The Class of 92 Page #16

That's an out-of-body experience, that.

BECKHAM:
We won the ball back again.

We broke forward.

We got another corner.

I'm getting goosebumps just...

I can feel it.

I remember the feeling

of getting that ball in the corner,

knowing that I'm going

to put a good corner in again.

And then everything just literally erupted.

COMMENTATOR 2:
In to Sheringham...

And Solskjaer has got it!

(CHEERING WILDLY)

This was what was meant to happen.

PHIL:
There's no greater feeling than

scoring in the last minute to win a game.

You know, I've had kids.

I've had kids and I've got married,

but it's the greatest feeling

in the whole wide world.

BUTT:
I don't remember the final whistle,

to be honest with you.

It was like the game was over then.

COMMENTATOR 2:
History is made.

GIGGS:
As soon as the final whistle went,

it was relief, it was excitement,

it was joy, it was everything.

And I just went to my knees

and just started sobbing.

GARY:
I just remember lying on the floor,

looking up, thinking,

almost nearly crying on the pitch,

thinking, "Oh, my God.

"What has just happened here?"

I went up to Gary, the lights were on,

nobody was in.

His eyes were glazed.

His eyeballs were rolling.

I looked up and the first person

coming towards me was the gaffer.

And just got up and just hugged him.

GARY:
But that night you felt you were

hugging and you just never wanted to let go.

The best feeling I've ever had

on a football pitch. The best...

Best I've ever felt.

It's the greatest day of my life,

and it's hard for me to comprehend it.

COMMENTATOR:
Gary Neville, 24.

Phil Neville, 22.

David Beckham, 24.

Nicky Butt, 24. Giggs, 25.

Whatever they achieve in their futures,

I doubt that they will ever, ever cap this.

Manchester United

are Champions of Europe again.

I remember feeling Scholesy

should have been out there with us.

The image that I like most is when we all

make a tunnel for Scholesy and Keaney

and they come through

and carry the European Cup,

because they were absolutely critical

to everything that we achieved that season.

SCHOLES:
I'd rather have just gone

in the dressing room

and waited for everyone, really,

and congratulated people that way,

but, you know, I suppose the players

made a big deal out of it,

and me and Roy embarrassingly

were on the pitch.

I'll never ever forget that.

After all them years of waiting

and then to see it,

your team win the Champions League

in your lifetime, in such amazing fashion.

In fact, I missed the winning goal,

I was crying like a baby.

Once that first goal went in.

I missed the winning goal.

I was just slumped on my seat.

I was just out of it emotionally,

gone, you know?

I've always been...

Never got carried away,

never ever got carried away.

I nearly got carried away that night,

you know, but...

So excited, but it made me immensely proud.

BOYLE:
The romance of the last-minute

never-say-die moment, of them winning

I suppose was very special.

That continuity between

the Busby Babes being lost as a team,

you know, that potential, that wonder,

that was so tragically interrupted,

and then being renewed

by that manager again,

ten years later to win the European Cup,

and then 30 years later,

to have to wait 30 years

just to see them do it again, was...

Yeah, it was very, very

special, I think, really.

GARY:
You were massively aware that night

of what you were representing

in the history of the club,

because that's where the club,

and all its tradition,

all its history that it's got, comes back

and just comes all into one moment.

And that night seemed to be

just one of those moments.

I think winning the European Cup

is massive for anybody,

but when you've won it with lads

that you've grew up with all your life,

and we've got good pictures now

of the six of us

with the European Cup, and it's, like,

some of us knew each other from 12.

I never look back. I don't like to look

back, I always like to look forward.

But if you said to me,

"Could you live 10 days again?",

it would be those 10 days.

It's unbelievable.

It's perfect script.

(CHUCKLES)

Yeah.

It's romantic.

Only sports can give you

this kind of emotion.

They won the cup in Barcelona

simply because of their character.

Many people say we were lucky.

You could say that,

but I don't think they were.

What I thought was their character won it.

We had a great bunch of boys

who were getting better every game,

and they did it together.

That was the important thing.

They did it together.

But the one thing, when you look back,

in 100 years, the treble of '99 will be...

That will never be forgotten, that.

I think there are special moments in time

when a whole series of things come together,

when you had those young people from,

you know, very ordinary backgrounds,

who suddenly symbolised,

represented something new

and had that extraordinary

ability to achieve.

And to achieve in a way

that people hadn't done before.

You always hope and think

that things will happen again.

But will there ever be

a time where six lads

who grew up from the age of 12, 13,

come through and win a treble,

having supported the club? I'm not sure.

I'm not sure it can happen again.

I'm not sure football,

the way in which it's going to go,

I'm not sure football, in the way,

in the immediacy of life now,

where everything's got to be instant,

I don't think you'll ever see six, seven players

coming through in British football again.

Well, you probably dream about playing

for Man United, don't you, but...

The reality for most people,

it's not going to happen.

And we were just the lucky ones

that it did happen to.

We managed to all play with each other

right through the youth team,

straight through to the first team. It

doesn't really happen at that many places,

and will anything like that happen again?

I'm not too sure.

Until recently, where I sat back and looked

at old videos, looked at old pictures,

and really kind of thought

about what it was like

with these players that I'd grown up with,

to win what we'd won,

to turn round and see,

you know, Gary behind me...

We'd grown up in those positions.

You know, to look to the side

and see Scholesy and Butty and Giggsy.

You know, to look back to see Phil.

You know, this was...

This was more special

than anything I've been involved in

through my whole life and my whole career.

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