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]