The Class of 92 Page #7

and they're the heroes for you,

they produce the biggest moments,

at the best times, when you need them.

And throughout that season

they all delivered.

Every single one of them.

But Giggsy's moment

is the stand-out moment.

You needed a result,

but you didn't need extra time,

10 men, a real battle like this...

Look, who's to know

what's going to happen in football, Gary?

It could all blow up in my face

at the end of the day,

but can you forget moments like this?

Those supporters

will be talking about that for years.

The players will be talking

about that for years.

That's what football's about.

Trying to reach peaks

and climaxes to our season,

which we're doing at the moment.

We're in a final, we've got something

in the bank for ourselves.

Now we go and try and win this league now.

I mean, the place went wild,

and I'll always remember, that game,

I don't think a supporter left that ground

not thinking we couldn't win the treble.

Not one person came out

of that ground. It just lifted everyone.

I mean, I think if they'd have won,

they might have gone on

and won the double, but...

Have you ever seen the footage when,

you know, when he scores the goal

and goes like this...

- Watch the footage of Scholesy...

- I got into the goal.

He goes in the goal and goes like this...

He's probably thinking, what am I doing?

- I've never seen it.

- Have you seen it?

Because I was running

waiting for you to square it.

And you ran away celebrating,

and you take your top off,

and I go like that...

(LAUGHS)

That'd had have got me out jail,

Scholesy, that one.

- Right next to me.

- Yeah, it would have done, yeah.

Well, cricket was my first love,

and it probably is my first love now.

I used to miss an awful lot of school

through cricket,

and an awful lot of school

in the winter through football.

So, you know, my dad was always

one of those that said,

"Well, let's give him the

best opportunities."

So they came to some agreement that I could

either miss school for cricket or for football.

And, you know, it was

a massive decision to make,

and in the end it was probably

an easy decision because

two months before that, I'd played

at Wembley for England Schoolboys,

and I think there was about

78,000 people there,

we'd played Italy at Wembley.

A couple of weeks after that

I'd played cricket for England,

made my debut for cricket for England,

I was captain of the Under-15s

and we played in Gloucestershire.

Literally, there was

probably 30 people there,

and what should have been probably one of

the best moments of my schoolboy career,

it was probably one of

the biggest let-downs.

And in a way,

that was probably the turning point.

Phil Neville was a player

we were all after.

I think Arsenal and a couple of...

But we were clever enough to say,

"Right, if we take Gary,"

who was doing very well also,

"and get the two of them,

"there's a far better attraction for the

family to keep the two brothers together."

I used to play

two or three years above myself.

I wasnt-just in my own age group playing

at centre back or fullback or in midfield,

so I was playing with men

when I was only a boy.

So I realised early on

that to get forward in the game,

I needed many strings to my bow.

The England manager used to say to me,

you need to nail down one position.

You need to nail down one position,

if you do that, you'll have

a bigger, better, longer career.

And I used to come away thinking,

that is the biggest load of rubbish

that I've ever heard in my life.

I'm 19, I'm 20,

I'm a regular in Man United's

first-team squad.

And I think it was

probably one of the times

when I probably did have to be

strong with myself,

that what I was doing

and what I believed in was right.

I first seen him at The Cliff,

playing in a game,

and he was one of them

players that you just,

"Wait a minute,

is he right-footed or left-footed?"

And me being just, you know, my right

foot's for standing on and that's it,

I'm so one-footed, to see someone

like that, I'm always interested.

Phil was always popular, because he was...

He was comfortable

around anyone's company.

He was one of them people

who were good in the dressing room,

and good to have around, because

he would just make people feel at ease.

As a fullback, you need to develop a trick,

and mine was a step-over.

And I worked on it every day.

And I did it in a game

once at Old Trafford.

I did a step-over, got to the by-line,

crossed it, and... we nearly scored.

And as I was running back,

Butty, Becks, Keano,

they were laughing their heads off.

Just laughing their heads off,

and I could not understand for the

life of me why they were laughing.

I'd just done the best step-over

that this club has ever seen,

and they're absolutely

wetting themselves laughing.

So the next time I get the ball,

I threw in a double step-over,

and the crowd, you know,

they were cheering,

and I think they thought

I was taking the mickey.

But this is something

that I was serious about

and I've worked on for six months.

And I'd just produced it at Old Trafford

against Southampton.

So I turned round after

the double step-over,

and Roy Keane looked at me

and just said, "Stop f'ing about."

I wasn't too happy when...

I'm playing in a game, and I'm thinking,

"They're singing my song, you know,

for the first few seconds, and then..."

Phil, Phil Will tear you a...

Whoa! Whoa!

"That's not right. Phil?

"No, it's my song."

it must have not been that good, because

everyone used to slaughter me about it.

For Ferguson, it was important.

The academy,

young players was very important.

Then we could see

that it was a great generation,

and we could hear

the coaches and everybody.

It was a great generation.

And then you have to have the...

It's simple, then to have the manager

who gives them the chance to play.

I think everyone that looks at us,

they all think about...

Obviously us, but the team in general,

about how we've won everything

and done this,

but if you think about it, our baptism

was we lost the league on the Saturday...

- West Ham.

- West Ham away.

And then six days later we lost the FA Cup,

so that was like a wake-up call,

that was saying,

well, for me personally,

I don't wanna do that again.

The first year that

we broke in properly was '95,

and we lost the double in a week.

(SIGHS) It was a disaster. The last game

at the end of the season, West Ham,

then you've got the game

against Everton in the FA Cup.

I remember the cup final perfectly.

That was so bad.

I think we were getting beat 1-nil,

weren't we, for a lot of the game.

They scored early

and I had a great chance to make it 1-all,

and I never wanted to say...

it was a bad summer really.

I've thought about that

loads of times actually,

and it still makes you feel a bit sick now.

GIGGS:
I can't remember a lot of,

I don't want to sound blase',

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