The Class of 92 Page #15

was Roy missing it,

'cause he had been so

good in that semi-final

that it was going to be major problem

for us really, not having Roy.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

PHIL:
We needed someone...

We needed someone that was willing

to take the fight to Bayern Munich,

and in Nicky Butt we had the

perfect person. He's fearless.

You know, you go to war,

you take Nicky Butt with you.

You know, the manager told him,

"Forget the FA Cup final. Forget it.

"You're playing in the Champions League

final. You know, I can't risk it."

BUTT:
I was distraught, I was thinking...

I was devastated.

I was thinking, I was just saying to

the manager, "Well, it's the FA Cup."

But I knew, ultimately, the end,

the reward at the end was massive

for myself. And the club.

GIGGS:
He's the, you know, the only

real proper centre midfielder in the team.

So there was a big of pressure on him as

well, and it was against a very good team.

FERGUSON:
They're showing

their character now.

The team spirit has been fantastic

since beating Liverpool in the cup tie.

Sort of a focus on the essential

of never giving in,

and team spirit, and determination.

I was completely on my arse,

and I had to sell my Lambretta.

My most prized possession

is my Lambretta scooter,

and I sold it on the Monday,

the game was on the Wednesday.

And then booked us

on a week's holiday to Salou,

and then get 400 quid each for a ticket.

I was like, the crowd we were in...

It was any means necessary, you know.

PHIL:
The Nou Camp is one

of the iconic venues.

It wasn't plush, it was pretty old, really.

You go down the tunnel,

it was bare concrete walls.

On the right-hand side

there's a little room,

it's like a little chapel

where you go in and pray.

Before you're going out to get killed,

you've got to go in

and say a prayer first type thing,

and then you come

to the bottom of the tunnel,

and at the Nou Camp the steps go up.

And as you're coming up the steps,

all you can see is the stadium above you.

COMMENTATOR:
Manchester United were the first

English club to lift the European Cup,

but no Manchester United team,

no English team, has ever won this treble.

History beckons tonight.

The amount of Man United fans

that were there was phenomenal

compared to Munich.

We took up three-quarters of the ground.

You knew you were in a massive game then,

and then you just look for your family,

give them a little wave

and then it's just game on then.

This is it for us.

This is the moment where we either become

Manchester United legends,

or we just win the league and the FA Cup.

GIGGS:
The game didn't go great,

obviously, with the start.

And they were such a powerful team,

such an experienced team,

that you thought, back of your mind,

"Is it one too many

to come back in this game?

"We'd done it so much,

have we run out of luck?

"Have we run out of something,

"um, at the crucial point?"

COMMENTATOR:
And Manchester United,

as they've done

time and time again on this European run,

have made it hard for themselves.

At half-time, I remember

the manager sitting down with us,

and I could tell, you know, there was a few

nerves throughout the team and players.

He told us, "Just think how you would feel

"if you had to walk past

that Champions League trophy

"and you couldn't touch it,

you couldn't pick it up.

"You know, you hadn't won it.

"So, if you're feeling tired,

or if you feel like you can't run any more,

"just think Of that."

"Just think of having to walk past it

and you can't pick it up,

"you can't touch it, you can't kiss it."

GARY:
The only doubts that I ever had

were probably in the last half an hour

of the Champions League final.

Because Bayern Munich

were still getting chances.

They were hitting the bar,

they were hitting the post.

And we weren't playing well.

Things weren't happening for us.

We weren't getting our crosses in.

I wasn't overlapping.

Giggsy wasn't getting his dribbles in.

We didn't have the combinations

between Yorke and Cole.

Things that we'd done all year...

The moment...

There was no momentum in the game.

And all of a sudden,

with about 15 minutes to go,

Becks came out to the right-hand side.

We made a couple of changes.

Teddy came on. Ole came on.

And all of a sudden I

thought, "Here we go."

It was disaster for the club,

Roy Keane missing it.

Disaster for Roy Keane.

But maybe that was God's way of saying

this is Nicky Butt's moment.

If people ever sort of doubted,

how good a player Butty was,

then that shows everything

about the player,

because he was just a rock that night.

MANI:
He was immense. I was there.

What a guy.

Gorton, there you go.

He's from Manchester.

He knows what it meant.

You know what I mean?

But if it goes back

to fundamentally what it was about,

it was about us keeping driving forward,

keep attacking.

We got corner after corner

after corner and...

And with people like Becks on the pitch

to put balls in like that,

and the attacking power we had,

and the aerial power we had,

you know, it should only

be a matter of time.

GARY:
Manchester United teams under

Sir Alex Ferguson always went to the end.

Always. Because we always felt,

"Get one goal, we'll always get another.

"We'll always get a chance."

Three minutes to go,

"Don't panic, we always get a chance."

COMMENTATOR:
Three added minutes.

David Beckham.

Now Gary Neville.

Cross deflected.

Effenberg. Out for a corner.

Can Manchester United score?

They always score.

And I remember sprinting

over to the corner,

and I had a good feeling

because I knew that

I'd been kind of playing

pretty well in the game.

And I remember putting the ball down,

and it's really tight in the corners.

I could hear the United fans.

But I was just concentrating more

on watching Peter Schmeichel

run up from his goal,

and knowing that, as a kid,

if I put a bad cross in

while we're warming the goalkeepers up,

Pete would absolutely kill us.

I think those moments,

when I was a youth-team player,

prepared me for moments like this.

COMMENTATOR:
Schmeichel is forward.

Can he score another in Europe?

- He's got one in Europe already.

- COMMENTATOR 2:
Beckham.

In towards Schmeichel.

It's come for Dwight Yorke.

Cleared. Giggs with a shot!

Sheringham!

BECKHAM:
So then we were back in the game.

Everyone was celebrating.

Everyone was like, you know,

we've got it to extra time.

I looked at the players that I'd grown

up with on the pitch at that time,

and I knew that they knew

that it wasn't over.

I'm thinking, sh*t, we've got extra time

now, I better get my legs going again.

So I've sprinted right back,

for, like, about 50 yards,

trying to get some blood

going through my legs.

As soon as we equalised,

my mindset just switched.

"Get this to extra time,

we're going to beat them."

That was my mindset straight away.

"We're going to beat them in extra time."

And the next minute and a half,

I couldn't even tell you what happened.

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