The Three Kings (2020) Movie Script

1
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
first of all, as a player? 0+
Celtic had a centre
half problem in 1951
through
injury.0Athrough injury.
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.
He 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
side right now