0000 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 YoubetCash.net Agen Judi Online Aman & Terpercaya 000 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Bonus Cashback Bola 6% Bonus Rollingan 0,80% 00 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Welcome Bonus Rp 25.000 Extra Bonus Tambahan Withdraw Rp 2.000.000 0 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 CashBack Mix Parlay 100% Bonus Ajak teman 45,2% 1 00:00:24,650 --> 00:00:27,438 First, someone who occupies a rare place in our hearts, 2 00:00:27,528 --> 00:00:30,737 a sportsman who cuts across the demarcation lines 3 00:00:30,781 --> 00:00:34,069 that separate those people who love sport and those who hate it. 4 00:00:35,744 --> 00:00:37,957 As a player, his skills graced the game. 5 00:00:38,005 --> 00:00:40,246 As a manager, his teams adorned it. 6 00:00:40,341 --> 00:00:42,298 Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Matt Busby. 7 00:00:42,384 --> 00:00:45,797 You're the most famous man in soccer in this country 8 00:00:45,929 --> 00:00:47,465 and indeed, I suppose, in the world. 9 00:00:47,556 --> 00:00:50,870 You were more than a manager there. You were the boss, weren't you, really? 10 00:00:51,477 --> 00:00:52,763 - Well, er... - Come on. 11 00:00:52,853 --> 00:00:54,666 Quite a lot of people said that, yeah. 12 00:00:54,813 --> 00:00:57,100 (DISTANT CHEERING) 13 00:01:00,569 --> 00:01:01,855 (PARKINSON) When you look back, 14 00:01:01,945 --> 00:01:03,902 do you think that there was any part of it 15 00:01:04,031 --> 00:01:05,869 that caused you to sacrifice, 16 00:01:05,909 --> 00:01:08,696 and when you look back, do you think, "Well, it really wasn't worth it"? 17 00:01:08,744 --> 00:01:10,030 Oh, yes. 18 00:01:19,755 --> 00:01:22,747 (CROWD CHEERS) 19 00:01:31,735 --> 00:01:33,057 (MATT BUSBY) We felt in a team. 20 00:01:33,143 --> 00:01:35,009 If we were trailing 2-0, 21 00:01:35,104 --> 00:01:37,641 we always had a feeling that we'd win 3-2. 22 00:01:37,731 --> 00:01:38,846 (CHEERING) 23 00:01:38,941 --> 00:01:41,057 (ALEX FERGUSON) Those last-minute goals, 24 00:01:41,151 --> 00:01:42,562 the comebacks, 25 00:01:42,653 --> 00:01:44,018 even the defeats, 26 00:01:44,113 --> 00:01:46,579 are all part of this great football club of ours. 27 00:01:47,366 --> 00:01:49,573 (ERIC CANTONA) I felt like a great family. 28 00:01:50,661 --> 00:01:53,119 (PAT CRERAND) Matt Busby is without doubt 29 00:01:53,211 --> 00:01:54,682 the greatest manager who ever lived. 30 00:01:54,999 --> 00:01:56,497 (DAVID BECKHAM) I remember walking the corridors 31 00:01:56,542 --> 00:01:58,434 up to the manager's office at Old Trafford. 32 00:01:58,534 --> 00:02:00,618 The smell of Sir Matt Busby's pipe... 33 00:02:00,874 --> 00:02:02,373 I can smell it now. 34 00:02:03,090 --> 00:02:04,876 (GARY NEVILLE) The door would always be open. 35 00:02:04,967 --> 00:02:06,378 I look back now and think, 36 00:02:06,468 --> 00:02:09,426 "We should have gone in more and talked to him more." But you were scared. 37 00:02:09,513 --> 00:02:11,504 This was like a god. 38 00:02:25,487 --> 00:02:27,854 (MATT BUSBY) My mind goes back over the years, 39 00:02:27,948 --> 00:02:32,237 to the day of my birth in a small village in Scotland. 40 00:02:33,454 --> 00:02:35,695 I was born in a Pitman's Cottage. 41 00:02:38,208 --> 00:02:40,290 It was a small mining village, 42 00:02:40,419 --> 00:02:41,888 nothing else but mines. 43 00:02:42,015 --> 00:02:43,879 The people themselves 44 00:02:44,131 --> 00:02:49,342 were brought up in a faith which was football. 45 00:02:49,602 --> 00:02:52,090 Nothing else ever seemed to take place. 46 00:02:52,181 --> 00:02:55,789 Nobody else seemed to talk about anything else other than football. 47 00:02:55,929 --> 00:02:58,008 - (INTERVIEWER) Was your father a miner? - He was, yes. 48 00:02:58,075 --> 00:02:59,648 (INTERVIEWER) Was he also a footballer? 49 00:02:59,721 --> 00:03:03,932 Yes, he played in a local junior team 50 00:03:04,860 --> 00:03:07,708 and I understand had a lot of ability. 51 00:03:07,861 --> 00:03:10,197 But the war came on, of course. 52 00:03:14,536 --> 00:03:17,244 Then my father was killed in the First World War. 53 00:03:18,105 --> 00:03:20,091 I scarcely remember him. 54 00:03:21,793 --> 00:03:25,661 I was the oldest of four. There were three girls below me. 55 00:03:25,797 --> 00:03:29,415 And my mother, a very young age, she was. 56 00:03:29,510 --> 00:03:32,093 She had a tremendous influence on my life 57 00:03:32,165 --> 00:03:34,408 and of course the rest of the family's. 58 00:03:34,615 --> 00:03:37,836 She was a real Scotch type of mother, 59 00:03:38,143 --> 00:03:40,976 who put her foot down at the right time, 60 00:03:41,007 --> 00:03:46,798 and she brought us up with an idea of having some common sense 61 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:49,602 and trying to be a citizen. 62 00:03:49,696 --> 00:03:53,832 And if you had a job to do, to do a job well. 63 00:03:54,856 --> 00:04:04,478 64 00:04:06,942 --> 00:04:09,584 If you're speaking about Matt Busby and what he was like, 65 00:04:09,724 --> 00:04:13,237 Busby, like any man of his age, was a product of his time. 66 00:04:13,349 --> 00:04:17,366 (MATT BUSBY) There was quite a lot of depression in Lanarkshire 67 00:04:17,564 --> 00:04:19,892 with the coal mines and that type of thing. 68 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:22,512 I'd been taken away from school. 69 00:04:24,337 --> 00:04:25,528 Before I knew where I was, 70 00:04:25,582 --> 00:04:29,115 I'd gone working in the mines to try and earn a few 71 00:04:29,267 --> 00:04:32,247 shillings, a few pounds, to help at home. 72 00:04:32,301 --> 00:04:34,696 The poverty that was in Britain was shocking. 73 00:04:34,912 --> 00:04:36,649 You were brought up in a mining village 74 00:04:36,743 --> 00:04:39,481 who were never thought of by governments as anything. 75 00:04:39,594 --> 00:04:42,947 We had tough upbringings to etch out a living in. 76 00:04:43,341 --> 00:04:44,405 When you think of back then, 77 00:04:44,430 --> 00:04:47,593 the working class were getting paid a pittance. 78 00:04:47,679 --> 00:04:51,263 Miners were treated like shit, for use of a better word. 79 00:04:51,308 --> 00:04:52,548 They were treated like slaves. 80 00:04:52,601 --> 00:04:55,434 For working-class people everywhere, 81 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,611 one of the great ways of escaping 82 00:04:57,664 --> 00:05:00,727 the poverty, deprivation, 83 00:05:00,817 --> 00:05:06,438 marginalisation of a working-class existence was football. 84 00:05:06,531 --> 00:05:08,772 (MATT BUSBY) I started playing a little football again. 85 00:05:08,867 --> 00:05:10,545 Well, my mother wasn't very keen. 86 00:05:10,651 --> 00:05:13,800 I went on a trial with Manchester City. 87 00:05:14,087 --> 00:05:15,873 And anyway, when I came back, 88 00:05:16,124 --> 00:05:18,786 in the meantime, they'd influenced me to sign for them. 89 00:05:19,611 --> 00:05:22,273 (REPORTER 7) Oldest manufacturing centre in the world, 90 00:05:22,364 --> 00:05:24,526 the cradle of modern industry. 91 00:05:24,616 --> 00:05:26,988 The old city's never stopped growing. 92 00:05:27,244 --> 00:05:30,111 And the more she's grown, the more it seemed she'd got to grow. 93 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:33,350 (REPORTER 2) Manchester City, a club with over half a century of history. 94 00:05:33,516 --> 00:05:36,158 Forty years ago, it became known by its present name. 95 00:05:36,253 --> 00:05:38,572 Today, Wilfred Wild, the secretary manager, 96 00:05:38,597 --> 00:05:40,916 receives thousands of pounds in entrance fees. 97 00:05:43,134 --> 00:05:46,593 (MATT BUSBY) Coming down about 17 and a half, just under 18 year old, 98 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,969 and the first time coming from home, 99 00:05:49,182 --> 00:05:52,174 I knew I was trying to better myself 100 00:05:52,269 --> 00:05:57,639 but the place was strange and for a time, I wasn't too happy about it. 101 00:05:58,692 --> 00:06:01,275 I had a form of a complex at the time. 102 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:04,338 I think it was a form of an inferiority complex. 103 00:06:04,656 --> 00:06:06,488 (PLAYERS SHOUT) 104 00:06:07,701 --> 00:06:09,988 I thought the first team players were gods. 105 00:06:11,580 --> 00:06:14,197 And during this spell, I didn't do too well. 106 00:06:14,291 --> 00:06:17,285 It was probably the best part of a year and a half, kicking around, 107 00:06:18,136 --> 00:06:20,516 and at one time, I thought about going home. 108 00:06:21,115 --> 00:06:25,279 I was so disappointed, disillusioned in every way. 109 00:06:25,549 --> 00:06:27,590 We had, uh, I was in lodgings with 110 00:06:27,615 --> 00:06:29,427 an older player who was in the first team, 111 00:06:29,497 --> 00:06:32,097 a chap called Phil McCloy 112 00:06:32,309 --> 00:06:34,346 who, when he came in and saw me with this case, 113 00:06:34,436 --> 00:06:37,269 he says, "What's this you're doing?" I said, 114 00:06:37,355 --> 00:06:40,359 "Well, I feel as though I'm getting nowhere here." 115 00:06:41,985 --> 00:06:45,103 He says, "What's the case packed for?" I said, "I'm going to go home." 116 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:47,965 "You're going to go home? What are you going home to?" 117 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,080 And of course he talked me into staying. 118 00:06:56,532 --> 00:06:58,719 (REPORTER) Busby's sense of judgement when he's taking a pass 119 00:06:58,744 --> 00:07:00,059 is one of his great assets 120 00:07:00,204 --> 00:07:02,616 and he can trap a ball with unfailing precision. 121 00:07:03,256 --> 00:07:06,248 - (JOURNALIST) Are you pleased he did? - I'm delighted he did! 122 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:08,834 (CHEERING) 123 00:07:16,144 --> 00:07:18,306 (BOMB WHISTLES AND EXPLODES) 124 00:07:18,855 --> 00:07:22,849 (KING GEORGE VI) For the second time in the lives of most of us, 125 00:07:22,901 --> 00:07:25,609 we are at war. 126 00:07:26,988 --> 00:07:30,401 (REPORTER) The flames of war eat at the heart of Manchester. 127 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:33,930 In one of the fiercest raids of the German Blitzkrieg on Britain, 128 00:07:34,023 --> 00:07:36,991 a storm of bombs wreaked havoc. 129 00:07:37,082 --> 00:07:39,788 Manchester will remember the horrors of that attack 130 00:07:39,914 --> 00:07:43,282 as long as the heart of the North continues to beat. 131 00:07:44,464 --> 00:07:47,832 (MATT BUSBY) Many a time I used to think how miserable life was. 132 00:07:47,926 --> 00:07:50,918 The one thing they did try and knock into you was the value of leadership. 133 00:07:51,846 --> 00:07:53,837 (KEN RAMSDEN) Busby had this aura about him. 134 00:07:53,932 --> 00:07:57,220 He was quiet. I never heard him raise his voice. 135 00:07:57,727 --> 00:07:59,138 I never heard him swear. 136 00:07:59,229 --> 00:08:01,596 He made you want to do things for him. 137 00:08:01,690 --> 00:08:04,375 (PAT CRERAND) So Matt had a great respect for human beings in general. 138 00:08:04,421 --> 00:08:07,275 That's why you ask anybody that met Matt, 139 00:08:07,362 --> 00:08:10,392 Matt treated people terrifically. 140 00:08:10,465 --> 00:08:11,612 He knew everybody 141 00:08:11,637 --> 00:08:13,896 and he made everybody feeling important. 142 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:16,284 (MATT BUSBY) When the war came to an end, 143 00:08:16,788 --> 00:08:19,880 I, like many others, had to face some facts. 144 00:08:20,125 --> 00:08:21,490 Some hard facts. 145 00:08:22,210 --> 00:08:24,451 I was about 36 years of age. 146 00:08:25,046 --> 00:08:27,413 My days as a player were numbered. 147 00:08:28,425 --> 00:08:30,416 I couldn't live in memories. 148 00:08:31,027 --> 00:08:34,736 Yet I couldn't think of leaving this wonderful game of football. 149 00:08:35,849 --> 00:08:39,377 So I decided to try my hand as a manager. 150 00:08:39,564 --> 00:08:47,560 151 00:08:48,403 --> 00:08:51,638 He arrived in Manchester 152 00:08:51,781 --> 00:08:54,148 to speak to the chairman in uniform 153 00:08:54,242 --> 00:08:56,992 because he had still to be demobbed from the army. 154 00:08:57,109 --> 00:09:00,943 Even though he had no management experience at all. 155 00:09:02,083 --> 00:09:06,003 So he had a very firm idea of what he wanted. 156 00:09:06,130 --> 00:09:09,414 (MICHAEL CRICK) I mean, mining communities are very close knit. 157 00:09:09,507 --> 00:09:12,340 The sense of cooperation, working together, 158 00:09:12,427 --> 00:09:15,169 that is a form of socialism in action. 159 00:09:15,263 --> 00:09:18,801 That flows from his working-class background. 160 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:21,884 (EAMON DUNPHY) He had a vision of a club, 161 00:09:22,020 --> 00:09:24,557 a family, he thought of it as, 162 00:09:24,647 --> 00:09:27,480 where nobody was bigger than the club 163 00:09:27,567 --> 00:09:29,558 which was one of his mantras, always. 164 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:31,768 They will absorb the culture and the club 165 00:09:31,863 --> 00:09:34,275 which is, "We're all family, 166 00:09:34,365 --> 00:09:35,696 we're in this together, 167 00:09:35,784 --> 00:09:37,738 they will behave in a certain way 168 00:09:37,938 --> 00:09:40,066 and they will play in a certain way." 169 00:09:40,239 --> 00:09:44,447 What kind of quality is it that you look for 170 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:47,693 in a footballer that will go into your side? 171 00:09:49,422 --> 00:09:51,360 First of all, I look for ability. 172 00:09:51,591 --> 00:09:53,582 That is essential. Natural ability. 173 00:09:53,676 --> 00:09:55,720 I see natural ability... 174 00:09:56,262 --> 00:09:59,254 I like to see people that can play, 175 00:10:00,141 --> 00:10:02,348 that have got control, 176 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:04,176 that have got a mind. 177 00:10:04,729 --> 00:10:06,960 I love to see a player with vision, 178 00:10:07,107 --> 00:10:08,777 somebody that can look at a places, 179 00:10:08,824 --> 00:10:11,980 look at a field and determine what he's going to do. 180 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:16,067 I love to see a player playing with heart. 181 00:10:17,113 --> 00:10:20,902 And I also naturally want them to be of a kind. 182 00:10:21,197 --> 00:10:25,030 He just felt that his duty was to entertain. 183 00:10:25,125 --> 00:10:27,082 (DENIS LAW) This was just after the war, 184 00:10:27,168 --> 00:10:31,253 when people had been five, six years in the war 185 00:10:31,339 --> 00:10:35,080 and they wanted something to enjoy. 186 00:10:35,187 --> 00:10:36,879 Men who worked in these factories, 187 00:10:37,011 --> 00:10:39,753 and they're working long hours and doing dirty jobs 188 00:10:39,848 --> 00:10:42,089 and they're going home on the bus or on their bikes, 189 00:10:42,183 --> 00:10:44,696 they come in on a Saturday afternoon to be entertained. 190 00:10:45,011 --> 00:10:48,733 He was a big, handsome, imposing man. 191 00:10:48,901 --> 00:10:54,769 He never looked in any way stressed or perturbed. 192 00:10:54,821 --> 00:10:57,188 And he beguiled people, 193 00:10:57,282 --> 00:11:01,697 he beguiled Harold Hardman and the directors of Manchester United. 194 00:11:01,772 --> 00:11:05,309 He was offered a contract as manager of Manchester United. 195 00:11:05,582 --> 00:11:10,180 This was people being impressed, seeing Matt as a leader. 196 00:11:10,333 --> 00:11:12,377 Someone in whom they could place trust. 197 00:11:12,422 --> 00:11:15,881 (EAMON DUNPHY) Somebody who could command respect 198 00:11:16,009 --> 00:11:19,673 of people who wouldn't normally give respect 199 00:11:19,762 --> 00:11:22,800 to a footballer or indeed to a working-class person. 200 00:11:28,688 --> 00:11:30,679 (MATT BUSBY) It was not an easy assignment. 201 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:34,266 The ground had been blitzed. 202 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,311 They'd an overdraft at the bank. 203 00:11:40,909 --> 00:11:43,367 I had no experience as a manager. 204 00:11:44,245 --> 00:11:47,954 I felt they were taking a great risk in appointing me. 205 00:11:48,458 --> 00:11:50,790 (REPORTER) Guiding United is ex-star Matt Busby, 206 00:11:50,877 --> 00:11:53,230 keeping a player's eye on the first team workout. 207 00:11:53,504 --> 00:11:57,494 (MATT BUSBY) All I had was certain ideas as to what a manager should do, 208 00:11:57,842 --> 00:11:59,753 faith in those ideas 209 00:12:00,428 --> 00:12:02,840 and faith in the future of the club. 210 00:12:05,808 --> 00:12:09,110 I wanted them to mature and develop with the club. 211 00:12:09,395 --> 00:12:14,356 I believed in getting to know my players and not being chairbound in an office. 212 00:12:14,734 --> 00:12:18,068 Matt was the first of, the phrase was "tracksuit managers". 213 00:12:18,154 --> 00:12:21,194 Before, managers had been, you know, 214 00:12:21,380 --> 00:12:27,446 three-piece suits with a watch, perhaps, dangling from the pocket. 215 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:30,451 Matt, literally, put on a tracksuit and boots, 216 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:31,911 training with the players. 217 00:12:32,043 --> 00:12:36,325 Well, it's difficult to convey how revolutionary this was. 218 00:12:38,049 --> 00:12:40,290 (REPORTER) The new soccer season gets a great send-off 219 00:12:40,385 --> 00:12:43,127 and these supporters of Manchester, who are typical of crowds 220 00:12:43,221 --> 00:12:45,215 who'll pack grounds in all parts of the country... 221 00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:50,096 Manchester United was obviously full, still, of players 222 00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:52,711 who had experienced the war, 223 00:12:52,832 --> 00:12:54,994 who'd come back to play for Manchester United, 224 00:12:55,441 --> 00:12:59,230 like Johnny Carey, Charlie Mitten, Johnny Aston. 225 00:13:00,446 --> 00:13:03,313 When he was 18, me dad ended up in the Royal Marines 226 00:13:03,491 --> 00:13:06,153 so he never saw football again for another five years. 227 00:13:06,244 --> 00:13:08,952 He finished up in Australia in the war, with the Marines 228 00:13:09,038 --> 00:13:11,325 and he said he had a lovely suntan, and he said 229 00:13:11,429 --> 00:13:12,939 he went into Busby's office 230 00:13:13,171 --> 00:13:15,793 and said, "Look, my name's John Aston." 231 00:13:17,170 --> 00:13:19,379 "Any chance of a game with the juniors?" 232 00:13:19,694 --> 00:13:21,896 And Busby looked at him and said, 233 00:13:21,921 --> 00:13:23,278 "Tell you what, son, you look fit." 234 00:13:23,303 --> 00:13:25,089 "I'll put you in the reserves on Saturday." 235 00:13:28,516 --> 00:13:32,475 What Matt showed in the early days was the ability to knit a team. 236 00:13:32,562 --> 00:13:35,554 And it was an absolutely brilliant team. 237 00:13:36,266 --> 00:13:40,062 He just had the gift of empathy. 238 00:13:40,528 --> 00:13:45,667 He could zero in on you and he knew what buttons to press. 239 00:13:45,908 --> 00:13:48,275 You had to be drawn to him. 240 00:13:48,369 --> 00:13:50,360 He wasn't coming at you. 241 00:13:51,205 --> 00:13:54,197 He was like a big cat. 242 00:13:55,209 --> 00:14:00,204 And you never quite knew which way he was gonna jump. 243 00:14:01,257 --> 00:14:04,090 (JOHN ASTON JR) They were very confident. They'd started to play 244 00:14:04,177 --> 00:14:07,277 in a manner that Busby was trying to get going, 245 00:14:07,381 --> 00:14:09,842 like a freedom of expression type of game. 246 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:13,237 Manchester United took people by surprise, I think, 247 00:14:13,443 --> 00:14:15,302 almost snuck up on them. 248 00:14:15,396 --> 00:14:18,479 We thought, you know, "These Reds, they can win something." 249 00:14:19,192 --> 00:14:22,150 (CROWD SINGS “ABIDE WITH ME") 250 00:14:28,242 --> 00:14:30,950 (COMMENTATOR 1) The all-Lancashire finalists take the field at Wembley. 251 00:14:31,037 --> 00:14:33,244 Manchester United in dark shirts, Blackpool in white. 252 00:14:33,331 --> 00:14:34,940 It's the North's big day. 253 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:40,335 A close duel between Manchester's Johnny Carey 254 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:42,166 and Blackpool's Walter Rickett, number 11, 255 00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:44,497 is highlight number one in a thrill-packed match. 256 00:14:44,592 --> 00:14:46,253 (CHEERING) 257 00:14:46,677 --> 00:14:49,339 Manchester's Jack Rowley walking the ball into the net to equalise 258 00:14:49,430 --> 00:14:51,421 provides highlight number three. 259 00:14:51,516 --> 00:14:54,053 (CHEERING) 260 00:14:57,814 --> 00:15:01,023 But now Manchester's attack, which has scored 95 goals this season, 261 00:15:01,109 --> 00:15:02,645 swings into its best style. 262 00:15:02,735 --> 00:15:04,601 From Johnny Morris' well-placed free kick, 263 00:15:04,695 --> 00:15:07,278 the fans cheer Jack Rowley's headed equaliser. 264 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:10,740 Charlie Mitten, number 11, starts off United's winning attack 265 00:15:10,827 --> 00:15:11,817 and from Rowley's pass, 266 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,824 Stan Pearson scores the goal that gives Manchester the Cup. 267 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,120 (CHEERING) 268 00:15:16,207 --> 00:15:17,538 (COMMENTATOR 2) Great day for Manchester. 269 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:19,290 United's captain, Johnny Carey, 270 00:15:19,377 --> 00:15:21,869 receives the Cup from the hands of His Majesty the King. 271 00:15:22,004 --> 00:15:24,245 Careful, Johnny. Don't drop it now it is yours! 272 00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:26,927 And this is where United call once again on teamwork. 273 00:15:27,074 --> 00:15:30,218 Carey has the Cup, Mitten the lid and Pearson the plinth. 274 00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:32,545 United they call them and united they are. 275 00:15:33,299 --> 00:15:35,902 I'm very pleased to be taking this Cup back to Manchester again 276 00:15:35,936 --> 00:15:37,767 after a period of 40 years. 277 00:15:38,521 --> 00:15:40,603 (REPORTER) Every man, woman and child of the cotton capital 278 00:15:40,690 --> 00:15:44,058 seems to be in Albert Square to cheer the 11 heroes of the hour, 279 00:15:44,152 --> 00:15:46,143 Cup-winning Manchester United. 280 00:15:46,237 --> 00:15:48,820 (CHEERING) 281 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:52,657 Well, now, Matt was very, very tough. 282 00:15:52,743 --> 00:15:55,656 One of the great characters of that team was Johnny Morris. 283 00:15:55,746 --> 00:15:57,235 Wonderful talent. 284 00:15:57,665 --> 00:16:01,704 After training, Matt asked him to do something and he walked off. 285 00:16:01,955 --> 00:16:06,207 That same night, he got a telephone call from the Press Association 286 00:16:06,549 --> 00:16:10,793 asking for a reaction to his being placed on the transfer list. 287 00:16:11,059 --> 00:16:14,380 Matt had gone straight off the training field, 288 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,510 rung the Press Association and said, "I got a little story for you." 289 00:16:18,686 --> 00:16:21,871 This was not getting rid of a player who was on the fringes of the team. 290 00:16:22,249 --> 00:16:25,699 This was probably the best player of his kind in England. 291 00:16:29,697 --> 00:16:32,405 I can tell you easier what Matt Busby wasn't. 292 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:33,732 He wasn't Father Christmas. 293 00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:35,467 He wasn't some benevolent figure. 294 00:16:35,667 --> 00:16:39,568 He was somebody with definite ideas and definite standards. 295 00:16:39,752 --> 00:16:42,915 There was a game at Old Trafford where Harold Hardman, 296 00:16:43,044 --> 00:16:45,095 the director of United for more than 50 years, 297 00:16:45,202 --> 00:16:47,747 sat there behind Busby in the directors' box, 298 00:16:47,881 --> 00:16:51,635 grumbling, I think about Johnny Carey, and everybody could hear. 299 00:16:51,822 --> 00:16:54,218 And Busby went into the gents at half-time 300 00:16:54,305 --> 00:16:56,091 and said to Hardman, you know, 301 00:16:56,140 --> 00:17:01,044 "Don't you ever criticise one of my players or me in public ever again," 302 00:17:01,144 --> 00:17:02,924 and laid down the law. 303 00:17:03,564 --> 00:17:07,295 Before Matt Busby, there were no football managers. 304 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:10,059 Whoever was in charge of the football 305 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:15,899 had power only to pick the team to play the next game. 306 00:17:16,070 --> 00:17:18,138 (MICHAEL CRICK) He was very much the boss. 307 00:17:18,287 --> 00:17:22,411 The '48 Cup win had sort of whetted people's appetites 308 00:17:22,471 --> 00:17:25,375 and they thought that some new era had dawned. 309 00:17:25,419 --> 00:17:26,898 Well, it hadn't quite dawned. 310 00:17:26,998 --> 00:17:32,591 United came runners-up in four of his first five years in the League. 311 00:17:32,677 --> 00:17:37,137 And by 1952, the players were getting old. 312 00:17:37,181 --> 00:17:39,548 The feeling was this was their last chance. 313 00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:43,843 Success in the League came in 1952 314 00:17:43,938 --> 00:17:47,897 and the satisfaction that Matt felt in '52 was massive. 315 00:17:48,550 --> 00:17:50,831 (EAMON DUNPHY) And that really established 316 00:17:51,072 --> 00:17:55,071 not just United but Busby as a major figure in the game. 317 00:17:59,325 --> 00:18:05,360 318 00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:08,160 (DISTANT CHEERING) 319 00:18:10,172 --> 00:18:13,659 (REPORTER) We are going to build new schools with grounds for the kiddies to play. 320 00:18:13,863 --> 00:18:16,150 Playing fields for football and cricket, 321 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,106 gardens for the old folk. 322 00:18:18,848 --> 00:18:21,886 Here and there in the district, you will find local shopping centres 323 00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:23,508 and clinics and nurseries, 324 00:18:23,603 --> 00:18:26,478 community centres and schools close to the houses. 325 00:18:26,612 --> 00:18:28,245 But remember this: 326 00:18:28,390 --> 00:18:31,607 whether we go ahead on plans like this for the whole city 327 00:18:31,694 --> 00:18:33,815 or whether we muddle along as we have done, 328 00:18:33,929 --> 00:18:37,790 most of Manchester anyhow will have to be rebuilt in the next 50 years. 329 00:18:37,863 --> 00:18:39,729 Because Manchester's falling down, 330 00:18:39,783 --> 00:18:42,460 decomposing in front of our very eyes. 331 00:18:43,414 --> 00:18:46,452 Food rationing didn't end till 1954, 332 00:18:47,126 --> 00:18:49,409 so it wasn't happy-go-lucky. 333 00:18:49,682 --> 00:18:51,592 It was a very grey area. 334 00:18:51,645 --> 00:18:54,998 Women didn't wear bright red or green dresses. 335 00:18:55,092 --> 00:18:57,208 You know, everything seemed quite grey. 336 00:18:57,303 --> 00:19:00,512 And the football colours, when you saw a football team, 337 00:19:00,598 --> 00:19:03,681 you know, you can imagine seeing Man United in their red, 338 00:19:03,768 --> 00:19:04,849 that was colour! 339 00:19:04,935 --> 00:19:07,393 (REPORTER) As King Football kicks off to another great year, 340 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,973 millions thrill to the nation's favourite Saturday afternoon sport. 341 00:19:11,067 --> 00:19:13,729 Into the limelight again come the stars of the game. 342 00:19:14,820 --> 00:19:17,528 A lot of people talk about United being super rich, 343 00:19:17,615 --> 00:19:20,357 but they weren't. United were very, very poor. 344 00:19:20,785 --> 00:19:24,653 And they knew that they had a very, very ageing group of players. 345 00:19:24,747 --> 00:19:28,581 So they both determined to start inventing their own. 346 00:19:28,959 --> 00:19:32,293 Busby himself was a great believer in youth. 347 00:19:32,380 --> 00:19:35,338 He knew that if you brought people in when they were teenagers, 348 00:19:35,424 --> 00:19:37,415 you became their father, and you could mould them 349 00:19:37,468 --> 00:19:39,800 to your way of thinking, to your way of playing. 350 00:19:39,887 --> 00:19:41,964 And of course, you didn't need to pay them so much. 351 00:19:42,211 --> 00:19:44,222 You could pay them less than the maximum wage. 352 00:19:44,308 --> 00:19:47,517 If you did it right, the style of play that would come through the B team 353 00:19:47,603 --> 00:19:51,221 and the A team and the reserve team, it would all dove-tail together. 354 00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:53,139 (MATT BUSBY) I believed in youth. 355 00:19:53,232 --> 00:19:56,190 I wanted them to mature and develop with the club. 356 00:19:56,821 --> 00:20:00,064 A year after I came here, I brought Jimmy Murphy. 357 00:20:00,157 --> 00:20:03,991 I'm quite sure this was one of the best signings I made. 358 00:20:05,246 --> 00:20:08,455 (JOHN ASTON JR) Busby was like the pipe-smoking thinker in team meetings. 359 00:20:08,541 --> 00:20:10,479 If you asked him anything he would give it 360 00:20:10,589 --> 00:20:12,730 a little bit of thought before he answered, 361 00:20:13,088 --> 00:20:14,143 whereas Jimmy, 362 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:16,625 he was a bit more like a Chicago gangster. 363 00:20:16,716 --> 00:20:19,188 He used to smoke and smoke and smoke 364 00:20:19,355 --> 00:20:21,425 and he'd say, "Don't be so bloody stupid!" 365 00:20:21,512 --> 00:20:23,128 or, "Yeah, that's a good idea!" You know, 366 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:25,717 You'd get the instant... instant riposte. 367 00:20:25,808 --> 00:20:29,392 Like all good double acts, they were a good foil for each other. 368 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:33,058 (MATT BUSBY) Very solid, he had ideas. 369 00:20:33,274 --> 00:20:35,561 And I wanted someone to look after youngsters at the time. 370 00:20:35,651 --> 00:20:37,062 Really, my right arm. 371 00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:40,278 (JOHN ASTON JR) What they were trying to build, Busby and Murphy, 372 00:20:40,364 --> 00:20:43,546 was not just the best team but the club itself. 373 00:20:43,646 --> 00:20:45,637 The best club in the world. 374 00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:50,075 (MATT BUSBY) I think this started when I was at Manchester City 375 00:20:50,166 --> 00:20:51,998 as a boy, 17 year old. 376 00:20:53,929 --> 00:20:57,638 I felt there was myself and probably two or three more 377 00:20:58,549 --> 00:21:01,552 were more involved with the club. 378 00:21:01,998 --> 00:21:03,409 We felt for the club. 379 00:21:04,180 --> 00:21:07,969 And I always had this in the back of my mind, 380 00:21:08,058 --> 00:21:11,228 to tell them they're coming to a club who would look after them. 381 00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:14,604 And from there, obviously, you try to build up. 382 00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:16,897 But for a club, they're gonna play football, 383 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,024 they've got a good opportunity of playing it here. 384 00:21:21,238 --> 00:21:24,276 And the whole thing is trying to make the boys happy and enjoy themselves 385 00:21:24,366 --> 00:21:26,792 before they actually get signed on. 386 00:21:27,745 --> 00:21:31,238 He knew that what happens in the dressing room 387 00:21:31,332 --> 00:21:34,324 will reflect itself on the pitch. 388 00:21:35,823 --> 00:21:40,158 He saw as a player how older professionals 389 00:21:40,332 --> 00:21:45,210 who'd had bad experiences became bitter. 390 00:21:45,679 --> 00:21:47,420 They didn't train properly. 391 00:21:48,182 --> 00:21:51,049 They were corrupted. 392 00:21:53,113 --> 00:21:55,403 So there would be, in his club 393 00:21:55,988 --> 00:21:58,000 nobody who was damaged, 394 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:01,484 nobody who was cynical, no rebels, 395 00:22:02,530 --> 00:22:04,445 nobody whispering 396 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:06,764 behind the management's back. 397 00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:10,979 (REPORTER) The first question, Matt, is how do you find these boys? 398 00:22:11,390 --> 00:22:13,992 Well, I'd say, Bill, I have a scouting system 399 00:22:14,083 --> 00:22:18,097 whose sole object is to go out looking for young promising schoolboys, 400 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:21,333 youth club boys, and indeed any young players 401 00:22:21,423 --> 00:22:24,131 who have the necessary natural ability 402 00:22:24,301 --> 00:22:26,918 to make a future Manchester United player. 403 00:22:27,805 --> 00:22:30,843 He would do anything to get a young player he wanted. 404 00:22:30,933 --> 00:22:33,800 If it was Duncan Edwards, they'd pay the parents 405 00:22:33,894 --> 00:22:35,885 which was illegal at the time. 406 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:37,596 If it was someone in Ireland, 407 00:22:37,690 --> 00:22:39,226 he'd come himself to Dublin. 408 00:22:39,817 --> 00:22:41,558 (REPORTER) Ex-England captain Joe Mercer. 409 00:22:41,652 --> 00:22:44,770 He believes in catching 'em young so that ball control becomes instinctive. 410 00:22:44,864 --> 00:22:46,730 (MATT BUSBY) One day, I was talking with Joe Mercer. 411 00:22:46,782 --> 00:22:48,995 He had taken these schoolboys on, 412 00:22:49,129 --> 00:22:50,745 doing a bit of coaching with them. 413 00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:55,492 I said, "Joe, we're after a boy..." I can't remember the name of the boy. 414 00:22:55,541 --> 00:22:59,250 And Joe suddenly says to me, "The most outstanding player of them all 415 00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:00,622 is Duncan Edwards." 416 00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:05,169 And he says, "What's more," he says, "he's Manchester United mad." 417 00:23:07,344 --> 00:23:10,382 (KEN RAMSDEN) Every club in England wanted to Sign Duncan Edwards. 418 00:23:10,806 --> 00:23:12,046 Busby'd got him. 419 00:23:12,141 --> 00:23:14,534 Duncan Edwards in Dudley was brought out of bed 420 00:23:14,685 --> 00:23:16,221 during the night to sign a contract 421 00:23:16,270 --> 00:23:19,388 because Mr Busby was frightened of losing him to Wolves. 422 00:23:19,607 --> 00:23:20,972 I'm an Edwards fanatic. 423 00:23:21,066 --> 00:23:24,309 He was the most complete footballer I've ever, ever seen. 424 00:23:24,820 --> 00:23:27,357 He had strength, power in both feet. 425 00:23:27,907 --> 00:23:31,650 Hit 40 and 50 yard balls with consummate ease. 426 00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:33,735 (MATT BUSBY) Edwards was incomparable. 427 00:23:33,829 --> 00:23:36,366 We used to try and find faults with all our kids, you know. 428 00:23:36,457 --> 00:23:38,448 I could never find a weakness there. 429 00:23:39,126 --> 00:23:40,457 (JIMMY MURPHY) Colman, Eddie Colman. 430 00:23:40,502 --> 00:23:43,039 He only weighed about nine stone wet through, little Eddie. 431 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:44,620 Tremendous player. 432 00:23:47,509 --> 00:23:49,139 (WILF MCGUINNESS) He was a cheeky chappy. 433 00:23:49,419 --> 00:23:52,132 You know, he always had an answer to everything. 434 00:23:52,181 --> 00:23:54,172 And he was a great puller of women. 435 00:23:54,266 --> 00:23:55,552 (LAUGHS) 436 00:23:55,643 --> 00:23:57,384 (EAMON DUNPHY) I was captain of England Schoolboys 437 00:23:57,436 --> 00:24:01,646 so a lot of clubs were chasing me when I was 15. 438 00:24:02,399 --> 00:24:06,927 So I decided on United because of their great youth policy. 439 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:10,192 I was first starting to play football 440 00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:14,196 and of course, every young player wants to improve and wants to be better. 441 00:24:14,370 --> 00:24:17,738 People used to tell me that Newcastle didn't have a good coaching system. 442 00:24:20,167 --> 00:24:22,158 It really was a hard place to live in those days. 443 00:24:22,252 --> 00:24:25,397 If you didn't work in the mines or the shipyards, you know, 444 00:24:25,569 --> 00:24:27,590 there wasn't really that much that you could work at. 445 00:24:27,729 --> 00:24:31,317 So if there was any opportunity, you know, you went, you travelled. 446 00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:33,385 Busby was very, very clever. 447 00:24:33,472 --> 00:24:36,009 You could only try and sign two schoolboys. 448 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:40,139 He signed the players, the best in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 449 00:24:40,813 --> 00:24:42,224 But his trick was, 450 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:44,897 sign the young players and put them on the ground staff. 451 00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:47,767 You could have 11 on the ground staff. 452 00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:50,770 (JEFF WHITEFOOT) I did actually go at 15 and a half 453 00:24:51,615 --> 00:24:54,198 to work for Manchester United in the office. 454 00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:56,446 (MATT BUSBY) They came, we nurtured them, 455 00:24:56,537 --> 00:24:59,120 we watched them, we looked after them, they were coached. 456 00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:02,369 (KEN RAMSDEN) Great care was taken at the digs they were put in. 457 00:25:02,459 --> 00:25:05,654 The landladies were watching what went on. 458 00:25:05,740 --> 00:25:07,120 People would tell him. 459 00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:10,707 Fans would say, "I saw such-a-body out late last night," or whatever. 460 00:25:10,801 --> 00:25:13,213 And if he needed to tell you off, 461 00:25:13,929 --> 00:25:18,093 he'd say, "I want you in my office tomorrow morning at such a time." 462 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:20,758 So you'd think, "Oh, blimey." 463 00:25:20,853 --> 00:25:24,312 And you'd spend all day and night worried about it. 464 00:25:24,773 --> 00:25:28,289 "Good manners. Don't insult people. 465 00:25:28,314 --> 00:25:30,146 "You're doing this, you're doing that." 466 00:25:30,242 --> 00:25:32,752 And he did guide us. 467 00:25:32,945 --> 00:25:35,277 He was just like a father to us. 468 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,359 (MATT BUSBY) We were sort of all together type of thing. 469 00:25:38,454 --> 00:25:41,446 You become a sort of family, it was a family. 470 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,868 The youth team, Jimmy Murphy always used to say, was the cream. 471 00:25:46,003 --> 00:25:49,374 Forget about the first team and the FA Cups and all that. 472 00:25:49,467 --> 00:25:51,302 This was the most important thing. 473 00:25:51,393 --> 00:25:55,603 I can remember, I wouldn't go to bed the night before a youth match 474 00:25:55,763 --> 00:26:00,098 because I'd been brainwashed, indoctrinated into thinking 475 00:26:00,184 --> 00:26:03,607 that this was the most important match that you ever played in your whole life. 476 00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:05,978 We won the Youth Cup every year I played. 477 00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:09,603 First five years of its existence was won by Manchester United. 478 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,857 If you'd care to come and look at the boys, you're welcome. 479 00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:14,903 Thank you very much. 480 00:26:16,575 --> 00:26:18,612 Let me see Johnny Berry take a short corner 481 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:20,526 which we use very often in the game. 482 00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:23,238 He passes it on to Bill Whelan who in turn turns it back. 483 00:26:23,332 --> 00:26:25,699 (JOURNALIST) Well, obviously they can't all play in the first team 484 00:26:25,799 --> 00:26:27,897 but how do you keep them happy in the second team? 485 00:26:28,091 --> 00:26:32,296 Well, of course, Bill, we have no first team players at Old Trafford. 486 00:26:32,341 --> 00:26:34,548 They are all possible first team players. 487 00:26:36,512 --> 00:26:38,799 (MATT BUSBY) We'd had success at that time. 488 00:26:38,889 --> 00:26:40,103 I felt as though 489 00:26:40,328 --> 00:26:43,972 I had to do something to get young players going. 490 00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:47,232 (REPORTER) Runners-up four times, then League champions in '52. 491 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,430 And then Matt Busby brought on the Babes 492 00:26:49,531 --> 00:26:51,986 replacing eight of that championship side 493 00:26:52,118 --> 00:26:53,984 in one fell swoop. 494 00:26:55,293 --> 00:26:57,584 When I was just turned 16, 495 00:26:57,659 --> 00:26:59,673 I was playing for Manchester United's first team. 496 00:26:59,701 --> 00:27:03,114 (LAUGHS) Which was quite extraordinary. 497 00:27:04,706 --> 00:27:08,916 (EAMON DUNPHY) Well, I got my debut as a 17-year-old, you know, 498 00:27:09,253 --> 00:27:11,801 which was to me very special. 499 00:27:12,037 --> 00:27:17,300 And then I found out every other player at 17 had got promoted 500 00:27:17,386 --> 00:27:18,922 to the first team. 501 00:27:19,054 --> 00:27:22,297 (JIMMY MURPHY JR) Wilf was a good player but not in the same class as Bobby. 502 00:27:22,391 --> 00:27:24,978 But he made his debut about nine months before 503 00:27:25,132 --> 00:27:26,829 because my father kept Bobby back 504 00:27:27,059 --> 00:27:29,105 'cos he didn't think Bobby was tough enough. 505 00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:33,252 My father would have him running around like an idiot to get out of breath. 506 00:27:33,443 --> 00:27:36,902 All the players used to say, "Until you actually play in the first division 507 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:40,614 you don't realise how much you push yourself through pain barriers," 508 00:27:40,701 --> 00:27:42,612 which you never do in reserve team games. 509 00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:44,907 Bobby would say, "I'm knackered, I'm tired." 510 00:27:44,997 --> 00:27:48,857 And my father would say, "Well, you're not gonna die. Get running again." 511 00:27:48,997 --> 00:27:52,251 My right ankle was swollen up. It was quite painful. 512 00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:55,375 And I hadn't played in the reserves for a few weeks. 513 00:27:55,465 --> 00:27:57,251 And he called me up to his room and said, 514 00:27:57,301 --> 00:27:59,338 "I'm playing you in the first team tomorrow." 515 00:27:59,428 --> 00:28:02,386 If there's one time I didn't really want to play, it was that day. 516 00:28:02,472 --> 00:28:04,509 But he said, "Are you all right? Is your foot all right?" 517 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,136 I said, "Yeah, it's all right." 518 00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:10,094 And suddenly the attention of the whole country was on Manchester United 519 00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:13,056 because they're playing babies, y'know, they can't possibly win anything. 520 00:28:13,150 --> 00:28:16,233 (MUSIC: "MANCHESTER UNITED CALYPSO“ BY EDRIC CONNOR) 521 00:28:17,821 --> 00:28:20,188 ♫ Now, football is a pleasant game 522 00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:22,489 ♫ It's played in the sun, played in the rain 523 00:28:22,576 --> 00:28:24,908 ♫ And the team that gets me excited? 524 00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:27,528 ♫ Manchester United 525 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,040 ♫ Manchester 526 00:28:30,292 --> 00:28:32,504 ♫ Manchester United 527 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,195 ♫ A bunch of bouncing Busby Babes 528 00:28:35,379 --> 00:28:37,330 ♫ They deserve to be knighted 529 00:28:37,424 --> 00:28:40,193 ♫ If ever they're playing in your town 530 00:28:40,307 --> 00:28:42,548 ♫ You must get to that football ground 531 00:28:42,683 --> 00:28:45,095 ♫ Take a lesson, come to see 532 00:28:45,171 --> 00:28:47,583 ♫ Football taught by Matt Busby 533 00:28:47,707 --> 00:28:49,772 ♫ Manchester 534 00:28:50,013 --> 00:28:51,879 ♫ Manchester United 535 00:28:52,370 --> 00:28:54,737 ♫ A bunch of bouncing Busby Babes 536 00:28:54,877 --> 00:28:56,959 ♫ They deserve to be knighted 537 00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:00,815 Luck has a lot to do with it. 538 00:29:00,906 --> 00:29:03,864 Like all good teams, there was just the right blend. 539 00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,821 And every great side have always had this. 540 00:29:06,912 --> 00:29:12,498 (WILF MCGUINNESS) Roger was the captain so he was a bit above us. (LAUGHS) 541 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:17,628 (WILF MCGUINNESS) David Pegg, a Yorkshire lad, did his business. 542 00:29:17,714 --> 00:29:19,500 He was a good dribbler. 543 00:29:20,801 --> 00:29:25,054 He surprised us actually because we thought, "Yorkshire? Who are they?" 544 00:29:25,168 --> 00:29:26,608 But he was special. 545 00:29:26,661 --> 00:29:28,513 I think he dated me wife. 546 00:29:29,017 --> 00:29:30,742 Before she was me wife! (LAUGHS) 547 00:29:33,605 --> 00:29:36,438 Mr Busby, he wasn't frightened of spending money. 548 00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:39,438 But he only spent it when he had to. 549 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:42,733 He paid £30,000 for Tommy Taylor from Barnsley. 550 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:44,522 (WILF MCGUINNESS) It was a record fee. 551 00:29:44,741 --> 00:29:46,982 So he had to live with that round his shoulders. 552 00:29:47,134 --> 00:29:51,002 If he had a bad 'un, we'd say, "You paid for him?" Y'know! (LAUGHS) 553 00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:54,317 A great, great centre-forward. 554 00:29:54,501 --> 00:29:56,117 We all felt 555 00:29:56,503 --> 00:30:00,322 that we were lucky to be a Manchester United player. 556 00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:03,007 And let's not kick it into touch, 557 00:30:03,093 --> 00:30:06,363 let's go about it and do it for him. 558 00:30:08,682 --> 00:30:10,389 (COMMENTATOR) Across to Berry it comes. 559 00:30:10,517 --> 00:30:12,599 The right wing, back on defence. 560 00:30:12,811 --> 00:30:14,051 Trying the offside game. 561 00:30:14,354 --> 00:30:16,220 Berry going through with it by himself. 562 00:30:16,606 --> 00:30:18,973 Across it comes, and oh, it's made a perfect hit. 563 00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,684 (CHEERING) 564 00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:24,732 It's a goal! It's a goal. 565 00:30:29,077 --> 00:30:32,536 We all went out together, we went to dance halls, 566 00:30:32,581 --> 00:30:34,618 we went on holidays together. 567 00:30:35,334 --> 00:30:39,694 We were very, very fortunate to all join together. 568 00:30:39,898 --> 00:30:42,640 When Matt was growing up, he'd had a tough life. 569 00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:46,342 And I think he saw an enthusiasm, 570 00:30:46,648 --> 00:30:48,577 a vigour for life, 571 00:30:48,686 --> 00:30:50,220 for joy, and for fun. 572 00:30:50,374 --> 00:30:56,932 The mid-'50s were the early flowering of culture and excitement 573 00:30:57,022 --> 00:30:58,103 and leisure. 574 00:30:58,190 --> 00:31:01,450 And Harold MacMillan was saying, "You've never had it so good." 575 00:31:01,536 --> 00:31:05,686 And the Busby Babes were part of that flourishing of society, 576 00:31:05,781 --> 00:31:09,274 and the excitement and the youthfulness of a generation. 577 00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:13,364 The Busby Babes, the way they played was rock'n'roll. 578 00:31:13,455 --> 00:31:16,072 They weren't shackled by old ideas. 579 00:31:16,166 --> 00:31:17,452 They were inspiring. 580 00:31:17,501 --> 00:31:20,869 (WILF MCGUINNESS) It was a wonderful place to be at, Manchester United, 581 00:31:21,004 --> 00:31:22,745 in those days. Terrific. 582 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:24,830 A very distinct memory as a kid. 583 00:31:24,925 --> 00:31:27,257 They used to come to training on the bus. 584 00:31:27,512 --> 00:31:29,865 Paid players. Just the odd one would have a car. 585 00:31:29,945 --> 00:31:32,397 They'd go in the pub on a Saturday night, you know, for a drink. 586 00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:35,262 (KEN RAMSDEN) They were ordinary folk so the fans related to them. 587 00:31:35,352 --> 00:31:38,320 They saw them in the shop buying their cigarettes and sweets and newspapers. 588 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,477 They represented what was then... 589 00:31:41,829 --> 00:31:43,548 what was then a working-class game 590 00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:45,977 and they represented those Mancunians. 591 00:31:46,071 --> 00:31:49,689 He'd say, "Those people have paid money to come and watch," you know. 592 00:31:49,783 --> 00:31:51,899 He'd give us a right volley. 593 00:31:52,369 --> 00:31:56,520 They were so far ahead, they were so new, they were so fit. 594 00:31:57,124 --> 00:31:58,956 They were so original. 595 00:31:59,501 --> 00:32:02,414 There was an air about them of invincibility. 596 00:32:02,462 --> 00:32:04,703 And they played on that. 597 00:32:04,798 --> 00:32:05,879 (CHEERING) 598 00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:11,587 (MATT BUSBY) Nothing is more gratifying than to spot a star in a barrel 599 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,889 and see him develop year by year 600 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:20,310 to his predestined place among the gallery of the immortals. 601 00:32:21,731 --> 00:32:25,019 (REPORTER) Last Christmas was the gayest and most abundant we have ever known. 602 00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:27,693 More to spend and more to buy. 603 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:31,488 And young and old alike rejoiced to see the ration book go. 604 00:32:32,284 --> 00:32:34,867 (MATT BUSBY) When we won the championship of '56, 605 00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:38,100 I said to our board, "I'd like us to enter Europe." 606 00:32:38,707 --> 00:32:40,446 Next thing is we apply. 607 00:32:40,542 --> 00:32:42,874 The League Management Committee sent a letter to the club 608 00:32:43,003 --> 00:32:45,995 saying they didn't like the idea of us going in. 609 00:32:46,833 --> 00:32:49,450 (KEN RAMSDEN) Chelsea had won the League in 1955 610 00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:53,677 and they were told it would conflict with the fixtures, so they backed off. 611 00:32:53,849 --> 00:32:56,919 Well, Mr Busby wasn't gonna be doing any backing off, thank you. 612 00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:01,010 (MATT BUSBY) I felt very strongly about it at the time. 613 00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:03,092 This is a new avenue to go into and... 614 00:33:03,223 --> 00:33:05,848 It was not a Scottish game, it was not an English game, 615 00:33:05,901 --> 00:33:09,269 it was not an Irish game, it was a world game. 616 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:12,229 They were warned by the Football League, 617 00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:16,642 "If it interferes with your commitments, you will be punished severely." 618 00:33:16,912 --> 00:33:22,578 Included the possibility that United will be put out of the Football League. 619 00:33:24,461 --> 00:33:26,498 So I never doubted it for a moment, it was right 620 00:33:26,588 --> 00:33:29,922 because the old man said, "That's the way we've got to go 621 00:33:30,383 --> 00:33:35,002 and if we have to argue with our own football authorities, so be it." 622 00:33:38,391 --> 00:33:41,383 (MATT BUSBY) We had the meeting again. We just went on with it. 623 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:56,695 (BOBBY CHARLTON) It was a terrific, terrific time. 624 00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:07,497 There was no television. We didn't see Spanish football or French football 625 00:34:07,587 --> 00:34:09,203 or German football or whatever. 626 00:34:09,965 --> 00:34:14,360 So we... We went and played all these wonderful teams. 627 00:34:14,511 --> 00:34:15,842 (SPANISH TV COMMENTARY) 628 00:34:15,971 --> 00:34:17,553 (WILF MCGUINNESS) It was all completely different. 629 00:34:17,639 --> 00:34:19,380 The roar was different. 630 00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:22,091 When somebody's had a shot, they just... "Whoosh!" 631 00:34:22,352 --> 00:34:24,559 (COMMENTATOR 1) Then a real blizzard hit United. 632 00:34:25,321 --> 00:34:27,850 (COMMENTATOR 2) Manchester was set for the semi-final. 633 00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:31,520 (MATT BUSBY) When you go abroad and play in these competitions, 634 00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:33,239 there's a great responsibility. 635 00:34:33,291 --> 00:34:35,859 You represent yourself, 636 00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:38,159 your club, your country, 637 00:34:38,419 --> 00:34:42,253 and... it's a very trying thing. 638 00:34:43,331 --> 00:34:46,039 (REPORTER) Manchester United go to Madrid for the European Cup. 639 00:34:46,126 --> 00:34:49,744 English champions already, they now want to be European champions too. 640 00:34:49,947 --> 00:34:53,172 He wanted Manchester United to become England's Real Madrid 641 00:34:53,258 --> 00:34:54,840 and that was his dream. 642 00:34:54,933 --> 00:34:57,043 Matt had seen Real Madrid, 643 00:34:57,096 --> 00:35:00,717 how they could attract crowds of over 100,000 644 00:35:00,807 --> 00:35:04,641 paying much more than the English customer would pay. 645 00:35:05,395 --> 00:35:08,103 The stadium was the first thing I noticed going over there. 646 00:35:08,189 --> 00:35:09,522 Tremendous stadium. 647 00:35:09,622 --> 00:35:13,476 I was one of the reserves. I was terribly pleased that I wasn't playing. 648 00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:17,154 You know, I saw Stéfano and I thought, you know, these things aren't human. 649 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:21,404 You know, it's not the type of game that I'd ever been taught before. 650 00:35:25,749 --> 00:35:28,207 (CHEERING) 651 00:35:30,879 --> 00:35:34,947 They beat us 3-1. It could have been two possibly, you know. 652 00:35:35,014 --> 00:35:36,665 But then we came back. 653 00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:40,943 There was so much atmosphere and so much tension in the city, 654 00:35:41,056 --> 00:35:44,305 and I suppose in the country, that by the time we came out to play them 655 00:35:44,392 --> 00:35:46,383 we started to fancy our chances a little bit 656 00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:48,344 if we could get an early goal. 657 00:35:48,772 --> 00:35:51,515 (CHEERING) 658 00:35:51,763 --> 00:35:54,596 (COMMENTATOR) After 25 minutes, Kopa takes a pass in the penalty area 659 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:55,896 and shoots a low one. 660 00:35:55,987 --> 00:35:59,440 So began nine minutes of dramatic, decisive soccer. 661 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:02,191 Here's Madrid's second. Enzo passes, Rial shoots! 662 00:36:02,257 --> 00:36:04,771 - Too easy. - (CHEERING) 663 00:36:05,183 --> 00:36:07,224 On come the floodlights for the second half. 664 00:36:07,363 --> 00:36:11,322 Manchester, four goals down in the aggregate, need a miracle to save them. 665 00:36:12,712 --> 00:36:14,828 Is this it? Pegg centres. 666 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:16,922 Taylor does the rest. 667 00:36:17,050 --> 00:36:19,257 (CHEERING) 668 00:36:21,721 --> 00:36:25,339 Another Pegg pass and Charlton scores a beauty. They've equalised! 669 00:36:25,433 --> 00:36:26,548 (CHEERING) 670 00:36:26,643 --> 00:36:28,504 We only had about ten minutes left. 671 00:36:28,741 --> 00:36:32,027 And I can remember somebody fell over and was wasting time. 672 00:36:32,121 --> 00:36:33,737 And Duncan Edwards picked him up. 673 00:36:33,918 --> 00:36:37,856 He picked him up and didn't throw him but placed him off the pitch. 674 00:36:37,952 --> 00:36:40,041 (COMMENTATOR) It's a pity that such behaviour on both sides 675 00:36:40,094 --> 00:36:41,821 should spoil the brilliant football 676 00:36:41,893 --> 00:36:44,931 which gave Real Madrid their semi-final victory. 677 00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:50,410 Well, there are some memories, some pleasant memories actually. 678 00:36:50,792 --> 00:36:53,275 We've done a wonderful thing this year. 679 00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:56,037 (MATT BUSBY) They were young, just maturing. 680 00:36:56,131 --> 00:36:58,418 The year we were beaten by Real Madrid, the other year, 681 00:36:58,466 --> 00:37:00,503 it was due to inexperience, really. 682 00:37:14,149 --> 00:37:16,561 (CHEERING) 683 00:37:38,798 --> 00:37:41,290 You were going places where people couldn't go in those days 684 00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:42,706 behind the Iron Curtain. 685 00:37:46,605 --> 00:37:48,437 People brought little stoves with them. 686 00:37:48,516 --> 00:37:50,435 Chocolate, anything to eat, 687 00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:52,409 something they could knock together quickly. 688 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,478 (HARRY GREGG) Each player would have maybe a dozen hard-boiled eggs. 689 00:37:55,565 --> 00:37:56,977 Crazy when you think about it. 690 00:37:57,083 --> 00:37:59,729 (BOBBY CHARLTON) And really the food wasn't too bad at all, really, it was OK. 691 00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:02,233 (REPORTER) Manchester United have flown to the Yugoslav capital 692 00:38:02,313 --> 00:38:04,797 to play their return match with Red Star Belgrade, 693 00:38:04,850 --> 00:38:06,444 the champions of Yugoslavia. 694 00:38:06,534 --> 00:38:10,498 United only have to draw to make sure of a place in the European Cup semi-final, 695 00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:12,696 the round in which they were beaten last year. 696 00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:14,247 (MATT BUSBY) We'd travel away 697 00:38:14,876 --> 00:38:17,914 before a match, and Big Duncan used to say, 698 00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:20,916 "Go on, boys, we ain't come here for nuffin'!" 699 00:38:21,424 --> 00:38:23,256 N-U-F-F-I-N. 700 00:38:23,510 --> 00:38:26,423 This was always his famous saying before going out. 701 00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:29,012 And he's sticking his chest out, like... 702 00:38:29,098 --> 00:38:31,465 (EXHALES) "This is what I want to do." 703 00:38:36,481 --> 00:38:38,688 (CHEERING) 704 00:38:45,990 --> 00:38:47,276 (CHEERING) 705 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,323 (CHEERING) 706 00:38:56,417 --> 00:38:59,705 (COMMENTATOR) Manchester United, the greatest team in post-war football, 707 00:38:59,796 --> 00:39:03,334 won their way through to the semi-final of the European Cup. 708 00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:08,798 (MATT BUSBY) I thought to myself, "Matt, you can sit back 709 00:39:09,222 --> 00:39:12,385 because everything that's possible to be want was there." 710 00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:17,596 After the match, you know, you were allowed to have a drink. 711 00:39:17,621 --> 00:39:21,537 We used to have a few drinks. Used to have more than enough, I must be honest. 712 00:39:21,684 --> 00:39:24,147 (ACCORDION MUSIC) 713 00:39:24,237 --> 00:39:26,274 Enjoy the party, enjoy the banquet. 714 00:39:27,931 --> 00:39:31,074 And lads were lads. They had a drink. 715 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,869 (SINGS) 716 00:39:34,998 --> 00:39:37,259 You'd been up all night whether you drank or not. 717 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:39,050 We got to the airport the following morning, 718 00:39:39,081 --> 00:39:41,072 with our sore heads and tired heads. 719 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:46,841 I only woke up when I heard everybody say, "Fasten your safety belts." 720 00:39:47,594 --> 00:39:50,211 And we'd come down. We were nearly on the runway before we knew it 721 00:39:50,305 --> 00:39:53,343 because it was what they call very low cloud base. 722 00:39:56,728 --> 00:40:01,188 They were under strict instructions from the Football League 723 00:40:01,274 --> 00:40:02,685 that they would be fined 724 00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:06,461 if they didn't arrive back in time to play their scheduled League game 725 00:40:06,905 --> 00:40:09,738 and they were grounded in Munich airport. 726 00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:17,779 We went up the runway once... 727 00:40:18,833 --> 00:40:20,289 and then come back. 728 00:40:22,003 --> 00:40:23,368 And we were still on the plane. 729 00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:32,382 Second time, we went along the runway. 730 00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,938 When we went back to the starting gate again, 731 00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:42,354 we were told to go into the cafeteria. 732 00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:47,643 And then about ten minutes, half an hour after that, there was an announcement. 733 00:40:49,197 --> 00:40:54,033 To proceed to the plane as the fault had been corrected. 734 00:40:58,706 --> 00:41:01,494 This eased everybody's mind now. 735 00:41:34,659 --> 00:41:36,650 And then it was just... 736 00:41:38,663 --> 00:41:41,200 tearing and darkness and daylight. 737 00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,169 I woke up and I was in my seat, 738 00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:57,675 still strapped in, 739 00:41:57,765 --> 00:42:01,383 but I was about 20 or 30 yards from the plane. 740 00:42:01,811 --> 00:42:05,395 Well, I was lucky I got out because my safety belt was broke. 741 00:42:05,481 --> 00:42:07,722 Just as I got to the outside of the plane, 742 00:42:07,944 --> 00:42:11,571 first person I saw was Billy Foulkes, Mr Foulkes here. 743 00:42:12,113 --> 00:42:16,323 And when I got out of the plane, the hoses, the firemen had arrived 744 00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:18,070 so I must have had a blackout. 745 00:42:18,286 --> 00:42:23,122 And the first person I saw when I got out who looked alive was Mr Busby. 746 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:24,993 The others, everybody else, were unconscious. 747 00:42:25,572 --> 00:42:28,880 So I stayed with Mr Busby and tried to keep him warm, you know, 748 00:42:28,933 --> 00:42:31,792 I was rubbing his hands, just kept trying to keep him calm 749 00:42:31,883 --> 00:42:34,921 because he seemed to be in really bad shape, you know. 750 00:42:35,826 --> 00:42:37,282 Here is the news. 751 00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,092 So far we know there are 23 survivors 752 00:42:40,183 --> 00:42:43,471 after Manchester United's air crash at Munich this afternoon. 753 00:42:44,771 --> 00:42:47,934 Of the crew of six and 38 passengers on board, 754 00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:49,287 including a baby, 755 00:42:49,442 --> 00:42:52,228 these are the people so far known to have survived: 756 00:42:53,089 --> 00:42:55,046 of the Manchester United party, 757 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,355 Matt Busby, manager, 758 00:42:57,450 --> 00:42:59,196 and the following players: 759 00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:03,921 Gregg, Wood, Foulkes, J Blanchflower, 760 00:43:04,087 --> 00:43:09,160 Morgans, Berry, Charlton, Viollet and Scanlon. 761 00:43:16,073 --> 00:43:18,940 (KEN MERRETT) I was... I'd be about 13 762 00:43:19,180 --> 00:43:23,299 and I remember coming home from school and watching children's television 763 00:43:23,351 --> 00:43:27,310 and they broke in to the children's programme to say that there was a report 764 00:43:27,355 --> 00:43:30,833 that Manchester United plane had crashed at Munich. 765 00:43:30,942 --> 00:43:33,855 And Manchester was just in... in shock. 766 00:43:39,371 --> 00:43:42,204 And the first thing my mother says, "Oh, God, your father!" 767 00:43:42,411 --> 00:43:45,449 She thought he was on the plane. Because he should have been. 768 00:43:45,814 --> 00:43:47,409 And I said, "No, he hasn't gone." 769 00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:48,706 "He's in Wales." 770 00:43:48,793 --> 00:43:50,669 We get back from the Welsh match 771 00:43:50,756 --> 00:43:53,637 and I didn't know a dickie bird about this thing at all. 772 00:43:53,897 --> 00:43:58,892 Our secretary told me and I couldn't believe it. I cried like a child. 773 00:43:59,513 --> 00:44:02,972 (JOHN ASTON JR) Me dad went down to Old Trafford to see if he could help out. 774 00:44:03,266 --> 00:44:06,179 Well, we had no details and then as the details seeped out, 775 00:44:06,269 --> 00:44:09,887 the magnitude of the horror became apparent, yeah. 776 00:44:11,941 --> 00:44:14,478 (REPORTER) What's your reaction to the news about Manchester United? 777 00:44:14,569 --> 00:44:16,731 (MAN 1) It's a terrible shock to everybody concerned, 778 00:44:16,821 --> 00:44:18,607 players, wives, officials, everybody. 779 00:44:18,698 --> 00:44:20,655 There's nothing you can say about it, is there, really? 780 00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:23,818 (MAN 2) I think it's the biggest tragedy Manchester's ever had. 781 00:44:24,036 --> 00:44:27,995 My dad went with Mrs Busby, Sandy Busby, 782 00:44:28,305 --> 00:44:31,272 and a few of the wives. They all flew out together. 783 00:44:35,715 --> 00:44:41,631 The Busby family were obviously petrified cos Matt was at death's door, really. 784 00:44:42,847 --> 00:44:44,838 He had the blessings of the dead. 785 00:44:51,147 --> 00:44:54,811 I was walking along in front, about ten yards in front of me mum, 786 00:44:54,901 --> 00:44:56,797 and I saw this old man 787 00:44:57,096 --> 00:44:59,815 in an oxygen tent. And he looked grey. 788 00:45:00,364 --> 00:45:01,587 And I thought, 789 00:45:01,705 --> 00:45:04,111 "Oh, that poor so-and-so," you know. 790 00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:07,577 And then it struck me. It was me dad. 791 00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:10,872 (MONITOR BEEPS) 792 00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:15,043 (MATT BUSBY) I had tremendous chest injuries. 793 00:45:15,129 --> 00:45:19,623 All my chest was all fractured and... 794 00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:24,048 My lung was pierced, and legs were broken and... 795 00:45:27,975 --> 00:45:31,343 First moment of something of consciousness, if you like... 796 00:45:33,189 --> 00:45:36,084 was one of the staff had said 797 00:45:36,651 --> 00:45:38,312 this one was dead. 798 00:45:39,904 --> 00:45:42,566 And momentarily I could understand that. 799 00:45:44,492 --> 00:45:48,577 But there were all sorts of... bodies around and... 800 00:45:48,704 --> 00:45:53,744 My wife who was there, I said to her, "You have to tell me what has happened." 801 00:45:54,105 --> 00:45:55,595 "This is making me worse." 802 00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:00,212 So I went on through the names... 803 00:46:01,342 --> 00:46:06,303 She either nodded her head or crossed her head like that. 804 00:46:13,562 --> 00:46:14,893 Tommy Taylor. 805 00:46:15,398 --> 00:46:16,479 David Pegg. 806 00:46:16,816 --> 00:46:17,726 Eddie Colman. 807 00:46:17,817 --> 00:46:19,057 Mark Jones. 808 00:46:20,152 --> 00:46:21,563 Billy Whelan. 809 00:46:22,298 --> 00:46:23,538 Geoff Bent. 810 00:46:24,657 --> 00:46:26,022 They're all... 811 00:46:28,119 --> 00:46:29,359 Er... 812 00:46:30,454 --> 00:46:32,661 Tragic loss, tragic loss... 813 00:46:37,295 --> 00:46:38,205 It's... 814 00:46:42,174 --> 00:46:46,168 Duncan was propped up in bed by pillows when Jimmy went up to the bed. 815 00:46:46,220 --> 00:46:50,009 He turned and he said, "What time's the kick-off, Jimmy?" 816 00:46:52,393 --> 00:46:54,805 My father phoned Billy Whelan's family 817 00:46:55,174 --> 00:46:57,720 from Munich to say that, sadly, 818 00:46:57,864 --> 00:47:01,378 "Your son's dead but he will never be forgotten." 819 00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:11,117 (MATT BUSBY) Life was very, very difficult for quite some time. 820 00:47:12,843 --> 00:47:16,052 I had some strange things happen. 821 00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:20,577 When I was getting a little better, 822 00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:25,373 they put me on one of the tables to try and get me some fresh air. 823 00:47:27,219 --> 00:47:28,425 I remember... 824 00:47:29,305 --> 00:47:31,342 as they pushed me through the door to... 825 00:47:34,435 --> 00:47:36,893 I screamed and screamed mad 826 00:47:38,022 --> 00:47:39,933 and they brought me back in again. 827 00:47:40,691 --> 00:47:43,854 I had the feeling that I might have been responsible. 828 00:47:44,445 --> 00:47:47,733 Why did I take the club into Europe? 829 00:47:48,282 --> 00:47:50,273 Why did we go the third time? 830 00:47:51,410 --> 00:47:54,152 And I felt that I wanted to die. 831 00:47:54,580 --> 00:47:57,823 I'd like to say a few words to my mother, I hope she's OK. 832 00:47:57,917 --> 00:47:59,749 - (JOURNALIST) Yes. - And taking it well. 833 00:47:59,835 --> 00:48:04,124 She hasn't been down to see me, y'know, but it's a long way and I'm all right. 834 00:48:04,215 --> 00:48:06,807 I could have been a bit worse off like some of the others. 835 00:48:06,987 --> 00:48:08,792 When he signed a player, 836 00:48:08,886 --> 00:48:12,049 he made sure that the parents knew that he was gonna look after them. 837 00:48:12,139 --> 00:48:14,096 And suddenly this had happened. 838 00:48:14,183 --> 00:48:16,925 (WILF MCGUINNESS) I'd missed this trip because of injury. 839 00:48:17,395 --> 00:48:19,227 It was very upsetting. 840 00:48:22,420 --> 00:48:24,213 It hurts to think about it. 841 00:48:24,443 --> 00:48:29,688 I have a corner of my mind that... they'll always be there. 842 00:48:37,373 --> 00:48:39,364 (PLANE FLYING PAST) 843 00:48:39,458 --> 00:48:42,075 The night the coffins came home, there were thousands of people 844 00:48:42,169 --> 00:48:45,082 just standing on the street, watching the hearses go past. 845 00:48:48,217 --> 00:48:50,208 And most of them crying. 846 00:48:50,261 --> 00:48:52,673 People just sobbing their hearts out. 847 00:48:52,763 --> 00:48:54,800 Grown men, women. 848 00:49:01,812 --> 00:49:04,770 My mum and my aunt used to wash their shirts. 849 00:49:04,984 --> 00:49:07,851 Ten days later, they're polishing coffins. 850 00:49:07,987 --> 00:49:10,649 But nobody said, "Can you cope, ladies?" 851 00:49:10,739 --> 00:49:13,777 "Do you want any help or do you need to talk to somebody?" 852 00:49:13,868 --> 00:49:15,686 Cos there was nobody to talk to. 853 00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:24,625 (JIMMY MURPHY JR) Directors wanted to drop out of the League 854 00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:27,875 for the rest of the season because, y'know, "We can't cope with that." 855 00:49:28,007 --> 00:49:31,840 Dad said, "I can do this job." "No, we'll drop out." "No, I'll do it." 856 00:49:33,554 --> 00:49:35,545 He said, "Jimmy, keep the flag flying." 857 00:49:37,558 --> 00:49:39,970 I had this great empire that I was to run. 858 00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:43,182 Course, I only had two or three first-team players left. 859 00:49:43,606 --> 00:49:45,096 When the team sheets came out 860 00:49:45,191 --> 00:49:47,853 United's team sheet was completely and utterly blank. 861 00:49:51,906 --> 00:49:56,571 We know, Jimmy, that things have been a bit hectic for you these last few days. 862 00:49:56,660 --> 00:49:59,243 How do you think they're sorting themselves out now? 863 00:49:59,330 --> 00:50:01,537 Well, these things take time, Frank, as you know. 864 00:50:01,881 --> 00:50:04,464 We're in a terrible mess, really, with players and so forth. 865 00:50:04,627 --> 00:50:07,494 (JOURNALIST) Right and obviously, Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes 866 00:50:07,588 --> 00:50:10,580 have recovered from the experience of the Munich crash... 867 00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:13,375 Tell me, did you have any doubts about their selection? 868 00:50:13,469 --> 00:50:17,240 No, not in the slightest. They're both full of beans, on top of the world. 869 00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:21,891 My father persuaded Billy and Harry to play. 870 00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:25,995 Cos they weren't so keen cos they'd lost their mates, which you can understand. 871 00:50:26,148 --> 00:50:28,515 He said to 'em, "Billy Foulkes, I need a captain 872 00:50:28,609 --> 00:50:29,974 and you're him." 873 00:50:30,069 --> 00:50:33,404 And Billy Foulkes said, "I don't want to do it and I can't do it." 874 00:50:33,504 --> 00:50:35,767 And Dad said, "You can do it and you will do it." 875 00:50:35,867 --> 00:50:37,322 And that was it. 876 00:50:39,745 --> 00:50:43,739 And they got off the train and they're walking along. 877 00:50:44,041 --> 00:50:45,497 "Have you got a quote for us, Jimmy?" 878 00:50:45,584 --> 00:50:49,373 And he said, "Yes. If you don't get out my way, I'll piss on your shoes." 879 00:50:57,304 --> 00:50:59,887 (CHEERING) 880 00:51:00,015 --> 00:51:02,006 (CAMERAS CLICK) 881 00:51:05,020 --> 00:51:06,444 I had a job, 882 00:51:06,836 --> 00:51:08,741 you know, to keep the tears back 883 00:51:09,268 --> 00:51:10,272 as we're playing. 884 00:51:10,484 --> 00:51:13,602 (COMMENTATOR) Billy Foulkes, number two, now their captain, won the toss. 885 00:51:13,696 --> 00:51:17,109 The best thing that happened to me was to get down to Old Trafford, 886 00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:21,409 to kick and fight and argue and do these things 887 00:51:21,495 --> 00:51:24,157 or I would definitely have lost it up there. 888 00:51:25,198 --> 00:51:26,780 (COMMENTATOR) Harry Gregg goes into action. 889 00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:30,910 (CHEERING) 890 00:51:33,382 --> 00:51:35,373 (CHEERING) 891 00:51:54,820 --> 00:51:58,313 One morning, and it was after we'd played Sheffield Wednesday, 892 00:51:58,407 --> 00:52:00,260 I couldn't find the paper. 893 00:52:01,243 --> 00:52:03,280 And then I found out why I couldn't find the paper. 894 00:52:03,329 --> 00:52:05,195 It was because Duncan had died. 895 00:52:20,262 --> 00:52:21,844 (RECORDER CLICKS) 896 00:52:22,806 --> 00:52:24,797 (MATT BUSBY) Ladies and gentlemen, 897 00:52:25,225 --> 00:52:29,685 I am speaking from my bed in the Isar hospital in Munich 898 00:52:30,430 --> 00:52:34,970 Where I have been since the tragic accident of just over a month ago. 899 00:52:36,487 --> 00:52:39,024 You will be glad, I'm sure, to know 900 00:52:39,448 --> 00:52:43,984 that the remaining players here and myself 901 00:52:44,620 --> 00:52:47,112 are now considered out of danger. 902 00:52:48,165 --> 00:52:50,497 And I am delighted to hear 903 00:52:50,772 --> 00:52:53,059 of the success and united effort 904 00:52:53,462 --> 00:52:56,079 made by all at Old Trafford. 905 00:52:56,632 --> 00:53:00,396 For it is only this last two or three days 906 00:53:00,514 --> 00:53:04,382 that I have been able to be told anything about football. 907 00:53:05,015 --> 00:53:08,553 And I enclose my best Wishes to everyone. 908 00:53:09,645 --> 00:53:13,855 And finally may I just say, God bless you all. 909 00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:18,104 (COMMENTATOR) Matt Busby's reborn Babes. 910 00:53:18,195 --> 00:53:20,812 Sure that disaster cannot quench their fighting spirit. 911 00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:25,366 It was a very traumatic time for the club. 912 00:53:26,662 --> 00:53:29,245 I was in a position of responsibility that I had to take. 913 00:53:35,170 --> 00:53:36,877 My life was never the same. 914 00:53:46,014 --> 00:53:47,817 (JIMMY MURPHY JR) So when they came back, 915 00:53:47,991 --> 00:53:49,833 they wanted them to get playing 916 00:53:49,935 --> 00:53:52,854 as quickly as possible and catch up with their matches. 917 00:53:53,105 --> 00:53:55,813 We played West Brom in the sixth round of the FA Cup. 918 00:53:59,374 --> 00:54:01,923 And we beat them after a replay at Old Trafford 919 00:54:02,109 --> 00:54:03,855 in the last minutes of extra time. 920 00:54:03,991 --> 00:54:06,858 (COMMENTATOR) Busby's miraculous Babes, six weeks from a disaster 921 00:54:06,910 --> 00:54:10,904 which stunned the footballing world, are determined to reach Wembley or bust. 922 00:54:12,249 --> 00:54:14,581 Bobby Charlton and out to the right wing. 923 00:54:14,684 --> 00:54:18,143 Back again to Charlton who runs in for the shot and leaves Macedo helpless. 924 00:54:18,464 --> 00:54:21,126 So the astonishing Babes have done it again! 925 00:54:21,216 --> 00:54:24,504 And it's to be an all-Lancashire Cup Final. 926 00:54:40,694 --> 00:54:42,025 (MATT BUSBY) And... 927 00:54:42,780 --> 00:54:45,863 I can feel getting better and better as time went on. 928 00:54:47,576 --> 00:54:48,657 But... 929 00:54:50,162 --> 00:54:52,667 The crunch was coming back to... 930 00:54:53,272 --> 00:54:54,726 to England. 931 00:54:57,127 --> 00:54:59,118 I'd overcome the biggest obstacle. 932 00:55:01,799 --> 00:55:02,914 And, er... 933 00:55:04,176 --> 00:55:05,123 Well,... 934 00:55:05,568 --> 00:55:08,194 it was a slow, slow, slow process. 935 00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:13,720 (CLEARS THROATS) It was the start. 936 00:55:19,274 --> 00:55:22,016 (REPORTER) Wembley's Empire Stadium is certainly a very powerful magnet 937 00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:23,526 on the great day. 938 00:55:23,598 --> 00:55:27,091 A hundred thousand or so were there and they fairly cheered Matt Busby, 939 00:55:27,186 --> 00:55:28,972 who'd recovered sufficiently to be present, 940 00:55:29,069 --> 00:55:30,685 as his Manchester United men came out 941 00:55:30,847 --> 00:55:33,805 beside their white-shirted opponents Bolton Wanderers. 942 00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,559 Then Bobby Charlton sets the ball rolling and the match of the season is under way. 943 00:55:39,044 --> 00:55:41,411 (MATT BUSBY) Well... I was bent a little. 944 00:55:41,584 --> 00:55:45,543 I was terrified to come and look at the ground and feel the people. 945 00:55:45,932 --> 00:55:48,924 I forced myself to do it. I forced myself, I had to do it. 946 00:55:49,346 --> 00:55:50,882 (COMMENTATOR) Less than three minutes have passed 947 00:55:50,931 --> 00:55:52,842 when Bryan Edwards puts in a perfect cross 948 00:55:52,891 --> 00:55:55,428 and Nat Lofthouse does the rest. It's a goal! 949 00:55:55,775 --> 00:55:59,609 Fizzer from Charlton, comes back off the post into Hopkinson's arms. 950 00:55:59,722 --> 00:56:02,134 But two minutes later, the hard shot from Stevens is held by Gregg 951 00:56:02,270 --> 00:56:04,978 and Lofthouse puts him and the ball into the net. 952 00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:08,612 Bolton Wanderers have certainly earned congratulations 953 00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:11,236 for their fourth Wembley win, while Manchester United 954 00:56:11,326 --> 00:56:14,944 deserve the highest praise for reaching Wembley against all odds. 955 00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:28,214 956 00:56:31,597 --> 00:56:34,055 When he came back, he was on crutches. 957 00:56:34,141 --> 00:56:36,508 And you'd go and meet him at the door 958 00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:40,015 and he'd go upstairs through the directors' door, up the stairs, 959 00:56:40,105 --> 00:56:42,096 and he would give you his crutches 960 00:56:42,190 --> 00:56:46,650 while he forced himself to walk down the passage using the wall. 961 00:56:52,075 --> 00:56:55,784 I'll never forget the first time we all met him again. 962 00:56:55,871 --> 00:56:58,869 We were all assembled in the dressing room 963 00:56:59,124 --> 00:57:00,831 and he looked at us all, 964 00:57:01,209 --> 00:57:03,299 tears came in his eyes 965 00:57:03,925 --> 00:57:05,227 and he just walked out. 966 00:57:10,260 --> 00:57:12,115 We understood what... 967 00:57:12,393 --> 00:57:14,556 We knew what he was going through. 968 00:57:15,933 --> 00:57:18,766 He just was looking at faces that weren't there. 969 00:57:20,941 --> 00:57:22,624 I was told, 970 00:57:23,336 --> 00:57:26,043 "Don't upset yourself, get out and play for them," 971 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,492 and that sort of thing. They wanted that. 972 00:57:28,570 --> 00:57:32,564 They wanted us to remember them on the field. 973 00:57:38,455 --> 00:57:40,446 (MATT BUSBY) My first reaction was 974 00:57:40,540 --> 00:57:42,952 never to have anything to do with football again. 975 00:57:45,594 --> 00:57:47,577 My wife said, uh, 976 00:57:48,062 --> 00:57:51,489 "Well, the lads that have died would want you to carry on." 977 00:57:53,011 --> 00:57:55,002 And it... it struck a note. 978 00:57:55,931 --> 00:57:58,719 And from there, I started thinking that way. 979 00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:03,435 (COMMENTATOR) And there's the cheers of the crowd 980 00:58:03,522 --> 00:58:06,355 as Matt Busby returns once again to Old Trafford 981 00:58:06,441 --> 00:58:09,775 and takes his dutiful seat, the manager's seat. 982 00:58:10,112 --> 00:58:12,729 (CHEERING) 983 00:58:13,156 --> 00:58:16,649 And everyone knows how much he's been looking forward 984 00:58:16,702 --> 00:58:20,115 to getting back to Old Trafford to see his team in action. 985 00:58:21,123 --> 00:58:24,880 (MATT BUSBY) And... it was a good job I went back 986 00:58:25,085 --> 00:58:27,247 and forced myself to go back 987 00:58:27,820 --> 00:58:30,229 because I become occupied 988 00:58:30,298 --> 00:58:32,539 and I got this obsession again... 989 00:58:33,593 --> 00:58:36,085 that Manchester United were going to the top. 990 00:58:39,016 --> 00:58:41,007 (COMMENTATOR) A crowd of well over 30,000. 991 00:58:41,059 --> 00:58:45,394 Matt Busby looking on as critically as ever to see how his team is performing. 992 00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,222 (REPORTER) And next the cameras go out to the Cliff training ground 993 00:58:48,309 --> 00:58:50,212 and here we meet the new Manchester United, 994 00:58:50,305 --> 00:58:51,813 the youngest of the Busby Babes, 995 00:58:51,862 --> 00:58:55,730 the reserve men whom fate has suddenly made first team men. 996 00:58:57,242 --> 00:58:59,279 (MATT BUSBY) We got so many problems 997 00:58:59,369 --> 00:59:01,906 in trying to create a new Manchester United. 998 00:59:10,213 --> 00:59:12,580 It was a very harassing time. 999 00:59:15,052 --> 00:59:19,171 You couldn't wait for young people to build your young team again. 1000 00:59:20,098 --> 00:59:23,716 It meant actually that I could try to enter the transfer market 1001 00:59:23,810 --> 00:59:26,472 and try and buy one or two players that I felt 1002 00:59:26,563 --> 00:59:29,476 would help us through this particular period. 1003 00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:39,363 My father joined United just after the war. 1004 00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:41,200 Matt was a tracksuit manager. 1005 00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:44,904 When I played, you never saw Matt. 1006 00:59:52,130 --> 00:59:54,542 I joined in 1960 1007 00:59:54,633 --> 00:59:57,250 and there were five years post-Munich 1008 00:59:57,344 --> 01:00:01,713 when the training ground was a kind of sterile place. 1009 01:00:03,433 --> 01:00:06,596 Busby was notable by his absence. 1010 01:00:07,646 --> 01:00:12,607 No, when I say, with the situation of Denis, Denis is the... 1011 01:00:13,443 --> 01:00:16,435 the stumbling block at the present time. If he's... 1012 01:00:16,530 --> 01:00:19,194 (EAMON DUNPHY) I remember Noel saying to me, 1013 01:00:19,301 --> 01:00:21,656 "Is this it?" I said, "What do you mean?" 1014 01:00:21,743 --> 01:00:23,859 He said, "Is this the great Manchester United?" 1015 01:00:29,261 --> 01:00:31,172 Well, I was 12th man for the first team. 1016 01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,753 On the coach, a piece of paper was passed down. 1017 01:00:35,340 --> 01:00:36,296 (CHEERING) 1018 01:00:36,383 --> 01:00:40,126 It was a cartoon of Busby with the words "Bollock Chops". 1019 01:00:41,388 --> 01:00:45,677 It was a shock to me but it was the way the senior players were thinking. 1020 01:00:46,268 --> 01:00:47,633 Someone like Bobby Charlton 1021 01:00:48,019 --> 01:00:50,932 would resent some of the people who came in. 1022 01:00:51,022 --> 01:00:56,734 But the Manchester United dream was dying, if not dead. 1023 01:00:58,405 --> 01:01:01,773 There was a tremendous turnover of players coming in, going out, 1024 01:01:01,867 --> 01:01:03,653 shuffling right, left and centre. 1025 01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:13,167 (MATT BUSBY) Well, I wanted Denis Law as a boy. 1026 01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:16,420 He was at Huddersfield at the time and... 1027 01:01:16,506 --> 01:01:18,713 I went to Andy Beattie who was the manager then and said, 1028 01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,714 "Look, I'll give you £10,000 for this young blond elf." 1029 01:01:22,804 --> 01:01:25,592 "No, Matt," he said, "we think we've got something." 1030 01:01:26,099 --> 01:01:30,138 And Andy Beattie was right because they had something. 1031 01:01:31,062 --> 01:01:35,306 I bumped into Mr Busby in those days. 1032 01:01:36,568 --> 01:01:40,857 And he said to me, he said, "How's things going in Torino or whatever?" 1033 01:01:40,906 --> 01:01:44,865 You know, I said, "Well, really, not good, really." 1034 01:01:44,993 --> 01:01:47,985 "It's... The football's rubbish, really." 1035 01:01:49,164 --> 01:01:52,828 (MATT BUSBY) I eventually bought him from Torino. 1036 01:01:53,460 --> 01:01:56,428 They were offering £115,000 for him. 1037 01:01:57,027 --> 01:01:58,399 That was cheap at the price. 1038 01:01:58,882 --> 01:02:00,168 (LAUGHS) 1039 01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:03,335 For all these magnificent goals, a magnificent player. 1040 01:02:03,454 --> 01:02:04,819 It was cheap at the price. 1041 01:02:07,265 --> 01:02:08,255 (CHEERING) 1042 01:02:08,350 --> 01:02:11,843 He used to rise so majestically and he'd stay there 1043 01:02:12,395 --> 01:02:14,807 and head these balls so well. 1044 01:02:15,315 --> 01:02:18,353 Ah, and he was so courageous, you know, 1045 01:02:18,443 --> 01:02:22,311 no matter who they were or what they were, how big they were. 1046 01:02:22,405 --> 01:02:25,542 Sometimes the big ones would maybe clatter him. 1047 01:02:25,700 --> 01:02:28,102 "I can't promise you I won't kick 'em back." 1048 01:02:28,215 --> 01:02:31,161 I said, "All right, all right, but keep out of trouble as well." 1049 01:02:31,248 --> 01:02:33,629 (COMMENTATOR) That fair-haired genius, Denis Law. 1050 01:02:33,729 --> 01:02:37,872 (PAT CRERAND) The first time I ever met Matt Busby was '61 or '62. 1051 01:02:38,004 --> 01:02:40,291 We thought, "God almighty, that's Matt Busby." 1052 01:02:40,632 --> 01:02:43,340 (COMMENTATOR) His instinctive eye for talent brought Pat Crerand to Old Trafford. 1053 01:02:43,426 --> 01:02:46,044 I came just beginning of February '63 and 1054 01:02:46,431 --> 01:02:48,527 the team weren't doing particularly well. 1055 01:02:48,615 --> 01:02:52,324 (MATT BUSBY) We'd signed Pat Crerand and we'd signed Law that year. 1056 01:02:52,477 --> 01:02:55,185 Played at Leicester one time and Law scored a hat-trick. 1057 01:02:55,272 --> 01:02:57,513 But we lost 4-3. 1058 01:02:57,679 --> 01:03:00,671 However way we played, we just couldn't win. 1059 01:03:02,153 --> 01:03:05,191 There was a nine-week period where we had snow and frost 1060 01:03:05,282 --> 01:03:06,522 and there were no games played. 1061 01:03:08,201 --> 01:03:11,068 And trying to catch up on all the fixtures, we just couldn't get it right. 1062 01:03:11,162 --> 01:03:14,450 We were drifting down and not seeming to get the results. 1063 01:03:15,583 --> 01:03:18,061 (MATT BUSBY) The men were coming in after the match and saying, 1064 01:03:18,179 --> 01:03:20,261 "What have we got to do to win a match?" 1065 01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:23,254 (COMMENTATOR) See the Saints get the game going. 1066 01:03:26,261 --> 01:03:30,255 Top star of Southampton, Terry Paine, soon shows sparkling form on the right. 1067 01:03:30,348 --> 01:03:31,930 Early on, he's on the warpath. 1068 01:03:32,058 --> 01:03:35,676 (BOBBY CHARLTON) That year, we had almost been relegated. 1069 01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,126 We finished about sixth or seventh from the bottom. 1070 01:03:38,481 --> 01:03:41,519 And the Cup, it was like a release, the Cup. 1071 01:03:41,860 --> 01:03:45,273 (COMMENTATOR) A well-placed centre, Denis Law just manages to connect. 1072 01:03:45,363 --> 01:03:47,445 - Goal! - (CHEERING) 1073 01:03:48,783 --> 01:03:52,367 It's all over. Manchester United 1, Southampton 0. 1074 01:03:52,454 --> 01:03:55,287 It's United versus Leicester City in the final. 1075 01:03:58,293 --> 01:04:02,412 (REPORTER) Inside the stadium, 100,000 fans ready to raise that new roof. 1076 01:04:04,257 --> 01:04:08,046 With the arrival of Her Majesty, the preliminaries reach their climax. 1077 01:04:09,679 --> 01:04:12,888 - The gladiators entering the arena. - (CHEERING) 1078 01:04:13,183 --> 01:04:15,911 He did say, Matt Busby, that it would take five years for the club 1079 01:04:15,936 --> 01:04:19,421 to be really established as a real football power again. 1080 01:04:20,548 --> 01:04:23,978 We were outsiders and it suited us with the quality of players we had. 1081 01:04:24,069 --> 01:04:26,857 The day of a big game, they would come through. 1082 01:04:32,660 --> 01:04:35,072 (CHEERING) 1083 01:04:38,249 --> 01:04:41,412 (COMMENTATOR) He shoots, it goes to Herd and it's in the net! 1084 01:04:41,503 --> 01:04:43,870 (CHEERING) 1085 01:04:54,265 --> 01:04:55,471 (CHEERING) 1086 01:04:55,892 --> 01:04:58,759 The fulfilment of an English footballer's ambition. 1087 01:04:58,853 --> 01:05:00,844 The Cup and a Cup medal. 1088 01:05:02,065 --> 01:05:04,623 It's a moment of triumph for their manager Matt Busby. 1089 01:05:04,692 --> 01:05:07,901 Proof that he has most successfully rebuilt United. 1090 01:05:08,488 --> 01:05:10,525 (CHEERING) 1091 01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:23,412 (PAT CRERAND) The milk companies that sponsored the Cup Final... 1092 01:05:23,648 --> 01:05:25,821 We had plenty bottles of milk they had in the dressing room. 1093 01:05:25,854 --> 01:05:28,465 No champagne. Milk, we were drinking! 1094 01:05:28,508 --> 01:05:31,045 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1095 01:05:33,263 --> 01:05:35,675 (JOURNALIST) Mr Busby, third time lucky, what do you feel about it? 1096 01:05:35,765 --> 01:05:38,757 (MATT BUSBY) Well, I think it's a wonderful thing for myself, 1097 01:05:38,852 --> 01:05:41,014 for the club, the players, and everything else because 1098 01:05:41,438 --> 01:05:44,726 these boys have got it in them, and of course they've shown it today 1099 01:05:44,816 --> 01:05:46,432 and I'm very, very pleased indeed. 1100 01:05:46,776 --> 01:05:49,313 (PHOTOGRAPHER 7) Matt! Matt! Matt! Matt! 1101 01:05:50,363 --> 01:05:51,444 Hold it up! 1102 01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:54,364 (PHOTOGRAPHER 2) Up high! Smile. Come on, smile! 1103 01:05:54,451 --> 01:05:57,068 (CHEERING) 1104 01:06:00,748 --> 01:06:03,581 How one game can change a football team! 1105 01:06:03,668 --> 01:06:05,659 The Cup was a big, big affair. 1106 01:06:05,753 --> 01:06:08,871 It was a massive affair worldwide in '63. 1107 01:06:09,424 --> 01:06:11,256 It changed Manchester United. 1108 01:06:11,301 --> 01:06:14,043 So that gave us a lift to think we could do anything. 1109 01:06:30,236 --> 01:06:32,068 Very pleased to meet you and welcome to Old Trafford. 1110 01:06:32,119 --> 01:06:34,017 I'm Matt Busby, the manager of Manchester United. 1111 01:06:34,122 --> 01:06:37,911 All you boys follow me, I'll take you down to the dressing room. Right? 1112 01:06:48,671 --> 01:06:51,504 (REPORTER) Manchester United last year confirmed the old saying, 1113 01:06:51,591 --> 01:06:53,673 "Lousy in the League, lucky in the Cup." 1114 01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:56,969 But Denis Law for one has other ideas for this year. 1115 01:07:00,266 --> 01:07:02,081 (MATT BUSBY) It was the start of a season. 1116 01:07:02,227 --> 01:07:04,426 These two boys had come over from Belfast. 1117 01:07:05,355 --> 01:07:07,562 And watching them playing and carrying on, 1118 01:07:07,649 --> 01:07:09,060 I come back with the opinion 1119 01:07:09,192 --> 01:07:13,777 that there was someone there who had extraordinary talent. 1120 01:07:14,531 --> 01:07:17,193 But he was still a boy at 15 years of age. 1121 01:07:18,201 --> 01:07:20,033 (GEORGE BEST) Played for Cregagh Boys Club. 1122 01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:23,030 And Manchester United decided me for trials. 1123 01:07:23,873 --> 01:07:27,741 And at first when I went over, I only stayed a couple of days, 1124 01:07:27,835 --> 01:07:30,497 and I was homesick and came back home. 1125 01:07:30,588 --> 01:07:33,000 But my father, he had a talk with Matt Busby 1126 01:07:33,299 --> 01:07:36,132 and he decided to give me another chance. 1127 01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:38,050 (COMMENTATOR) To McCreadie. 1128 01:07:39,180 --> 01:07:41,091 (CHEERING) 1129 01:07:41,724 --> 01:07:45,558 (MATT BUSBY) My, his approach to the ball, it was uncanny. 1130 01:07:45,812 --> 01:07:49,806 He had obviously this tremendous balance, for a boy. 1131 01:07:49,899 --> 01:07:52,436 When I brought him into the side, 17 year old. 1132 01:07:54,445 --> 01:07:56,456 George was like Edwards. 1133 01:07:57,421 --> 01:07:59,555 Best didn't need coaching at all. 1134 01:08:00,201 --> 01:08:02,989 (GEORGE BEST) Amazingly, I find it quite easy to play in the First Division. 1135 01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:05,320 Y'know, I don't have to train hard. 1136 01:08:05,415 --> 01:08:09,750 Y'know, I don't have to work at anything, it must be just natural ability. 1137 01:08:11,212 --> 01:08:12,828 (COMMENTATOR) Wriggling out space. 1138 01:08:12,922 --> 01:08:14,333 What a fine set! 1139 01:08:15,675 --> 01:08:20,090 Sir Matt had always advocated that you went forward, 1140 01:08:20,179 --> 01:08:22,136 you were good players, 1141 01:08:22,223 --> 01:08:27,263 make sure that you perform to your best and don't be afraid to express yourself. 1142 01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,058 (COMMENTATOR) Manchester United have now won six League games on the trot. 1143 01:08:31,149 --> 01:08:34,813 They're in the form to go through, get into Europe for the first time 1144 01:08:34,874 --> 01:08:37,707 since the 1957-58 season. 1145 01:08:37,780 --> 01:08:40,863 (BOBBY CHARLTON) And because of that, George felt that he could beat 1146 01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:43,317 six or seven people if he wanted. 1147 01:08:43,411 --> 01:08:45,823 (CHEERING) 1148 01:08:46,164 --> 01:08:50,283 Denis could try acrobatic overhead kicks and things like that. 1149 01:08:53,546 --> 01:08:57,039 I could maybe try to shoot from distances that was really stupid. 1150 01:08:57,133 --> 01:08:58,123 (LAUGHS) 1151 01:08:58,217 --> 01:09:00,208 I was in the middle of the park with Bobby Charlton. 1152 01:09:00,303 --> 01:09:03,011 Nobby was defending along with Billy Foulkes 1153 01:09:03,097 --> 01:09:04,337 and Shay Brennan and Tony Dunne. 1154 01:09:04,432 --> 01:09:07,925 They were two attacking full-backs. We just clicked. 1155 01:09:08,061 --> 01:09:10,680 It was a great attacking team, it was always going forward. 1156 01:09:10,774 --> 01:09:14,602 (COMMENTATOR) Here we are on the last Saturday of the Football League season 1157 01:09:14,692 --> 01:09:18,902 and still, any one of three teams can win the First Division Championship. 1158 01:09:20,073 --> 01:09:23,441 (KEN RAMSDEN) So after European games, in the early '60s, 1159 01:09:23,534 --> 01:09:25,275 teams would often stay over 1160 01:09:25,370 --> 01:09:28,447 and we would go after the match to the Midland dressed up 1161 01:09:28,581 --> 01:09:31,448 a dinner, a dinner... a cabaret. 1162 01:09:31,501 --> 01:09:34,869 And at two o'clock in the morning, we'd be doing the conga around the corridor 1163 01:09:35,004 --> 01:09:38,838 and who would lead the conga? Mr and Mrs Busby. Brilliant. 1164 01:09:38,925 --> 01:09:42,043 (REPORTER) Be it Old Trafford, the home of League champions Manchester United. 1165 01:09:42,136 --> 01:09:43,877 There, Matt Busby is really the boss. 1166 01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:45,720 He's the only manager in the Football League 1167 01:09:45,807 --> 01:09:47,423 to have held his job for 20 years 1168 01:09:47,517 --> 01:09:50,760 and he's made United England's most successful post-war club. 1169 01:09:50,853 --> 01:09:52,603 As a manager, what is his approach? 1170 01:09:52,698 --> 01:09:54,939 Today I regard football as big business. 1171 01:09:56,067 --> 01:09:58,104 Many years ago, a few years ago, 1172 01:09:59,237 --> 01:10:01,194 there was a certain amount of sport in it. 1173 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:05,615 One might say there's sport there just now, but not to the extent... 1174 01:10:05,660 --> 01:10:09,654 It is business and you've got to produce, and results count. 1175 01:10:09,997 --> 01:10:11,783 Because after all, end of a season, 1176 01:10:11,874 --> 01:10:14,866 football clubs must show profit of some kind. 1177 01:10:16,921 --> 01:10:22,337 In the early '60s, Sir Matt brought a successful businessman into the club. 1178 01:10:22,427 --> 01:10:24,919 Louis Edwards worked in the meat industry in Manchester. 1179 01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:28,718 Big United fan, and a friend of Matt Busby's. 1180 01:10:31,561 --> 01:10:36,852 Louis brought with him a business acumen that was non-existent then. 1181 01:10:40,153 --> 01:10:42,986 (REPORTER) The reminders of his first great team are all around him. 1182 01:10:43,078 --> 01:10:45,444 The young Charlton is now a great player. 1183 01:10:45,574 --> 01:10:48,316 Billy Foulkes is as firm and reliable as ever. 1184 01:10:48,661 --> 01:10:52,746 Harry Gregg, older and wiser, still the first-choice goalkeeper. 1185 01:10:55,084 --> 01:10:57,166 Pat Crerand and also Denis Law 1186 01:10:57,253 --> 01:10:59,790 epitomise a somewhat different policy now. 1187 01:11:00,339 --> 01:11:04,473 These then were the foundations on which Busby built his second football team. 1188 01:11:04,761 --> 01:11:08,004 He's put them in the setting of a new £300,000 stand 1189 01:11:08,096 --> 01:11:10,263 and a ground that's had a million pounds spent on it 1190 01:11:10,311 --> 01:11:12,097 in the 20 years of his managership. 1191 01:11:12,435 --> 01:11:15,518 He has rebuilt not only a club but a reputation. 1192 01:11:15,605 --> 01:11:18,518 But practical rewards from a satisfied board of directors 1193 01:11:18,608 --> 01:11:21,020 have been a one-ninth share in Manchester United 1194 01:11:21,110 --> 01:11:23,852 and a seat on the board when he feels that he's ready to take it. 1195 01:11:23,988 --> 01:11:25,861 (KEN RAMSDEN) United were the first club in the country 1196 01:11:25,887 --> 01:11:28,396 to introduce private boxes at the stadium. 1197 01:11:28,618 --> 01:11:32,486 And that was a business decision taken jointly by Sir Matt 1198 01:11:32,580 --> 01:11:33,536 and Louis Edwards. 1199 01:11:33,623 --> 01:11:36,365 They saw that there was a market for this. 1200 01:11:38,169 --> 01:11:39,876 But the will was then that, 1201 01:11:40,004 --> 01:11:43,372 between them, they had mates who could buy all the boxes anyway. 1202 01:11:47,470 --> 01:11:50,258 (REPORTER) For Busby and United, the wheel has turned full circle 1203 01:11:50,348 --> 01:11:52,430 and again they're in the European Cup. 1204 01:11:52,642 --> 01:11:55,259 In their first leg quarter-final match against Benfica, 1205 01:11:55,353 --> 01:11:58,843 their fluid, freewheeling game brought them a 3-2 victory. 1206 01:11:59,065 --> 01:12:01,523 It was a triumph for Busby the tactician. 1207 01:12:03,694 --> 01:12:05,132 (CHEERING) 1208 01:12:05,250 --> 01:12:07,172 (MATT BUSBY) I think generally we are a better side. 1209 01:12:07,377 --> 01:12:09,368 If our boys play as they can play, 1210 01:12:10,493 --> 01:12:12,951 - I feel we'll beat them. - (JOURNALIST) You have to beat them, Matt. 1211 01:12:12,995 --> 01:12:16,078 I'm wondering whether there's anything left really for you to prove. 1212 01:12:16,269 --> 01:12:19,244 I still want Manchester United to be the best team in Europe. 1213 01:12:19,377 --> 01:12:22,745 And the only way they can be the best team in Europe is by winning the European Cup. 1214 01:12:24,093 --> 01:12:33,563 1215 01:12:46,529 --> 01:12:48,896 (PAT CRERAND) You know the fans wanted to win, but it was for him. 1216 01:12:49,031 --> 01:12:50,692 He was that popular with the players. 1217 01:12:50,783 --> 01:12:53,616 And of course they didn't want to let him down. 1218 01:12:54,203 --> 01:12:57,195 Just had that bit of magic that got you to... 1219 01:12:57,290 --> 01:12:59,975 You wanted to win for him more than anything else. 1220 01:13:00,626 --> 01:13:03,038 (COMMENTATOR) Denis Law and the rest of Matt Busby's men 1221 01:13:03,129 --> 01:13:05,166 had only one thought: attack. 1222 01:13:05,673 --> 01:13:08,200 After seven minutes, the ball went to George Best. 1223 01:13:08,426 --> 01:13:10,417 - Goal! - (CHEERING) 1224 01:13:15,725 --> 01:13:17,432 Here comes Best again! 1225 01:13:17,518 --> 01:13:20,351 What a player this boy is! He's got another! 1226 01:13:20,438 --> 01:13:22,270 (CHEERING) 1227 01:13:22,356 --> 01:13:23,846 What a player! 1228 01:13:25,568 --> 01:13:28,526 (MUSIC: “BELFAST BOY“ BY DON FARDON) 1229 01:13:28,613 --> 01:13:30,980 ♫ And your feet play tricks like a juggler 1230 01:13:31,073 --> 01:13:33,440 ♫ As you weave to the sound of your name 1231 01:13:33,826 --> 01:13:35,863 ♫ Georgie, Georgie 1232 01:13:36,245 --> 01:13:38,361 ♫ They call you the Belfast Boy 1233 01:13:38,831 --> 01:13:40,993 ♫ Georgie, Georgie 1234 01:13:41,293 --> 01:13:42,783 ♫ They call you the Belfast Boy 1235 01:13:43,377 --> 01:13:46,415 (COMMENTATOR) He's already a hero throughout the world of football. 1236 01:13:46,505 --> 01:13:49,247 Like Matthews and Pelé and Eusébio, 1237 01:13:49,300 --> 01:13:53,043 this is a name that will put 10,000 on the gate wherever he plays. 1238 01:13:53,137 --> 01:13:56,129 (MATT BUSBY) I think maturity in the next two or three years 1239 01:13:56,807 --> 01:14:00,516 will make him probably the most complete player. 1240 01:14:02,647 --> 01:14:06,936 (GEORGE BEST) I realise, you know, I know sometimes I go a bit beyond, 1241 01:14:07,693 --> 01:14:09,309 you know, what I should... my limits. 1242 01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:11,440 Because at the moment, 1243 01:14:11,530 --> 01:14:14,238 training and football is not a strain to me. 1244 01:14:14,325 --> 01:14:15,656 Y'know, I enjoy training. 1245 01:14:15,910 --> 01:14:21,155 But I think maybe three, four years... You can't burn a candle at both ends. 1246 01:14:21,248 --> 01:14:23,580 (LAUGHS) Which I admit I have done. 1247 01:14:24,460 --> 01:14:26,542 ♫ Georgie, Georgie 1248 01:14:27,171 --> 01:14:28,912 ♫ They call you the Belfast Boy 1249 01:14:29,548 --> 01:14:31,585 ♫ Georgie, Georgie 1250 01:14:31,968 --> 01:14:33,925 ♫ They call you the Belfast Joy 1251 01:14:34,011 --> 01:14:36,878 ♫ And they say Georgie, Georgie, keep your feet on the ground 1252 01:14:37,098 --> 01:14:39,339 ♫ Georgie, Georgie, when you listen to the sound 1253 01:14:39,437 --> 01:14:41,303 ♫ Georgie, Georgie, put... (CAR DOOR SLAMS) 1254 01:14:42,853 --> 01:14:44,969 (JOURNALIST) Do you think that present-day footballers 1255 01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:47,059 are very much overpaid? 1256 01:14:47,191 --> 01:14:49,899 It seems to be sort of out of all proportion. 1257 01:14:52,071 --> 01:14:55,780 Well, I really think every man should be paid according to his ability. 1258 01:14:56,450 --> 01:15:00,739 I must say that I've never objected to paying very big wages 1259 01:15:00,830 --> 01:15:03,071 to a lot of the Manchester United players 1260 01:15:03,165 --> 01:15:05,202 because they had the ability to do something 1261 01:15:05,292 --> 01:15:09,377 and the ability to win something and the ability to pull crowds. 1262 01:15:10,464 --> 01:15:13,126 With the abolition of the maximum wage in the early '60s, 1263 01:15:13,217 --> 01:15:15,333 players could have earned a lot more at other clubs. 1264 01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:18,048 (JOHN ASTON JR) The only player, Bobby Charlton told me once... 1265 01:15:18,097 --> 01:15:20,555 He said, "The boss called me. He said, 'Do you want a rise, Bobby?"' 1266 01:15:20,641 --> 01:15:22,507 And never heard of that before. 1267 01:15:23,227 --> 01:15:27,437 I know that Denis Law went for a rise. He didn't get it. 1268 01:15:28,315 --> 01:15:29,897 And why did he do it? 1269 01:15:30,026 --> 01:15:32,438 Upbringing, man of his age... 1270 01:15:32,945 --> 01:15:36,654 "You're worth £25 a week. You don't get £25 a week 1271 01:15:36,699 --> 01:15:39,031 till I think you're worth £25 a week." 1272 01:15:39,452 --> 01:15:41,534 And he was... he was tight. 1273 01:15:43,998 --> 01:15:47,662 United managed to hold down the wage bills at Old Trafford. 1274 01:15:47,752 --> 01:15:50,369 Players like George Best and Bobby Charlton and Denis Law 1275 01:15:50,421 --> 01:15:54,289 were playing for the prestige and the glory and the reputation. 1276 01:15:58,929 --> 01:16:01,762 (CHEERING) 1277 01:16:08,189 --> 01:16:10,735 (COMMENTATOR) It's a goal! Oh, a beautiful goal! 1278 01:16:10,781 --> 01:16:15,762 Are United going to lose their semi-final of the Champions Cup? 1279 01:16:15,988 --> 01:16:17,945 (JOURNALIST) You have lost to one or two rather moderate sides. 1280 01:16:17,990 --> 01:16:20,027 I'm thinking of Partizan last year. 1281 01:16:21,202 --> 01:16:24,507 (MATT BUSBY) Well, last year, I thought we were sure to win it, 1282 01:16:24,705 --> 01:16:28,539 beaten Benfica and played so magnificently. 1283 01:16:28,876 --> 01:16:31,407 I rather think it give us a false impression. 1284 01:16:31,629 --> 01:16:34,917 And the semi-final we played Partizan, 1285 01:16:35,049 --> 01:16:37,290 I think we rather took the view 1286 01:16:37,384 --> 01:16:39,716 that we'd just got to go on the field and play 1287 01:16:39,804 --> 01:16:42,011 and pick up the semi-final and go into the final. 1288 01:16:42,098 --> 01:16:45,307 I think it was... this I think was the reason why we lost. 1289 01:16:45,392 --> 01:16:48,017 You are reputed of course to be looking for one or two players now, 1290 01:16:48,042 --> 01:16:50,716 to improve and sort of develop your squad a bit. Is that right? 1291 01:16:50,830 --> 01:16:54,065 Well, of course, we bought Alex Stepney, the goalkeeper. 1292 01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,146 We seemed to be losing a lot of goals 1293 01:16:56,237 --> 01:16:59,370 and I think he's tightened up the defence considerably. 1294 01:16:59,615 --> 01:17:03,654 I mean, I'm asking really, will you ever really win the great, uh...? 1295 01:17:07,706 --> 01:17:10,698 (COMMENTATOR) Oh, a good bit of football by Aston to Crerand. 1296 01:17:10,959 --> 01:17:13,997 - To Sadler, is this number four? Yes! - (CHEERING) 1297 01:17:17,216 --> 01:17:22,177 This is another great day in the history of Manchester United. 1298 01:17:22,263 --> 01:17:24,254 (CHEERING) 1299 01:17:24,348 --> 01:17:26,840 (COMMENTATOR) And now the Stretford End is up. 1300 01:17:28,824 --> 01:17:31,509 (JOHN ASTON JR) Winning the League was obviously fantastic. 1301 01:17:31,702 --> 01:17:33,739 It put us in the European Cup. 1302 01:17:33,899 --> 01:17:37,813 It was probably Matt's last chance ever to win the European Cup. 1303 01:17:37,903 --> 01:17:40,110 (COMMENTATOR) To Kidd, a beautiful move, this. 1304 01:17:40,197 --> 01:17:41,562 Three players in the middle. 1305 01:17:42,241 --> 01:17:43,823 Burns... Great save! 1306 01:17:44,827 --> 01:17:47,615 - (CHEERING) - And it's there! Aston the scorer! 1307 01:17:51,667 --> 01:17:54,876 Johnny Aston, the son of a former Manchester United international, 1308 01:17:55,004 --> 01:17:56,210 gets the vital goal. 1309 01:17:56,297 --> 01:17:59,835 And Manchester United are through into the next round. 1310 01:18:01,135 --> 01:18:02,216 Aston... 1311 01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:05,678 Again, the queue at the far post for the cross if he can get it back. 1312 01:18:07,892 --> 01:18:09,053 It went well for him. 1313 01:18:09,101 --> 01:18:10,512 - Best! - (CHEERING) 1314 01:18:11,729 --> 01:18:15,643 We won 1-0 at Old Trafford in the first leg. We went to Madrid. 1315 01:18:15,858 --> 01:18:17,063 We've gone out there thinking, 1316 01:18:17,106 --> 01:18:20,217 "Well, if we can get to 0-0 at half-time, we've got a chance." 1317 01:18:22,364 --> 01:18:24,401 - (CHEERING) - (COMMENTATOR) It's a goal! 1318 01:18:27,068 --> 01:18:30,777 One minute's gone in this match, the crowd erupts. 1319 01:18:31,165 --> 01:18:35,454 Oh! Gento goes absolutely clear. Brennan never made contact. 1320 01:18:35,544 --> 01:18:38,286 And it's the second goal, and poor Shay Brennan! 1321 01:18:40,090 --> 01:18:42,081 - (CHEERING) - Own goal! It's an own goal! 1322 01:18:42,885 --> 01:18:45,673 What an astonishing thing! There was no danger. 1323 01:18:47,056 --> 01:18:49,798 Gento trying to blast it through... And another goal! 1324 01:18:49,892 --> 01:18:54,386 The half-time score, 3-1 to Real Madrid and 3-2 they lead on aggregate. 1325 01:18:54,452 --> 01:18:56,496 (ALEX STEPNEY) We went in that dressing room, "What you doing? 1326 01:18:56,554 --> 01:18:58,875 You're supposed to be out there attacking teams, you've done it all..." 1327 01:18:59,235 --> 01:19:00,225 Laughing! 1328 01:19:00,486 --> 01:19:02,206 He says... (SCOFFS) 1329 01:19:02,404 --> 01:19:04,987 "Semi-final... Go out and enjoy yourselves!" 1330 01:19:05,074 --> 01:19:07,031 "You've let me down, you've let the supporters down, 1331 01:19:07,076 --> 01:19:08,175 you've let the club down." 1332 01:19:08,702 --> 01:19:09,817 (COMMENTATOR) The match is so tense, 1333 01:19:09,912 --> 01:19:12,825 it's produced such an atmosphere, you could almost touch it. 1334 01:19:16,126 --> 01:19:17,036 Best. 1335 01:19:19,171 --> 01:19:20,286 - (CHEERING) - Oh! 1336 01:19:21,423 --> 01:19:24,961 And it's Sadler and it counts. Everybody can't believe it! 1337 01:19:25,261 --> 01:19:27,298 It looked for a moment as if he might have handled it, but the goal's given 1338 01:19:27,388 --> 01:19:30,676 and Manchester United are very much back in this European Cup. 1339 01:19:31,684 --> 01:19:33,345 Best has made the space well. 1340 01:19:34,478 --> 01:19:36,719 Shoots... Foulkes, he scores! 1341 01:19:36,939 --> 01:19:39,897 Bill Foulkes, the man who's played right through 1342 01:19:40,025 --> 01:19:43,143 Manchester United's European Cup campaign! 1343 01:19:43,237 --> 01:19:45,820 Foulkes, of all people, poaching on the edge of the box! 1344 01:19:45,906 --> 01:19:48,068 And what a good goal it was, too! 1345 01:19:48,450 --> 01:19:49,986 Set up by George Best 1346 01:19:50,077 --> 01:19:52,660 and Manchester United could be on the way to the final! 1347 01:19:52,746 --> 01:19:54,783 (JOHN ASTON JR) No other memory of him scoring a goal 1348 01:19:54,873 --> 01:19:57,467 and then he actually side-footed the ball into the goal. 1349 01:19:57,861 --> 01:20:00,376 I can't remember him side-footing anything, you know. 1350 01:20:00,421 --> 01:20:02,537 (COMMENTATOR) They've done it! Yes, they've done it! 1351 01:20:02,631 --> 01:20:05,840 Manchester United have gone into the final of the European Cup. 1352 01:20:05,926 --> 01:20:08,884 And Bobby Charlton's fallen right over. He's lying flat. 1353 01:20:09,179 --> 01:20:12,137 I'm not quite sure if he's fainted or what or whether he's crying 1354 01:20:12,224 --> 01:20:15,012 but Bobby Charlton is face down on the pitch. 1355 01:20:15,394 --> 01:20:19,388 What a moment this is for Matt Busby and Manchester United. 1356 01:20:20,482 --> 01:20:23,065 And Bobby Charlton who's played right so far 1357 01:20:23,152 --> 01:20:26,440 through all of Manchester United's European Cup matches, 1358 01:20:26,530 --> 01:20:28,737 overcome right at the last moment. 1359 01:20:32,036 --> 01:20:34,277 (JOURNALIST) Bobby, you've won every honour of the game 1360 01:20:34,371 --> 01:20:35,577 but it's not come easily to you. 1361 01:20:35,622 --> 01:20:38,330 Now I remember a long time ago, sitting in the Wembley dressing room 1362 01:20:38,375 --> 01:20:41,083 alongside you, it was 1958, just after Munich, 1363 01:20:41,170 --> 01:20:43,662 and you were crying that day. Do you remember? 1364 01:20:43,756 --> 01:20:46,293 You sat in the dressing room and you'd got a loser's medal again 1365 01:20:46,383 --> 01:20:48,624 and I remember you saying to me, "Oh, well, y'know, 1366 01:20:48,677 --> 01:20:51,135 this is another loser's medal," kind of thing. 1367 01:20:51,180 --> 01:20:53,842 And I suddenly had a feeling that it was gonna happen to you again in a sense. 1368 01:20:53,932 --> 01:20:56,299 - Did you feel that? - No. 1369 01:20:56,393 --> 01:20:59,431 I've got over that now. I expect to lose sometimes 1370 01:20:59,772 --> 01:21:02,264 but I shall be more disappointed if we lose the next one. 1371 01:21:02,358 --> 01:21:05,521 - Yes. - You know, but we'll give them a run. 1372 01:21:05,611 --> 01:21:08,729 The pair of you have been right through the United campaign ever since, you know... 1373 01:21:08,781 --> 01:21:12,240 (HARRY GREGG) But I felt I always had something driving me on. 1374 01:21:13,333 --> 01:21:15,171 Pushed myself a lot further. 1375 01:21:15,287 --> 01:21:18,496 'Cos I felt I had to win that European Cup. 1376 01:21:22,336 --> 01:21:24,873 (BOBBY CHARLTON) We all said, "We must win the European Cup 1377 01:21:25,005 --> 01:21:29,340 because that's what the lads died trying to achieve." 1378 01:22:46,795 --> 01:22:50,163 (COMMENTATOR) And there's Coluna, and Manchester United on the far side. 1379 01:22:50,257 --> 01:22:52,544 (BOBBY CHARLTON) Maybe the hottest and most humid day 1380 01:22:52,634 --> 01:22:54,170 that I've ever known in England. 1381 01:22:57,097 --> 01:22:59,259 The sweat was pumping out of us. 1382 01:22:59,349 --> 01:23:03,593 (COMMENTATOR) Alex Stepney, Brian Kidd, and a happy 19th birthday to him. 1383 01:23:04,104 --> 01:23:07,313 The unmistakeable figure of George Best. 1384 01:23:08,192 --> 01:23:11,810 And John Aston, his proud father is here to watch him today. 1385 01:23:12,029 --> 01:23:12,894 Bill Foulkes, 1386 01:23:12,988 --> 01:23:15,855 who's played in every European Cup campaign for Manchester United. 1387 01:23:15,991 --> 01:23:17,481 The only player to have done so. 1388 01:23:17,576 --> 01:23:21,570 One of the greatest servants Manchester United are ever likely to have. 1389 01:23:22,372 --> 01:23:23,487 Pat Crerand. 1390 01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:25,856 A lot of people say he's a one-pace player 1391 01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:27,829 but he's an immaculate passer of the ball. 1392 01:23:28,086 --> 01:23:30,077 (CHEERING) 1393 01:23:30,839 --> 01:23:34,332 Thirteenth European Cup final and there is Matt Busby. 1394 01:23:34,426 --> 01:23:37,982 And how most people in this stadium, and I'm sure in the television audience, 1395 01:23:38,101 --> 01:23:39,683 are praying for him at this moment. 1396 01:23:41,350 --> 01:23:44,718 I've never known such tension in Wembley Stadium before. 1397 01:23:44,811 --> 01:23:47,553 This is a tremendous, emotional occasion. 1398 01:23:47,940 --> 01:23:50,981 Game under way and it's Manchester United kicking off in the dark shirts, 1399 01:23:51,568 --> 01:23:54,606 the dark blue shirts, attacking the goal on your left. 1400 01:23:55,822 --> 01:23:58,780 (CHEERING) 1401 01:23:58,867 --> 01:24:01,575 Aston again leaving Adolfo miles behind. 1402 01:24:01,912 --> 01:24:04,404 Watch Kidd on the far post! Now Sadler! 1403 01:24:04,540 --> 01:24:06,907 For Aston, what a good ball, too! 1404 01:24:08,835 --> 01:24:10,826 Fine try by Johnny Aston there. 1405 01:24:10,921 --> 01:24:14,960 Matt Busby must be wondering whether that was an important one went away. 1406 01:24:15,050 --> 01:24:16,131 For Sadler... 1407 01:24:17,010 --> 01:24:18,000 Charlton... 1408 01:24:18,303 --> 01:24:20,920 - It's there! Bobby Charlton! - (CHEERING) 1409 01:24:22,266 --> 01:24:24,803 Bobby Charlton makes it 1-nothing! 1410 01:24:28,897 --> 01:24:32,356 That's his 20th goal in the European Cup competition. 1411 01:24:37,781 --> 01:24:39,738 Eusébio and now Graça! 1412 01:24:39,950 --> 01:24:40,906 It's 1-1! 1413 01:24:41,493 --> 01:24:43,154 Graça, Jaime Graça. 1414 01:24:47,124 --> 01:24:48,865 Simões breaking for Benfica. 1415 01:24:49,001 --> 01:24:50,833 And Eusébio going through the middle... 1416 01:24:50,961 --> 01:24:52,577 What a tremendous save! 1417 01:24:52,671 --> 01:24:55,333 - Stepney! - Wonderful keeping by Stepney there! 1418 01:24:55,382 --> 01:24:57,373 He came right out and narrowed that angle. 1419 01:24:57,467 --> 01:24:59,549 The only way it could go in was over the top! 1420 01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:03,091 (WHISTLE BLOWS) 1421 01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:08,010 And the whistle goes for the end of 90 minutes. 1422 01:25:10,147 --> 01:25:12,889 The second time in the history of the European Cup 1423 01:25:12,983 --> 01:25:15,020 that there has been extra time. 1424 01:25:17,613 --> 01:25:20,605 We now are going to the first period of 15 minutes. 1425 01:25:22,034 --> 01:25:24,401 Now Best. Oh, he's got a great chance! 1426 01:25:24,494 --> 01:25:26,485 - (CHEERING) - Oh, he must! 1427 01:25:26,580 --> 01:25:28,617 - He has! - (CHEERING) 1428 01:25:28,832 --> 01:25:31,574 - Georgie Best has done it! - (CHEERING) 1429 01:25:35,380 --> 01:25:40,375 Two minutes of extra time gone and Georgie Best makes it 2-1. 1430 01:25:44,056 --> 01:25:46,172 And that was a tremendous save! Kidd! 1431 01:25:46,224 --> 01:25:48,841 - (CHEERING) - Kidd it is, number eight! 1432 01:25:54,691 --> 01:25:56,978 It's Charlton in the middle, so too is Aston. 1433 01:25:57,069 --> 01:25:58,935 Charlton... Another! 1434 01:25:59,446 --> 01:26:01,437 - (CHEERING) - He's got another! 1435 01:26:03,450 --> 01:26:07,068 Is it all over? No. Yes, it is! It's all over! 1436 01:26:07,162 --> 01:26:09,153 Manchester United have done it! 1437 01:26:09,247 --> 01:26:11,614 Where, oh, where is the man everyone thinks of? 1438 01:26:11,708 --> 01:26:15,872 Matt Busby, tremendous moment for this great man. 1439 01:26:16,004 --> 01:26:20,840 The man that they would have for prime minister, president and everything. 1440 01:26:22,636 --> 01:26:26,220 When teams win something, you go to the nearest player. 1441 01:26:26,890 --> 01:26:31,179 I don't think one of us, not one of us, went to our nearest player. 1442 01:26:31,269 --> 01:26:35,103 We all went to Bill Foulkes, to Bobby Charlton and Matt Busby. 1443 01:26:36,024 --> 01:26:37,389 It was never rehearsed. 1444 01:26:37,484 --> 01:26:40,021 (COMMENTATOR) We've waited a long, long time for this. 1445 01:26:40,112 --> 01:26:43,571 Manchester United are the European Champions. 1446 01:26:43,740 --> 01:26:44,821 (CHEERING) 1447 01:26:44,908 --> 01:26:46,899 Well done, Manchester United. 1448 01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:55,415 (MATT BUSBY) That night at Wembley 1449 01:26:55,669 --> 01:26:57,125 was a crowning glory 1450 01:26:58,714 --> 01:26:59,920 for us all. 1451 01:27:00,173 --> 01:27:01,538 It was a night of achievement. 1452 01:27:03,260 --> 01:27:06,844 It was the object, the exercise from the start. 1453 01:27:09,558 --> 01:27:12,846 And with the tragedy... 1454 01:27:15,105 --> 01:27:17,096 there was joy that night. 1455 01:27:30,078 --> 01:27:32,069 (CHEERING) 1456 01:27:34,166 --> 01:27:38,160 (MATT BUSBY) We've got here the boys who've done us proud last night. 1457 01:27:38,420 --> 01:27:41,253 The boys who have won honour for the club. 1458 01:27:41,339 --> 01:27:43,205 They've won honour for Manchester, 1459 01:27:43,300 --> 01:27:44,790 they've won honour for England. 1460 01:27:44,885 --> 01:27:48,094 I'm very proud to be the manager of these lads 1461 01:27:48,180 --> 01:27:50,012 who have done such a wonderful job. 1462 01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:51,259 (CHEERING) 1463 01:27:53,977 --> 01:27:56,344 Finally, up the Reds! 1464 01:27:57,063 --> 01:27:59,555 - Up the Reds! - (CHEERING) 1465 01:28:05,489 --> 01:28:07,981 (REPORTER) So, as Sir Matt receives his accolade, 1466 01:28:08,074 --> 01:28:09,815 doubters will still ask, 1467 01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:14,370 since he's already known and revered by every football fan in the country, 1468 01:28:14,456 --> 01:28:18,370 what does the tap on the shoulder and the use of a "sir" before his name 1469 01:28:18,460 --> 01:28:19,996 really add up to? 1470 01:28:21,838 --> 01:28:25,672 (JOURNALIST) How did your mother react when this boy from the pitman's cottage 1471 01:28:25,759 --> 01:28:27,545 became Sir Matt Busby? 1472 01:28:28,414 --> 01:28:30,714 (MATT BUSBY) I know it made her a very proud woman. 1473 01:28:30,967 --> 01:28:32,345 She sent a telegram: 1474 01:28:32,432 --> 01:28:34,362 "Dear Sir Matt Boss." (LAUGHS) 1475 01:28:34,495 --> 01:28:36,850 - Which is... - That's sweet! 1476 01:28:36,937 --> 01:28:39,224 - She must have been very, very thrilled. - Oh, yeah. 1477 01:28:40,220 --> 01:28:50,046 1478 01:28:53,161 --> 01:28:56,199 - (MATT BUSBY) Good morning, everyone. - Morning. 1479 01:29:00,460 --> 01:29:04,078 "Sir Matt has informed the board that he wishes to relinquish 1480 01:29:04,172 --> 01:29:08,587 the position of team manager at the end of the present season. 1481 01:29:09,678 --> 01:29:13,421 The chairman and directors have tried to persuade him to carry on 1482 01:29:13,515 --> 01:29:18,153 and it was only with great reluctance that his request has been accepted." 1483 01:29:18,353 --> 01:29:19,809 (MAN) One, take one. 1484 01:29:19,896 --> 01:29:21,933 (JOURNALIST) This is a job you really wanted, isn't it? 1485 01:29:22,065 --> 01:29:25,558 Er... Well, yes. It's something you dream about. 1486 01:29:25,652 --> 01:29:27,643 I've dreamt about now and again. 1487 01:29:27,737 --> 01:29:30,399 (WILF MCGUINNESS) I was so proud that he chose me. 1488 01:29:30,490 --> 01:29:33,027 And I'll always be proud of that, you can't take that away, 1489 01:29:33,118 --> 01:29:34,529 that I was the one he chose. 1490 01:29:35,161 --> 01:29:37,072 (JOURNALIST) Sir Matt, you appear to have given Wilf McGuinness 1491 01:29:37,163 --> 01:29:40,204 all the responsibilities of team manager without the actual title. 1492 01:29:40,301 --> 01:29:41,737 Is there a reason for this? 1493 01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:47,163 I've listened to his observations at matches and half-time match, and so on. 1494 01:29:47,257 --> 01:29:50,221 And I thought, "Well, that's exactly the way I felt about it." 1495 01:29:50,368 --> 01:29:52,713 We were all amazed that Wilf McGuinness got the job in actual fact. 1496 01:29:52,804 --> 01:29:54,886 I think Wilf might have been surprised as well. 1497 01:29:55,015 --> 01:29:57,097 (JOURNALIST) Will you stress to the present players 1498 01:29:57,142 --> 01:29:59,759 - that he has full authority? - (MATT BUSBY) Oh, yes. Oh, yes. 1499 01:29:59,853 --> 01:30:02,686 (JOURNALIST) What would be your reaction should he drop George Best? 1500 01:30:02,981 --> 01:30:06,394 If he feels he's dropped George Best, that's Wilf McGuinness' business. 1501 01:30:06,484 --> 01:30:09,772 He dropped Bobby, he dropped Denis, he dropped me, he dropped George, 1502 01:30:09,821 --> 01:30:13,655 he dropped Paddy, he dropped everybody, to make a point. 1503 01:30:13,909 --> 01:30:16,571 He was infantile in his approach. 1504 01:30:16,620 --> 01:30:20,370 And he had this... if you got caught with your hands in your pockets, 1505 01:30:20,473 --> 01:30:22,180 you had to do ten press-ups. 1506 01:30:22,584 --> 01:30:27,070 It was cold, raining, muddy. We were all in tracksuits. 1507 01:30:27,244 --> 01:30:30,032 And Bobby in his suit, he's got his hands in his pocket. 1508 01:30:30,175 --> 01:30:34,134 And Wilf said, "Oh, Bobby, you know the rules, ten press-ups." 1509 01:30:35,055 --> 01:30:36,966 And there was silence. (CHUCKLES) 1510 01:30:37,849 --> 01:30:39,305 And he did them. 1511 01:30:40,226 --> 01:30:41,151 He did them. 1512 01:30:41,224 --> 01:30:43,886 I think Wilf got sacked the day after. 1513 01:30:44,522 --> 01:30:47,935 At last night's meeting, when young Wilf's job 1514 01:30:48,026 --> 01:30:51,144 of team manager was relinquished, 1515 01:30:51,237 --> 01:30:54,696 the directors asked me if I'd go in and take over for the time being. 1516 01:30:54,783 --> 01:30:56,649 The club is the thing and in view of that, 1517 01:30:56,743 --> 01:31:00,281 I just come in as a part-timer. 1518 01:31:00,914 --> 01:31:04,828 We won the European Cup in 1968. 1519 01:31:04,918 --> 01:31:07,751 Everything since that seems to have been an anti-climax. 1520 01:31:09,214 --> 01:31:11,251 Who do you blame? I... 1521 01:31:11,703 --> 01:31:15,300 I would think it stems from the fact that United were on top for so long 1522 01:31:15,387 --> 01:31:18,254 that unless you're in a position to recognise it 1523 01:31:18,348 --> 01:31:22,182 and recognise that you need change, that you're gonna fail. 1524 01:31:23,770 --> 01:31:25,642 I was 22. 1525 01:31:25,855 --> 01:31:29,268 I wasn't going to reach my peak for another seven or eight years. 1526 01:31:29,359 --> 01:31:32,067 And I listened to everyone talking about how this is it, 1527 01:31:32,153 --> 01:31:34,144 we've achieved what we set out to achieve. 1528 01:31:34,232 --> 01:31:36,580 And it seemed like they were talking as if it was all over. 1529 01:31:36,700 --> 01:31:39,253 I was only starting, which hurt me, 1530 01:31:39,332 --> 01:31:41,619 y'know, because Manchester United had been my whole life. 1531 01:31:42,706 --> 01:31:44,136 (MATT BUSBY) When I came out, 1532 01:31:44,290 --> 01:31:49,376 I was going to enjoy a peaceful life and enjoy watching Manchester United play 1533 01:31:49,421 --> 01:31:51,412 but it hasn't been that way. 1534 01:31:52,382 --> 01:31:55,420 (JOURNALIST) How much of a crisis is Manchester United in at the moment? 1535 01:31:56,219 --> 01:31:59,382 (MATT BUSBY) Well, everyone that's struggling at the bottom of the League 1536 01:31:59,500 --> 01:32:00,803 has a crisis on their hands. 1537 01:32:00,890 --> 01:32:03,024 (JOURNALIST) Do you feel the board can accept any blame at all? 1538 01:32:03,131 --> 01:32:04,496 (MATT BUSBY) I don't think so. 1539 01:32:05,020 --> 01:32:07,261 (DISTANT CHEERING) 1540 01:32:07,355 --> 01:32:08,561 (COMMENTATOR) Lee. 1541 01:32:10,108 --> 01:32:12,395 - Pulled across for Law! - (CHEERING) 1542 01:32:13,611 --> 01:32:15,602 Denis has done it! 1543 01:32:16,448 --> 01:32:19,816 But no elation there at all from Denis Law. 1544 01:32:20,618 --> 01:32:24,407 So that presumably is the end of the game. 1545 01:32:24,497 --> 01:32:30,459 And the end of Manchester United's 36 years unbroken run 1546 01:32:30,545 --> 01:32:31,956 in the First Division. 1547 01:32:33,131 --> 01:32:34,997 (JOURNALIST) Was he very impossible to replace? 1548 01:32:35,091 --> 01:32:37,458 (BOBBY CHARLTON) I don't think anybody's impossible to replace really. 1549 01:32:37,552 --> 01:32:40,340 The person who takes over will have to be just equally as good, I'm afraid. 1550 01:32:40,430 --> 01:32:44,089 (JOURNALIST) This must be an inhibiting effect on those who try to succeed you. 1551 01:32:44,267 --> 01:32:46,053 (MATT BUSBY) I can't understand that. 1552 01:32:46,102 --> 01:32:51,142 Applications are invited from managers with experience 1553 01:32:51,232 --> 01:32:52,688 and proven ability. 1554 01:32:52,776 --> 01:32:56,996 (BOBBY CHARLTON) It was always there, you know, this overpowering 1555 01:32:57,092 --> 01:33:00,130 bearing on the place, y'know, that you could never get away from. 1556 01:33:00,658 --> 01:33:01,773 Until Alex. 1557 01:33:02,077 --> 01:33:04,489 (JOURNALIST 1) Success is positively demanded at Old Trafford 1558 01:33:04,579 --> 01:33:06,536 and the fact that it is now 20 seasons 1559 01:33:06,623 --> 01:33:08,489 since Manchester United won the championship 1560 01:33:08,583 --> 01:33:11,120 has ultimately cost Ron Atkinson his job. 1561 01:33:11,795 --> 01:33:14,878 (JOURNALIST 2) The Scot becomes the sixth to try to follow Sir Matt Busby. 1562 01:33:15,006 --> 01:33:17,964 He's Lanarkshire. I'm from Govan. There's a difference. 1563 01:33:21,471 --> 01:33:24,589 (CHEERING) 1564 01:33:26,518 --> 01:33:29,852 We were 17, 18 when the Busby Babe comparisons started to come out. 1565 01:33:30,063 --> 01:33:32,100 (COMMENTATOR) It's the chance of a lifetime. 1566 01:33:32,941 --> 01:33:34,056 A treble chance, 1567 01:33:34,150 --> 01:33:38,485 the likes of which no English team has had before or may ever get again. 1568 01:33:42,534 --> 01:33:43,524 (WHISTLE BLOWS) 1569 01:33:46,287 --> 01:33:47,869 (CHEERING) 1570 01:33:49,582 --> 01:33:53,621 Sir Alex instilled into us what Sir Matt had in his teams. 1571 01:33:53,711 --> 01:33:56,328 Entertaining football, getting the fans off their feet 1572 01:33:56,381 --> 01:33:58,748 with that working-class mentality 1573 01:33:58,842 --> 01:34:02,756 that even if you were having a bad game, you would always put a shift in. 1574 01:34:11,980 --> 01:34:14,768 (COMMENTATOR) Three added minutes. Can Manchester United score? 1575 01:34:14,816 --> 01:34:16,807 They always score. 1576 01:34:16,832 --> 01:34:19,427 - The big goalie's coming up. - Peter Schmeichel is forward. 1577 01:34:19,494 --> 01:34:20,840 Can he score another in Europe? 1578 01:34:20,890 --> 01:34:22,676 - He's got one in Europe already. - Beckham. 1579 01:34:22,780 --> 01:34:25,147 In towards Schmeichel. It's come for Dwight Yorke! 1580 01:34:26,119 --> 01:34:28,451 Clear. Giggs with a shot! Sheringham! 1581 01:34:28,663 --> 01:34:30,449 (CHEERING) 1582 01:34:36,087 --> 01:34:37,293 Is this their moment? 1583 01:34:37,380 --> 01:34:38,870 (CHEERING) 1584 01:34:39,007 --> 01:34:39,872 Beckham. 1585 01:34:40,300 --> 01:34:43,008 Into Sheringham. And Solskjaer has got it! 1586 01:34:43,094 --> 01:34:46,462 Manchester United are the champions of Europe again 1587 01:34:46,556 --> 01:34:51,471 and nobody will ever win a European Cup final more dramatically than this. 1588 01:34:51,561 --> 01:34:53,427 Oh, it'll all be rushing back to him now. 1589 01:35:02,447 --> 01:35:04,279 (MATT BUSBY) Feel a sense of romance. 1590 01:35:05,283 --> 01:35:08,742 Wonder. Mystery. A sense of beauty. 1591 01:35:08,995 --> 01:35:10,656 And a sense of poetry. 1592 01:35:11,414 --> 01:35:14,247 Because on such occasions, the game is larger than life. 1593 01:35:15,418 --> 01:35:19,787 There's something of the timeless, magical quality of legend.