The Three Kings (2020) - full transcript

An insight into three of the greatest Scottish football managers and how they lead their clubs to success.

It's a compensation at best

for kids, people, who
have got nothing

people who've got boring
jobs, live in bad houses...

are wasting their lives

in a system we've
got in this country

which I can't see changing.

You've got a
compensation in football

You've got one thing a
week where you can go

and you're gonna see
great excitement.

You get to see drama.

You're gonna see a team
that you believe in.



You're gonna see heroes,
villains, goodies, baddies

uncertainty, danger.

That's fantastic, it's
people's theatre.

People's cinema.

You're the most
famous man in soccer

in this country and indeed,
I suppose, in the world

in one sense, then
again you've always...

gone quietly about
your business.

You shun publicity
in a way, don't you?

And here comes the man that

We would have for Prime Minister,
President and everything.

Matt Busby.

This is the man they love.

Bill Shankly.



I think that a man needs...

who's... who's playing
in front of the public

is being well paid

and he doesn't dedicate
himself to the job.

I would be hard on him.

If I could, I'd put him in jail.

Out the road of society...

cos he's a menace.

You play a football
match without fans

'you've got nothing. It can be
the greatest game in the world.

If there are no people there to
watch it, it becomes nothing.

And there is the great
manager, Jock Stein.

Tremendous performances
by Celtic.

Look at that crowd.

I was born in a
pitman's cottage...

brought up in a faith
which was football.

I used to work in the
pit as a boy at 14.

Like everybody else,
I'd come home

and wash in front of
the fire in a tub.

Miners believe themselves

to be the aristocrats
of the working class.

They felt superior to all other
kinds of manual labourers.

There was the arrogant strut

of the lords of the coal face

and everybody wanted
to be like a miner.

Kings... of the underworld.

My parents, like every
other boy's parents

were determined that they
were going to keep me

out of the pits, but...

it was either the
pits or football

and I think football was a
little bit better than the pits.

Working-class urban
life in Scotland

was the basis for the love
and regard for football.

Football is an art form.

It's not a sport,
it's an art form.

I got to become a
part-time player

with Albion Rovers and
full of ambition.

I was in the pits at the time.
The extra money was welcome.

I had gone working in the
mines to help perform.

We had a visit one time
from Manchester City

that influenced me
to sign for them.

This is Matthew Busby,
the right halfback.

Coming down about 17 and a half

and the first time
coming from home.

It is a big thing.

Now, I knew full well...

that it was only
a matter of time

till I got into Preston's team.

And when I got in...

I said to the bloke, I said,
"That's you finished!

You'll get no more games."

For the second time in
the lives of most of us

we are at war.

I was at my peak, 24
were the worst of it.

Everybody was in the
same boat, of course.

Uit took six years of our
life away, really...

as players, I mean, this
is the only thing I knew.

I wanted to be a manager.

I was hell-bent on that.

My days as a player
were numbered

so I decided to try
my hand as a manager.

I didn't think that I could do
it better than anyone else.

But I felt I wanted to try.

I happened to be
in Manchester...

stationed in Manchester when
the Blitz came to the city

and I saw Old Trafford a few
days after it had been blitzed

and when I looked
at it, I thought

Well, that's the end...

there'll never be another
football team here again."

And it's the most amazing thing

that this club, now,
and this ground

has risen from this.

This is... this is a
tribute to Matt Busby.

He was still in his late
teens when he left home

in Lanarkshire and
joined Manchester City.

There he played in two
successive cup finals.

He moved to Liverpool
for three years

then six years in the army

still playing
football for services

for various clubs
and for Scotland.

When he was demobbed, he was 36.

For a footballer,
that's late middle age.

He took over the job of
manager of Manchester United.

Here in Manchester
at Old Trafford

he's known as "The Boss".

When he went for his interviews

he said," Listen, I
don't wanna just

build a football team.

I wanna build a football club."

All I had, apart from
playing experience

were certain ideas as to
what a manager should do...

faith in those ideas

and faith in the
future of the club.

First of all, I
look for ability.

That is essential,
natural ability.

I love to see a
player with vision.

I love to see a player
playing with heart...

and I also, naturally, want
them to be of character.

I have always tried to
infuse into the boys

a way that they could trust me

they could come to me,
they could talk to me.

I made them feel
that anything I said

would be carried out.

In Matt's first season

although they didn't
have a ground

they finished second
in the league.

In 1948...

They won a great cup final.

One of the best cup
finals of all time.

From the offset,
I was ambitious.

I came here...

to put Manchester United at
the top of the football tree.

Matt, when you take
time out and think

about Manchester United

what does this club
of yours mean to you?

It means everything to me.

Why does Scotland
so consistently

produce skilful players?

Thing is, it's the
coalmines and the steel

and the shipbuilding.

Industrial, you know,
and depressions, and...

and they make possibly
harder people.

It's difficult to exaggerate

how football's boom

took off in Glasgow
and its environment

more than anywhere
else in the world.

World crowd records were
always broken in Glasgow.

The belief that football was...

a basic ingredient
in life itself

in society itself.

So, like, going to the church...

that was football.

I mean, in the tenements

the Highland Clearances
or earlier than that

people were virtually
dragooned into these towns.

No facilities, hardly saw grass.

So, you had to play
in the back court

you had to play in the street.

The grimness of life here
was an expression...

of man's ability

kicking a piece of
football about.

I've always felt that a...

a Scottish footballer
had this something

which was...

he was capable of creating.

He was capable of controlling a
ball, working a ball better.

He played it in
probably short spaces

but they had this initial
ability to be able to control

and hold a ball,
and work a ball.

What you have to remember

about football in Scotland

is that it's the
Scots who invented

the concept of passing the ball.

The origins of the
game in England

were in a kind of village
to village kick and rush

and it stayed kick and
rush for a long time

even when you had
eleven men in a team.

There was none of this
big, long passing.

We always seemed
to play it short

to play attack grid...

and I think this was something
that was inherent in Scotland.

You know, here you
are in Liverpool

playing in the English
first division

and I don't suppose
you've lost one nuance

of Scottishness.

You're in fact perhaps
more Scottish

than when you left Scotland.
- Oh, yes.

If Scotland went to war tomorrow

I would be the first
one to volunteer.

Yeah.

He was a hard man.

Kind of gruff.

We were always
there at weekends.

You know, me and my sister.

He would love to tell us
stories about Scotland

where he was born
and everything.

To think that this place gave
birth to so many footballers.

It makes you realise that...

that's all they had.

It was a way to escape.

Being from such a big
family as well...

five boys, five girls.

I was the youngest of the boys.

All of us played
professional football.

I think he really
cherished those times.

I think that sense of community

really influenced him
throughout his life.

Your football career
started humbly

with Carlisle United

and it was there that you
went to become a manager.

That was uppermost in my mind
from the day I was born.

To play football
and to stay in it.

I mean, this is the
only thing I knew.

And then on to Grimsby
and Workington.

Not exactly the glamorous
parts of football.

No, the outposts of the nation.

Difficult. Shortage of
money, couldn't buy players

but we were happy.

Good team, we played a
lot of good football.

Good experience.

But whilst I was there,
I knew that one day

I would get somewhere else

with a reasonable
amount of luck.

Matt might have
been at Man United

and Stan Cullis at
Wolverhampton Wanderers

but I didn't think that
they were better than me

because they were with big clubs.
Oh, no.

Parkhead wasn't
always your maker

really, was it?

Looking a way back at
your early career.

What happened to get
you to Celtic Park

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When I got word that Celtic
were interested in me

I didn't believe it at the time.

You would never have
dreamed of that.

Never dreamed of
playing for Celtic.

He was a Protestant.

For all the talk of
division in our society

it's nothing like the world
in which they grew up.

It's nothing like as violent.

The cause of this violence...
was sectarianism.

Fighting between
Protestants and Catholics.

Growing up in Lanarkshire

in Ayrshire and in
that industrial belt

there were riots involving
thousands on both sides.

The Catholic
immigrants who'd come

in the early part
of the 20th century

identified with Celtic.

Rangers was identified with
the Church of Scotland

the Protestantism,
the free masonry

and that was a divide

that, by and large, was
very, very hard to cross.

After I joined Celtic,
maybe I lost one or two...

people that, uh...

I used to have normal
relationships with

nodding to and speaking to

and maybe even pals
with some of them...

they more or less
kind of dropped me.

He hated bigotry from any side.

You know, just stupid thinking

you could have put
it most aptly.

When he was winching Jean

he had to sort of dodge
in and out, as if the...

the CIA were after him.

I mean, it was incredible
when you think back on it...

because she was a Catholic.

This was the genesis of
him beginning to sort out

the absurdities...

of division and sectarianism.

When I come here

I laid tremendous
emphasis on the fact

that we were gonna try and
build our own players.

Thus began the legend
of the "Busby Babes".

One question that
everybody always asked

Matt Busby was this...

How do you find these boys?

Well, I'd say, Bill, I
have a scouting system

whose sole objective
is to go out

looking for young,
promising schoolboys

youth club boys, and
indeed any young players

who have the necessary
natural ability

to ever make a future
Manchester United player.

Having won the
championship in '52

he took a drastic, and
some people thought...

decidedly stupid step.

He almost totally
replaced the old team

With a new team, a younger one.

It was his dream to
build a youth team.

The experience he had
as a footballer himself

there was no encouraging youth.

And he said to himself

Right, if I get a manager's job

this is what I'm going to do."

lt was a tremendously happy time

to a boy who had come to this
club from leaving school

and you get a tremendous kick

out of a boy coming through

and making himself a
top-class player.

We had so much talent
about the place.

Roger then was the
captain, and Sammy Taylor.

Dennis Viollet, and of course the
great, great Duncan Edwards.

Edwards was incomparable
at his age.

I have never seen a more
accomplished player

at his age. Never.

Duncan Edwards was
a young player

of such phenomenal scale

power and ability.

But he wasn't the only one.

There was a kid up
in the North East.

He lived in Ashington

a Mining community
in Northumberland

called Robert Charlton.

Rob Jones, Duncan Edwards...

Billy Whelan, all the same
digs, all together, yeah.

It was great, it was paradise.

And I think a lot of that is
down, really, to Sir Matt

because he let everybody know
that everyone in the club

was as important as anyone else.

At that time, you had to get

a paper signed that he
was my legal guardian.

In other words, he
was my second father

and he treated me like a son.

Was your father a miner?

He was, yes.

Now, he went to the war

he was killed when you
were six years old.

You were the only male
Busby left, weren't you

in the whole of the family?

He Carried that
paternal attitude

throughout his football career.

We lived with them,
nurtured them

we watched them, we looked
after them, they were coached.

You become a sort of family.

Edwards, through to Viollet.

Now, there's a
chance for United.

They represented the best

of What football
could be in Britain.

They played with a
spring in their step

with a kind of lightness.

That somehow
communicated itself.

There's something about
that Busby Babes side.

They're a group of young
mates or young blokes.

The austerity of the
50's after the war

is still causing grey skies
over a country, in a way...

and suddenly there's
these brylcreem boys.

That deep white V-neck
on the United kit

really does give you shivers.

It's about a youth culture

and about "we can
do our own thing

we don't need to be told by
the establishment what to do"

and they were playing football
that hadn't been seen

and they were all teenagers.

Unbelievable.

The beginnings of
post-war youth culture.

The rebirth of sort
of swaggering youth.

It was even young
boys, 19 years old...

we were winning English league
championships by eleven points.

Busby always believed

that football was a gift.

Everything about
Manchester United...

expectations, traditions...

what Manchester United has
produced, as a club...

all of that goes
back to Matt Busby

and his belief that the
public must be entertained.

I was fairly good in
the air, nothing more.

I was good in the
air, and at that time

Celtic needed someone there

and good players round about me.

As a player

in the dressing room...

always argumentative...

and he could argue football.

He was always keen
to better himself.

He was very knowledgeable
about the game.

He ate and slept football.

He'd played in low-grade
football up until then.

Indeed, Llanelli
was non-league...

and here he was given the
opportunity of leadership.

Suddenly a team that
didn't look like a team

became a team.

We won the league and
the cup in 1953 and 4.

We won the Coronation Cup.

At one time, we were
a pretty good side

and we went into deeper
aspects of football

and then we were playing it.

Then I thought that...

once I was finished

I would like to take
a place in football.

Jock Stein wanted to be a
manager of a football club.

No question at all about that.

Stein and Shankly
and Busby were men

of such strong character
and convictions.

They looked outside
their own little worlds

for inspiration

and for worlds to conquer.

In The case of
managers in England

they had to fight the FA

in Order to be allowed
to play in Europe.

Matt did things that

people below him
couldn't possibly do.

You know, his negotiations,
the decisions that he made

about us going to play in Europe

and the Football League was
saying, "You can't do this".

Well, he made
decisions like that

that nobody below him could
possibly do, you know.

And he took chances.

He took chances, but he
knew what he wanted to do.

He wanted to be the best.

He didn't just want to
be the best in England

he wanted to be the
best in the world.

So, Europe was an adventure
that we had to be part of.

We'd all settled into
a pattern of playing

which meant that we were gonna
have many years of success.

We're the best club side
I've seen in Britain.

Manchester United's exploits

in the European Cup...

partly because they
were televised...

conspired in this process
of the Busby Babes

becoming national property.

The Munich air crash.

The aircraft is a twin-engined
Elizabethan on charter from BEA.

It was returning from Belgrade

where Manchester United had
entered the semi-final

of the European Cup.

It had reached Munich

and were just taking off
for home, in poor weather

when the crash came
at three o'clock.

This is Old Trafford.

Today, it's the heart
of a mourning city.

Everybody in Manchester,
everybody in Britain, nearly

is looking to the sun.

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

how is Matt Busby getting along.

Duncan Edwards, injured.
Bill Foulkes, injured.

Matt Jones, killed.

Ray Wood, injured.

Eddie Colman, killed.

David Pegg, killed.

Dennis Viollet, injured.
Tommy Taylor, killed.

Roger Byrne, killed.

Bill Whelan, killed.

John Berry, injured.

At the time of going to press

Matt Busby was
fighting for his life.

I was walking along on in front

about ten yards in
front of my mum

and saw this old man
in an oxygen tent.

He looked grey.

I thought, "Oh, that
poor so-and-so."

And then it shook
me, "It's my dad!"

I felt each time I came
around I didn't want to live.

I wanted to die.

For a man of such
devout Catholicism

to say that... is an
extraordinary statement

and a measure of
how grief-stricken

how guilt-stricken...

he must have been at that time.

After two weeks,
Duncan Edwards died.

When he signed a player

he made sure that
the parents knew

that he was gonna
look after them

and suddenly this had happened.

You can imagine...

I can't ever imagine
how he handled it.

He must have been
really strong, mentally

as well as physically.

It was, Jean, his
wife who, in a way...

saved Matt Busby's
Manchester United

because he absolutely could not
bear the thought of football.

But she said "Matt,
you've got to come round"

and he said "Why,
what does it matter?"

My mother turned round
to him and said

Matt, them boys would
like you to carry on.

Carry on again.

Remember these lads through
building another team".

You owe it

to the families of
those who were killed

and to the boys that
have survived".

He eventually came to believe
that that was his duty.

Through an ankle
injury in 1957...

I gave up the game and
I had to come back

and another aspect of the game

I was put in charge of
Celtic young players.

It gave me, first, the
chance to control players

and gave me a chance to have...

a deeper look at the
tactical side of the game.

I was just starting to emerge
as a young footballer.

I, of course, came up with
Celtic reserves for a bit

when Jock was starting to take
a backroom role at Celtic.

His reputation was gathering
among the players.

He had a vision
that was different

from coaches of his time.

I had gone as far as
I would expect to go

at a club like Celtic, you know.

I was a non-Catholic, and
maybe they felt that...

maybe I wouldn't achieve
the job as manager

but I moved out to try and prove
that I could be a manager.

I didn't think that I could
do it better than anyone else

but I felt I wanted to try.

He hit the town like a
tornado, to be honest

and he just moulded
us into a team.

Dunfermline's first glimpse

of The team with
the Scottish Cup.

I do my best for
them off the field.

I expect the same from
them on the field.

I think that the real success
that I found, if any

is because I've treated
each player with respect

and got his respect in return.

Are you a disciplinarian?

To a certain extent,
yes, I would say so

but, uh...

I come and go of that properly.

I'm supposed to be hard,
but I'm probably softer

than most of them.

Through the years,
I've listened to

wonderful talkers of the game.

Wonderful analyser.

But he wouldn't be able to get
a player stand up to his feet

when he came into a room.

That kind of instant reaction.

When he went to Hibs

and played that famous
game against Real Madrid

when we beat them 2-0...

I mean, with Hibs, he
won the Summer Cup.

It was unheard of.

!it was actually Celtic who
were beginning, really, to take

a serious interest in him.

They couldn't ignore
this man who was told

he could only be
a reserve coach.

Shankly was no stranger

to disillusion in management.

He'd been disillusioned
in Workington.

He'd been disillusioned at
Huddersfield, in the end.

I had players like
Law and Wilson.

Now, Law and Wilson go down as
two of the greatest players

in the history of football.

I never met anybody
like him in my life.

I thought, you know, he
must be from another world.

All he did was talk
about football.

He made you believe you
were something special.

I had fantastic potential
at Huddersfield

but it was a seller's market

and I didn't want to
be involved in that.

'59, early in the season

October... we were playing
at Huddersfield town

and two people came
from this club

walked down the
slope and asked me

if I'd go to Liverpool.

It was as blunt as that.

It was Matt who recommended

Liverpool get Bill Shankly as
manager, in the first place.

He said," Well, look, the guy
at Huddersfield, Bill Shankly

I think you should go
and try to get him".

Matt and Bill actually
played together

during the war

in Wartime Internationals
for Scotland.

I think Bill had always
looked up to Matt

and knew they came from the
same sort of background

but that's when they really
hit off the friendship.

The funny thing about it is I
said to them after the match

l said, "I'm glad you stopped
scoring goals, you know?"

Oh, I see. It's like that. -

And I was boiling.

I thought they'd score
another ten, you know?

Maybe like an older brother,
younger brother relationship.

Matt very much sort of
understood Bill's tenacious

hot-headedness, sometimes.

I came here because I'd
been to Liverpool.

I knew that the
potential was here.

The crowd was here

and that was the chance
I was looking for.

The same kind of people as me,
and the people in Glasgow.

Liverpool and Glasgow
are similar.

They think the same as I do, and
I think the same as they do.

Liverpool was in the
Second Division then?

Oh, yeah. They had a poor team

to put it bluntly.

I came here because
of the people

because I knew there was
a public for the game.

Bob Paisley, Ronnie
Moran, Joe Fagan was here

Reuben Bennett.

Now, they were there
long before I came.

And, normally, a manager
goes to a new club

he takes his own men with him.

Well, I didn't.

I said," I know something about
the game in training, as well

and we'll all work together.

I'll lay the system down...

and then maybe one day, we'll
get the players we need."

And that exactly happened.

Two outstanding players
came up in Scotland.

One was the gigantic centre half
of Dundee United, Ron Yeats

the other was the very crafty,
deep-lying centre-forward

of a very fine Motherwell team.

His name was Ian St John.

Shankly demanded the money
to get those two players

and this time, the
deals were done.

Yeats and St John
joined Liverpool

and Shankly, from then on

built the Liverpool
dynasty that, well...

was eventually to become
Manchester United's nemesis.

I wasn't well for the
best part of three years

I would say, before
I really recovered.

Got my real strength back.

It was the essential reality
of time and, of course

when things are not going right

the respect of how
things have been

or how things have
gone beforehand...

you always get people
who are ready to shout

Time he was out.

Why did we do this, why
did you sign that?"

But, uh...

I went along knowing full well

that we're going
in the right line.

Manchester United's scout
seen me playing for Cregagh

and invited me for trials
with Manchester United...

and, uh... at first,
when I went over

I only stayed a couple of days

and I was homesick

and came back home

but my father, he had a
talk with Matt Busby

and, uh, he decided to
give me another chance.

So I went back and
stayed since then.

They used to come home

say, on a Friday, and
he'd picked the team

and he'd be upset because
he'd left somebody out

and so forth, and he used to
always discuss it with my mum

you know, and, uh...

she used to say, "Well you
always do the right thing".

And here they come. I
think, yes, here they come.

There they are, Matt
Busby on the right.

To rebuild from...

the basis of such devastation...

not just in terms of the
number of people killed

but the psychological effect
of it, surviving that accident

and to use that as the...

in a way, the kind of
mould force for...

regeneration.

That showed enormous
strength of character...

singleness" of purpose.

He must have had great
human qualities

to recreate something from that.

Look at the results

that Manchester
United have achieved.

I don't think there's
anything that he's short of.

He's never been short of courage

to go and buy players
with his own money

not sponsored by anybody.

Money that came through
the turnstiles

and he never was
afraid to dabble.

He didn't care what Law cost.

He wanted Law.

Manchester United had
the fab three...

Law, Best and Charlton.

The great entertainers.

Well now, here we've
got the man himself

Matt Busby, well done, Matt.

Thank you, David. - Marvellous.

Oh, wonderful, wonderful.

I must say, two years we've
stood behind this net

and said, "hard luck".

Yes, yes, that's the
way it's been going

but the boys have turned
it on today, and have been

a wonderful tonic for me.

Just as we thought that Welsh
international rugby crowds

were the most musical and
passionate in the world

but I've never seen anything
like this Liverpool crowd.

The Duke of Wellington,
before the Battle of Waterloo

said of his own troops

I don't know what
they do to the enemy

but by God, they frighten me."

As soon as he went to Liverpool

he went straight in and
appealed to the people

to harness the power
of the community

the power of the support.

They contribute
everything to Liverpool.

I mean, that's my sole aim.

To give them something
worth seeing

to give them success.

They are the ones that come
through the turnstiles

and pay the money.

When a manager does this...

if there's a bond...

an unshakeable bond
between the crowd

and the manager...

the players have nowhere to go.

They weren't even
allowed to be injured.

On a Saturday, I'm
prepared to...

to die for these people.

When the crowd start chanting,
and then, you know...

you feel ten feet tall, you...

you want to do everything.

'Well, The Kop's exclusive...

the Spion Kop at Liverpool,
is an institution

and if you're a member
of The Kop, you feel

as If you're a member
of a big society

where you've got thousands of
friends all round about you.

And they're united and loyal.

He came out of that room

you were thinking, "How many
is it gonna be this week?"

We proved, conclusively

that we at Liverpool...

had a team unit that
all helped each other.

So, by playing collectively,
they've got individual honours.

Football is socialism

if you'd like to call it.

We prayed for each other.

I think the fact that you
beat us here in the cup

was responsible for us
winning the league.

Yes, it's true. But
still, you did well

a great side you've got.

You deserve it, mate.

I'm happy about it, Tommy...

When he'd become manager

I had problems with him
because he was always...

fighting me every
inch of the way

and we arrived at a
situation where...

Bill Shankly was a danger to us.

Shankly's teams were,
you know, tough.

Even before, with strong men.

Watch it, watch it, watch it.

He hewed his team from granite

if you like.

It was very different
from Manchester United.

Busby seemed to mould
his from clay.

Different ways of expressing
the truths of football.

Best is onside.

And the experience
of Old Trafford

and Anfield

you know, expresses
the difference

between the two clubs.

Liverpool fans set up something

that intimidates a visiting team

in a different sort of way.

It's an implacable support.

It really is a twelfth
man for the team

in a way that the Old
Trafford crowd isn't.

The Old Trafford crowd is
more likely to sit back

and enjoy what it's watching.

Expressive of the two men

who really formed
their characters...

Busby at Old Trafford,
and Shankly at Anfield.

You would look at those two men
and look at those two grounds

and the crowds within
them, and you'd say

Yes, that's perfect".

You know, one is an expression
of one and the other.

That's very
interesting, I think.

To live through a
time when the soul

of something is being created...

and it's a soul that...

assumes a kind of permanence.

The great rivalry
of the two cities

those football cities

owes everything, pretty
much, to Busby and Shankly.

La-la, la

La-la, la

La-la, la

La-la, la

When people ask me
what love's all about

There's one thing I can say

Some people believe just
what I'm putting down

Understand your troubles away

You got to do this
thing we're feeling

You got to know just
what I'm meaning

Gotta believe just
what I'm handing

Understanding

Understanding

Understanding

Alright, girl! - La-la, la

La-la, la

La-la, la

La-la, la

All these things took time.

Went to Europe, found
out things in Europe.

It Was a hydrogen bomb
all in little packets

that they put together and poof!

It was a big bomb.

I'm wondering whether
there's anything left

really, for you to prove.

I've always been
European Cup conscious.

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

You see I love this life I live

And I want to love it with you

But people you don't understand

I Just what I'm putting down

There's no more I can do

You got to do this
thing we're feeling

You got to know just
what I'm meaning

Gotta to believe just
what I'm handing

Understanding

Understanding

Oh, yeah

Come on, keep on moving

La-la, la

When the chance to come
to Celtic did arise

which naturally is a
big, big call to anyone

I had played here.

The club weren't doing very well

and I just thought that if
I could achieve for Celtic

what I'd achieved for
Hibs, I'd be doing

a good job for them.

What I wanted to do was
to prove to the people

I was capable of
taking full control

and I came on the basis of that.

It wasn't long
till we got there.

I liked his intelligence...

Stein's personality.

He would look you
straight in the eye

and tell you when he
thought you were wrong.

And that's what he
did with the board.

He could handle people.

We always thought that
when he came to Parkhead

there would be an auction...

just casting out players
left, right and centre.

That didn't happen.

ŁHe was very, very
clever and very astute

in the early days,
because he recognised

immediately what he had.

He didn't try to disrupt it, he
didn't try to fill our heads

with a load of nonsense.

He just wanted us to
express ourselves.

This is one of his...

real strong points.

He knows how you feel,
him being a footballer.

He knows what it means to
be beaten in a cup final.

This can be a year that
everyone else can remember

so, let's make sure that each
player helps each other.

Make sure if somebody's
having a bad game

somebody near him helps him.

He was a sympathetic man.

I think his background was

something that stood
him in great stead.

He never lost sight of the fact
that he was working class.

It was always to remember
the people in the terrace

were important, because
you had to give them

something in turn, you had
to give a bit of flair

a bit of excitement,
a bit of endeavour.

It was like a
breath of fresh air

him coming back as manager.

It's Gallacher...

and a wonderful goal by McNeill!

The team had been in
quite a number of finals

and semi-finals before that

and never got the breakthrough
of winning something.

That year, we won the cup.

The goal which would
win the Scottish Cup

for Celtic for the first
time in eleven years.

I think that was a key moment

when we won the cup that day.

On that particular occasion,
it broke a barrier

for lots of players.

At that time...

Celtic really was
subjugated by Rangers.

They had to, if you like

replace Rangers as
the dominant club.

It took 'em back to animosity.

It took 'em back to the
bewildering sectarianism...

and then he was there
to dispel that.

Doesn't matter which
game it was...

Glasgow Charity Cup final.

This was his big game, always.

Nobody at that stage...

would've seen nine
years in advance...

to go on that
stretch of success.

It was such an expressive team.

It had great players

drawn from within 30
miles of their ground.

That was such an extraordinary
thing in every way.

Jimmy Johnson was a kind of
key for a lot of people.

He was the figure that
everybody could latch on to.

And if the team
provided a platform

for a player like that

then the manager was
doing something right.

All in all, the success
comes from this feeling

of everyone working
with each other

everyone helping each other

and everyone playing
for their club.

I think like every other club,
the European Cup must be...

everyone in Scotland's
ambition...

whereas no Scottish team has
ever reached the final, even.

And, uh, I think
this is a big dream.

I think it'd be a
tremendous performance

for any club to do so.

We had almost done
everything possible

in Scottish football, that year.

We were going to Lisbon

as the first Scottish
side to actually play

in the European Cup final.

We had absolutely
nothing to lose.

We weren't supposed to be there.

We were Glasgow
Celtic, I mean...

who had heard of Glasgow Celtic?

We'll go there...

very, very conscious of the fact

we're playing for
Celtic Football Club...

but we have always been
conscious of the fact

that we're also
playing for Scotland.

I was the only manager
of an English club

that was there. None of them
took the trouble to go there

and they hadn't seen the Celtic

and I had, of course.

The funny thing about it
is Inter didn't have a lot

of spectators there.

Celtic had far more than them.

Celtic must have carried 15
or 16,000 people with them

which is... was a
terrific thing...

and I think all the Portuguese
were supporting Celtic.

Can Celtic become not
only the first Scottish

the first British, but
the first non-Latin team

to win the European Cup?

For the rest of Europe

a virtually unknown
team to be playing

the great Inter in this final.

Celtic now, led
by Billy McNeill.

There's Jock Stein,
on the right.

You know, that was
a time when...

you had this champion club

and it was being won by
great teams, you know?

Inter Milan, Benfica...

Real Madrid won the first
five editions of it.

And so, the number eight

that's away we go

for the twelfth
European Cup final.

Cappellini...

A penalty! He tripped him.
It's a penalty.

It's a penalty.

Yes, 1-0 for Inter!

One goal down with exactly
seven and a half minutes gone.

A tragedy.

Celtic was a superior team

after that goal was scored.

On the front foot all the time

hadn't lost their confidence

the agility of the players

the elasticity of the playing...

You felt a goal was inevitable.

Oh, wait that's a
wonderful save!

Oh, a great shot by
number three, Gemmell.

One goal to nil.

Inter are leading a goal up

with seven minutes from the
penalty spot by Mazzola.

Well, thank you very much, Ken

and a heart-breaking game not
only for Celtic supporters

but for all those who
cherish attacking football.

Inter are the very
dictation of this.

Celtic and all these men
aren't just taking on Inter

they're trying to
end the ice age

Of defensive European football.

Clipped to Craig...

Murdoch...

At last, to Murdoch...

In comes Craig...

He's scored a great goal!

He's done it!

I'm never fully confident

and I always look it...
if third place players

are capable of playing,
they'll win against any side.

Five minutes left now...

one goal each.

Gemmell...

Murdoch...

A goal! Celtic have scored!

Free when I dance with you

We move like the sea

You, you're all I want to know

I feel free

I feel free

I feel free

I can walk down the street,
there's no one there

I was in the dressing
room after the game

because I remember
Jock, he was...

He'd just came out of the bath.

He Was sweating as
much as the players

and I said, "Jock,
you're immortal now".

Though my mind wants
to cry out loud

Dance floor is like the sea

Ceiling is the sky

You're the sun and
as you shine on me

I feel free

I feel free

I feel free

Ah

Ah

Jock, I am delighted at
having the privilege

of making this
presentation to you.

And not only for bringing
the European Cup

back to Scotland
for the first time

but to Great Britain, as well.

May I extend to you, Jock

the directors and your
players and your staff

sincere congratulations

on a great performance.

Thank you very much, Matt.

It gives us great pleasure
to accept this trophy.

Not only on behalf of the club

but on behalf of
Scottish football.

It's good to see us there

and being the first team,
not only a British team

but a Scottish team
to win this trophy.

And, naturally, I'm quite sure
they have the good wishes

of the Celtic football club...

the players, and
Scottish football.

We hope that the next
hands the European Cup

are in are yours.

Thank you very much.

Everybody was desperate

for United to win
the European Cup.

You know, a team had
died trying to win it.

And for them to win it

seemed to be the most
appropriate tribute

to what Busby had achieved
in the years after Munich.

Of course, they were strong
loyalties, allegiances...

but I can't imagine there
was a football fan

in England who didn't want

Manchester United to
win the European Cup.

Just a couple of hours ago

at the start of
what's been described

as the greatest European
Cup Final of all time.

Wembley is beginning
to become ablaze

with the red and white colours

of Manchester United supporters.

For Manchester United
manager, Matt Busby

this moment stands on the
threshold of a dream.

A dream of leading the
first English club

ever to capture
the European Cup.

As soon as we won in Madrid

at the semi-final, and we
were through to the sign-off

there was no way
that they'd beat us.

I think the crowd,
and the atmosphere

and the whole history
of the event...

you know, it would mean
that we would win it.

The parents, the old
players that were injured

that couldn't play
anymore were there

and it was very
emotional for the club.

At Wembley, United
were the favourite.

This was the most extraordinary...
redemption.

Everybody felt anxiety...

tension, nervousness...

you know, could they
win the European Cup?

Manchester United...

Oh, and he's hit the bar!

Keep up with him, make
him run on the left.

This is not what we expected.

Sadler, Charlton, a goal!

He scored!

Charlton has scored!

It's a goal by Graca.

Unmarked in the middle...

there's Eusebio!

Oh, well saved.

The whistle goes for
the end of 90 minutes.

The second time in the
history of the European Cup

that there has been extra time.

It was a good job I went back

and forced myself to go back.

I got this obsession again

that Manchester United
were going to the top.

Now Best... oh, he's gonna...

Oh, he's gone, he has!

Now it's a goal!

Charlton...

He's got another!

It is! It's all over!

Manchester United has done it!

This, basically, was a
culmination of everything.

This was something
you'd striven for

you'd fought for.

We've done it. We've
done it for, you know...

We've done it for
him because he...

he was Manchester United.

Good morning, everyone.

So, Matt has informed the board

that he wishes to
relinquish the position

of Team Manager at the end
of the present season.

The chairman and directors
have tried to persuade him

to carry on and it was
only with great reluctance

that his request
has been accepted.

When I go over...

twenty-three years
of strife, strain...

uh, it's a long time,
and after all, again

when you get to my age,
fifty-eight passing.

It's time to, I feel, for young
team managers to come in

and deal with the problems
of team selections

and all things now
pertaining to the club.

The public, people
don't ever realise

what a manager suffers
in one big match.

A manager's living and
every match is a dread.

You fear the worst

sometimes you're looking for
snow and it's not falling.

You're always frightened
of the next game

because you're frightened
that your players don't

perform to the way
they should perform

and that always gives you worry.

You see, games where
you should win

is the most difficult
to motivate people.

The strain is terrible.

I mean, you're working
for your club

you're working for the public...

and if you're in the big time

it's very, very difficult.

You feel the strain in
your job too, you know.

Now, it may be that we feel
the strain a little more.

Since I come here to Liverpool

and to Anfield...

I have drummed it
into our players...

time and again...

that they are privileged
to play for you.

And if they didn't believe me...

they believe me now.

Now, you're a little
bit like Matt Busby

you can seem to build
one championship side

and then you can build another.

You did it in the mid-60's.

You won the title twice,
you won the FA Cup.

It seems now that you've
built another side.

Is this going to
be a better team

than the great teams
we've had then?

If I keep on improving, that
could happen. Oh, yeah.

More excitement.

Oh, yeah.

Exciting players
and doing things

making things happen.

I don't plague Kevin Keegan

with the Bible every
day, with the gospel.

He is in the pack with the
rest, not individually.

The gospel of how to live...

how to be an athlete.

What to do...

both as a man and as
a player, and all.

Liverpool were, at
their best, a machine.

A fantastically well-functioning
attacking machine.

Somehow, you know, the
whole team is geared

to forward movement.

We're clawing at the idea

you've conquered
the bloody world.

You know it.

And that's what I wanted, that
Liverpool would be untouchable.

It wasn't often beautiful...

It's still there to be
had, and it's taken!

Except in its effect.

You know, when you see a
machine working that well...

even if the machine's function
is not to create beauty

it's effect can be beautiful.

It's an art, it's a trade

and if you don't know it, then
you'll fall by the wayside.

You could be lucky, you
could win something

you could be in and
you could be out.

But Liverpool's in for
15 years of consistency.

It's not a myth, it's
not just an accident.

It's all they've done,
the plans are there.

If a manager...

is honest and he has
this natural enthusiasm

I think whilst you can't go
into the field with the players

you can convey it to the
players, you understand?

He's with them, and
they're with him

and they'll be successful.

I mean, every player
that comes here

from the day he steps in here,
the minute he steps in here

he's being watched...

he's being scrutinised.

Then we're reading
him like a book.

Then in a month's time, we
know everything about him

all his weaknesses and
all his strengths.

So, from the day
he comes in here

if he thinks we'll
not be watching him

he's got a surprise
coming to him.

Whether you're a good player
or whether you're a bad one

doesn't make any difference.

If you're a good man,
then we'll help you.

And out comes

the trophy which is awarded
to the league champions

already bearing the red
colours of Liverpool.

And now the salute
for the champions

and for Bill Shankly

who takes off his
jacket to reveal

the characteristic red shirt.

This is the man they like.

And this great communion
between players and supporters

all one now for the great day

in the history of
Liverpool football.

That's where the heart of
Liverpool football beats.

Why do you think
that Liverpool has

such fanatical fans?

Why do they follow
the team so closely?

I believe it's because

they identify with the manager.

The character of the manager
goes through to the players

and it goes through
to the fans as well.

I'm just one of the people
that stands in the Kop.

They think the same as I do, and
I think the same as they do.

Toshack, Keegan, one-nil.

Hughes... Vogts...

Toshack, Keegan, two-nil!

And it's all over, and Liverpool
have won the UEFA Cup.

They have come on
so tremendously

through the whole of
that second half.

Their first venture,
conquest in Europe

after nine years of strife.

Today, I feel prouder than
I've ever felt before.

We played for you...

because it's you we play for.

And it's you who pay our wages.

George Best

you've had a night
to think about it

are you still definitely
quitting football?

Yes, definitely, yeah.

I've made the decision
and that's it, then.

And how do you feel
about the dismissal

of Mr O'Farrell, along with you?

Well, it's always sad for
anyone to lose any sort of job.

It's unfortunate. He came,
did the best he could.

The board made their
decision and that's it.

Frankly, George, do you think
at all that you are responsible

for the position which
Manchester United are in now

in the relegation zone
of the first division?

Uh...

well, I don't know, from
what I've read and seen

whether I'm in or
out of the team

it was always my fault, so...

It's perfectly understandable

when someone has such

a pervasive, powerful
and positive influence

on an institution like
Manchester United

that when that figure disappears

there's something big missing.

Busby cast such a huge shadow

and I'm sure he wouldn't
have wanted to do that.

Just too much for the
person brought in.

None of them could replace

what he had represented
to the club.

Turning to you now, Mr Stein, how
do the team feel now that...

There was an attempt
to bring Jock Stein

who was obviously big enough
for Manchester United.

He was at a match at Liverpool.

On the way, we had
arranged to meet

and I suggested a time

we'd love him to come
to Old Trafford.

He shook hands with Matt Busby

and said, "I'll be
taking the job".

All of a sudden, he
decided probably...

he might be better
staying in Scotland.

He was always a home bird.

He's gripped by the soil

of north Lanarkshire

and the place he'd been
born and brought up in.

Busby couldn't believe it.

Matt, aren't you getting
a little bit tired

of having to bail
Manchester United out?

I'm getting a bit tired of
a lot of things, Barry.

I, uh... thought when I
gave the managership up

over three and a half years ago

that I was gonna get a bit
of peace and contentment.

This is the second time
I've had to come in

to fill a gap until an
appointment was made.

It is of course because
of your experience

that you've been
asked by the board

to take over again. -: Yes.

Do you accept that in,
in some way, this...

this must be an
inhibiting effect

on those who are
trying to succeed you?

I don't interfere, I
go along with it. I...

I could never understand why

all this is put that I am...
as if I was interfering.

But they're your players

or some of the senior
players are your players.

To them, you will
always be boss.

He couldn't walk away...

for several years after he
stepped down as manager.

Matt was still
bringing transfers in

but he was also a signing board
for disaffected players.

I don't particularly
wanna play football

in England again.

Why? - I don't know.

I was just a little bit
sick generally of England.

So I'm looking for
something else to do.

I don't want to
embarrass my family

by becoming a millstone

you know, if you
know what I mean.

Next season, it could
possibly happen that...

that I wasn't able to
command a first team place.

What a cross for Law!

Denis has done it!

There was a certain
culpability in the end

and it ended with Manchester
United relegated.

I've had opportunities to move.

Good opportunities to move.

Moves that would have been
better financially to me

but I've got ties here,
I've got ties...

l've got my home here, and
my family prefer to be here.

But the most important
tie here is that...

I like to be manager of Celtic

and I like the people
I'm working with.

It's as simple and
straight-forward as that.

I like the players
I'm working with...

the directors I work with
are very good as well

so I've got no complaints.

And the most important thing is

I like the people
who support us.

I like to see them getting
a bit of success.

And I'm egotistical enough
to think that if I'm here

we'll have reasonable
success anyway.

May be wrong in that, but
I'm quite happy with it.

My friends say it's fine,
friends say it's good

Everybody says, it's just
like a rock 'n' roll should

I'm not just part of Celtic,
Celtic is part of me.

I go to work and we'll
talk about the game.

After the game this
Saturday, we discuss it.

Monday, we discuss it.
Tuesday, we discuss it.

Just football, football,
all the time.

There's nothing
different, nothing more.

Just Celtic.

Celtic is us, and we are Celtic.

Well, it's plain to see
you were meant for me

I'm your boy, your
20th century toy

Friends say it's fine,
my friends say it's good

Everybody says it's just like
rock 'n' roll should now

It got to a point where
he says," Well...

this team's had enough".

Gemmell went, Wallace went,
Auld went, Murdoch went.

Everyone, Dalglish, Macary...

Hay, McGrain, you know,
and still kept going.

Glasgow Celtic is
the most successful

football club in the world.

I hope they can dispute that.

What about Ajax, Benfica,
teams like that?

Well, they haven't won
nine successive leagues.

Celtic's nearly certain
to win the league

nine successive times.

And they've been
in the league cup

ten successive years, final.

I mean, who can do that?

They won the European cup

and they've been in there and
all that and they've played

all the teams.

They've beaten Leeds United
three times out of three.

So, he's just a
natural champion.

What about this business,
you know, being a manager

in English football

where, I don't know
what the figures are...

Nine hundred, pardon me...

I've been dismissed

around the things since
the war, possibly.

Nervous business.

Nervous?

I'd say. I'll tell you
there's only one worse job

being a debt collector
in Glasgow.

I think he realised
what people expected

or wanted, or what would
grab people's attention

and he would play to that.

He'd modelled himself a
bit on Cagney, you know

that's how he saw himself.

The trilby and the long mac.

That sort of swagger
and everything

was a bit of a show.

He was like the pied piper

there would be
people following him

crowds around him

wherever he went.

And he wanted to be surrounded.

That was his lifeline, I think.

There is one of the
most talked about men

Bill Shankly.

And it looks as though
the moment has arrived

you have seen them

before the one 100,000-crowd
has seen them.

But now, the whole of Wembley...

is tense and ready to greet

two teams who've fought their
way to this 1974 cup final

and now they see them.

How d'you feel about
the news today?

What news?
- That Shankly's retired.

Retired? - What?

If that's true, then...
- It's true.

I swear it's the truth.

Honestly, I'm not
joking, it's real.

Are you having us on?

He has in fact seriously retired

honestly, I tell you.

Tell you no lie. I mean,
it's a shock to everybody.

How do... it must be a
shock It's a shock to you!

You don't believe me.
- What's happened, is he sick?

No, he's not sick he's... what?
- He wouldn't leave.

He's left!

You mean he's retired, honestly?

Give us a paper.

I've always been led
by my conscience.

I don't know what happened,
but this was a...

a thing that happened
to me all of a sudden.

I felt that I had won battles

which all managers have in
football, and always will have

and that...

that I was...

in a position whereby...

I was made a little
bit complacent.

But I had won the battles

and I felt I would go
out on us winning.

If it's come to
you as a surprise

and to the people of Liverpool

I mean, I'm sorry for that

because, I mean, they are...

the same as me.

I mean, I came to
Liverpool, that made me

and I helped to make Liverpool.

Bill, you haven't won
the European Cup.

You've won everything
else, but I mean...

are there ambitions left
unrealised for you?

Don't you feel that there
are still things to win?

Oh, I think so, cos I think
I was the best manager

in the game and I
should've won more.

Yeah.

But why... why
wouldn't you go on?

I didn't do anything
with devious ways.

I mean, I would fight with
you and would break your...

break my wife's leg if
I played against her.

But I wouldn't cheat her.

Football is perhaps
more important

to you than to any other manager

that runs in the
game in England.

I mean, are you turning your
back on football or not?

No.

You're not worried about the
possibility of a repeat

of the Manchester
United situation

the hangover of Sir Matt
Busby or anything like that.

I mean, if a new man comes
in, he will have free reign.

I mean, have you thought about...
- Well, if a new man comes in

then I would be out.

When he left Liverpool

I don't quite think he
knew what he was doing.

I think he knew he was
leaving Liverpool

but I don't think he knew
how it would affect him.

He was a man of few
words at home.

My nan didn't like football.

She didn't wanna go
to football matches.

Yeah. It was almost
like an intrusion.

Even though it was family time

football was always there.

The phone was always ringing.

You could hear him
talking football.

I can't remember anybody
who wasn't connected

with football ever coming
round to the house.

People don't believe me, they
say, "Oh, there must have been

a downside, there must've",
no there wasn't.

He was obsessed.

It's difficult living
with somebody like that.

He'd get up in the
morning, and he'd

have no purpose in his life.

He'd go down, first
of all, which he did.

He went down to the
training ground

at Liverpool, and of course

the lads are calling him boss.

Bob is there, he's the boss.

You know, and there was a
lot of conflict, uh...

and it wasn't right, so he
had to be told in a nice way

Bill, it'd be better if you...

if you never went down
the training ground.

He'd put on his tracksuit
and he'd wander round

the Everton ground
to talk to them

cos it's right over the
fence from his garden.

Bill, is your wife gonna like it

now that you've retired?

Is she gonna get worried
about your restlessness?

I think she's a
little bit worried.

I think she thinks I'm
sorry that I've retired.

Are you sorry you...
- She feels a lot of sympathy.

In a sense, I feel
sometimes that way

but I don't regret it, no.

But I think so.

He did try to make up, I think

for the fact that
with his own children

he was a bit of
an absent figure.

You know, my mum
always did say to me

You see him more than I ever
did when I was growing up."

I don't know if my nan just
thought, "Oh, well everything

will just be normal now, we'll
be just like a normal family"

but that's not how
it turned out.

And he couldn't because that
was all he really cared about.

Yes, he'd made a decision

but he hadn't taken into account

what that decision
would do to him.

That's not being overdramatic.

I don't think he ever got over
not being manager of Liverpool.

Jock Stein loved the
Celtic supporters.

Not everybody inside Celtic
park had that rapport with him.

He was Protestant.

Because of his background

some people simply
didn't like him

and he felt there
was just that...

lingering thing among
certain elements...

about him.

The loss of Kenny Dalglish
in August of 1977

meant that Celtic
were diminished.

The thing about
football supporters is

they have a very short memory.

Celtic had been a dominant force
throughout the Scottish game

a big name in the
European table, as well.

And now, that was going away.

We move into an era

where the likes of Dalglish

and Macari can get such
huge money in England

that that's where they go

and they go to Manchester
United and Liverpool.

The manager is a very, very
specialised profession

that in ten years'
success and industry

would have a very, very high
position in that industry.

In football, you have
ten years success

you're actually more
insecure the eleventh year

than you are in
the previous ten.

His time, probably, was up.

I think he felt, to a certain
extent, that himself.

He was offered really
meaningless things

to stay on the board,
which he couldn't accept.

His family felt very,
badly hurt about it.

You're asking one of
the greatest names

in world football

to start selling things for you.

It was a problem

because Jock dominated everybody

and therefore, we've
got a new manager

and it was felt that
Jock should sort of

hang back for a little while.

When eventually he had to go

like any...

abdication...

there's regret.

Billy McNeil, of course,
was the heir apparent.

You know, the king is
dead, long live the king.

Where there is discord

may we bring harmony.

Where there is error,
may we bring truth.

Where there is doubt

may we bring faith

and where there is despair,
may we bring hope.

In the 1970s, the mood

of the proletarian
audience had changed.

Violence and division
was in the air.

The civil war...

between the declining
industries was notably mining

and the forces of law and order.

That caused a lot of fear
and loathing in society.

I think the game has
lost a bit of its charm.

Bastards!

Where there's men
and there's, uh...

somebody's got to win and
somebody's got to lose

somebody's gonna
lose their temper.

We managed to chase people
away from the game.

We're not concerned with tickets

we're not concerned how many
people are at the match

but we're concerned that we've
got a trouble-free game

Jon the terrace, and that's
the most important thing.

There was a lot of talk about
society being fractured.

These three great men

were educated in interdependence

community, and it
bound them together

in a way that people growing up
today just would not understand.

It was playing, it was for pride

and for the people, of course.

Now it's money, money, money.

What is a football
club, but a community?

The creations of Stein,
Shankly and Busby

became the good old days.

Well, everything I got out of
football I owe to football

and the dedication and
what I put into the game.

You only get out of the
game what you put into it

and I put everything
into it I could

and still do.

For the people and the people
that I was playing for

and the people that
I was manager for.

I didn't cheat them
out of anything.

So, I put all my heart and soul

to the extent that
my family suffered.

Do you regret that at all?

Yeah, I regret it very much.
Yeah.

Somebody said that
football's a matter

of life and death to you.

I said, "Listen, it's more
important than that".

Until Bill Shankly
came to this city

football was a joke

and he... well, he was Liverpool

and the fans thought a
hell of a lot of him.

Along with the Beatles, I guess.
You know...

Bill Shankly is the kind
of bloke who brought life

back to Merseyside.

He's a sort of man you
never thought would die.

You just imagine the
world to go on and on.

You honestly thought
that he would be there

when no one else was left.

We were very, very good friends.

Very close friends
over many years.

He laid the foundation there.

Deep down, the greatest
satisfaction was

taking Liverpool into the
position they're now in.

We were in a city that was...

where the potential
was brilliant

which, of course,
is proven to be...

Gone from strength to strength.

So many years have
passed since he died

it almost feels as if the legacy
and the legend has grown.

You can feel, everywhere

there is something
of his legacy.

I was the manager,
I picked the team.

I did a lot of
things in Liverpool

but they were more
important than me, really.

Everything I did
was for the people

and to make them proud
because this is their life.

At the end of the
day, when he died...

I feel that he died
of a broken heart...

because football was his life.

Was there a lot more
pressure being manager

of Scotland than there was
being manager of Celtic?

There's no doubt that

there's more people
want you to be.

To have something to say about
the Scottish team and did.

Some people are quite happy
when a team like Celtic

or Rangers go down

but everyone in Scotland

more or less wants
to see them do well.

But, at the end of the day

it's your own head that's
on the chopping block.

A long throw on,
found by Nicholl.

Nicholl again, challenging.

- First goal to Wales!

I think the man was
under pressure

almost in every game he played

because football,
to him, was life.

When I saw the game yesterday

I honestly got the impression
actually that we'd asked him

to play one game too many.

I knew... I could see there
was something wrong.

There was a lot of wires

television wires
all over the place

and this camera guy
kept winging down

in front of us, and it
became an annoyance.

And the dream start
that Wales wanted

has been delivered.

His last act as a
Scotland manager

was to throw David
Cooper into the fray.

A stray shot there, oh!

That was a penalty kick!

This could be the penalty
kick with ten minutes to go

to send Scotland...

to the playoffs.

- They've made it!

The referee boys whistle but...

and Jock, I think,
thought it was time up.

You know, and he got up...

and he just sort of collapsed,
and we grabbed him, you know.

There goes the final whistle.

Scotland have got the result
they wanted so badly.

Well, what night for Scotland!

He always kept saying

Mate, at end of the
game, you know...

you must keep your dignity...

and acknowledge the fans"

so, at end of game, I kept
the players on the pitch.

They told me he was alright

so, we came back and
congratulated players

and Graham Souness was standing

along the outside the
medical room, crying...

and I says, "What?", he says,
"I think the big man's gone".

I said, "Oh my God".

I mean, it's a tragedy
in our hour of triumph.

You know, Jock has
given us a lifeline

to get to another World Cup.

It's difficult to express
the words, Martin

because you know, he's been such
a giant of football in Scotland

and for him to go tonight

We'll all feel a terrible loss.

I'm quite sure that
every fan standing here

tonight would've
wished Scotland to get

pulled out of the World Cup for
Mr Stein to still with us.

He didn't take the
credit on himself.

Always giving it to the
players and to the fans.

He's a legend, he's one time.

He'll remain a legend
in Scottish football

as far as I'm concerned.

You play a football
match without fans

you've got nothing.

It can be the greatest
game in the world.

If there are no people there
to watch, it becomes nothing.

Give an average game
with a big crowd

excitement, atmosphere,
this makes it a great game.

If you go to Celtic Park now,
you'll see a modern stadium

one of the best, has
60,000 spectators in it

every time Celtic play there.

Glorious lights in
Europe and all of that.

The genesis of it

is the day Jock Stein
became Celtic manager.

When I used to try and quiz him

about how he achieved it at
Celtic winning that European Cup

he would put it on the
players, you know.

He would never take any
of the credit himself.

I couldn't get him to say...

Well, I did this for a reason"

and that was it.

We retell how we
played real that day

how Murdoch was in control

or Big Billy was dominant

you know, it would be thrown
back towards the players

and he never say a bad
word about Celtic.

Celtic are a serious proposition

wherever they're playing, whoever
they're playing against.

And you still feel his presence

in the presence of his team

and that is his legacy.

Jock Stein is a man who's got
the blood of Bruce in his veins

you know. That's
my opinion of him.

One of the most remarkable men
that's ever been in the game.

Alex Ferguson, the
greatest manager

of the Premier League
era without question

would not have considered
joining Manchester United

if Matt Busby hadn't
built the club

that was there waiting
for Alex in 1986.

Here we go, gentlemen,
here we go.

Hold it.

He embraced the legacy.

He understood perhaps

the only club who could really,
one day, challenge Liverpool.

Rebuilding on the Busby model.

Youth development,
make our own players

polish our diamonds.

Wingers...

Entertainment...

everything that
Busby had laid down

and that he, Alex
Ferguson, believed in.

And that's why throughout
the Ferguson era

the crowd would sing
Matt Busby's name.

It's almost as if they knew.

To me, it always gives
Old Trafford a soul

when you hear them sing
Matt Busby's name.

Cos they're right.

Matt Busby is the soul
of Manchester United.

I think the main
thing is to be human

treat people the way you'd
like to be treated yourself.

Be disciplined, but don't
over-discipline people

but try and gain respect

both for the people
that are your family

but mainly for yourself.

I feel the best thing is to
be a sort of good neighbour

a good pal, and
create good feelings.

Football is the thing
that unites everybody.

Everybody cares,
everybody has a team

pretty much.

The beauty of football is
that it's so available.

It's such an open
game in that way.

And you still see that
all over the world

you know, that's still
why it's loved.

Although their heyday
is a long time ago

the day in which they
performed their great deeds

Busby and Stein and Shankly...

they still feel as if they're
within touching distance

and they still play a role in...

animating the game in Britain...

the way we think about it

the aspirations we have for it,
and for the teams we support.

Their heartbeats were so strong
that we can still hear them.

They are the makers of
modern British football.

♪ Where have we been to ♪

♪ And what did you see? ♪

♪ Don't really know why ♪

♪ But it doesn't bother me ♪

♪ Time is on your
side right now ♪

♪ But time can change ♪

♪ What is it that
you are wanting? ♪

♪ And what are you hiding? ♪

♪ Do you know where it
is you're going to ♪

♪ And hoping to find there? ♪

♪ Time is on your
side right now ♪

♪ But time will change ♪

♪ As you are now ♪

♪ I once was ♪

♪ As I am now ♪

♪ You will be ♪

♪ 'Time is on your
side right now ♪

♪ But time can change ♪

♪ Time is on your
side right now ♪

♪ But time will change ♪

♪ To my storm-bred sons ♪

♪ And my hurricane daughter ♪

♪ Who were born from sand And
to sand we will return ♪

♪ And wind and white water ♪

♪ Cos time is on your
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