Life of Ryan: Caretaker Manager Page #7

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and I trusted the players,

and some of the players

let me down and let themselves down.

Maybe I was a little bit too soft.

I don't care where you are

in the league and I don't care

if the results have been going badly,

if you step onto that pitch as a United player,

you give it your all, and if you don't,

then you deserve not to play the next game.

RYAN:
I think I've always had a will to win.

From an early age, I was used to winning,

and it's that fear of losing

because you know losing is a much bigger

emotion than winning.

When you win, it's great,

but then it goes away.

When you lose, it's not great,

but it doesn't go away for a long, long time.

I've spoken to him.

He's now starting to have five-hour sleeps,

so he's in the real world

with the other coaches

and managers taking every sort of

little problem to bed with him,

thinking about how

he's gonna leave players out.

But he's got the clinical side

to be able to do that,

he's got the temperament

to be able deal with that.

As a manager you have to make big decisions,

and obviously that's something

that all managers will tell you,

and he is absolutely capable

of making big decisions.

I was upset after the game,

but the longer it's gone on

since I've just got angrier and angrier.

I've slept less and less, and just can't have it.

Just can't have it.

If any of them want to come and see me

and ask me why they're not playing,

then I'll tell them, and I don't think

they'll have a leg to stand on.

I mean, I was stood on the side

against Sunderland, just wishing

I'd made myself sub,

so I could do something about it.

I bet every manager thinks like that,

but I'm in a position

where I'm still playing

and can still affect the game.

I know he has said

the difficult part has been leaving players out,

but he's hard enough to do that. He'll explain

why he's left them out,

he won't just name a team

and not tell players

why he's leaving them out.

He'll do that, which I think is important.

He's got a bit of a snap in him,

I can tell you that.

I've seen that a few times.

But I think that's just the mentality,

that makes him what he is,

that desire to win.

RYAN:
I said from day one,

"Tell me your views

"and be really straightforward."

That's why I've got people who I know

and trust to give me honest opinions.

I think the club's always been based around

bringing young players through

and giving them a chance.

Nine times out of ten

they have no fear

and they just go out and play

like they're in the park,

and it injects enthusiasm,

speed, you know, just a bit of happy energy

around the place, really, and it's important

that we continue that trend, and if it weren't

for Sir Alex giving us our chance,

we probably wouldn't be here now.

RYAN:
I brought a few players

in from the younger teams

to train with us,

and they didn't look out of place.

I hadn't trained since that Tuesday

when I got told, and it's hard to.

It's hard to train from getting in from at 7:30,

you're just non-stop,

and then try and prepare yourself

for a training session at 10:30.

It's hard, but, yeah,

I was determined to make sure that

I was involved in the next game.

When I trained on that... Monday, was it?

Yeah, loved it, loved it.

And bossed it as well,

boss trainer, so that was even better.

RYAN:
Yeah, training was always

the best pan' of the day for me

because you know what it's like

after you've exercised,

you just feel great.

You know, you speak to ex-players

and, "Do you still enjoy training?"

Well, yeah, of course I do.

And some of them maybe at the end didn't.

I never, ever got to that point

where I don't wanna go out there.

To be able to go

for 25 years at the highest level

and be pretty successful at that

takes something special.

It takes something

that not a lot of people have,

and it takes something

that you have to dig down

even more so towards

the latter part of your career

than what you did in the beginning.

When we'd send them off on a run,

there was Ryan

away at the front, killing everyone.

Robson was a great athlete, a great trainer.

He used to warn him, "For Christ's sake,

you're showing us up."

I've had my own little team

that's kept me going to 40.

Sarah, yoga teacher. Philip Neil,

who's probably been the biggest part of that.

- Feel the difference?

- Yeah, I can feel it.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

- Um... God.

-(ALL LAUGH)

You're killing me here.

Yeah, I'll get through Saturday first,

and then think about that.

Right. Cheers. Thanks, mate.

Thanks, mate.

Thanks.

FERGUSON:
He's an exception

in terms of an athlete in football

that it's these great attributes of balance

and weight and stamina,

and that has allowed him to stay in the game

and play at 40 years of age.

He's just a freak, really,

as an athlete, absolute freak.

RYAN:
Old Trafford is unique, just like

its name. It's the theatre of dreams.

The roar of the crowd just makes you bigger,

makes you stronger

when they're cheering your name.

You want to do well for the fans

and you love it,

you embrace it, you just

want them feelings to last forever.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

RYAN'. Hull was...

Obviously watched Sunderland

and pretty lacklustre performance,

so I wanted to bring some energy,

I wanted to bring some freshness

within the team and, yeah,

there was no hesitation in starting

Tom Lawrence and James Wilson.

What young players will do, they'll try things,

they'll do things that maybe players

who aren't having a good time won't try,

so, yeah, I had no hesitation

in throwing them in

and they didn't disappoint me.

(CROWD CHEERING)

You seen it, I celebrated

when Willo scored the first goal.

We've all been there, we've all been there

as young players making the debut.

It was a great moment.

Started warming up at two-nil,

and then it went to two-one.

No matter how many games you play,

if you get a great response off the fans,

then it has an effect on you

and gives you that extra spring in your step.

Yeah, there was a little bit in my head

that this could be the last time.

But, no, I just felt good.

I just went on and

did what I do, really, and no different

than any other game that I'd approached.

(CROWD CHEERING)

CROWD:
Oh!

No, I would have liked

to have scored this season,

but it wasn't to be.

I'm chilled about it. There's no pressure.

I would have loved to, yeah,

what am I talking about?

I would have really, really loved to, but

didn't happen.

(APPLAUSE)

LIBERTY:
Daddy, who was man of the match?

RYAN:
Me.

STACEY:
Serious, it was you?

- RYAN:
Was I heck.

-(STACEY LAUGHS)

RYAN:
Who do you think

should be man of the match?

LIBERTY:
That guy.

STACEY:
That young lad.

LIBERTY:
That James person.

RYAN:
Yeah, he did well.

STACEY:
Is he called Wilson?

RYAN:
James Wilson, yeah.

- Willo. Did well, didn't he?

- LIBERTY:
Mmm-hmm.

STACEY:
Did really Well.

LIBERTY:
Everyone was worrying

because you put

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