The Class of 92 Page #10

looking at the lads, laughing,

thinking he's just going to touch it there.

And I've looked round like that,

he's turned round, full pirouette

and caught his manhood right on the pot.

And you heard a little... (MIMICS SIZZLE)

like that as well.

And we're just looking in absolute

disbelief, and can't believe what he's done.

And all I hear is... (GROANS)

(IN AN ACCENT) "What are you doing?"

BUTT:
Screamed as loud as he could.

He's just going to kill me.

So I literally dropped the kettle

and I was just legging it right round,

all round The Cliff, and he's chasing me.

Ended up having a big

blister on the end of it.

I don't what he was thinking.

It was just a naughty school kid in him.

"Right, I've got a pot here, he's...

"Right, I think I'll have to do that,

there's nothing else I can...

"Right, I'll do it."

And I don't...

I think he just lost himself.

It is one of the funniest

things I've ever seen.

Brilliant.

GARY:
Manchester was absolutely brilliant.

We were young lads playing for United.

What couldn't we be happy about?

We were doing

everything that you wanted to do,

with the badge that you wanted to wear,

winning.

GIGGS:
At the time

there was a lot of optimism.

You know, six lads from the youth team

have gone through

and are regulars now in the United team.

It was becoming a young person's world,

you know?

Music was changing. Politics was changing.

Football was changing.

You had a young band from Burnage,

Oasis, just ruling the world.

And it gave a lot of optimism.

You could feel it within the country.

PHIL:
Life in England

was just going along nicely.

And then all of a sudden

there was this razzmatazz.

There was this surge, this tidal wave

of culture that suddenly dominated.

Suddenly, luck sparkled

in front of the world.

GARY:
I got a Union Jack guitar,

and I sent it to him to sign,

and I really should have known better,

to be fair.

He sent it back with, "To Gary,

how many England caps do you deserve?

"I'll tell you, none.

Lots of love, Noel Gallagher."

And put "MCFC" all over it.

BOYLE:
There was that feeling

in that few years preceding that,

the public spirit had disappeared.

This long period of individuality,

of selfishness,

there's no such thing as society.

That led inexorably to us wanting to

re-establish a sense of idealism.

Seventeen years of hurt

never stopped us dreaming.

Labour is coming home!

TONY BLAIR:
I was constantly aware

of the fact that I was young, very young.

And I remember the very first day

I came into Downing Street,

going down to meet

the head of the Civil Service,

who was much more senior figure

from the British establishment,

and he looked at me and said,

"Well done. What now?"

You don't realise until you look back

how important a time that was,

and how fortunate you was

to be around the place in them days.

What those young players felt

was possible for them as players,

there was a curious kind of echo

in culture, in art and in politics.

I mean, when I look back now and think of

the changes we made to the House of Lords,

getting rid of the Hereditary Peers,

Scottish Devolution,

giving Scotland

its first parliament,

and then peace in Northern Ireland,

sometimes I think

what was great about the spirit

of that time was that

what, on rational analysis was impossible,

became imbued by a spirit of possibility

and was actually done.

There was a kind of hope

crept back into everything

and it was a great time of change,

and it's party time, you know.

It was good times.

The Stretford End gets knocked down

and all of a sudden you've got this

massive big new stadium at Old Trafford.

You've got stadiums going out

around the world, bigger and better.

Everything was getting bigger and better.

GARY:
The game became

completely different.

The way in which it was viewed.

The way in which it was televised.

The money that came into the game.

The wages going up.

BLAIR:
English soccer

became a major pan' of our identity.

Suddenly it went from something

that was politically kind of irrelevant

to something that was

politically important.

We were part, probably,

of a revolution, in a way.

I suppose if you had to pick a footballer

to epitomise that, more than any,

it would be David Beckham.

I grew up in East London.

Born in Leytonstone.

Lived in Leytonstone, right near

the dog track for about 10 years,

and then we moved to Chingford,

posh part of East London.

We stayed there up until I left for Manchester,

which was when I was 15 years old.

My dad was a huge Man United fan,

all he talked about was United.

His favourite player was Bobby Charlton.

My middle name is Robert Joseph.

"Robert" because of Bobby Charlton,

and "Joseph" because of my granddad.

My granddad was a Tottenham fan. He'd

been a season ticket holder for 50 years.

So at Christmas, my dad always used to buy

me a Man United kit, the new Man United kit.

And my granddad

always used to buy me the Tottenham kit.

What was it like when you signed?

How did you feel when you...

it was brilliant.

Straight from when we left here.

When we got there, it was just brilliant.

Signing the paper and that.

Just couldn't believe it was happening.

Becks turned up to United,

and he looked like a Man United mascot.

He had all the tracksuits, scarves, caps,

Bobby Charlton badges.

But he was just a fanatic Man United fan.

It was a weird experience

for us local lads to see

a cockney lad knowing more

about United than we did.

A bit embarrassing.

BECKHAM:
Sir Alex Ferguson

would just call my mum and dad's house,

and my mum would answer

and it would be this strong Scottish accent

saying, "Mrs Beckham, it's Alex Ferguson,"

and my mum would be like...

To my dad, you know.

And my dad would be like, "No way".

So my dad would come on the phone

and he'd just have a chat,

say, "How's David doing?

How did he do last weekend?"

And most of the time my dad would say,

"He did all right, but he can do better".

Because that's what my dad did.

When he was 11, every game in London,

Dave would be at the bus

as we arrived, him and his parents.

In fact, we got him as a mascot

for the game at West Ham one day,

and he was over the moon.

So it was sealed.

He was never going anywhere.

And Brucey and Robbo

would just take the mick out of him.

"Flipping heck, he must be some player.

"What's he doing

in Man United's dressing room?"

I'd go in the changing room

and I'd help Norman

pick up the dirty pants, the dirty socks,

the dirty shorts from the...

I was loving it.

It was Man United, Man United players

just kind of dropping their underwear

on the floor,

and I was grabbing it,

putting it in the box.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

MAN:
And won't you miss home?

I probably will miss it a little bit,

but I'll be doing what I want to do, so...

What I've always admired about David

is his mental toughness is phenomenal.

I mean, people can say whatever they want

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