WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:20.840 --> 00:00:22.880 -[footsteps approaching] -[chair slides] 4 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.360 [chattering] 5 00:00:25.400 --> 00:00:27.840 [man 1] Okay. Let's turn over, please. 6 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.040 -[man 2] Yeah. -[sighs] 7 00:00:32.080 --> 00:00:37.840 [interviewer] So, we're gonna start this session with a quiz. 8 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:39.520 -A quiz? -[interviewer] A quiz. 9 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:41.120 -Test your memory. -[clears throat] 10 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:43.800 Test... Test my memory. 11 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:45.360 -[interviewer] Ready? -Right. 12 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:46.440 [interviewer] Okay. 13 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.760 On which road is the house you were born in? 14 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:53.440 Shieldhall Road. 15 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:55.160 [interviewer] Correct. 16 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.320 What date is your wedding anniversary? 17 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:01.240 Twelfth of March, 1966. 18 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:04.840 [interviewer] Who scored your first goal as Man United manager? 19 00:01:04.880 --> 00:01:07.360 -John Sivebaek. -Correct. 20 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:09.800 -You've got three sons. -Yeah. 21 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.560 What are their dates of birth? 22 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:13.280 [inhales deeply] 23 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:15.720 Well, you and your brother, Jason and Darren, 24 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.720 are 9th of February, 1972. 25 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.560 And Mark is 18th September, '68. 26 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:25.840 Correct. What was the name of the travel agent 27 00:01:25.880 --> 00:01:27.560 you used at Aberdeen? 28 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:29.520 Harry Hynds. 29 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:33.000 Harry "Disaster" Hynds. [chuckles] 30 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:37.800 And what do you remember about Saturday, 5th of May, 2018? 31 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:42.960 Nothing. 32 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:50.920 [suspenseful music playing] 33 00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:53.440 [siren wailing] 34 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:58.280 [telephone ringing] 35 00:02:04.160 --> 00:02:07.280 [woman] Ambulance service. Is the patient breathing? 36 00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:09.720 -[man] Yes. -[woman] Tell me exactly what's happened? 37 00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:13.400 [man] My dad wasn't feeling well. He's collapsed. 38 00:02:13.440 --> 00:02:15.080 He can't really get up. 39 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:16.920 So the doctor said to-- 40 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.880 to phone an ambulance straight away. 41 00:02:18.920 --> 00:02:21.920 [woman] I am organising help for you now. 42 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:23.840 [woman] Can you tell me exactly what happened? 43 00:02:23.880 --> 00:02:25.600 [man] I-I don't really know. My mom didn't see it. 44 00:02:25.640 --> 00:02:27.120 He's not good. 45 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:29.480 -[woman] How old is he? -[man] Seventy-six. 46 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:30.840 [woman] What's your name please? 47 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:33.920 [man] Jason. 48 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:35.760 - [woman] Jason? - [Jason] Yes? 49 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:37.240 [woman] What's his name please? 50 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:40.360 [Jason] Alexander Ferguson. 51 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:53.600 [Alex] You're in this dark tunnel. 52 00:02:53.640 --> 00:02:57.240 But as you come out, and you look to the sunshine, 53 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:59.560 you see... 54 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:01.160 more than half the ground's United. 55 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:02.640 [crowd cheering] 56 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:07.360 Memories. 57 00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:14.200 I told them, there's a guy there that bit me. 58 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:16.520 He said, well the next time, bite him back. 59 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.120 Bite him bloody back. 60 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:21.960 Saying to yourself... 61 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:23.520 I'll never see this again. 62 00:03:26.200 --> 00:03:28.440 [man] Surely now? 63 00:03:28.480 --> 00:03:31.560 ♪ Pack up your troubles In your old kit bag ♪ 64 00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:37.040 That was it. That was the song. 65 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:38.920 Bobby Charlton waved down at me. 66 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:42.920 Memories. 67 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:44.400 [whistle blows] 68 00:03:44.440 --> 00:03:46.040 [Alex] This is the hard knocks game. 69 00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:49.240 I could handle it. 70 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:51.960 It was a lovely day. 71 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:54.840 I woke up... 72 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:01.560 It was pouring with rain. 73 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:06.680 [medical equipment beeps] 74 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:23.960 [female reporter] Britain's most successful 75 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.120 ever football manager, Alex Ferguson... 76 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:27.640 [female reporter 2] Former Manchester United manager 77 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:29.680 is being treated for a brain hemorrhage. 78 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.840 [male reporter] A very competitive man in football, 79 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:34.640 but as such, a divisive figure. 80 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:39.440 [male reporter 2] He has achieved unparalleled success over five decades... 81 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:41.760 [male reporter 3] Famous pupils, Cristiano Ronaldo, 82 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:43.920 David Beckham, "Keep fighting boss! 83 00:04:43.960 --> 00:04:46.720 Sending prayers and love to Cathy and the whole family." 84 00:04:46.760 --> 00:04:48.160 [reporter speaking in Spanish] 85 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.520 [Jason] We're in this side room. 86 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:01.400 The doctor said, "Look, Mr Ferguson, I'm afraid to say, 87 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:03.280 you've had a bleed on the brain. We're going to have to get you 88 00:05:03.320 --> 00:05:06.080 up to Salford Royal Hospital as soon as possible 89 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:08.200 for an operation." 90 00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:11.160 And all of a sudden, he just-- 91 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:13.840 He just put his head in his hands and went, "Ugh! 92 00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:15.400 I hope there's nothing wrong with my memory. 93 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:17.320 There better be nothing wrong with my memory." 94 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:20.200 And I was like, "Right?" 95 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.600 And then he just started telling these random stories. 96 00:05:23.640 --> 00:05:25.560 Where the only connection between any of them 97 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:28.080 was the fact that they all happened a long time ago. 98 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.560 I think he's telling me these stories 99 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:36.480 to keep himself convinced that he's still... 100 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:39.240 got a memory. 101 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:43.520 [Alex] My mother... 102 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.280 took the big pram and I... 103 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.240 up to the local park in Glasgow. 104 00:05:54.200 --> 00:05:55.600 And I always remember... 105 00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:59.120 right opposite us... 106 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:02.600 was the shipyard. 107 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:12.600 We lived in the shadow of that. 108 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:20.640 You work on these ships. 109 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.760 [electricity crackles] 110 00:06:27.080 --> 00:06:29.320 The wind's flying down that bloody River Clyde. 111 00:06:34.200 --> 00:06:35.920 Oh, Jesus God. 112 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:38.960 [wind howling] 113 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.000 You feel that wind? 114 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.400 [wind howling continues] 115 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:48.920 My father worked there for over 40 years. 116 00:06:57.440 --> 00:06:58.440 My dad. 117 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:03.080 I'll tell you what happens, right. 118 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:05.600 That history. 119 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:10.880 It gets ingrained into you. 120 00:07:14.400 --> 00:07:15.400 Think about it. 121 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:20.400 Me as a manager, 122 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.960 I used to lie in bed thinking about themes 123 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.560 where I could address the players that would make an impact on them. 124 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.600 You know... I would talk about miners, 125 00:07:33.640 --> 00:07:38.120 shipyard workers, welders, toolmakers. 126 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.560 You know, people who've come from poor backgrounds. 127 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.000 And I used to ask them, 128 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.520 what did your grandfather do? 129 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.640 What did your father do? 130 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.760 But I have to get the-the feeling inside them 131 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:54.960 that what their grandfathers worked for, 132 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:57.840 and their grandmothers, is part of them. 133 00:07:57.880 --> 00:08:04.000 And they have to-- they have to display that meaning. 134 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:08.840 And... taking away all the-the trophies I've won 135 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:12.040 and the great players I've had, 136 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:16.160 I think it's a thing about life. 137 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:22.080 It's a fact of life that where we come from is important. 138 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.760 You come out with an identity. 139 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:36.120 I come from Govan. 140 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:38.480 I'm a Govan boy. 141 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.280 I loved it because it was buzzing, you know. 142 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:48.920 People selling fruit in barrows. 143 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.840 All sorts of things were going on. 144 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.400 The place was alive. 145 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.760 But, um, there was another side to it. 146 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:12.680 From time to time you would come up 147 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:17.680 against, uh, guys from different areas. 148 00:09:19.280 --> 00:09:22.640 These were really tough areas. 149 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:28.320 And sometimes I had to defend my brother. 150 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:31.560 Martin. 151 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:35.880 [Martin] Alec was always a leader. 152 00:09:35.920 --> 00:09:38.680 Always wanted to be the guy in front, you know. 153 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:40.280 Alec was always first to be in. 154 00:09:43.400 --> 00:09:46.120 [Alex] There was a boy bullying Martin. 155 00:09:46.160 --> 00:09:48.880 So I went up to the boy's house. 156 00:09:48.920 --> 00:09:51.200 His father came to the door and says, "What do you want son?" 157 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:55.200 I said, "I want to see your son. He's been bullying my brother." 158 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.120 He says, "That's not my business." And he closed the door. 159 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:02.160 So I got him on the playground... 160 00:10:02.200 --> 00:10:05.160 He was... wee sturdy wee guy, you know? 161 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:07.680 And anyway, he never bullied Martin again. 162 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.360 Everyone has their own personality. 163 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:20.520 Some walk away from things. 164 00:10:20.560 --> 00:10:23.560 Some say, "No, I'm not going to accept this." 165 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.320 When you're growing up in a place like Govan, 166 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.360 most people are fighting to get out of there. 167 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:38.600 It's the capitalist attitude to the working class. 168 00:10:39.640 --> 00:10:40.640 Keep them down there. 169 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.400 Absolutely no doubt about that. 170 00:10:49.920 --> 00:10:51.200 And I was lucky because... 171 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:55.400 the football was the savior. 172 00:10:57.640 --> 00:11:00.800 Through that, I got all the breaks. 173 00:11:05.280 --> 00:11:06.280 I progressed. 174 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:12.480 My Dad, he played a part in that. 175 00:11:12.520 --> 00:11:15.160 He followed us everywhere. 176 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:16.760 [Martin] He always encouraged us. 177 00:11:16.800 --> 00:11:19.840 Made sure we were in bed early the day before a game. 178 00:11:21.640 --> 00:11:26.640 [Alex] And there was clubs starting to approach my Dad. 179 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:29.160 But the one I was hoping that would go for me was Rangers. 180 00:11:30.920 --> 00:11:34.680 I was a big Rangers fan. Lived right behind the stadium. 181 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:40.680 But anyway, my dad wouldn't let me go full-time. 182 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.800 Apprenticeship first, and then you can go full-time. 183 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:52.560 He was trying to protect me in case I didn't make it as a footballer. 184 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:56.240 But I don't think it did me any harm, 185 00:11:56.280 --> 00:11:59.360 serving my apprenticeship as a toolmaker. 186 00:11:59.400 --> 00:12:02.320 It helped me I think, in understanding people. 187 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:03.360 [crowd clamoring] 188 00:12:03.400 --> 00:12:04.840 The unity. 189 00:12:04.880 --> 00:12:07.480 No establishment honor 190 00:12:07.520 --> 00:12:10.720 can compare with the privilege of belonging 191 00:12:10.760 --> 00:12:12.440 to the Scottish working class. 192 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:14.440 [Alex] My mother... 193 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:16.560 she was a strong, really strong person. 194 00:12:17.840 --> 00:12:19.640 She was a strong socialist. 195 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:24.600 And, uh... I was a shop steward for the apprentices. 196 00:12:27.800 --> 00:12:32.360 The apprentices strike, that was a really important moment for me. 197 00:12:32.400 --> 00:12:35.640 It was great, being a part of it. 198 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:41.560 It wasn't about you, it was about us. 199 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:44.720 It was about being a team. 200 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:49.760 Nothing more important 201 00:12:49.800 --> 00:12:51.560 than someone who's had hard times 202 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.080 but prepared to not give into it. 203 00:12:58.920 --> 00:13:02.000 But then, when I was serving my apprenticeship... 204 00:13:02.040 --> 00:13:04.320 -[machine starting] -[engine starting] 205 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:08.520 I was part time at football, at St. Johnstone. 206 00:13:08.560 --> 00:13:10.400 I was having to travel up there, 207 00:13:12.040 --> 00:13:13.760 three days a week. 208 00:13:13.800 --> 00:13:15.200 That was a nightmare for me. 209 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.760 [machine whirring] 210 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.440 Getting home at half one in the morning. 211 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:24.520 Getting up at six. 212 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:33.240 And then, I was getting despondent about the football side of it, 213 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:35.560 because I wasn't a first team player all the time. 214 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:39.800 My career was going down the pan. 215 00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:46.120 And I started to... 216 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:49.480 How would you put it? 217 00:13:52.040 --> 00:13:53.560 I went off the rails a bit. 218 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:58.640 [♪ "Let It Rock" by Chuck Berry playing] 219 00:14:00.760 --> 00:14:02.600 Going out in town, you know. 220 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.800 ♪ Well, in the evening when the sun is sinking low ♪ 221 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.440 ♪ All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow ♪ 222 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:13.960 [Alex] Started to go out Friday nights even, 223 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.160 the day before the game. 224 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:17.640 ♪ Until the foreman comes back ♪ 225 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:19.160 ♪ Pick up your belongings boys ♪ 226 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:20.520 ♪ And scatter about 227 00:14:20.560 --> 00:14:22.680 [lyrics fade] 228 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:23.800 [Alex] My Dad... 229 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.160 "Where are you going?" You know. 230 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:30.400 "I'm going out, going to the dancing." 231 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:32.160 "You've got a game tomorrow. 232 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:34.160 You can't go to the dancing if you've got a game tomorrow." 233 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.640 I said, "Well, says it's the reserves, 234 00:14:36.680 --> 00:14:38.880 and it doesn't mean a lot, you know." 235 00:14:38.920 --> 00:14:41.240 He says, "It means everything, you know." 236 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:43.440 [music playing] 237 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:47.680 That's when we fell out. 238 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:53.400 Well, it got to a point where he said, 239 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.240 "Go your own way, and we'll see what happens." 240 00:14:59.160 --> 00:15:01.040 And then we weren't talking to one another. 241 00:15:03.040 --> 00:15:08.080 So for two years, between 1961 and 1963, we didn't talk. 242 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:12.840 And then one night I went out, 243 00:15:13.880 --> 00:15:16.000 and I got drunk. 244 00:15:16.040 --> 00:15:17.880 And I ended up in a fight. Ended up in jail. 245 00:15:22.160 --> 00:15:24.880 I went to court, I got fined three pound. 246 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:28.800 I was a bit of a black sheep. 247 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.400 It's always been in the back of my head, that period. 248 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:45.000 And, uh, I've always regretted that. 249 00:15:47.280 --> 00:15:51.840 Here's me, with that sort of a background and upbringing I had, 250 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:53.920 I surrendered. 251 00:15:57.560 --> 00:15:59.200 I said to myself, I'm finished. 252 00:16:00.760 --> 00:16:03.480 Football, it's going nowhere. 253 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.800 [trumpet playing] 254 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.560 [announcer] The immigration boom 255 00:16:12.600 --> 00:16:14.800 touched new heights in a novel way. 256 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.320 From Heathrow and Prestwick, 25,000 will fly to begin 257 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:19.760 a new life in the dominion. 258 00:16:19.800 --> 00:16:23.240 [Alex] I took out papers to emigrate to Canada. 259 00:16:23.280 --> 00:16:25.120 I got the forms and all the rest of it. 260 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:35.240 Then that break in my life came, you know, fate. 261 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.920 The most important game of my life. 262 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.840 [Martin] He was supposed to play in a reserve game. 263 00:16:54.880 --> 00:16:56.960 And he thought, "I'm not going up to Perth. To hell with it." 264 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:00.640 I got my brother's girlfriend 265 00:17:00.680 --> 00:17:03.240 to phone the manager, tell him I had the flu. 266 00:17:03.280 --> 00:17:06.520 Kidding on that she was my mother 267 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:08.520 [Alex] And I got home about seven. 268 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:11.120 And my mother's going absolutely berserk with me. 269 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:13.680 'Cause what had happened, the manager had sent her 270 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:16.640 a telegram that says, "I know that wasn't you that phoned me." 271 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:19.800 And she says, "You get along to that man right now. 272 00:17:19.840 --> 00:17:23.160 And you'd better phone him, and you'd better be apologising to him. 273 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:26.000 And I've got the handkerchief over the phone. 274 00:17:26.040 --> 00:17:28.600 Pretending I've got a bad cold. 275 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:33.440 He says, "You'd better report tomorrow at the Buchanan Street Hotel. 276 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:35.560 You're playing tomorrow against Rangers." 277 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:41.360 So, I go to the game. 278 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.160 And I scored a hat-trick. 279 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:48.080 Unbelievable, eh? 280 00:17:48.120 --> 00:17:50.920 [Martin] He was the first person to score a hat-trick at Ibrox. 281 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:52.360 Nobody had ever done it before. 282 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:54.440 I did-- I wanted to go home and see my dad. 283 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.240 You know what I mean. 284 00:17:56.280 --> 00:17:59.280 I wanted to go home because I knew he'd be proud as peacock, and... 285 00:17:59.320 --> 00:18:03.320 And my mother, she's all excited and she says, 286 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:05.240 "Go on, talk to him." 287 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:08.600 "What do you think, Dad?" 288 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.760 "All right, yeah, it was okay. Yeah." 289 00:18:11.800 --> 00:18:14.360 And then he starts. "That's the boy I had. 290 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:18.640 That's the... shoot on sight." 291 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.840 [Alex chuckles] We're back, we're back pals. 292 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:28.640 That changed my life. 293 00:18:30.280 --> 00:18:33.080 Seriously that... it was the biggest break of my life. 294 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:38.360 And I say that to people often now, I say, "Don't miss a big opportunity." 295 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:40.520 You know, you might only get one in your life. 296 00:18:40.560 --> 00:18:42.040 And that was my one in life. 297 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:44.080 That was the one that mattered to me. 298 00:18:47.840 --> 00:18:51.240 And I made a vow, that moment on, 299 00:18:51.280 --> 00:18:53.000 that I was not looking back. 300 00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:58.600 I was committed. That was it. I was committed. 301 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:02.400 Nothing but football for me. 302 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:25.400 [doctor] The brain controls everything. 303 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:32.480 Your experience is all stored in your brain, in your memories. 304 00:19:32.520 --> 00:19:36.320 And by that I think you make up your-your identity as a person. 305 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.320 Childhood, adolescence, 306 00:19:41.360 --> 00:19:46.360 the memories make Alex Ferguson him as him. 307 00:19:48.040 --> 00:19:51.000 I remember falling. That's all. 308 00:19:51.040 --> 00:19:53.160 After that, I don't remember a thing. 309 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.880 I just sudden-- stopped. 310 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:00.160 I just stopped. I was in no-- no-man's-land. 311 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:01.680 So I remember estimating his mortality 312 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.160 at that point in time as 80 percent. 313 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.680 As in, there was an 80 percent chance he would not survive. 314 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:10.040 And then, the doctor came and said, 315 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:12.360 "Look, we're about to take him down 316 00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:13.440 for the operation." 317 00:20:14.840 --> 00:20:16.720 Two people can go in and see him 318 00:20:16.760 --> 00:20:18.000 before he gets operated on. 319 00:20:20.040 --> 00:20:22.040 So I said, look, I'll take my mom in. 320 00:20:24.560 --> 00:20:27.160 And it was a shock. My mom was, "Whoa!" 321 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.640 There was wires everywhere and all the rest of it. 322 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:35.320 And then, that-that was hard. I felt it then, really. 323 00:20:36.080 --> 00:20:38.080 Um... Sorry. 324 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:43.520 So... 325 00:20:46.760 --> 00:20:50.920 [Dr Nadir] As we opened the head, we found a large clot. 326 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:52.800 But if you cut off the blood vessel, 327 00:20:52.840 --> 00:20:55.320 then that part of the brain dies. 328 00:20:55.360 --> 00:20:58.840 So, sometimes you just apply pressure and wait. 329 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:02.720 And so, I do remember waiting, and waiting. 330 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:07.720 And after a while, the bleeding stopped. 331 00:21:07.760 --> 00:21:10.760 The brain started resurfacing, 332 00:21:10.800 --> 00:21:12.120 which I thought was a good sign. 333 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.680 I think that day there was five brain hemorrhages. 334 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:21.520 That day I was-- and three died. 335 00:21:21.560 --> 00:21:23.680 Only two survived, I was one of them. 336 00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:26.200 So, you know, you know you're lucky. 337 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:34.440 It was beautiful weather. I always remember that. 338 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:35.920 And you're looking out the hospital window, and you're... 339 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:38.960 and you're saying, I wonder if I'll ever see-- 340 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.880 How many sunny days I'm ever going to see again? 341 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.600 You know? And I found that difficult. 342 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.520 [Cathy] He was upset even when I went in. 343 00:21:53.560 --> 00:21:57.400 And I says to him, if you don't calm down, I'll need to go. 344 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:01.400 Because if I'm upsetting you as well, you have to keep calm, 345 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:03.640 you know, especially, for the next 24 hours. 346 00:22:07.520 --> 00:22:09.680 [exhales] I was 22. 347 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.360 I had this friend, um, she says to me, 348 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:20.960 "There's a really nice girl, just started." 349 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:26.640 I just saw him walking through. 350 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.720 I'd suffered an injury at football and I had a plaster on my face. 351 00:22:30.760 --> 00:22:34.160 She thought I was either a gangster or a boxer. [chuckles] 352 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:37.840 [Cathy scoffs] I thought he was a thug. 353 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.000 Then I found out that he was a footballer. 354 00:22:40.040 --> 00:22:43.760 But that didn't make-- didn't make him any different to me. [chuckles] 355 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:46.680 [Alex] I took her to the movies. 356 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:49.040 [Cathy] Bought me a box of Liquorice Allsorts, 357 00:22:49.080 --> 00:22:51.600 which he ate all of them. 358 00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:55.280 [chuckles] And a local paper when we come out. 359 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:57.920 That was my romantic date. 360 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:06.320 [Alex] We got really close. And, you know, I really loved her. 361 00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:12.240 But, you know, she was Catholic. 362 00:23:12.280 --> 00:23:17.120 And my mother's Catholic and my father was Protestant. 363 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:18.920 But we were brought up Protestants. 364 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:20.920 Well, we're different religions. 365 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:24.600 It did cause problems. 366 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:26.960 That's the way it was then, you know. 367 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:30.040 [Alex] Glasgow... 368 00:23:32.080 --> 00:23:35.680 is a city where there's a divide. 369 00:23:35.720 --> 00:23:39.920 [audience cheering and applauding] 370 00:23:41.320 --> 00:23:42.640 There's Protestant, Catholic. 371 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:46.360 It's Rangers and Celtic. 372 00:23:53.800 --> 00:23:55.720 [announcer] The Old Firm, Celtic and Rangers. 373 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:00.040 They've been battling now for 75 years. 374 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:06.560 The battle is not between a team and a team. 375 00:24:08.560 --> 00:24:12.560 It's between the Prods and the Papes. 376 00:24:13.360 --> 00:24:15.800 [men chanting] 377 00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:17.640 Between Protestant and Catholic. 378 00:24:23.080 --> 00:24:26.000 So we just said we'd have a civil wedding. 379 00:24:28.280 --> 00:24:30.360 [Alex] We got married in 1966. 380 00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:32.920 [Cathy] Glasgow Registry Office. 381 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:35.280 That was the start. 382 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:41.920 I went to my work. He went to his football. 383 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:44.320 [Alex] And I really did well. 384 00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:46.640 [announcer] Yes, it's a goal by Ferguson. 385 00:24:46.680 --> 00:24:49.200 I was rumbustious, aggressive. 386 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:52.120 [announcer] Ferguson! And it's a goal! 387 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.280 I could score goals, you know. 388 00:24:55.760 --> 00:24:57.200 -[announcer] Ferguson! -[audience cheering] 389 00:25:05.840 --> 00:25:09.200 [Alex] And that was... when I heard that Rangers wanted to sign me. 390 00:25:11.560 --> 00:25:14.440 And of course, having supported Rangers as a boy, 391 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.000 and lived, what, 200 yards from the ground. 392 00:25:18.040 --> 00:25:20.040 I was pretty excited about that. 393 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:25.840 I get in my best suit, and go across to Ibrox. 394 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:30.400 It was unbelievable. 395 00:25:37.600 --> 00:25:42.240 This big marble hall, you know, it's quite impressive. 396 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:51.000 It was absolutely fantastic. 397 00:25:51.040 --> 00:25:54.320 [♪ "Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr playing] 398 00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:59.480 [Alex] Govan boy signing for Rangers. 399 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:03.080 Scottish transfer record. 400 00:26:03.120 --> 00:26:08.200 ♪ The wheel of fortune 401 00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.280 It was his boyhood dream come true. 402 00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:13.880 [crowd cheering] 403 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:16.320 [announcer] Ferguson's there! It's a goal by Ferguson! 404 00:26:16.360 --> 00:26:20.200 ♪ Will the arrow Point my way? ♪ 405 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:21.880 [announcer 1] Ferguson scores! 406 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:25.760 [announcer 2] On towards Ferguson. 407 00:26:25.800 --> 00:26:30.200 A good goal by Ferguson! Alex Ferguson's done what he's tried so hard... 408 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:35.520 [Alex] Anyway, my first season was over... 409 00:26:35.560 --> 00:26:39.160 and we'd lost the league in the last gasp to Celtic. 410 00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:42.360 [announcer] Celtic have again proved themselves Scotland's top team. 411 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:44.320 If you don't beat Celtic, it's not a good season. 412 00:26:44.360 --> 00:26:47.320 And, uh, certain people had the knife in Alec, 413 00:26:47.360 --> 00:26:49.320 for obvious reasons, you know. 414 00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:51.760 Cathy was Catholic. 415 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:57.960 [Alex] When I signed for Rangers, 416 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:00.640 one of the directors, he asked me about Cathy. 417 00:27:02.040 --> 00:27:03.720 And he says, um, 418 00:27:03.760 --> 00:27:08.000 I have to ask you a question about your wife. 419 00:27:08.040 --> 00:27:10.440 Uh, I believe she's Catholic. I says, "Yeah." 420 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:14.080 He says, "Were you married in a chapel?" 421 00:27:14.120 --> 00:27:17.160 I says, "No, we got married in a registry office." 422 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.400 He says, "Oh, that's okay." 423 00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:23.320 Uh, you know, I should've told him to fuck off. 424 00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:24.680 You know, I really should have. 425 00:27:26.320 --> 00:27:29.160 But having supported Rangers as a boy, 426 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.720 and having an opportunity to go and play for Rangers, 427 00:27:31.760 --> 00:27:33.560 you're prepared to take nonsense. 428 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:36.640 You know what I mean? 429 00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:38.880 I was-- I let myself down there. 430 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:42.000 And I let my wife down. And that was, uh, was the important thing. 431 00:27:42.040 --> 00:27:43.760 'Cause she was a devout Catholic. 432 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:49.840 [stuttering] No, I don't-- My memories of-- 433 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:54.440 with Rangers weren't very happy anyway, you know. 434 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:56.120 It was a bad time for us. 435 00:27:59.080 --> 00:28:04.120 [Alex] And then, we got the Cup Final against Celtic. 436 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:13.280 [cheering] 437 00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:22.960 [Alex] Everybody's screaming. 438 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.240 A hundred and thirty-two thousand people. 439 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:28.480 And there I was, 440 00:28:28.520 --> 00:28:30.880 playing number nine for Rangers. 441 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:33.960 -[announcer] Ferguson about to kick off. -[whistle blows] 442 00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.280 In this, the Scottish Cup Final here at Hampden Park. 443 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:45.280 [Alex] But, as it turned out, it wasn't about football. 444 00:28:45.320 --> 00:28:46.600 It was... 445 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.960 It was a... 446 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.520 Well, there was a price to pay for me. 447 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:55.760 [audience cheering] 448 00:28:55.800 --> 00:28:58.440 [announcer] And it looks like a corner forced there. 449 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:00.920 And the thing here is that, Billy McNeill, 450 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.880 the giant-sized center half of Celtic normally comes up. 451 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:10.000 -McNeill... -[cheering] 452 00:29:10.040 --> 00:29:12.240 And he's done it, and scored a goal! 453 00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:16.920 McNeill comes up there for one of his traditionally famous headers. 454 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:18.920 Ferguson should've been ready for that one. 455 00:29:20.600 --> 00:29:22.920 Ferguson let it go, and paid the penalty. 456 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:27.480 Oh, God. What a start. 457 00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:31.720 [announcer] Oh! Bad pass back there. 458 00:29:31.760 --> 00:29:33.800 Bad pass back and it puts Lennox in the clear, 459 00:29:33.840 --> 00:29:36.400 straight in he can go. He's very fast, is Lennox. 460 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:38.520 Scoring chance. And it's there! 461 00:29:38.560 --> 00:29:42.520 Celtic takes a two-nothing lead over Rangers. 462 00:29:46.120 --> 00:29:49.040 Greig. And here's a terrible mistake there by John Greig! 463 00:29:54.760 --> 00:29:56.200 Three-nothing for Celtic. 464 00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.560 Chalmers breaking. 465 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.080 [audience cheering] 466 00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:06.160 I was part of the team that got slaughtered. 467 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:07.720 No one enjoys that. 468 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.880 And, of course, Alec got the blame of it. 469 00:30:17.040 --> 00:30:22.560 [Martin] They were looking for a scapegoat, and Alec became the scapegoat. 470 00:30:22.600 --> 00:30:26.880 After that, it was like a witch-hunt, you know. 471 00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.080 It was my last game. I never played again. 472 00:30:30.120 --> 00:30:34.360 So, I was completely bombed out. 473 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:37.080 Trained on my own. 474 00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:42.160 I can only assume it was because of Cathy being a Catholic. 475 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:44.440 I'm sure of it. 476 00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:49.080 Eventually, I left. 477 00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:52.760 And I went down-down the scale to Falkirk. 478 00:30:52.800 --> 00:30:56.520 Went down that, uh, slope a bit, you know. 479 00:30:59.600 --> 00:31:03.880 Oh, I-- Oh, I mean, he was upset, you know, obviously. 480 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:05.960 And I think a bit angry, you know. 481 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:13.640 But it made him determined as well, you know. 482 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:17.920 He was determined that he would go on and prove his self. 483 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.520 [Alex] The thing that drove me most was leaving Rangers. 484 00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:24.000 That spurred me. 485 00:31:24.040 --> 00:31:28.040 I was starting to question the managers. 486 00:31:28.080 --> 00:31:31.120 You know, their way of managing. 487 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:33.440 That gave me that-- How was it? 488 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.200 That impetus about saying, "I can do this job. 489 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.640 I know I can do this job." 490 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.640 See, because that's my upbringing. 491 00:31:46.040 --> 00:31:47.080 Don't give in. 492 00:32:04.040 --> 00:32:05.960 [Darren] He initially recovered very well. 493 00:32:08.280 --> 00:32:11.600 But he was still in a certain level of danger here. 494 00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:14.680 There was a day when, uh, everybody came in. 495 00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:18.360 There was about 14 people in my room, 496 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.880 and, uh, that was too much, you know. 497 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.120 His mind was trying to keep up with everybody, 498 00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.960 so he was doing too much with the brain. 499 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.720 And then, he had a lapse. Uh, quite a-a bad lapse. 500 00:32:30.040 --> 00:32:31.760 My voice stopped. 501 00:32:31.800 --> 00:32:35.600 Trying to get the... 502 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:39.600 And, you know, you're trying to force it out and you can't get out. 503 00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:46.760 When the doctors came in and I was crying, you know, 'cause... 504 00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:47.960 you felt helpless. 505 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.520 He was really upset with that 506 00:32:49.560 --> 00:32:51.240 because he thought he was going to lose his voice, 507 00:32:51.280 --> 00:32:53.760 going to lose his memory. 508 00:32:53.800 --> 00:32:56.640 I would have hated if I'd have lost my memory. 509 00:32:56.680 --> 00:33:01.240 It would've been a terrible burden on-on the family. 510 00:33:01.280 --> 00:33:04.200 I'm sitting in the house, and I don't know who I am, 511 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.320 I don't know who you are or who my wife is. 512 00:33:07.360 --> 00:33:10.520 In many ways, that would've been the worst thing that could've happened. 513 00:33:10.560 --> 00:33:12.840 Surviving, but losing the memory. 514 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:16.360 Two of the doctors came in and they just said, "Write." 515 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:19.680 You know, gave me a pen, write names. Write your family's name. 516 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:22.640 Write your friend's name. Write your football team's names. 517 00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:24.600 Write your players names. 518 00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.880 And I just kept writing, and writing, and writing. 519 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:30.760 And I'm thinking, "He's writing quite a long time here". 520 00:33:30.800 --> 00:33:32.360 And I went, "Right, okay. Let's have a look". 521 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:34.680 So I took the book off him, and he's like that. 522 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.680 He was like a little boy, really, to be honest. 523 00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:40.200 [Alex] Aye. 524 00:33:44.840 --> 00:33:46.680 It's impossible to read this. 525 00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:50.840 "The remember that, remember that, that had remember... 526 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:55.720 the remember, that remember, that has had remember." 527 00:33:55.760 --> 00:33:59.600 I've repeated the word "remember" three times there. 528 00:34:01.360 --> 00:34:02.360 Yeah. 529 00:34:04.120 --> 00:34:05.120 God. 530 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:19.400 Regarding my health, I'm not actually in control, 531 00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:25.720 in the football world... and at-at United, 532 00:34:27.520 --> 00:34:29.000 I'm in control of the situation. 533 00:34:31.040 --> 00:34:32.120 It's vital. 534 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:37.960 Because... a player can't do it himself. 535 00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.920 A player's only part of a team. 536 00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:43.680 The manager's in control of that. 537 00:34:43.720 --> 00:34:45.360 He's in control of all that destiny. 538 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:49.600 Dealing with the press, 539 00:34:51.640 --> 00:34:53.000 with referees, 540 00:34:54.640 --> 00:34:57.080 with rivals. 541 00:34:57.120 --> 00:35:01.080 I've got to make decisions that are correct. 542 00:35:01.120 --> 00:35:03.520 You have to make really difficult decisions. 543 00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:09.040 I'm telling you, I was never afraid of that. 544 00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:11.320 I never looked back. 545 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:15.760 I never looked back because there was always tomorrow 546 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:18.800 as far as I was concerned, whether you lose or win. 547 00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.280 There was always tomorrow. 548 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:26.480 But, now, if you remember, we spoke about reflecting. 549 00:35:26.520 --> 00:35:30.760 Um, I've done a lot of reflecting on things, uh, that I achieved 550 00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.760 and what I didn't achieve, and I think that's been, 551 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.280 has been quite a challenge, actually. 552 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:39.840 Because you're-you're searching your memory. 553 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:42.840 And that's what I've had to do. 554 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:55.480 [man] Aberdeen. 555 00:35:57.600 --> 00:35:58.880 The Granite City. 556 00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.320 The silver city by the sea. 557 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:08.520 [Alex] I'd been part-time manager 558 00:36:08.560 --> 00:36:11.240 for three and a half years at St. Mirren. 559 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:14.680 I was offered the job to be full-time manager at Aberdeen. 560 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:18.000 I snapped at it. 561 00:36:20.040 --> 00:36:24.560 And, uh, I had my own philosophy about management. 562 00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:30.000 Hold it there. Come on, big man Dougie. 563 00:36:30.040 --> 00:36:31.840 Get that thigh on the chest. 564 00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.040 -Hold it. -[man] Don't move. 565 00:36:36.080 --> 00:36:37.440 Feel the back of your legs. 566 00:36:39.720 --> 00:36:41.480 Hold it for a wee bit. 567 00:36:41.520 --> 00:36:43.840 Obviously, I've got my own ideas and standards. 568 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:47.360 And through time, this'll come through to the players. 569 00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:49.720 Fingers crossed. 570 00:36:53.600 --> 00:36:55.040 [man] When he first got there... 571 00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:59.880 Well, we're at the level where Aberdeen had been for years. 572 00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:05.280 Where you-- The fans are quite happy if you won a trophy every six years. 573 00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:08.320 And that trophy was either the League Cup or the F.A. Cup. 574 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:09.960 That was success. 575 00:37:11.160 --> 00:37:12.880 We were a group of guys, 576 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:15.400 play football just to make a living. 577 00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:19.240 [Alex] But the problem was, 578 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.440 a lot of those players couldn't dream of winning a league. 579 00:37:24.080 --> 00:37:25.920 And incredible as it may seem, 580 00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:29.280 we didn't have a training ground at Aberdeen. 581 00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:32.640 Facilities? There's a park along from us 582 00:37:32.680 --> 00:37:34.920 [boys chattering] 583 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.560 [Gordon] That wasn't that great because you had to 584 00:37:36.600 --> 00:37:38.320 kick off the dog crap, uh, 585 00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:39.760 before you started training. 586 00:37:42.160 --> 00:37:46.840 Yeah, the car park was used mainly in the afternoons. 587 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:48.120 We used to go to the beach. 588 00:37:50.160 --> 00:37:53.160 And we'd only stop when the actual tide hit a goalpost. 589 00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:56.720 -[chuckles] -[chattering] 590 00:37:56.760 --> 00:38:01.080 But the only thing that mattered was beating Rangers and Celtic. 591 00:38:01.120 --> 00:38:03.720 If you don't beat Rangers and Celtic, you don't win the league. 592 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:05.120 Simple as that. 593 00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:09.760 [Gordon] I remember, he was desperate. 594 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:13.960 I mean, desperate to beat the two sides, the Old Firm sides. 595 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.760 Rangers, I felt in particular more than Celtic. 596 00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:20.600 For some reason, I don't know what it was. 597 00:38:20.640 --> 00:38:24.560 But Rangers was the first target. 598 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:31.560 [Alex] The first time we played at Rangers... 599 00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:37.240 and we scrambled a draw in the last minute. 600 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:41.320 After the game, the players were all celebrating, jumping up and down. 601 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.120 And I'm, what, I'm saying, "Wait a minute". 602 00:38:45.160 --> 00:38:50.000 I says, "What are you celebrating? I mean... you've only drawn." 603 00:38:50.040 --> 00:38:53.200 And we'd all had kind of... rollockings or bollockings, 604 00:38:53.240 --> 00:38:55.320 whatever you want to call it, before at different clubs. 605 00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:57.160 But this was an intensity 606 00:38:57.200 --> 00:39:01.120 that was not about just that game or something. 607 00:39:01.160 --> 00:39:03.560 It was... everything. 608 00:39:03.600 --> 00:39:06.040 Where you want to go, what you want to do with your life. 609 00:39:06.080 --> 00:39:09.120 Forget all the work we'd been doing, 610 00:39:09.160 --> 00:39:12.760 with passing the ball and technical ability, etcetera, etcetera. 611 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.840 If they're not winners, it's a waste of time anyway. 612 00:39:17.520 --> 00:39:19.400 You're trying to get that character 613 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:23.040 instilled in the human beings you're dealing with. 614 00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:24.840 When they go on that pitch, they can't leave 615 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:26.800 their personality in the dressing room. 616 00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:28.800 When I looked at that, I thought there's-there's 617 00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.560 something up here. 618 00:39:30.600 --> 00:39:32.320 Somehow there's something inside this fellow... 619 00:39:34.160 --> 00:39:36.280 that's making him angry and driving him. 620 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:38.160 Well, looking back on it now, 621 00:39:38.200 --> 00:39:41.480 it looks like I bumped into a-a wounded animal here. 622 00:39:59.720 --> 00:40:02.920 Look, rather than explain 623 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:07.120 how you can bring-bring a winning mentality to people, 624 00:40:07.160 --> 00:40:10.520 I think you've got to produce a project that's working. 625 00:40:12.680 --> 00:40:15.640 [Gordon] Technique, mentally, physically, the whole lot. 626 00:40:15.680 --> 00:40:19.080 -[player grunts] -He put people under so much pressure 627 00:40:19.120 --> 00:40:21.040 to be successful. 628 00:40:21.080 --> 00:40:22.560 [Alex] You have to earn the right 629 00:40:22.600 --> 00:40:24.080 to be an Aberdeen player 630 00:40:24.120 --> 00:40:26.040 that I was looking for. 631 00:40:26.080 --> 00:40:27.960 The coaching and the speed of their play, 632 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:29.720 the concentration... 633 00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:33.920 If you're doing these things right, 634 00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:38.520 it definitely develops their mind better. 635 00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:41.440 Deep down inside us there's a devil that drives you on. 636 00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:43.360 Um, for whatever reason, 637 00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.800 he could make that devil materialise for a game of football. 638 00:40:51.640 --> 00:40:53.640 [announcer] McMaster through to Harper. 639 00:40:53.680 --> 00:40:55.160 Harper's left foot out in front. 640 00:40:55.200 --> 00:40:56.480 It's going to be a goal! 641 00:40:56.520 --> 00:40:58.120 Yes, it's over! It's a goal! 642 00:40:58.160 --> 00:40:59.800 [crowd cheering] 643 00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:03.440 And, sensationally, Aberdeen lead one-nil. 644 00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:07.200 It was really a turning point 645 00:41:07.240 --> 00:41:08.760 because the players are now saying to themselves, 646 00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:10.320 "Right, let's get after Celtic." 647 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:12.680 That's the one we were after now. 648 00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:14.480 [announcer] Archibald and a chance, and he scores! 649 00:41:14.520 --> 00:41:16.600 Archibald scores! 650 00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:18.840 There's a cross aimed for Archibald. 651 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:20.840 Latchford drops it, Strachan scores. 652 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.640 Strachan makes it three-one. 653 00:41:25.080 --> 00:41:27.760 Yeah. He-he brought the devil out in me. 654 00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:35.760 You think, "Oh, we're in here." That was the hardest bit. 655 00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:39.920 Because, um... Sir Alex had never won that league before. 656 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:43.360 None of us had won that league before. So, it was all new to us. 657 00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.160 And how we dealt with it. 658 00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:48.680 And at that point, the manager was the most important guy, 659 00:41:48.720 --> 00:41:54.240 'cause we were looking at him for guidance how to get through it. 660 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.360 [host] Now, having beaten Celtic twice in the past month, 661 00:41:57.400 --> 00:41:59.080 is it all about conviction? 662 00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:00.920 Believing in yourselves that you-you can actually do it? 663 00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:03.480 Because I've met infinite number of Aberdonians who say, 664 00:42:03.520 --> 00:42:07.120 "Ah, yes. They're a good team, but they haven't won anything yet." 665 00:42:07.160 --> 00:42:11.520 Conviction and belief is built up in-in time. 666 00:42:11.560 --> 00:42:13.680 Uh... 667 00:42:13.720 --> 00:42:18.600 Mainly with the work that I do myself with the players in, you know, 668 00:42:18.640 --> 00:42:21.960 on their character and their discipline, and having belief in themselves 669 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:25.080 and conviction in going to places like Celtic Park and Ibrox, 670 00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:26.400 and believing they can win. 671 00:42:29.040 --> 00:42:31.000 -[cheering] -[announcer] Oh, that's a goal! 672 00:42:31.040 --> 00:42:32.560 Steve Archibald! 673 00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:35.800 Scanlon... Yes! 674 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.360 What a marvelous goal to finish this match! 675 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:42.440 And that's it! They have won! 676 00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.080 Alec Ferguson is on now in the penalty area! 677 00:42:46.120 --> 00:42:49.120 Aberdeen have definitely won the Championship! 678 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:55.440 Alec Ferguson, can you blame the man 679 00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:58.080 for going out of his mind temporarily? 680 00:42:58.120 --> 00:43:01.280 [muttering indistinct] 681 00:43:05.040 --> 00:43:06.800 [men cheering] 682 00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.800 -[man 1] Yeah! -[man 2] All right. 683 00:43:13.640 --> 00:43:18.920 [Alex] So, I'd been looking for an assistant for a while. 684 00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:21.480 It couldn't have been better for me. That's what I wanted to do. 685 00:43:21.520 --> 00:43:25.160 That's what I enjoyed doing, uh, the most so, uh, 686 00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:26.440 it was perfect for me. 687 00:43:28.160 --> 00:43:29.920 Oh, it was a nightmare, the two of them. 688 00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:33.640 Um, and it was-- It was like most managers 689 00:43:33.680 --> 00:43:36.400 have bad cop, good cop. 690 00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.680 Well, it used to be Sir Alex, bad cop. 691 00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:43.240 Worse cop... [laughs] with Archie. 692 00:43:44.520 --> 00:43:46.080 After a couple of weeks, the players-- 693 00:43:46.120 --> 00:43:47.880 the players must've been saying to themselves, 694 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:50.080 "Jesus Christ. There's two of them." 695 00:43:50.120 --> 00:43:51.720 [laughs] 696 00:43:57.200 --> 00:44:00.520 You were steeped in the thing, football-wise. 697 00:44:00.560 --> 00:44:03.080 I was steeped in it. 698 00:44:03.120 --> 00:44:05.040 [Cathy] He never had much of a home life. 699 00:44:05.080 --> 00:44:07.160 He never saw the kids much. 700 00:44:08.280 --> 00:44:10.120 That was his job. 701 00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:13.040 Well, he got on with his job, and I got on with the kids. 702 00:44:13.080 --> 00:44:17.240 Cathy brought the kids up. And I'm not... I'm not proud of that. 703 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:19.640 [announcer] Five past three on Friday afternoon, 704 00:44:19.680 --> 00:44:22.880 and Aberdeen leave Pittodrie for the drive south. 705 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:25.200 He was never there, so you see, 706 00:44:25.240 --> 00:44:28.320 you always thought he's-he's always at work. 707 00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:30.640 But, um, and he was. I mean, he's a workaholic. 708 00:44:30.680 --> 00:44:33.000 I regret not having spent more time with you, 709 00:44:33.040 --> 00:44:36.440 but that was the nature of my job. 710 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:40.800 It's consuming in terms of how it can get inside you. 711 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:44.200 But we got a reward for that. 712 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:49.200 [crowd cheering] 713 00:44:49.240 --> 00:44:50.600 [announcer] Well, the European flag. 714 00:44:50.640 --> 00:44:52.800 The UEFA flag flying over Pittodrie! 715 00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.120 [Archie] Bayern Munich versus Aberdeen. 716 00:44:55.160 --> 00:44:57.480 Well, let's put it this way, right? 717 00:44:57.520 --> 00:44:59.120 Aberdeen and Bayern. 718 00:44:59.160 --> 00:45:00.880 Bayern have got 70,000 in their stadium. 719 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:02.600 Aberdeen had 20, right? 720 00:45:02.640 --> 00:45:05.400 [announcer] Augenthaler, looking for a chance to shoot. 721 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:07.520 [cheering] 722 00:45:07.560 --> 00:45:10.080 [announcer] And that's the moment that Aberdeen were dreading. 723 00:45:10.120 --> 00:45:15.720 [Gordon] When I look back at it now, our training, the intensity, 724 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:17.040 he was testing us. 725 00:45:17.080 --> 00:45:18.280 [announcer] That's a great cross. 726 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:19.800 Eric Black is there! 727 00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:22.320 It's off the line. No! It's put in by Simpson! 728 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:23.960 And Aberdeen are level. 729 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:25.280 He didn't want anybody next to him 730 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:27.240 that he knew would 731 00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:29.240 let him or the team down... 732 00:45:31.240 --> 00:45:32.880 in a crisis moment. 733 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.360 [announcer] And that is a special goal, 734 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:38.720 which might well end Aberdeen's challenge in Europe. 735 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:41.880 At two-one, there was a crisis moment. 736 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:43.480 We needed two goals. 737 00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:48.480 -[cheering] -[announcer] The header finds the net! 738 00:45:51.200 --> 00:45:52.600 Can they make it? 739 00:45:52.640 --> 00:45:54.040 There's Eric Black! 740 00:45:54.080 --> 00:45:55.920 The goalkeeper knocks it out. 741 00:45:55.960 --> 00:45:57.960 It's in the net, and Aberdeen are in front! 742 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.600 Pittodrie goes berserk. 743 00:46:02.640 --> 00:46:06.720 [cheering] 744 00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:08.200 [announcer] Well, that score line 745 00:46:08.240 --> 00:46:11.000 is almost impossible to believe. 746 00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:17.000 The final whistle goes, Aberdeen have won, perhaps, their greatest victory ever! 747 00:46:17.040 --> 00:46:21.640 Alec Ferguson dancing a jig of delight on the track, and well he might. 748 00:46:23.680 --> 00:46:24.960 [cheering] 749 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:26.840 [Alex] That game was monumental to me. 750 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.120 I mean, God Almighty. 751 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:38.160 [people chanting, cheering] 752 00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:42.680 [Alex] Real Madrid, in the final of a European tournament. 753 00:46:48.120 --> 00:46:54.120 Real Madrid are the most successful club in the world. 754 00:46:54.160 --> 00:47:00.040 For a small club in a small town, this had made their lives. 755 00:47:00.080 --> 00:47:02.320 [female reporter] Thousands of Don's fans are travelling 756 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:05.080 to support their heroes' first European final. 757 00:47:05.120 --> 00:47:06.480 [male reporter] Light refreshments 758 00:47:06.520 --> 00:47:08.040 were already being served in the bar 759 00:47:08.080 --> 00:47:10.160 and proving so popular that reinforcements 760 00:47:10.200 --> 00:47:12.640 were being brought in by the trolley load. 761 00:47:12.680 --> 00:47:14.080 What are you going to do after the match? 762 00:47:14.120 --> 00:47:15.840 -Get drunk. -[all laugh] 763 00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:17.520 Celebrate. 764 00:47:17.560 --> 00:47:18.840 -What happens if we lose? -Still get drunk. 765 00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:20.760 [laughing] 766 00:47:20.800 --> 00:47:22.880 [chanting] ♪ We're going to do it ♪ 767 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.000 ♪ We're going to do it 768 00:47:25.040 --> 00:47:28.280 ♪ We're going to do it for you ♪ 769 00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:32.280 [singing] ♪ We're the Dons From Aberdeen ♪ 770 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:34.840 ♪ And we're gonna do it for you ♪ 771 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:38.240 That's all you're getting. 772 00:47:38.280 --> 00:47:40.600 ♪ And we're gonna do it for you ♪ 773 00:47:40.640 --> 00:47:42.560 [music playing] 774 00:47:42.600 --> 00:47:45.240 ♪ And we can play 775 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:49.880 ♪ 'Cause Alex Ferguson He knows the way ♪ 776 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.560 ♪ And we're gonna do it 777 00:47:52.600 --> 00:47:54.640 ♪ We're gonna do it 778 00:47:54.680 --> 00:47:57.840 ♪ We're gonna do it for you 779 00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.320 And we were fantastic. 780 00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:02.640 [announcer] McLeish has come up late. 781 00:48:02.680 --> 00:48:04.520 And a goal is there! 782 00:48:04.560 --> 00:48:06.160 And it's given... by Black! 783 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:12.840 ♪ All the way Every night and day ♪ 784 00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:14.280 [announcer] McGhee making the break, 785 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:15.720 and Hewitt waiting in the middle! 786 00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.520 [cheering] 787 00:48:18.520 --> 00:48:19.880 [announcer] Hewitt! 788 00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.720 ♪ Every night and day 789 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:26.120 ♪ Singing a European Song 790 00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.840 [announcer] Oh, they've done it! Aberdeen have won! 791 00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:35.240 ♪ Singing a European Song 792 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.440 ♪ Oh, all the way 793 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:40.360 ♪ Every night and day 794 00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.560 ♪ Singing a European 795 00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:53.160 [announcer] The pride of Scottish football, 796 00:48:53.200 --> 00:48:55.000 Aberdeen, received a huge welcome 797 00:48:55.040 --> 00:48:58.320 as they returned home bearing the European Cup, Winner's Cup. 798 00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:00.800 [female reporter] Britain's most northerly professional football club 799 00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:03.120 has never seen anything like this. 800 00:49:03.160 --> 00:49:05.720 The greyness of the Granite City was transformed. 801 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:08.000 [crowd cheering] 802 00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:11.640 [paper rustling] 803 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:25.080 [Alex] The amazing response has been from managers 804 00:49:25.120 --> 00:49:27.680 and-and directors in England. 805 00:49:27.720 --> 00:49:29.320 -[host] In England? -Yes. 806 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:32.360 Well, we have one here from Bob Paisley of Liverpool, 807 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:33.760 which is marvelous, you know. 808 00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:35.760 "Congratulations, you've done us proud." 809 00:49:35.800 --> 00:49:38.760 [host] How difficult is it to adjust to another cup final? 810 00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:40.480 Well, it's just got down to this stage now 811 00:49:40.520 --> 00:49:42.640 that we don't want to disappoint anyone. 812 00:49:42.680 --> 00:49:44.320 Well, in fact, the very last game you played 813 00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:46.440 for Rangers was in the Cup Final, was it not? 814 00:49:55.560 --> 00:49:58.440 [audience cheering] 815 00:50:04.880 --> 00:50:08.800 [Alex] The last game of the year, the Cup Final against Rangers, 816 00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:13.600 is as good a time as any to demonstrate who's the best team in Scotland. 817 00:50:13.640 --> 00:50:16.920 [announcer] That's a good ball. McGhee likes his position. 818 00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:18.840 It could be there. It is! 819 00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:21.360 The winner! That will win the Cup. 820 00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:25.960 [announcer] There's Alec Ferguson. 821 00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:35.080 Okay. Alec Ferguson, many congratulations winning the Scottish Cup 822 00:50:35.120 --> 00:50:37.840 for the second year, but it was close. 823 00:50:41.720 --> 00:50:43.440 [reporter] Were you surprised by the way-- 824 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:03.520 [reporter] Can you give a reason for the disappointing performance, then? 825 00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:16.440 [cheering] 826 00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.160 [Alex] I can't understand why I did it. 827 00:51:22.720 --> 00:51:24.480 The only thing I can think of was that... 828 00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:30.560 I wanted this to be the moment, when we... 829 00:51:34.720 --> 00:51:38.200 we set ourselves as the best team Scotland ever had. 830 00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:45.800 [Jason] In all honesty, was it about being the best team in Scotland? 831 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:47.640 Or was it about hammering Rangers? 832 00:51:52.560 --> 00:51:55.120 I think it was, probably, about beating Rangers. 833 00:51:57.600 --> 00:52:01.160 This was my moment to say, "Right, you're gonna get it." 834 00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:05.680 I wanted to put the knife in them. 835 00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:10.560 I think it was that, really. 836 00:52:27.040 --> 00:52:31.640 [Mark] I think that my dad... 837 00:52:31.680 --> 00:52:34.800 was pointing at a totally different target to-to other people. 838 00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:44.480 I think he was already thinking, 839 00:52:44.520 --> 00:52:48.120 "Look, my horizons are beyond Aberdeen. 840 00:52:50.040 --> 00:52:53.120 Beyond Rangers, beyond Scotland. 841 00:52:53.160 --> 00:52:56.440 I've beaten these guys. I've totally different aspirations now." 842 00:52:58.560 --> 00:53:00.400 My dad's an optimist. 843 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:03.200 He's an absolute clear optimist. 844 00:53:03.240 --> 00:53:05.600 And so, you know, he's willing to dream big. 845 00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:12.320 [male announcer] Manchester United sacked their manager, 846 00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:13.920 Ron Atkinson today. 847 00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:15.080 [female announcer] And the man who's going to replace him 848 00:53:15.120 --> 00:53:17.040 is Aberdeen's Alex Ferguson. 849 00:53:18.520 --> 00:53:20.440 [male announcer] 1986 has been United's 850 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:22.640 worst start to the season since the war. 851 00:53:26.000 --> 00:53:27.920 [male announcer] The camera shutters and the microphones strained 852 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.240 at the first appearance of the new boss. 853 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:31.800 [male announcer] Manchester United is the most famous name 854 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:34.480 in English football. There's no bigger news. 855 00:53:34.520 --> 00:53:37.160 If there is a man, is he the man to follow you? 856 00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:39.120 Yes, I'd have to be honest. If I'd have been the chairman 857 00:53:39.160 --> 00:53:40.920 and I'd have got rid of somebody like me, I'd have taken him. 858 00:53:45.160 --> 00:53:49.280 [Cathy] Moving across the border was, you know, going to the moon. 859 00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:54.200 And I wasn't-- I wasn't happy because I didn't want to leave Aberdeen. 860 00:53:54.240 --> 00:53:57.440 But I knew there was no way he would refuse that job. 861 00:53:58.640 --> 00:54:02.000 [camera shutter clicking] 862 00:54:02.040 --> 00:54:05.160 [man] We've brought Alec down from Scotland this morning. 863 00:54:05.200 --> 00:54:07.600 Perhaps, we'd like to go straight into the questions. 864 00:54:07.640 --> 00:54:11.360 [male reporter] You've come here with the club 19th in the First Division. 865 00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:14.880 We need to look at the facts for themselves. 866 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:19.120 We haven't won the League for 20 years, right? 867 00:54:19.160 --> 00:54:22.000 That is a great challenge for the Manchester United players, 868 00:54:22.040 --> 00:54:24.800 and will be until it's achieved. 869 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:28.200 And the only way we can win the European Cup is by winning the League. 870 00:54:28.240 --> 00:54:29.960 Because that's the great desire. 871 00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:35.160 [Alex] And my first day there, 872 00:54:36.680 --> 00:54:39.280 I went to Old Trafford. 873 00:54:42.200 --> 00:54:44.560 Even though it was an empty stadium, 874 00:54:44.600 --> 00:54:47.440 you can feel the spirit of the place. 875 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:53.040 It's like a theatre with ghosts walking about it. 876 00:55:03.560 --> 00:55:04.720 Memories. 877 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.200 [male announcer] Matt Busby, the maestro of Manchester United... 878 00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:12.400 This is the place where they've created... 879 00:55:13.160 --> 00:55:15.240 Gods. 880 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:17.600 [male announcer] The manager, Matt Busby, transformed the whole approach 881 00:55:17.640 --> 00:55:20.440 to modern day football with his commitment to a youth policy. 882 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:26.000 I have a scouting system whose sole object is to go out 883 00:55:26.040 --> 00:55:28.520 looking for young, promising school boys, 884 00:55:28.560 --> 00:55:31.320 youth club boys, and indeed, any young players. 885 00:55:31.360 --> 00:55:35.120 [male announcer] Manchester United were supreme soccer champions of Europe! 886 00:55:35.160 --> 00:55:37.480 [Alex] Matt Busby doing what he did 887 00:55:37.520 --> 00:55:41.040 to bring all these young players into your first team, 888 00:55:41.080 --> 00:55:43.520 this is what I believed in. This is what I was good at. 889 00:55:43.560 --> 00:55:44.960 This is what I wanted to do. 890 00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:50.360 [Alex] So, it was question time. 891 00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:56.560 What do I really need to resurrect the club? 892 00:55:59.520 --> 00:56:03.560 One way of doing it was the proper youth system. 893 00:56:05.080 --> 00:56:06.760 That can be the spirit of the place. 894 00:56:07.640 --> 00:56:10.440 The new spirit. 895 00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:14.960 I had a meeting with Brian Whitehouse who was the reserve coach. 896 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:16.520 And a meeting with Eric Harrison. 897 00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:19.360 And they were Ron Atkinson's men, of course. 898 00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:23.800 They had a youth game. I think it was second or third week there. 899 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:28.120 They were shocking Jason, they were shocking. 900 00:56:28.160 --> 00:56:31.560 I went in after the dressing room, I couldn't stand it. 901 00:56:31.600 --> 00:56:33.200 And I went berserk with them. 902 00:56:33.240 --> 00:56:37.280 And I knew Eric was not pleased. Eric was not pleased. 903 00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:39.360 And he came to see me the next day. 904 00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:42.200 He says, "Look, that's my job. 905 00:56:42.240 --> 00:56:44.080 I've never known a manager to come in." 906 00:56:44.120 --> 00:56:47.840 And I says, "Yeah, but you've never known a manager like me." 907 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:53.800 The first thing he did, was we got all the scouts together. 908 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:55.920 I'd only two scouts in Manchester. 909 00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:58.040 And he says, "We need to do something about that." 910 00:56:58.080 --> 00:56:59.480 So my job was to... 911 00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:04.880 flood Manchester with scouts. 912 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:09.080 So as he could have his way of building a football club, 913 00:57:09.120 --> 00:57:10.560 from the bottom up. 914 00:57:13.080 --> 00:57:16.320 [Alex] We had to make a mark on Manchester itself. 915 00:57:23.120 --> 00:57:28.880 It was only a few weeks after I arrived, and, um, there was a steward. 916 00:57:28.920 --> 00:57:31.960 Says, "Boss, there's a young lad. 917 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:35.000 He's training with Man City, he's a United fan. 918 00:57:35.040 --> 00:57:36.800 He's an absolutely fantastic player, 919 00:57:38.240 --> 00:57:39.840 and we're doing nothing about it." 920 00:57:40.920 --> 00:57:42.120 So I went to see him. 921 00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:49.800 [man] I did notice him while I was playing. 922 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.640 "The Man United manager, what's going on there?" 923 00:57:55.680 --> 00:57:57.920 It just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen. 924 00:57:57.960 --> 00:57:59.680 [indistinct shouting] 925 00:57:59.720 --> 00:58:01.520 [Alex] You see him dancing over the pitch. 926 00:58:01.560 --> 00:58:03.560 You know... 927 00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:07.560 [shouting] 928 00:58:07.600 --> 00:58:09.160 [Alex] Sensational. 929 00:58:09.200 --> 00:58:12.880 Feet, very narrow. Balance, fantastic. 930 00:58:14.640 --> 00:58:15.760 We got him signed. 931 00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:19.600 He was a breath of fresh air, he really was. 932 00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:23.840 So... he was the future. 933 00:58:25.160 --> 00:58:27.480 [indistinct shouting] 934 00:58:27.520 --> 00:58:30.200 But putting that aside, 935 00:58:30.240 --> 00:58:31.880 you need results in your first team. 936 00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:35.600 But I knew that. 937 00:58:35.640 --> 00:58:41.160 When you look round that squad, it was just a dysfunctional unit. 938 00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:55.120 "Fifth of March, 1988. 939 00:58:55.160 --> 00:58:59.160 Lost 1-0 at Norwich. Absolutely shocking display." 940 00:58:59.200 --> 00:59:03.800 [male announcer] Manchester United conspicuous by their absence. 941 00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.280 [Alex] "Sunday, had the players in for a talk." 942 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:09.120 [male announcer] Manchester United have won nothing since '85. 943 00:59:09.160 --> 00:59:10.560 It's not good enough. 944 00:59:10.600 --> 00:59:13.040 [Alex] "Lost 1-0 to Liverpool. 945 00:59:13.080 --> 00:59:14.880 Shocker of a game." 946 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:18.160 [male announcer] Alec Ferguson, his team in severe problems. 947 00:59:20.120 --> 00:59:23.640 [Alex] "Lost 2-1. Team is lacking confidence." 948 00:59:23.680 --> 00:59:25.680 Did it affect your confidence at all? 949 00:59:25.720 --> 00:59:28.320 Lack of success affects everyone's confidence. 950 00:59:28.360 --> 00:59:30.400 Did you know the pressures were going to be quite as great 951 00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:31.960 when you left Scotland? 952 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:35.640 No. No. I didn't-- I didn't realise that. 953 00:59:35.680 --> 00:59:39.080 [Alex] "Lost two-nil to Southampton. Totally disgusting." 954 00:59:41.480 --> 00:59:43.240 [male announcer] A beleaguered manager. 955 00:59:46.280 --> 00:59:48.840 [Alex] "Sunday. Frustrated." 956 00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:58.600 [Alex] "Saturday, 23rd of September. V Man City." 957 01:00:02.200 --> 01:00:04.720 [male announcer] United all over the place! Morley! 958 01:00:04.760 --> 01:00:06.360 [audience screaming] 959 01:00:09.160 --> 01:00:10.280 [Alex] "Lost 5-1." 960 01:00:13.520 --> 01:00:18.400 [male announcer] Alex Ferguson won three championships with Aberdeen in Scotland. 961 01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:20.560 But he's finding it a far more difficult prize 962 01:00:20.600 --> 01:00:22.200 to get his hands on south of the border. 963 01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:26.120 [Alex] I remember after the game... 964 01:00:28.360 --> 01:00:29.360 I got home. 965 01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:33.760 I just stayed in my bed, you know? 966 01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:35.280 Probably the best place to be. 967 01:00:38.680 --> 01:00:40.360 [car door closes] 968 01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:43.400 I'd been there for over three years, 969 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:45.800 and that's when the cries were coming out, you know? 970 01:00:47.560 --> 01:00:49.280 Fergie out. 971 01:00:49.320 --> 01:00:51.720 [crowd chanting] Fergie out! Fergie out! 972 01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:56.000 Fergie out! Fergie out! Fergie out! 973 01:00:56.040 --> 01:00:58.520 [chanting continues] 974 01:01:05.720 --> 01:01:08.960 [chanting continues] 975 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:13.720 We got calls into the house. I remember that, yeah. I do. 976 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:17.360 You know, "Go back to fucking Scotland," and all that. 977 01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:18.640 "You're fucking useless." 978 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:22.280 I would just put the phone down, you know. 979 01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:23.840 And Cathy got a bit upset with it. 980 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:27.600 [Cathy] You were getting abusive phone calls. 981 01:01:27.640 --> 01:01:30.480 I found that really hard. 982 01:01:30.520 --> 01:01:35.320 It would have just been like a tightening of a screw on her. 983 01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:37.640 It was just an instrument of torture. 984 01:01:37.680 --> 01:01:39.920 [Cathy] I got sort of a, paranoid. 985 01:01:41.120 --> 01:01:43.680 The magpies drove me crazy. 986 01:01:43.720 --> 01:01:47.840 One for sorrow, two for joy, so if you only saw one before a game, 987 01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:51.760 I mean I-I used to be looking for the other. [chuckles] 988 01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:53.760 I went to him, and so did my brothers, 989 01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:55.440 and I just said, "Dad, it's not working. 990 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:57.360 You're not going to be able to succeed here. 991 01:01:57.400 --> 01:01:59.080 You know, it's-it's-- you know, it's killing us, 992 01:01:59.120 --> 01:02:00.880 and I just don't think you're going to be successful." 993 01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:04.560 And for his eldest son to have basically gone and said, 994 01:02:04.600 --> 01:02:07.280 "We don't believe in you. You're going to fail. You need to give up," 995 01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.040 which is not quite what I said, but it's what I meant. 996 01:02:10.080 --> 01:02:13.480 And he said, "I really think I can succeed here. I really think we're close." 997 01:02:13.520 --> 01:02:17.200 And I was like, "Oh, deluded. What are you thinking?" 998 01:02:21.040 --> 01:02:26.000 [Alex] "January 1st, good luck! F.A. Cup." 999 01:02:26.040 --> 01:02:27.560 [male announcer] For Manchester United, Sunday's match 1000 01:02:27.600 --> 01:02:29.680 at Nottingham Forest has been looming. 1001 01:02:29.720 --> 01:02:31.280 [male announcer] United are going to Forest 1002 01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:33.640 currently fifth bottom of the First Division. 1003 01:02:33.680 --> 01:02:36.920 [male announcer] It's being billed as Alex Ferguson's last stand. 1004 01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:38.480 His Alamo. 1005 01:02:38.520 --> 01:02:39.960 [Alex] The day before, 1006 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:41.480 Martin Edwards, the chairman, 1007 01:02:41.520 --> 01:02:43.600 called me up to his office. 1008 01:02:43.640 --> 01:02:46.920 And he says, "Doesn't matter what happens on Sunday, 1009 01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:49.720 you'll still be the manager, I can assure you of that." 1010 01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:51.600 And that was good of him to do that. 1011 01:02:51.640 --> 01:02:58.040 Now, that's not to say, that was cast in stone, that. 1012 01:02:58.080 --> 01:03:01.000 Because if the crowds had gone down, 1013 01:03:01.040 --> 01:03:06.400 and we end up at the bottom of the league, you're away. 1014 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:09.920 I could half agree with the club if they said, "Well, we've had enough." 1015 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:17.440 [male announcer] Alec Ferguson, who celebrated his 48th birthday last week. 1016 01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:20.920 And I suspect in the last seven weeks, he's aged a bit more than that. 1017 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:27.600 [male announcer] OÖrlygsson, kept in by Martin. 1018 01:03:27.640 --> 01:03:29.040 Hughes, he's got a lot of room. 1019 01:03:30.520 --> 01:03:32.280 And here's Robins! 1020 01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:37.040 [audience cheering] 1021 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:40.960 [male announcer] United are through! 1022 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:44.520 Some joy at last for Alec Ferguson. 1023 01:03:44.560 --> 01:03:47.320 There's a smile on the face of the United manager. 1024 01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:52.360 After so many problems, at least, they've won this crunch-match. 1025 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.080 [Alex] That was a pivotal game. 1026 01:03:55.120 --> 01:03:57.960 And of course, we were struggling in the league. 1027 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:01.040 But now the F.A. Cup was keeping us alive, you know. 1028 01:04:01.080 --> 01:04:05.720 [male announcer] Yes! Manchester United are at Wembley. 1029 01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:08.920 [audience cheering] 1030 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:11.080 [Alex] We got to the-the Cup Final. 1031 01:04:12.520 --> 01:04:17.640 But I had a big problem in my mind. 1032 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:20.280 Jim Leighton. 1033 01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:24.840 Jim was having a horrid time. 1034 01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:26.520 [male announcer] Long range shot... 1035 01:04:26.560 --> 01:04:29.360 Oh! A mistake there by Jim Leighton. 1036 01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:34.960 [Alex] Jim... 1037 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.040 I gave him his debut at Aberdeen. 1038 01:04:38.240 --> 01:04:40.320 I brought him to United. 1039 01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:45.120 [male announcer] Alex Ferguson said he is the best goalkeeper in Britain. 1040 01:04:45.160 --> 01:04:47.800 [Alex] At Aberdeen... did well for me. 1041 01:04:50.200 --> 01:04:54.560 [male announcer] And once again, Leighton is Aberdeen's hero! 1042 01:04:54.600 --> 01:04:58.960 Fantastic goalkeeper, Jim. Top, top goalkeeper. 1043 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:01.440 [Jim] The fact that I'm supposed to be the best goalkeeper in Scotland, 1044 01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:04.320 you get a lot more respect. Plus, the confidence has done me 1045 01:05:04.360 --> 01:05:06.040 an awful lot of good as well. 1046 01:05:06.080 --> 01:05:08.200 -[audience cheering] -[Alex] But now... 1047 01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:13.320 He didn't seem to have the same confidence about himself. 1048 01:05:17.360 --> 01:05:19.640 [male announcer] There's the man. Alex Ferguson. 1049 01:05:19.680 --> 01:05:23.240 [audience cheering and applauding] 1050 01:05:27.720 --> 01:05:29.200 [male announcer] Free kick to Crystal Palace. 1051 01:05:29.240 --> 01:05:31.040 Andy Gray's back on his feet to take it. 1052 01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:35.240 [male announcer] Thorn, O'Reilly's in there! 1053 01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:36.600 And was it over the line? 1054 01:05:36.640 --> 01:05:37.640 And it's a goal! 1055 01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:42.480 [Alex] He was making mistake after mistake. 1056 01:05:44.560 --> 01:05:47.000 [male announcer] Wright! Goal! 1057 01:05:47.040 --> 01:05:49.840 [audience cheering] 1058 01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:51.520 [male announcer] And the referee has blown, 1059 01:05:51.560 --> 01:05:55.880 and the F.A. Cup Final of 1990 ends in a draw. 1060 01:05:55.920 --> 01:05:57.240 [announcer 2] And they'll have to come back 1061 01:05:57.280 --> 01:05:58.760 and do it all again on Thursday. 1062 01:06:00.240 --> 01:06:02.240 But after the game, Jim's like that. 1063 01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:05.520 Head was right down, right down. 1064 01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:11.320 It got to that point that you say to yourself, 1065 01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:15.280 "I have to pick a team that's going to win the Cup." 1066 01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:18.080 I don't think Jim's part of my thinking in that. 1067 01:06:18.120 --> 01:06:20.120 So, we had a wee bit of an argument about that. 1068 01:06:20.160 --> 01:06:22.680 He would've played him again, Archie. He would've. 1069 01:06:22.720 --> 01:06:26.080 But he knew he was only doing it through his loyalty to Jim. 1070 01:06:26.120 --> 01:06:30.280 I just said that, "Oh, well, you know, that'll finish Big Jim." 1071 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:36.400 [Alex] When there's a doubt, there's no doubt. 1072 01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:39.160 And I-- I'd made my mind up. I'd made my mind up. 1073 01:06:43.080 --> 01:06:45.360 I then went to Jim's room. 1074 01:06:45.400 --> 01:06:48.720 And I told him, and he burst out crying. 1075 01:06:52.240 --> 01:06:55.520 [male announcer] So, the big news is that Jim Leighton is dropped. 1076 01:06:55.560 --> 01:06:58.920 A major decision by Alex Ferguson to drop a goalkeeper 1077 01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:01.560 who played in so many Scottish Cup finals for him. 1078 01:07:01.600 --> 01:07:05.240 And on it may hinge an awful lot of futures. 1079 01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:09.120 And Les Sealey gets a surprise call-up. 1080 01:07:09.160 --> 01:07:11.120 [Alex] Sealey was not as good a goalkeeper. 1081 01:07:12.400 --> 01:07:16.160 But he thought he was, you know? 1082 01:07:16.200 --> 01:07:18.680 [male announcer] Pardew closing in and so was Mark Bright. 1083 01:07:18.720 --> 01:07:20.840 And that's the first test for Les Sealey. 1084 01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:22.560 And Les Sealey does well. 1085 01:07:25.680 --> 01:07:31.520 And it's Gray. Oh! Saved by Sealey's legs! That's a good stop! 1086 01:07:31.560 --> 01:07:34.360 The goalkeeper takes credit again. 1087 01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:39.040 Lee Martin, inspired run on the far side. A chance here... and a goal! 1088 01:07:42.040 --> 01:07:44.400 Manchester United have won the F.A. Cup! 1089 01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:48.560 Alex Ferguson's first major trophy at Old Trafford. 1090 01:07:48.600 --> 01:07:50.720 And just look at that man's face! 1091 01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:53.840 The years seem to have fallen away there from Alex Ferguson, 1092 01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:56.360 after a season of torment and tribulation. 1093 01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:16.800 [Alex] Making big decisions affecting players' careers... 1094 01:08:18.200 --> 01:08:19.200 is not easy. 1095 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:23.160 He might have called it ruthless. 1096 01:08:25.480 --> 01:08:27.880 [interviewer] Do you still feel a Manchester United player? 1097 01:08:32.320 --> 01:08:35.480 I don't think-- they days are gone now. 1098 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:37.520 -[interviewer] Really? -I think so, yeah. 1099 01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:39.760 I think from both sides, those days are gone now. 1100 01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:42.760 Never spoke to me again. 1101 01:08:44.640 --> 01:08:46.960 Yeah... so... 1102 01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:49.040 You lose a friend, or you lose 1103 01:08:49.080 --> 01:08:52.640 someone that you'd given his first opportunity in life. 1104 01:08:55.720 --> 01:08:59.120 But make no mistake, it was the correct decision. 1105 01:09:02.360 --> 01:09:07.000 [audience cheering] 1106 01:09:37.160 --> 01:09:39.360 -[Jason] Want some water? -I'm all right. 1107 01:09:39.400 --> 01:09:40.480 [Jason] Okay. 1108 01:09:40.520 --> 01:09:42.680 [Alex] I got home. 1109 01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:44.640 All the things that were bottling up inside me... 1110 01:09:46.600 --> 01:09:50.760 it was a sort of, uh, opening up. 1111 01:09:50.800 --> 01:09:54.160 You know, you just want to spill it all out. 1112 01:09:54.200 --> 01:09:56.640 [Jason] I don't know if you want to kick off? 1113 01:09:56.680 --> 01:09:58.320 No, I think that, um... 1114 01:09:58.360 --> 01:10:00.680 [clears throat] 1115 01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:04.320 It's been an experience. I think that... 1116 01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:10.320 What I-- what you realise is... 1117 01:10:10.360 --> 01:10:12.840 that what happens when you die, 1118 01:10:13.960 --> 01:10:18.320 is it... people suffer cancer, 1119 01:10:18.360 --> 01:10:21.240 and there's a long period before they do. 1120 01:10:21.280 --> 01:10:24.920 But when it happens like that, they say it's the best way to go. 1121 01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.240 But you don't remember anything. 1122 01:10:27.280 --> 01:10:30.840 When I collapsed that Saturday morning, 1123 01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:35.360 and I had no idea from that moment on, what-what happened. 1124 01:10:35.400 --> 01:10:40.600 People say that I was sitting up talking in Macclesfield Hospital, 1125 01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:43.360 before I went to Royal Salford. 1126 01:10:43.400 --> 01:10:46.920 But I don't remember a thing. So... 1127 01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:50.720 I'm not sure when the moment comes and you do die, 1128 01:10:52.080 --> 01:10:54.960 whether it's the best way to go. 1129 01:10:58.080 --> 01:10:59.760 In the moments when you're on your own, 1130 01:10:59.800 --> 01:11:02.560 there's that fear and there's that loneliness. 1131 01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:05.000 That creeps into your mind and... 1132 01:11:07.400 --> 01:11:11.520 you don't want to die. You know, and that's where I was at. 1133 01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:15.360 I don't want to, I'm not gonna die. I don't want to die. 1134 01:11:15.400 --> 01:11:19.000 These things did flash through my mind quite a lot. 1135 01:11:22.040 --> 01:11:23.560 [Cathy] They had wanted him to go 1136 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:26.400 to the first game of the season at Old Trafford. 1137 01:11:26.440 --> 01:11:30.480 But Dr George says no, it was too much, you know. 1138 01:11:30.520 --> 01:11:33.120 Far too much. And we said that ourselves, you know. 1139 01:11:33.160 --> 01:11:37.120 'Cause everybody's going to be-- Cameras, everything, you know. 1140 01:11:37.160 --> 01:11:39.840 I have a slight concern about going to watch United again 1141 01:11:39.880 --> 01:11:41.400 in terms of the first time. 1142 01:11:43.680 --> 01:11:46.600 [Alex] A third of my life has been at United, 1143 01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:51.720 creating a certain type of football club. 1144 01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:58.840 But you're still walking into a sort of, uh, an unknown... 1145 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:04.000 situation for yourself. 1146 01:12:04.040 --> 01:12:07.240 Somewhere inside you, you know, there's a doubt. 1147 01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:27.440 [chattering] 1148 01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:34.040 [Alex] A long-term approach always suited me, 1149 01:12:34.080 --> 01:12:38.240 to go the long road to shape my future. 1150 01:12:38.280 --> 01:12:41.840 [male announcer] And number 14 is 17-year old Ryan Giggs. 1151 01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:44.680 Manchester United believe we may be seeing the start 1152 01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:47.920 of a very special career here this afternoon. 1153 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:49.440 [Alex] If you get them young enough, 1154 01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:55.280 and breed the important values 1155 01:12:55.320 --> 01:12:58.160 of what you're trying to achieve with them, 1156 01:12:58.200 --> 01:13:03.360 they became that particular person you were looking for. 1157 01:13:03.400 --> 01:13:07.000 Do you have to treat them, you know, differently to-to the established stars? 1158 01:13:07.040 --> 01:13:09.560 Absolutely. You've got to be real hard on them. 1159 01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:11.160 Because they're facing for the first time in their lives... 1160 01:13:11.200 --> 01:13:12.720 -[interviewer] Harder on them? -Oh, yes. 1161 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:14.560 -[interviewer] Really? -Absolutely. 1162 01:13:14.600 --> 01:13:18.120 They're facing for the first time in their lives, media attention. 1163 01:13:18.160 --> 01:13:21.920 And you won't get the crit-- you don't get any criticism from journalism 1164 01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:25.080 to young boys. It's all praise. 1165 01:13:25.120 --> 01:13:27.440 -That's ahead. -Do you sometimes feel like a bully? 1166 01:13:27.480 --> 01:13:30.320 No, no, no, no! I think they realise that it's for their own good. 1167 01:13:35.280 --> 01:13:37.360 [Ryan] My Dad left when I was 14. 1168 01:13:38.560 --> 01:13:42.080 I had two mainstays in my life: 1169 01:13:42.120 --> 01:13:45.320 my granddad and the manager. 1170 01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:48.960 There was definitely that father-son relationship. 1171 01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:52.480 Um, sometimes that was good, 1172 01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:56.880 sometimes that was bad because he felt he could say whatever he wanted. 1173 01:13:56.920 --> 01:14:00.040 Um, which was tough to take, especially when you're an 18, 19 year-old. 1174 01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:02.960 [no dialogue] 1175 01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:05.920 [Ryan] Honestly, sometimes, you know, 1176 01:14:05.960 --> 01:14:08.920 he would have fights with the players, or nearly have fights. 1177 01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:12.960 I wanted to, because he would be right in your face, 1178 01:14:13.000 --> 01:14:14.080 screaming at you. 1179 01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:26.400 [Jason] To the outside world, you've got this reputation... 1180 01:14:28.320 --> 01:14:30.760 as this fearsome character. 1181 01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:32.200 Yeah, absolutely. 1182 01:14:33.160 --> 01:14:36.080 That fearsome character 1183 01:14:36.120 --> 01:14:38.960 has been portrayed throughout my career. 1184 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:45.920 I mean... [stutters] That's the baggage I've had to carry. 1185 01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:47.320 [Jason] Maybe times when you felt, 1186 01:14:47.360 --> 01:14:50.200 "Oh, went maybe a bit too far there." 1187 01:14:50.240 --> 01:14:51.640 Oh, there'd be plenty times. 1188 01:14:54.040 --> 01:14:55.840 [Alex] But... 1189 01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:58.040 I don't think there's anything wrong with losing your temper 1190 01:14:58.080 --> 01:15:00.600 if it's for the right reasons, you know? 1191 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:02.960 Where they didn't reach their expectation in a game, 1192 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:06.000 because everything's built around what we expect 1193 01:15:06.040 --> 01:15:08.960 in terms of the standard of our training, 1194 01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:11.280 and the ambitions of the football club. 1195 01:15:13.160 --> 01:15:17.560 Because my experience of human beings... 1196 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:19.360 they'd like to do things the easiest way. 1197 01:15:21.200 --> 01:15:24.920 The minute you-you accept a bad performance from them, 1198 01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:28.800 or a bad technical aspect of their training, 1199 01:15:28.840 --> 01:15:29.880 they'll do it again. 1200 01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:34.920 [Ryan] I remember, against Juventus. 1201 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:40.840 I spent the whole half, I mean, which is what I did, dribbling, and yeah. 1202 01:15:40.880 --> 01:15:43.920 Conte was taking it off me. And they were going on and attacking. 1203 01:15:43.960 --> 01:15:45.160 And I wasn't having a good game. 1204 01:15:45.200 --> 01:15:47.160 At half time, 1205 01:15:47.200 --> 01:15:49.200 and the manager just went for me straight away. 1206 01:15:49.240 --> 01:15:53.280 "Stop dribbling in midfield." And this argument started, and... 1207 01:15:53.320 --> 01:15:55.680 I've got these blackcurrant drinks 1208 01:15:55.720 --> 01:15:58.120 that we used to have at half-time, and I threw it. 1209 01:15:58.160 --> 01:15:59.440 Threw it right at the gaffer's feet. 1210 01:16:03.360 --> 01:16:04.520 [male announcer] So Giggs is off. 1211 01:16:06.680 --> 01:16:09.000 [Ryan] He was always in control. 1212 01:16:09.040 --> 01:16:12.880 You were never in any doubt, who was the boss. 1213 01:16:13.880 --> 01:16:15.160 Yeah, I could be. 1214 01:16:15.200 --> 01:16:16.600 I could be ferocious 1215 01:16:16.640 --> 01:16:19.120 in terms of my criticism after games. 1216 01:16:19.160 --> 01:16:20.960 But sometimes I never said a word to them. 1217 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:23.040 Sometimes I would gather them altogether, 1218 01:16:23.080 --> 01:16:26.960 and I never made myself predictable. 1219 01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:33.000 [Ryan] But away from football, 1220 01:16:33.040 --> 01:16:35.480 he would sometimes spot if there was something wrong. 1221 01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:39.200 "Is everything okay at home? You know you can always talk to me." 1222 01:16:39.240 --> 01:16:41.480 That was comforting to me. That was comforting to me 1223 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:43.120 that no matter how many arguments we have, 1224 01:16:43.160 --> 01:16:45.720 how many-- if I wasn't playing well, if he dropped me, 1225 01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:47.720 that I could always come and talk about things. 1226 01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:49.560 Because then, it wasn't about football. 1227 01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:51.600 It was about how you are as a human being. 1228 01:16:54.160 --> 01:16:58.520 [Alex] It wasn't as if I was their best pal. 1229 01:16:58.560 --> 01:17:02.800 But they always knew I would find a way to help them. 1230 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:06.200 If you want to be the proper manager, 1231 01:17:06.240 --> 01:17:10.320 and be in control of a unit as big as that... 1232 01:17:12.640 --> 01:17:13.840 you have to know them all. 1233 01:17:16.040 --> 01:17:17.440 All these different people... 1234 01:17:20.240 --> 01:17:21.680 with all these different stories. 1235 01:17:41.360 --> 01:17:45.200 [man] I wasn't happy, so I just reacted. 1236 01:17:47.880 --> 01:17:51.320 It wasn't really the football I dreamed about. 1237 01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:22.000 Just lost that passion for the game. 1238 01:18:24.200 --> 01:18:28.240 [Alex] I always remember, I'd gone to a game in Paris. 1239 01:18:28.280 --> 01:18:32.480 And I was sitting between Michel Platini and Gerard Houllier. 1240 01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:36.400 And right out of the blue, 1241 01:18:36.440 --> 01:18:41.200 Michel says, "Why don't you sign Eric Cantona?" 1242 01:18:41.240 --> 01:18:45.360 And I says, "Well, isn't there a bit of baggage there?" 1243 01:18:45.400 --> 01:18:48.520 And Michel says, "Look, he's a great lad. 1244 01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:50.080 He just needs to be understood." 1245 01:18:53.080 --> 01:18:55.000 [male announcer] Football. And Manchester United have signed 1246 01:18:55.040 --> 01:18:57.240 the French international striker, Eric Cantona. 1247 01:18:57.280 --> 01:18:59.880 [chattering] 1248 01:19:03.440 --> 01:19:05.240 [interviewer] You shocked everybody with the signing. 1249 01:19:05.280 --> 01:19:07.520 He's got a fiery reputation. A fiery Frenchman, 1250 01:19:07.560 --> 01:19:09.120 and with due respect, a fiery Scot. 1251 01:19:09.160 --> 01:19:11.440 How's that relationship going to develop? 1252 01:19:11.480 --> 01:19:13.280 I think that hopefully I've got the experience to handle it. 1253 01:19:13.320 --> 01:19:15.480 It's maybe a new challenge for me, too. 1254 01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.320 -[interviewer] Is it a gamble? -No, I don't think it's a gamble. 1255 01:19:20.320 --> 01:19:22.840 [Alex] When I met Eric, 1256 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:26.480 I said to myself, "Right, I'm going to forget his past. 1257 01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:30.640 I'm not going to mention any of his behavior. It didn't matter." 1258 01:19:30.680 --> 01:19:32.960 What mattered to me was 1259 01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:36.720 what we could do in terms of bringing him into our fold. 1260 01:19:36.760 --> 01:19:41.360 Like, a new kid, as if he was an apprentice, or a newborn baby. 1261 01:19:41.400 --> 01:19:46.440 It was to give him that opportunity to be himself. 1262 01:19:46.480 --> 01:19:50.080 In anything I do in my life, if I don't feel free... 1263 01:19:52.120 --> 01:19:53.160 I become crazy. 1264 01:19:56.000 --> 01:19:58.960 He knew exactly what I needed, psychologically. 1265 01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:02.680 More than a manager. 1266 01:20:02.720 --> 01:20:08.720 Somebody strong enough to deal with any kind of personality. 1267 01:20:10.240 --> 01:20:12.040 [Ryan] He was just treated differently. 1268 01:20:13.080 --> 01:20:15.040 Black tie do. 1269 01:20:15.080 --> 01:20:18.400 I walked in, my top button's undone, manager's gone straight for me. 1270 01:20:18.440 --> 01:20:21.880 "Get your top button done! You're representing Man United!" 1271 01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:25.360 Two minutes later, I'm sulking in the corner. 1272 01:20:25.400 --> 01:20:27.720 "Flipping heck, he's just had a go at me, again." 1273 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.880 Um, Eric walks in with a white linen suit 1274 01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:34.240 with white/red Tiempo Nike trainers on. 1275 01:20:34.280 --> 01:20:37.480 So I am like, flipping rubbing my hands. "What's he gonna say?" 1276 01:20:37.520 --> 01:20:40.480 So he goes over, shakes his hand, and then turns to us and go, 1277 01:20:40.520 --> 01:20:42.240 "Lads, that's style." 1278 01:20:42.280 --> 01:20:44.800 But... 1279 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:51.040 when-- when they-- somebody like Alex Ferguson give you the freedom you need... 1280 01:20:53.040 --> 01:20:54.240 to express yourself, 1281 01:20:55.280 --> 01:20:57.280 you have to deserve it, yeah. 1282 01:20:57.320 --> 01:21:01.480 And you know how lucky you are to have this freedom. 1283 01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:03.680 It's why I worked... 1284 01:21:05.560 --> 01:21:09.800 so hard and I tried everything. 1285 01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:13.240 Everything-- I could give my life to him. 1286 01:21:16.080 --> 01:21:18.400 He was, and is still a great psychologist. 1287 01:21:20.200 --> 01:21:23.280 [Alex] Psychology is someone else's word. 1288 01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:25.640 I call it... 1289 01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:27.760 management. 1290 01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:34.200 [announcer] Cantona's looping header... And a goal! 1291 01:21:34.240 --> 01:21:35.760 [audience cheering] 1292 01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:40.960 [announcer] Cantona. Oh, look at that pass! 1293 01:21:42.280 --> 01:21:43.640 Oh, that's brilliant! 1294 01:21:47.720 --> 01:21:49.680 [Eric] It was like a dream for me. 1295 01:21:49.720 --> 01:21:51.600 That's the football I dreamed about. 1296 01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:53.800 And the spirit around football I dreamed about. 1297 01:21:57.080 --> 01:22:01.600 I think that was the first time of my life I felt like it was my place. 1298 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:05.120 That's my house. 1299 01:22:05.160 --> 01:22:06.400 [announcer] And here's Giggs. 1300 01:22:06.440 --> 01:22:08.800 Over the goalkeeper. Cantona! 1301 01:22:08.840 --> 01:22:09.960 [audience cheering] 1302 01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:16.520 Eric came at the right time to lift United. 1303 01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:19.120 [announcer] Eric Cantona, who was only 11 and a half months old 1304 01:22:19.160 --> 01:22:22.120 the last time Manchester United won the title. 1305 01:22:22.160 --> 01:22:25.000 We are going to do it. It is going to happen. 1306 01:22:27.720 --> 01:22:32.240 [announcer] Bruce, yes! Unbelievable. 1307 01:22:32.280 --> 01:22:34.120 There's still a bit to be done, 1308 01:22:34.160 --> 01:22:37.240 but Alec Ferguson almost celebrating the championship. 1309 01:22:41.400 --> 01:22:43.880 [announcer] And he's going to the right, away from the marker. 1310 01:22:43.920 --> 01:22:46.520 -Ince! Yes? that's it! -[audience cheering] 1311 01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:48.120 Get in, you beauty kiddo! 1312 01:22:50.240 --> 01:22:51.600 [announcer] Good evening from Old Trafford. 1313 01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:52.960 There hasn't been a night here like this 1314 01:22:53.000 --> 01:22:55.000 for over a quarter of a century. 1315 01:22:55.040 --> 01:22:57.880 But once again, Manchester United are the champions. 1316 01:22:57.920 --> 01:22:59.640 It's been a long, long wait 1317 01:22:59.680 --> 01:23:02.840 since those days of Best and Law and Charlton. 1318 01:23:03.800 --> 01:23:06.680 [singing and cheering] 1319 01:23:06.720 --> 01:23:10.800 [Alex] It was unbelievable, the relief. 1320 01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:15.880 It was tangible. That frustration of 26 years had gone. 1321 01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:20.280 This was a club that had come alive again. 1322 01:23:20.320 --> 01:23:23.440 -[cheering] -[announcer] The champions of England! 1323 01:23:23.480 --> 01:23:27.000 The ultimate accolade for all players. 1324 01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:47.800 [Alex] You could-- you could smell the roses. 1325 01:23:48.920 --> 01:23:50.440 You could smell the roses. 1326 01:23:50.480 --> 01:23:51.960 There's no question about that. 1327 01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:55.080 And, um, it was non-stop after that. 1328 01:23:57.760 --> 01:24:02.040 [announcer] Elkins header only goes to Cantona. A glorious goal! 1329 01:24:02.080 --> 01:24:03.960 [cheering] 1330 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.760 [announcer] Manchester United have won the double. 1331 01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:14.600 [Alex] And now, the plan we had was finally the foundation. 1332 01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:20.880 [announcer] Oh, beautiful goal from David Beckham! 1333 01:24:20.920 --> 01:24:24.520 And Alex Ferguson is delighted that one of his youngsters 1334 01:24:24.560 --> 01:24:27.920 has restored Manchester United's lead! 1335 01:24:27.960 --> 01:24:32.200 [announcer] Alec Ferguson has done something never previously achieved. 1336 01:24:32.240 --> 01:24:33.360 The Double-Double. 1337 01:24:33.400 --> 01:24:35.280 [cheering] 1338 01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:47.480 [Alex] Winning was always based on my own attitude to failure. 1339 01:24:49.440 --> 01:24:54.040 You have to treat losing as part of the progress. 1340 01:24:56.720 --> 01:25:01.600 Throughout my life, a defeat or a failure 1341 01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:04.160 sparked something inside you. 1342 01:25:04.200 --> 01:25:05.640 That I did something about it. 1343 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:12.160 As human beings, you have to understand 1344 01:25:12.200 --> 01:25:15.160 that adversity is part of your life. 1345 01:25:17.880 --> 01:25:19.080 And when it happens... 1346 01:25:22.760 --> 01:25:23.920 you find yourself. 1347 01:25:32.000 --> 01:25:34.640 [announcer] Watford won. To Old Trafford then, 1348 01:25:34.680 --> 01:25:37.800 where Ian Dennis will be watching Manchester United against Wolves. 1349 01:25:37.840 --> 01:25:39.960 [announcer 2] And Manchester United have made four changes... 1350 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:42.800 [announcer speaking indistinctly] 1351 01:25:47.080 --> 01:25:48.600 [Alex clears throat] 1352 01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:59.760 The Club were going to make, uh, a presentation to the fans 1353 01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:01.160 that I was back, you know. 1354 01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:05.880 And I think, 1355 01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:12.320 the dilemma I had in my own mind was going in front of 75,000 fans. 1356 01:26:12.360 --> 01:26:15.720 I'm a bit nervous. Well, not nervous, but you know. 1357 01:26:19.320 --> 01:26:20.360 Sort of a... 1358 01:26:21.800 --> 01:26:22.840 How do you put it? 1359 01:26:25.240 --> 01:26:28.120 Tense I don't know... maybe. 1360 01:26:33.320 --> 01:26:34.640 [Alex] In the recovery part... 1361 01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:41.280 I was starting to get these dreams and repeated messages. 1362 01:26:41.320 --> 01:26:44.160 Like a recorder. 1363 01:26:44.200 --> 01:26:46.480 I had this song, kept going through my head. 1364 01:26:47.520 --> 01:26:50.960 [humming] 1365 01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:52.120 All the time. 1366 01:26:53.960 --> 01:26:55.240 And then there was another one. 1367 01:26:56.880 --> 01:26:58.840 "And Beckham crosses, and it's a goal," 1368 01:27:00.440 --> 01:27:03.080 going through my head every night. 1369 01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:06.200 I don't know why that is. 1370 01:27:07.960 --> 01:27:09.040 I can't explain that. 1371 01:27:14.320 --> 01:27:16.560 Maybe Barcelona. 1372 01:27:17.600 --> 01:27:20.280 [Alex humming] 1373 01:27:26.520 --> 01:27:28.880 [humming continues] 1374 01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:37.600 [chuckles] You like my singing? 1375 01:27:37.640 --> 01:27:40.160 [paper rustling] 1376 01:27:40.200 --> 01:27:41.760 What's this? 1377 01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:44.400 You were supposed to fill this in some time ago. 1378 01:27:44.440 --> 01:27:45.480 [Alex] Statement of health? 1379 01:27:46.360 --> 01:27:47.480 Your full name. 1380 01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:49.720 Alexander Chapman Ferguson. 1381 01:27:49.760 --> 01:27:52.840 -Scottish. -And proud of it! 1382 01:27:52.880 --> 01:27:54.800 Are you pregnant? No. 1383 01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:57.160 High blood pressure, heart attack, angina pectoris 1384 01:27:57.200 --> 01:27:58.960 or any other disorder of the heart or blood vessels? 1385 01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:00.960 No, but that's coming. 1386 01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:02.880 The way that team of mine's playing the now. 1387 01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:06.520 That's it? Right. 1388 01:28:06.560 --> 01:28:10.880 [indistinct singing] 1389 01:28:10.920 --> 01:28:13.680 [Alex] 1999. 1390 01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:14.920 We'd won the League again. 1391 01:28:17.520 --> 01:28:18.920 And we'd won the Cup again. 1392 01:28:22.680 --> 01:28:23.800 But to be honest, 1393 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:26.880 it was all about Europe. 1394 01:28:29.240 --> 01:28:32.600 [announcer] Keane! Roy Keane with a captain's goal 1395 01:28:32.640 --> 01:28:34.480 for Manchester United! 1396 01:28:34.520 --> 01:28:37.800 Manchester United are in the European Cup Final. 1397 01:28:37.840 --> 01:28:40.400 Full speed ahead Barcelona! 1398 01:28:42.360 --> 01:28:43.680 [Alex] In my time at United, 1399 01:28:45.440 --> 01:28:47.520 my priority was the European Cup, 1400 01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:49.760 the Champions League. 1401 01:28:53.200 --> 01:28:55.320 There was an anxiety in me. 1402 01:28:55.360 --> 01:28:58.960 I'd won all these trophies, cups and leagues. 1403 01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:02.720 But not won the Holy Grail. 1404 01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:07.320 It's about a reward for sticking to what you believed in. 1405 01:29:10.120 --> 01:29:11.800 [upbeat music playing] 1406 01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:15.800 [Alex] This was the big one. 1407 01:29:29.480 --> 01:29:30.600 The mood was great. 1408 01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:34.480 The set-up was right. Everything was right. 1409 01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:36.880 Game on! 1410 01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:38.640 [cheering] 1411 01:29:41.080 --> 01:29:43.400 [dramatic music playing] 1412 01:30:08.160 --> 01:30:09.880 [announcer] Let's not forget however much 1413 01:30:09.920 --> 01:30:12.120 Manchester United want to win this trophy back, 1414 01:30:12.160 --> 01:30:14.760 Bayern Munich want it just as much. 1415 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:18.440 They have the tradition, too. They have the expectations, too. 1416 01:30:18.480 --> 01:30:20.800 And they have had to wait a long time, too. 1417 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:33.160 [Alex] It's something that I'd had on many occasions, 1418 01:30:33.200 --> 01:30:37.360 you know, that... that, um, butterflies in the stomach. 1419 01:30:37.400 --> 01:30:39.480 You know, you want the game to start right away. 1420 01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:42.320 -[whistle blows] -[audience cheering] 1421 01:30:54.120 --> 01:30:55.680 [whistle blows] 1422 01:30:55.720 --> 01:30:57.240 [announcer] Free kick on the edge of the box. 1423 01:31:00.360 --> 01:31:02.400 Tense moment. 1424 01:31:02.440 --> 01:31:05.920 -[whistle blows] -[announcer] It's Basler! 1425 01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:09.160 -Oh, first blood to Bayern Munich! -[crowd cheers] 1426 01:31:09.200 --> 01:31:13.040 [announcer] Mario Basler with a little over five minutes gone. 1427 01:31:13.080 --> 01:31:16.480 And Manchester United have made it hard for themselves. 1428 01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:18.760 [indistinct announcement] 1429 01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:20.320 [cheering] 1430 01:31:24.880 --> 01:31:26.320 [screams] 1431 01:31:29.480 --> 01:31:31.760 [announcer] Bayern are playing very well, aren't they? 1432 01:31:31.800 --> 01:31:33.720 Very efficient. They've got a game plan 1433 01:31:33.760 --> 01:31:35.000 they're playing at and they're sticking at. 1434 01:31:36.520 --> 01:31:38.440 [Alex] We were a wee bit anxious looking. 1435 01:31:41.160 --> 01:31:44.640 We weren't making the chances we would normally make. 1436 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:46.600 [announcer] It has not gone Manchester United's way. 1437 01:31:48.120 --> 01:31:49.200 [Alex] They were the better team. 1438 01:31:53.200 --> 01:31:55.720 [announcer] Scholl. Looking for Jancker. 1439 01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:59.320 Looking to let the ball run. Support. Stefan Effenberg. Oh! 1440 01:32:07.680 --> 01:32:09.200 [announcer] It's still Basler on the ball. 1441 01:32:11.480 --> 01:32:13.360 Scholl taking over. 1442 01:32:13.400 --> 01:32:16.240 Oh, delicious chip hits the post. 1443 01:32:16.280 --> 01:32:18.640 You don't see that going anywhere else but in the net. 1444 01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:21.040 More danger now. 1445 01:32:25.400 --> 01:32:28.840 Scholl's there with a header. Jancker with the overhead. Hits the crossbar! 1446 01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:31.360 Twice the woodwork has saved Manchester United. 1447 01:32:34.400 --> 01:32:36.240 Last four minutes. 1448 01:32:36.280 --> 01:32:37.720 [Alex] They were big chances. 1449 01:32:39.560 --> 01:32:41.720 But... we survived. 1450 01:32:52.760 --> 01:32:57.480 [Alex] The Beckhams, the Giggs', the Scholes', the Butts, the Nevilles 1451 01:32:57.520 --> 01:32:59.880 were all brought up with a mentality 1452 01:33:02.080 --> 01:33:03.160 that mirror you. 1453 01:33:06.720 --> 01:33:08.280 Where I came from... 1454 01:33:08.320 --> 01:33:10.760 [men singing] 1455 01:33:12.800 --> 01:33:14.000 [Alex] ...stand up for themselves. 1456 01:33:15.120 --> 01:33:17.480 ♪ We shall not be moved 1457 01:33:17.520 --> 01:33:18.760 And stand up for their team. 1458 01:33:21.440 --> 01:33:22.520 It's always been in me. 1459 01:33:24.720 --> 01:33:26.560 And I like to see myself in my team. 1460 01:33:28.520 --> 01:33:29.520 To connect... 1461 01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:31.680 to that history... 1462 01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:34.360 of self-sacrifice, 1463 01:33:35.360 --> 01:33:37.800 the determination. 1464 01:33:37.840 --> 01:33:40.600 That working-class feeling into people. 1465 01:33:46.280 --> 01:33:47.360 Together. 1466 01:34:09.040 --> 01:34:10.280 [Alex] You didn't win them all. 1467 01:34:11.480 --> 01:34:15.440 But you stood up for yourself. 1468 01:34:15.480 --> 01:34:18.400 -[whistle blows] -[audience cheering] 1469 01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:30.800 [announcer] We're in the last of the 90 minutes. 1470 01:34:30.840 --> 01:34:32.360 What we need now is the fourth official 1471 01:34:32.400 --> 01:34:34.360 to hold a board up with about 20 on it. 1472 01:34:38.360 --> 01:34:39.560 [Alex] It had run away from us. 1473 01:34:42.400 --> 01:34:44.880 I started to think what I was going to say to the players. 1474 01:34:47.280 --> 01:34:50.320 And the only thing I could say is, they were great. 1475 01:34:52.000 --> 01:34:53.680 They'd had a fantastic season. 1476 01:34:55.800 --> 01:34:57.400 I was proud of them, I really was. 1477 01:34:59.680 --> 01:35:01.880 It's gone against us this time, you know. 1478 01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:14.640 And the fourth official put the board up. 1479 01:35:15.880 --> 01:35:16.880 Three minutes. 1480 01:35:18.360 --> 01:35:19.600 [announcer] Three added minutes. 1481 01:35:31.880 --> 01:35:34.320 Cross deflected, out for a corner. 1482 01:35:35.960 --> 01:35:37.800 Can Manchester United score? 1483 01:35:45.840 --> 01:35:49.240 In towards Schmeichel. It's come for Dwight Yorke. 1484 01:35:49.280 --> 01:35:51.440 Cleared. Giggs with a shot. Sheringham! 1485 01:35:51.480 --> 01:35:53.080 [crowd cheering] 1486 01:36:04.800 --> 01:36:09.000 [announcer] Teddy Sheringham with 30 seconds of added time played 1487 01:36:09.040 --> 01:36:12.040 has equalised for Manchester United! 1488 01:36:12.080 --> 01:36:14.160 They are still in the European Cup! 1489 01:36:16.640 --> 01:36:18.520 [Alex] It was bedlam! 1490 01:36:18.560 --> 01:36:19.800 That's what it was, it was bedlam. 1491 01:36:27.400 --> 01:36:30.520 And it was, uh, funny. 1492 01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:32.840 It was as if fate had come along and says, 1493 01:36:34.280 --> 01:36:35.400 "It's your turn, Alec." 1494 01:36:37.840 --> 01:36:41.280 [announcer] Extraordinary climax at the Nou Camp Stadium! 1495 01:36:41.320 --> 01:36:44.120 [cheering] 1496 01:36:52.400 --> 01:36:53.560 [Alex] Just hold it. 1497 01:36:55.240 --> 01:36:56.240 Calm. 1498 01:36:57.760 --> 01:36:58.800 Composure. 1499 01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:03.640 They've gone. 1500 01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:06.680 ♪ We shall not be moved 1501 01:37:11.320 --> 01:37:12.360 [Alex] Another corner. 1502 01:37:19.680 --> 01:37:23.600 [announcer] Beckham in to Sheringham. And Solskjaer has won it! 1503 01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:25.880 [cheering] 1504 01:37:40.720 --> 01:37:43.960 [announcer] Manchester United have reached the promised land! 1505 01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:48.920 [man] I don't believe-- 1506 01:37:54.680 --> 01:37:56.400 [screaming] 1507 01:37:56.440 --> 01:37:58.120 [man] I don't believe it! 1508 01:38:21.520 --> 01:38:23.480 [Alex] And when it comes to the final bit... 1509 01:38:25.160 --> 01:38:27.080 I don't watch the game, I watch the referee... 1510 01:38:29.400 --> 01:38:31.320 to see him putting that whistle in his mouth. 1511 01:38:36.800 --> 01:38:37.880 [whistle blows] 1512 01:38:37.920 --> 01:38:39.440 [cheering] 1513 01:38:55.840 --> 01:38:57.560 [Alex] The game's over. 1514 01:38:57.600 --> 01:38:58.680 The game was over. 1515 01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:01.920 God, we've done it. 1516 01:39:39.080 --> 01:39:43.360 [interviewer] Alex Ferguson, they put you through the mill, into injury time. 1517 01:39:43.400 --> 01:39:46.800 Almost lost the cup, and you win it. The new European Champions. 1518 01:39:46.840 --> 01:39:49.000 The treble. The dream come true for you. 1519 01:39:49.040 --> 01:39:52.600 Oh, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football, bloody hell. 1520 01:39:52.640 --> 01:39:55.280 But they never give in, and that's what won it. 1521 01:39:55.320 --> 01:39:56.840 [cheering] 1522 01:40:07.080 --> 01:40:08.160 [Alex] You start thinking, 1523 01:40:09.080 --> 01:40:10.120 where's Cathy? 1524 01:40:11.080 --> 01:40:12.200 I wonder where she is. 1525 01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:17.000 Cathy. 1526 01:40:25.840 --> 01:40:28.160 The period in the hospital, 1527 01:40:28.200 --> 01:40:31.240 I wrote letters, yeah. 1528 01:40:31.280 --> 01:40:35.040 I wrote down what I wanted to say to Cathy. 1529 01:40:40.480 --> 01:40:41.520 That's right. 1530 01:40:46.800 --> 01:40:49.520 "I am proud of you, Cathy, and your determination. 1531 01:40:50.240 --> 01:40:52.000 All your years, 1532 01:40:52.040 --> 01:40:54.280 you've shown great strength. 1533 01:40:54.320 --> 01:40:56.960 But my heart should pray for life. 1534 01:40:57.000 --> 01:40:59.680 I don't give up. 1535 01:40:59.720 --> 01:41:03.640 I was weak and lonely and miss you, your light. 1536 01:41:05.280 --> 01:41:08.520 My sons and you I'm proud of. 1537 01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:12.280 You brought up the way in control and inspection in school. 1538 01:41:12.320 --> 01:41:15.800 I wasn't able, but I was too busy working." 1539 01:41:18.280 --> 01:41:20.400 Mm. Amazing that... 1540 01:41:23.800 --> 01:41:25.840 It's an abbreviation of my life really. 1541 01:41:27.720 --> 01:41:30.680 It's maybe an apology really for not always being there. 1542 01:41:32.240 --> 01:41:34.680 Uh, and I think... 1543 01:41:34.720 --> 01:41:38.040 I think that's what the letter's about, really. 1544 01:41:39.400 --> 01:41:40.920 She is an amazing woman. 1545 01:41:42.760 --> 01:41:47.680 She really is the catalyst of all. 1546 01:41:47.720 --> 01:41:51.520 She sacrificed to support me one hundred percent. 1547 01:41:55.520 --> 01:41:58.080 Fifty-three years married, you know. 1548 01:41:58.120 --> 01:42:00.480 That tells you a lot, really. 1549 01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:04.800 You know, there's a lot of sacrifice comes into that. And, uh... 1550 01:42:04.840 --> 01:42:10.400 Um, a lot of patience married to me. [chuckles] 1551 01:42:17.800 --> 01:42:21.960 [crowd cheering] 1552 01:42:22.000 --> 01:42:24.720 [announcer] 1986 was the year Alex Ferguson took over. 1553 01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:27.760 And now another landmark year. 1554 01:42:31.040 --> 01:42:33.880 Champions of Europe! Champions of England! 1555 01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:37.880 Winners of the F.A. Cup! Everything their hearts desired. 1556 01:42:46.480 --> 01:42:49.360 -[Jason] Was this the greatest moment? -Definitely. 1557 01:42:49.400 --> 01:42:51.240 Without doubt, it was my greatest moment as a manager. 1558 01:42:52.800 --> 01:42:57.960 It's exactly epitomised all my teams. 1559 01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:02.960 And I look back and... 1560 01:43:05.080 --> 01:43:09.560 say now that-that was, uh, the spirit. 1561 01:43:09.600 --> 01:43:16.280 It was a spirit, and it was there, right through to when I left. 1562 01:43:20.160 --> 01:43:21.200 That night... 1563 01:43:22.600 --> 01:43:23.640 it showed itself. 1564 01:43:29.360 --> 01:43:33.480 Showed all the qualities that got you there in the first place. 1565 01:43:33.520 --> 01:43:36.440 They came out that night. Never give in. 1566 01:43:36.480 --> 01:43:38.920 Absolutely brilliant. That's my best ever. 1567 01:43:51.720 --> 01:43:52.840 [Alex] You worry... 1568 01:43:54.360 --> 01:43:56.840 you'll lose all this history. 1569 01:43:59.400 --> 01:44:00.720 All these memories. 1570 01:44:07.880 --> 01:44:08.920 But they live on. 1571 01:44:11.720 --> 01:44:14.320 And they'll never be forgotten. 1572 01:44:14.360 --> 01:44:16.320 [announcer] Old Trafford. 1573 01:44:16.360 --> 01:44:20.000 This afternoon we are honored and delighted to welcome back 1574 01:44:20.040 --> 01:44:24.520 someone who has been part of the tapestry of the history of this club. 1575 01:44:24.560 --> 01:44:28.960 Has won five F.A. Cups, four League Cups, 1576 01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:33.560 ten Charity Community Shields, one European Cup Winners' Cup, 1577 01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:38.040 one European Super Cup, two Champions League titles, 1578 01:44:38.080 --> 01:44:41.960 Intercontinental Cup, one FIFA Club World Cup, 1579 01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:46.440 and 13 Premier League titles! 1580 01:44:46.480 --> 01:44:48.400 [crowd cheering] 1581 01:44:48.440 --> 01:44:51.840 [announcer] The impossible dream made possible 1582 01:44:51.880 --> 01:44:55.360 by the greatest British manager ever. 1583 01:44:55.400 --> 01:45:01.000 Give the warmest of Old Trafford welcomes to Sir Alex Ferguson! 1584 01:45:01.040 --> 01:45:03.960 [crowd cheering]