798
What a finish! It's gone
right to the final whistle

1396
01:19:05,833 --> 01:19:08,095
on the final day
of the league season.

1397
01:19:08,164 --> 01:19:11,756
And Manchester United
have regained their crown.

1398
01:19:13,527 --> 01:19:15,799
I don't think any of us
were tired at that point

1399
01:19:15,834 --> 01:19:18,932
you know, because
we were running on adrenaline.

1400
01:19:19,001 --> 01:19:22,266
Part two of
Manchester United's pilgrimage

1401
01:19:22,301 --> 01:19:23,310
to the promised land.

1402
01:19:23,334 --> 01:19:25,026
Scholes slides it through.

1403
01:19:25,061 --> 01:19:28,162
Sheringham. Oh, what a start!

1404
01:19:34,799 --> 01:19:37,424
Whenever you, er...
had spare time

1405
01:19:37,492 --> 01:19:40,663
or you were ever
just sat at home...

1406
01:19:40,731 --> 01:19:42,226
not letting yourself drift off

1407
01:19:42,262 --> 01:19:44,965
to thinking about
winning the treble.

1408
01:19:45,001 --> 01:19:48,623
That was my like... cos
you could quite easily think...

1409
01:19:48,659 --> 01:19:51,765
"We could do something
unbelievable here."

1410
01:19:51,801 --> 01:19:53,596
We knew it was all leading up

1411
01:19:53,631 --> 01:19:55,329
to that final game.

1412
01:19:55,398 --> 01:20:00,027
We'd never played in, you know,
a Champions League Final before.

1413
01:20:00,063 --> 01:20:01,732
You know, to play
at the Nou Camp,

1414
01:20:01,767 --> 01:20:05,897
to play against...
the mighty Bayern Munich.

1415
01:20:05,933 --> 01:20:09,524
And it was probably
one of the only games...

1416
01:20:09,559 --> 01:20:12,776
in my career
that I was slightly nervous for.

1417
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:14,591
You just kept thinking
about the game.

1418
01:20:14,626 --> 01:20:17,163
And that was probably
the biggest in my career.

1419
01:20:17,198 --> 01:20:19,597
"Oh, come on, please.
Just get the game over with."

1420
01:20:19,633 --> 01:20:21,129
"I just want to play the game."

1421
01:20:21,165 --> 01:20:24,526
The one game in my life
I can honestly say...

1422
01:20:24,561 --> 01:20:26,828
yeah, I was nervous.
Cos I'd never been here before.

1423
01:20:26,863 --> 01:20:28,459
I was going into the unknown.

1424
01:20:31,492 --> 01:20:33,256
This is our moment...

1425
01:20:33,291 --> 01:20:35,597
to seek out greatness.

1426
01:20:35,632 --> 01:20:38,096
The footballing fates await.

1427
01:20:39,802 --> 01:20:43,490
And then finally,
you're actually there.

1428
01:20:43,525 --> 01:20:46,072
It was like,
"Oh, my... come on."

1429
01:20:46,096 --> 01:20:48,895
"This...
this is a dream come true."

1430
01:20:48,931 --> 01:20:51,095
Who are we?
What are we about?

1431
01:20:51,130 --> 01:20:53,975
How much are we prepared
to invest in this?

1432
01:20:53,999 --> 01:20:57,128
How far are we prepared to go?

1433
01:20:57,164 --> 01:20:59,591
It's a chance of a lifetime.

1434
01:21:02,626 --> 01:21:05,710
We weren't playing well.
We didn't have that flow.

1435
01:21:05,734 --> 01:21:10,232
We didn't have that fluidity
that... we so...

1436
01:21:10,267 --> 01:21:11,756
we normally have.

1437
01:21:13,792 --> 01:21:15,863
People weren't
doing their jobs right.

1438
01:21:15,898 --> 01:21:17,930
Giggsy weren't
running past people.

1439
01:21:17,965 --> 01:21:19,731
Becks weren't putting
great crossing in.

1440
01:21:19,767 --> 01:21:21,575
Yorke and Coley
weren't linking up.

1441
01:21:21,599 --> 01:21:22,765
I was giving the ball away.

1442
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:25,090
The back four
were getting beat at the back.

1443
01:21:29,230 --> 01:21:33,393
Basler. Oh, deflected it in!

1444
01:21:36,668 --> 01:21:38,808
Sir Alex has come up to me
and he said,

1445
01:21:38,832 --> 01:21:41,073
"Ted, if the score
stays the same,

1446
01:21:41,097 --> 01:21:43,799
if it's still 1-0
after 15, 20 minutes,

1447
01:21:43,834 --> 01:21:46,459
you'll be going on.
So make sure you're ready."

1448
01:21:49,459 --> 01:21:52,739
They hit the bar.
They hit the post.

1449
01:21:52,763 --> 01:21:54,898
They had real chances.

1450
01:21:57,264 --> 01:22:00,157
We've still got a chance.
We can't play any worse.

1451
01:22:00,192 --> 01:22:01,228
We gotta play better.

1452
01:22:01,297 --> 01:22:06,028
We were a team that...
were prepared to take risks...

1453
01:22:06,064 --> 01:22:09,669
er, to gain,
or claw something back.

1454
01:22:09,693 --> 01:22:13,657
I'm ready here. This is what
I've been preparing for.

1455
01:22:16,092 --> 01:22:17,962
Always believe.

1456
01:22:18,031 --> 01:22:20,141
Three added minutes.

1457
01:22:20,165 --> 01:22:23,591
Even though there was only...
three minutes left,

1458
01:22:23,660 --> 01:22:27,756
we knew that... we just
needed that one opportunity.

1459
01:22:32,394 --> 01:22:33,997
In towards Schmeichel.

1460
01:22:36,768 --> 01:22:41,162
That group of players
refused to be beaten.

1461
01:22:41,197 --> 01:22:44,297
Giggs
with the shot. Sheringham!

1462
01:22:52,458 --> 01:22:55,492
From tragedy...
comes triumph.

1463
01:22:56,333 --> 01:22:57,832
From disaster...

1464
01:22:58,564 --> 01:23:00,139
comes glory.

1465
01:23:00,163 --> 01:23:02,860
Beckham. Into Sheringham...

1466
01:23:02,929 --> 01:23:05,162
And Solksjaer has won it!

1467
01:23:15,060 --> 01:23:16,294
Kings of Europe again.

1468
01:23:16,329 --> 01:23:19,839
And nobody will ever win
a European Cup Final

1469
01:23:19,863 --> 01:23:21,624
more dramatically than this.

1470
01:23:34,932 --> 01:23:37,967
This is a story of a community.

1471
01:23:37,991 --> 01:23:39,558
A tribe.

1472
01:23:42,733 --> 01:23:46,063
The years pass,
the tribe evolves.

1473
01:23:48,565 --> 01:23:51,898
Power fades and perishes.

1474
01:23:53,096 --> 01:23:56,332
The empire grows,
the dynasty expands,

1475
01:23:56,401 --> 01:23:59,657
but the soul remains intact.

1476
01:24:03,930 --> 01:24:06,226
What does your tribe
say about you?

1477
01:24:06,295 --> 01:24:10,799
About your heart. Your head.
Your soul.

1478
01:24:18,060 --> 01:24:19,007
What touched my heart,

1479
01:24:19,031 --> 01:24:22,224
and I'll-I'll never forget
is the scenes...

1480
01:24:22,260 --> 01:24:24,228
when we got back to Manchester.

1481
01:24:26,060 --> 01:24:28,831
We did it... for them.

1482
01:24:28,866 --> 01:24:31,497
Turning into Deansgate
will live with me

1483
01:24:31,532 --> 01:24:32,931
for the rest of my life.

1484
01:24:36,767 --> 01:24:41,759
When... you see
the oceans of people...

1485
01:24:41,794 --> 01:24:45,624
you realise how much it meant
to so many people in Manchester.

1486
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:54,765
I'd like to think
that in its foundations...

1487
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:59,624
it is an ordinary club
doing its best.

1488
01:25:04,097 --> 01:25:06,128
Football has that power.

1489
01:25:06,163 --> 01:25:10,690
It has that power
to change people's lives.

1490
01:25:10,725 --> 01:25:12,960
There was many reasons
why Manchester United

1491
01:25:12,995 --> 01:25:14,603
were successful at that time.

1492
01:25:14,627 --> 01:25:18,229
You know, Sir Alex Ferguson,
the manager, the boss...

1493
01:25:18,265 --> 01:25:22,629
bringing the youth team players
through that he did.

1494
01:25:22,665 --> 01:25:25,591
Those players before us...

1495
01:25:25,627 --> 01:25:30,277
you know, to understand
the history, the city.

1496
01:25:30,301 --> 01:25:33,290
The club, the fans.

1497
01:25:33,326 --> 01:25:35,865
To give everything on the pitch.

1498
01:25:37,564 --> 01:25:39,162
And then Eric.

1499
01:25:41,064 --> 01:25:43,965
And when you're
a Manchester United player...

1500
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,566
there's nothing more
important than being...

1501
01:25:46,601 --> 01:25:49,525
taught by players
like Eric Cantona.

1502
01:25:54,832 --> 01:25:56,809
To understand United
is to understand

1503
01:25:56,833 --> 01:26:01,434
the fundamental aspect
of the human mosaic.

1504
01:26:01,458 --> 01:26:04,926
What thrills us.
What scares us.

1505
01:26:04,962 --> 01:26:07,591
What makes us feel alive.

1506
01:27:01,034 --> 01:27:04,099
Maybe I should wear my collar...
collars up for this interview.

1507
01:27:08,533 --> 01:27:10,227
We had to wear club blazers.

1508
01:27:10,262 --> 01:27:14,058
Eric would turn up
in crushed velvet jackets

1509
01:27:14,093 --> 01:27:14,992
and open-neck shirts,

1510
01:27:15,094 --> 01:27:17,532
while we were all stiff-collared
and club ties.

1511
01:27:17,568 --> 01:27:19,908
If Eric... put on
a black bin bag,

1512
01:27:19,932 --> 01:27:22,095
somehow he would
put something on the bin bag

1513
01:27:22,130 --> 01:27:23,995
to make it look
like a designer bin bag.

1514
01:27:24,030 --> 01:27:26,591
We all tried to do
the collar thing,

1515
01:27:26,627 --> 01:27:29,006
and we all thought that
we could get away with it

1516
01:27:29,030 --> 01:27:31,325
but erm, none of us could,
you know?

1517
01:27:31,360 --> 01:27:33,127
It never looked as good.
It never...

1518
01:27:33,196 --> 01:27:35,643
we always felt like,
that we were...

1519
01:27:35,667 --> 01:27:37,644
copying Eric,
and not in a cool way.

1520
01:27:37,668 --> 01:27:40,365
So, you know,
we tried it in a few games,

1521
01:27:40,434 --> 01:27:42,256
but then it was like, no.

1522
01:27:42,291 --> 01:27:43,465
Just let Eric do that.

1523
01:27:43,501 --> 01:27:45,394
We used to go to the local pub.

1524
01:27:45,430 --> 01:27:48,766
And erm... and of course,
the typical British they are,

1525
01:27:48,835 --> 01:27:51,823
the round was four pints
of Guinness, four lagers,

1526
01:27:51,859 --> 01:27:55,365
five... five pints of bitter.
And, of course, for Eric,

1527
01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:56,591
a glass of champagne.

1528
01:27:56,660 --> 01:27:58,773
Everybody's grateful
for what Eric did for the club

1529
01:27:58,797 --> 01:28:02,158
because, even now, what...

1530
01:28:02,194 --> 01:28:05,399
23, 24 years after he's left...

1531
01:28:05,434 --> 01:28:06,875
people still sing his song.

1532
01:28:06,899 --> 01:28:08,896
That's how special
he is to this club.

1533
01:28:08,932 --> 01:28:11,194
He was with us
for five full seasons.

1534
01:28:11,229 --> 01:28:14,706
We won the league
in four of those seasons.

1535
01:28:14,730 --> 01:28:17,289
We did the double twice.

1536
01:28:17,325 --> 01:28:19,525
We... We lost one season.

1537
01:28:20,863 --> 01:28:24,964
While I was banned.

1538
01:28:28,168 --> 01:28:30,426
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