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(REPEATED FALL OF WAVES)

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(RELAXING ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC)

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'All of my life since I was a kid,

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I wanted to be the hero in the game.

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Unbeatable.

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Looking back now...

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there was nothing that could stop me.

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My name is
Peter Boleslaw Schmeichel.

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At least that's how my mother
pronounces our surname.

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I'm more famous for being called...

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COMMENTATOR: Schmeichel!

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Fantastic save from
the world's number one.

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'I wanted to enforce control
on everything, all the time.

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I had to be like that.'

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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GARY NEVILLE: 'Brutal. Passionate.
Mistakes couldn't happen.'

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'He has this attitude and has
this strong presence,

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which can be
a little bit intimidating.'

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'Oh, an astonishing save!'

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He was our greatest goalkeeper
ever.

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When you've got a goalkeeper like
that, you don't need defenders.

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When a striker is in front of him,
it's not like he's in front
of somebody else.

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He created something,
gave something to football.

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'Fantastic stop
by Peter Schmeichel!'

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'He reinvented the position
that's fundamental to the game.'

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'Oh!'

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'Is Peter Schmeichel like God, then,
in Denmark?

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He is God. There's only one God,
that's Peter.'

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'Peter was one of a kind.
But his weakness was his temper.'

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'My dad was the footballer.
That was our whole identity.'

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We were not meant to see him
be weak. That was not him.

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'Goalkeeper is the position of
ultimate responsibility.

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If you haven't stood there,
you don't know that feeling.'

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You have to be bulletproof.

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'There was a realisation about
who I was, who I am.

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Life is understood backwards,
but it's lived forwards.

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You have to live it.'

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(MAN SPEAKING DANISH)

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(APPLAUSE)

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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'I'm born to a Danish mother
and a Polish father.

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When I was a kid,
if I was challenged,

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I would take the challenge

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and I would show everybody that
I could do it,

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and I would do it much better.

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If somebody did something that
I hadn't done before,

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it was the utmost importance to me
to do that even better.

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If somebody jumped two metres,
I had to jump three metres.'

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'If we were climbing somewhere,
he was climbing higher.

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He was funny. He was full of life.'

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He could not sit on a chair.
I mean, he was all over the place.

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'I did some really crazy things,
but I wanted to do stuff

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that was impossible to other kids.
To be on top.

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I grew up with this narrative
in my home,

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"You have to be the best."
And it came from my father.

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I think it was to protect himself.

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He had lost his father on the first
day of the Second World War,

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the invasion of Poland.'

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He died in that first day,
and then had his mother taken away

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when the war was over.

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'She was literally taken away
in front of four kids,

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and they never saw her again.

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She was put into concentration
camp, and she died there.'

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Christ, to live with that...

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That gives me an understanding of
some of his behaviours at times.

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'He was carrying around demons
for most of his life.

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Back in 1961, the way that
my father came to Denmark

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was quite extraordinary.

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My parents met in Poland, my mother
was on a cruise ship

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that went to a small coastal town
called Sopot.

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She loves theatre.

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Somehow "A Taste of Honey" was on
in Sopot,

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and it's set in Salford,
in Manchester,

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and the main character is called
Peter.

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She sees this guy,
he's stood with tickets.

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She goes up, persuades him to part
with one of those tickets.

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That was my father.
He was a professional musician.

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She stayed for six months,
and they decided to get married.

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My mother was pregnant
with my big sister.

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One day, and this is very typical
of my mother, she says,

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"OK, I'm going back to Denmark.
Find your own way there."

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Of course, she could leave,
she had a visa.

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But if you were a Polish citizen,
that was impossible at the time.

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You couldn't leave any of
the Eastern Bloc countries.

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The authorities said, "Well, if you
wanna leave, you have to spy for us
in Denmark."

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And he refused. Absolutely refused.

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Of course, once you applied,
you're kept under observation.

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So he had people on him
all the time, 24/7.

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And eventually he gave in.'

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He made a deal with the devil
and became a spy.

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'Once he came to Denmark, he then
reported himself to the authorities

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and said, "This was the condition
for me to leave Poland."

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They threw him in a cell.'

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Eventually they said,
"You're allowed in, but you have to
spy for us as well."

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So he became a double spy.

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'He would go to the Polish embassy
and be interrogated,

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and he would go to
the Danish authorities,

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and the same would happen there.'

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He felt the pressure.

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'He wanted to play music
and he wanted to start his family,

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and he just wanted normality.

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I'm very impressed by what
he's done, I have to say that.'

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I'm always impressed with people
who find unbelievable strength

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to get through life, and create
existence for themselves,

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and I think that he's
a prime example of that.

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'But he carried this incredible
anger for so many years,

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and it didn't take much for it
to come through.'

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'He was good shouting.'

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I just remember that I said,
when I grew up, having kids, "Don't
shout at them, Margaret.

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Don't do that."

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Because it's really...
It's really tough.

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'His father didn't show any
emotions. He wasn't caring and kind.

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And that has affected Peter.'

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As a man, he is very...
I was thinking in the beginning

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when I met him, it was like,

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he was like, like this,
you know, very hard.

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And that, of course, comes
from his father's history.

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'It's a strange thing to say,
but because of his being angry,

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I stayed out of the house a lot.

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That meant I was out
playing football.'

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This is it, my first ever game
was from here.

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Back then, we did play 11-a-side,
so it would've been... this size.

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And I was probably that size.

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'I joined this training session and
I was not in control of myself,

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the ball, and what I did to
the other players around me.

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The coach looked at me and he said,
"Why don't you try going in goal?"

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It worked for me, and I was in goal
ever since.'

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Goalkeeping is special.
Incredible highs

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and the incredible lows that
football brings you.

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As a keeper,
you're responsible for both.

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'I love the whole idea about just
being the very, very last hope.'

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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'I got picked for the school team.'

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The teacher said, "You have a very,
very big talent,

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and I think that one day
you will play for Denmark." "OK."

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'"You have a talent.
Talent is never enough.

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You have to work really hard."
I did.

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I have to bring my mother
into this. Her job was tough.

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She was a nurse, looking after
children in the cancer ward.

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She's been the constant,
the rock in my life.

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There's a lot of her
that I've inherited.

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That discipline,
the tough mentality,

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that was all part of my education.

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From the very, very beginning,
I had this feeling of superiority.

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No-one could beat me.

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I wanted to play for Denmark.

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I also started to dream about
playing for Manchester United.

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That was my dream.'

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(CROWD CHEERING)

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'Everybody else was supporting
Liverpool, Bayern Munich,
Real Madrid.

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For me, it was Man United.
It's weird.

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Weird that you don't know why,
but I don't.

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I was nine when I said I wanted
to play for Man United.

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A lot of kids say, "I wanna play
for Manchester United,"

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but how many end up doing it?

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It was something I was dreaming
about every day. Every single day.'

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(PLAYS PIANO)

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'But there's no doubt about what
my father wanted me to do.'

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My father wrote this.
(PLAYS PIANO PIECE)

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I haven't played this
since I was a kid. Can't remember.

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Can't remember. He wrote that.

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The only thing that I've got
from him, that he did himself.

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'Of course, a dad is a really,
really important person in your
life.

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I was the only son. Sons are
supposed to walk in their father's
footsteps.

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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(APPLAUSE)

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'It took years and years and years
for my family to accept that

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this is what I was gonna do, and
there was nothing that they
could do to stop me.

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When I was 19, I signed semi-pros
with a club called Hvidovre.'

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(COMMENTATOR SPEAKING DANISH)

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'At the time, I was being viewed
as one of the greatest talents
in Denmark.#

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(SPEAKING DANISH)

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'But at this point,
I'm semi-professional.

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I couldn't afford to live
if I didn't work,

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so I had a variety of
different jobs.

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It was kind of like a double life.

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Kasper was born on November 5th,
1986,

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which for me was a remarkable day.

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I became a father, which was
something I really, really wanted.

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And I had just signed with Brondby,
the first club ever in Denmark
to go full-time.

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I learned that day that my first
game for Brondby

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as a full-time professional

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would be a quarter-final
in the Champions League.

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So, that was a big thing.

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I was really happy to become a dad,

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but I never felt that it was
something that changed my cause
or my thinking.'

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'Peter was super young.'

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you should see one of the pictures
where he's holding Kasper,

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it's like a child.

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You know, he looks like a child.

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And he probably also is a child
emotionally, in many ways,

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you know, at least a very young man.

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And then he goes into this career
that is so consuming.

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'All your mental energy
goes into that.

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And maybe it's not so easy to be
a father or a husband,

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because you're so consumed
with this.'

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'So I met my ex-wife very young.

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All of a sudden, we have a kid,
we have an apartment,

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we've got obligations.

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But my focus was somewhere else,
you know.

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If you become a dad at 22
and then again at 25,

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it's a bit early, especially for
somebody who was in a hurry

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to create a career in a sport
that has an end date.

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But there is no formula of what
a good parent is.

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Yes, at times I would have been away
a lot and under pressure a lot,

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and that would have, you know,
some kind of reflection

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on our family life.

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I don't really have any regrets
on my ability to be a parent.'

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Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!

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'I played in a team, but I also
played an individual sport,

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cos my position is so different.'

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KASPER: 'Goalkeeping is a sport
within the sport.

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We wear a different kit,
we have our own coach.'

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The goalkeeper is the position of
ultimate responsibility.

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'It's very much a reactive position.
There's no control.

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So, how do you get control?
I tried to impose myself.

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When a striker would look up,
I would already be in position.

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And with that,
I was just working on angles.'

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If I had a striker coming at me
this way, I would just be here.

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He wouldn't be able to see the goal.

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And that meant that, yeah,
now you're trying to move
and be clever, right.

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I would just move with you.

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Day after day after day,
it became instinct, your position.

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My performances got better, and
it gave me so much more confidence.

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I even became the penalty taker,
and in one game I scored two.'

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I remember as a kid going to see
Brondby playing in the late '80s.

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There was such an excitement around
Peter Schmeichel and that team.

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People were climbing the floodlights
to get in

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to have a view of this
very enigmatic, very charismatic,

235
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very different type of keeper.'

236
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CROWD: Schmeichel!
Schmeichel! Schmeichel!

237
00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,360
'He came into the club,

238
00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,040
he filled up the room,
even when he was very young.

239
00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:13,440
This is a character with presence,
with attitude.

240
00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,880
Everything should be perfect, and he
demanded a lot from his teammates.

241
00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,760
Sometimes you'd turn around
and say, "Shut the fuck up, Peter,
for fuck's sake!"

242
00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,520
But we knew sometimes
it helped us as well,

243
00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,640
because if you're not 100%
concentrated,

244
00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:32,320
you knew that Peter
would come after you.

245
00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:36,840
That huge winning mentality was
one of the key factors for Brondby,

246
00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:38,320
and Peter demanded that.'

247
00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,840
'He took over the Danish goalkeeping
position in '88.

248
00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,960
Schmeichel stood out.

249
00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,520
He was the one that led from
the front, or rather from the back.'

250
00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,680
I was working at
Frederiksberg Hospital,

251
00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:54,960
and I just heard that on the
television, that he has a debut.

252
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,720
"That's my brother!"
I was so proud.

253
00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,880
'I loved the Danish team,
and it was a big, big thing for me

254
00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,440
when I got involved.

255
00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:09,320
Brian Laudrup always used to say
that I fell in the pot of
self-belief when I was a kid.

256
00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:11,200
I never doubted myself.'

257
00:18:19,128 --> 00:18:23,720
(HIGH-ENERGY DANCE MUSIC)

258
00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,960
# Yeah yeah yeah

259
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,960
# We are Brondby!

260
00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:32,440
# We are Brondby!

261
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:39,120
'I had four very, very good and
meaningful years with Brondby.

262
00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:43,480
Success breeds confidence
and more success.

263
00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:45,560
But it wasn't enough.'

264
00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,920
'The bar was not so high
when he came to Brondby.

265
00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:54,360
His bar was much higher, and the
bar should be on the highest level
you could ever see.

266
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,880
He wants to learn more,
he wants to achieve more

267
00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,640
and he wants to play for the biggest
club in the world.'

268
00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,080
(SPEAKING DANISH)

269
00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:10,800
(SPEAKING DANISH)

270
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,760
SIR ALEX: 'I was cautious about
bringing a Danish goalkeeper
in the English game,

271
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because it's tough, you know.

272
00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,840
My first experience was watching
him in training with Brondby.'

273
00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,120
(SHOUTING)

274
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,720
I hear this guy screaming
and shouting, bawling,

275
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,000
and I says, "This is interesting."

276
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,640
And I watched him training,
he was fantastic.

277
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,200
'He was a massive man.
You know, he's 6ft 4in,

278
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:52,040
and his speed,
his speed was tremendous.

279
00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,080
He'd stretch himself every time
someone would come through.'

280
00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,400
The span, you know,
he was like an aeroplane.

281
00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,880
You know, he's out there,
he's covering almost all the goal

282
00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:03,560
the minute he starts coming out.

283
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:08,440
And I kept saying,
"God, he'll fill my goal.
They'll never get by him.'

284
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,520
He was a big lad, you know.
Eats too much. (LAUGHS)

285
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,120
'I couldn't believe his age
when they said he's 27.'

286
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,720
I says, "27? Where has he been?"

287
00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,280
'Our goalkeeping coach
Alan Hodgkinson said, "You need to
sign him."'

288
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,280
'All of my life, I dreamt about
this.

289
00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,920
When I first arrived, I get into
the chairman's office,

290
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,600
never met him before.

291
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,480
He said, "You come with me,"
and he took me to the museum.

292
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:45,520
He wanted to make sure that
I understood the responsibility

293
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,960
that I was taking, becoming
a Manchester United player.

294
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,560
I'm not just coming into
a football club,

295
00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,440
I'm coming into a place of history.

296
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,960
This is as special as
I've dreamt about.'

297
00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,800
'The definition of Manchester United
is romance.

298
00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:08,320
It's a romance that is just rooted
in Matt Busby, the Busby Babes,

299
00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:12,680
who were ready to dominate football
for a decade at least,

300
00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:17,800
who then, of course, suffered
the tragedy in Munich in 1958,

301
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:19,560
and had to rebuild.

302
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,600
Became the first English team
to win the European Cup.

303
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,120
United's history is inextricable
to that.

304
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,280
It's romance, it's regeneration.

305
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,360
That's what made so many people fall
in love with Manchester United.

306
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,640
But then the club can't live up to
its own past.

307
00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,560
And at that point, it's a club
chasing past glories.'

308
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,280
(SPEAKING DANISH)

309
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,280
(SPEAKING DANISH)

310
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,200
'My very, very first day
at Manchester United...

311
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,880
you don't know where to look,
you don't know who to talk to,

312
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,680
you don't know what to do, really.

313
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,000
They're walking in, one after one.

314
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,400
I'm like,
'My god, it's Mark Hughes!"

315
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,800
(GASPS) Brian Robson,"
one of my favourite players ever,

316
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,480
and he's actually sat next to me.
I'm totally blown away.

317
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,960
STEVE BRUCE: 'When Peter walked into
the building, the first thing
straight away is,

318
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,800
you just go by the presence of him
and the size of him.

319
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,560
There's no doubt he's got
a character and a personality,

320
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,560
because he's a natural-born winner.'

321
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,560
'My first training session, Brian
Kidd, the assistant manager, goes,

322
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,040
"Right, we'll do boxes.

323
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:55,160
Peter, do half-volleys."

324
00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,560
And I'm like, "What?"'

325
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,880
"No, I'm not. I'm in the boxes."

326
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,960
"Oh, no, no, no, no,"
and they all go, "Oh, no, no,

327
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,760
we can't have goalkeepers
in the boxes!"

328
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,920
That's what I've always done,
so I just went and stood in the box.

329
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,480
'They're looking at each other,
"What's going on?"

330
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,200
Eventually, it was so embarrassing,
they had to start.'

331
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,000
'He wanted to train as
an outfielder.

332
00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,640
This is common stuff now,
but this was 1991,

333
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,360
and that was completely new
to British football,

334
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,080
that was completely new to
the players at Manchester United.'

335
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:33,680
My philosophy was that
you were part of the team.

336
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,840
They need to be with you, they need
to know you, they need to trust you.

337
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,560
They've seen that I can stand up
for myself, I know what I'm doing.'

338
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,520
He settled down great. They knew
then they had a real goalkeeper.

339
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,800
(SPEAKING DANISH)

340
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,800
(SPEAKING DANISH)

341
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,400
(SPEAKING DANISH)

342
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,360
(SPEAKING DANISH)

343
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,080
(SPEAKING DANISH)

344
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:20,800
(SPEAKING DANISH)

345
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,560
(SPEAKING DANISH)
(REPLIES IN DANISH)

346
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,760
KASPER: 'I picked up English
quite fast.

347
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,880
We never speak English at home,
it's always Danish,

348
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:47,240
we've always celebrated Danish
Christmas, had Danish traditions.'

349
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:53,120
'Manchester was where I grew up.
I loved being there, I really did.'

350
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:57,560
'I was next door to Steve and
Janet Bruce, which was fantastic,

351
00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:03,360
because they were really helping us
in settling into the UK.'

352
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,920
They had Amy and Alex, and that was
fun, and a lot of people are like,

353
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,360
"How is it having a famous dad?"

354
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,080
I'd be like,
"I've never tried anything else.

355
00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:15,880
He's just my dad
and it's just his friend, Steve!"

356
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,480
'Cos they're normal people as well.

357
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,240
Our life was just football.
That was our whole identity.'

358
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:31,440
My dad was very concentrated.
Everything was controlled.

359
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,800
KASPER:
'He was fiercely professional

360
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,080
and took his role and his position
very seriously.

361
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,720
He was very strict with himself.

362
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,120
He had his routines, he had his ways
of doing things,

363
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,400
and there was no deviating
from that.'

364
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,200
Did he miss birthdays, did he miss
Christmases, New Years,

365
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,400
school plays and all? Yeah, he did.
I wouldn't change it for anything.

366
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,040
Hi Pete. I'll pick you up
in about ten, 15 minutes, yeah?

367
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,080
Turn that camera off,
I'm tired of that camera.

368
00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:05,240
RADIO: 'We're looking for a team to
go through and play in the final.

369
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,200
Which actress played the female lead
in the 1980 film, the Blue Lagoon?'

370
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,880
Jane Fonda!
No, no, it was...

371
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,520
Brooke Shields! Yes! 4-0!

372
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,760
No, no, you didn't —
You're joking?

373
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,200
Jane Fonda you said first,
then you changed answers.

374
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,040
No, no, no, I was just saying
Jane Fonda's cousin!

375
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,000
'I grew up wanting to go to England.

376
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,960
I felt an alliance with England
from way back.

377
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,840
I can't even remember when, but
I always felt that I belonged here.

378
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,800
When I finally made the move
to Man United, I just absolutely
felt that I'm at home.'

379
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,840
My first four games, I kept
clean sheets. I was so happy.

380
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,960
'The media started to take note.'

381
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,440
'Good save by Schmeichel!

382
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:53,920
'One of the saves of the season!'

383
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,040
'I joined Manchester United
around that time.

384
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,720
Didn't really know much about him
before he came.

385
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,160
I'd never seen that very unique
style of goalkeeping.'

386
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,760
It was bizarre.

387
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,000
Some of the things that he did,

388
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,400
you'd not seen in English football
before.

389
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,040
Throws that would be 70 or 80 yards.

390
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,000
And at the time felt
transformational,
it felt so different.

391
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,960
'It's come straight from
the goalkeeper.'

392
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,680
'Coming into what was the old
First Division,

393
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,920
I'm up against big, big,
strong players,

394
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,840
at a time where it was OK
to challenge the goalkeeper.

395
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,840
So, I had to learn how to deal
with that.'

396
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:35,000
SIR SLEX: 'How he dominated
the penalty box, that was his
greatest strength.

397
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,680
Ball's getting tossed in,
you say, "Where is he?"'

398
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,240
We depended on him.

399
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,600
He was a man mountain.

400
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,000
You feel like he's just gonna
destroy everything in his path.

401
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,200
They're all ducking, the centre
backs and the defenders.

402
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,680
They knew he wasn't gonna stop.
He was fantastic at that.

403
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,920
'But then my teammates were really
taking the piss out of me.

404
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,880
"Yeah, yeah, yeah,
just wait till you play Fash."

405
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:03,320
And I'm thinking, "Fash?
Who the hell is this Fash?"

406
00:28:03,360 --> 00:28:06,760
It turns out to be John Fashanu,
who played for Wimbledon.

407
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,200
He was a guy who was trying
to provoke you.

408
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,520
I'm going on the pitch,
he's in my head.

409
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:16,720
He scored against me.
I let him get to me.

410
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,920
It annoyed me. So I decided,
"I'm gonna be like that.

411
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,080
I'm gonna be so arrogant that all of
these players, they will hate me.

412
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,680
I'm gonna look through them.

413
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,000
I'm not even gonna acknowledge
their presence.

414
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,040
Get you out of your concentration,
make you angry.'

415
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,720
I want them to think about ME,
and not ever having a chance
to score a goal.

416
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,040
'Cantona! Oh, look at that.
Good save, Schmeichel.'

417
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,800
When a striker is in front of him,
it's not like being in front of
another goalkeeper.

418
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,200
He's very different.
He has something special.

419
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:58,960
'16 clean sheets in 29 games
since the big Dane arrived.

420
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,480
Settled in really well
at Old Trafford.'

421
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,960
'So when he brought me in,

422
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,760
Sir Alex said tha I was
the final piece in the jigsaw.

423
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,600
Now we have the team that
can win the league.'

424
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,800
'It's in there by Walters!

425
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,760
And now the title goes to Leeds
United, without any doubt at all.

426
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,160
It's all up for Manchester United.'

427
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:29,320
'Not winning the league is, even to
this day, incredibly disappointing.'

428
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,880
I will never get rid of
that feeling.

429
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,520
We were so close, and we were
so much better than everybody else,

430
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,600
but for some reason
we just didn't have enough.

431
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,440
Coming off that season,
I was mentally drained.

432
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,320
I was a little bit sick of football.

433
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,960
First of all, we didn't win
the championship.

434
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,800
Secondly, with Denmark, we didn't
qualify for the Euros 1992.

435
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,200
We lost out to Yugoslavia.

436
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,640
Of course, I was really
disappointed,

437
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,920
but I just wanna not think about
football

438
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,400
and I just want to have a break
and then recover,

439
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,480
and be ready for the next season.'

440
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:20,920
(EXPLOSIONS AND FIRING)

441
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,200
TV: Concern is mounting that what
used to be Yugoslavia

442
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,720
is careering towards civil war.'

443
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,040
'The rumours started to surface that
the international community

444
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,960
would exclude Yugoslavia
from everything.

445
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,120
They would be excluded from
the Euros if that happened,

446
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,560
and it would be the runners-up
from that group

447
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,040
who would then take their place,
so we might be going to the Euros.'

448
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,120
And I have to be completely honest,
I thought it was a terrible idea.

449
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,040
(SPEAKING DANISH)

450
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,680
(SPEAKING DANISH)

451
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,320
(SPEAKING DANISH)

452
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,760
'On the day that it was decided,

453
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,720
we actually went into camp
straight away.

454
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:19,120
Our coach, Richard Moller Nielsen,
he was very clear about
our responsibilities here.

455
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,600
First and foremost, to the people of
Yugoslavia,

456
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,360
they have been penalised,
so we can't just go to the Euros
and not try.'

457
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,360
'Peter and Richard had
a very good relationship.

458
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,280
Peter is demanding from
his teammates

459
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,960
and he could see that Richard
was working very hard.

460
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,720
He knew everything about the
opponent, and Peter liked that.'

461
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,320
'Peter's a person of deep loyalty,
really, who,

462
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:49,800
if you do establish a bond with him,
it's deeply important to him.

463
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,960
In some ways, Moller Nielsen, like
Peter, was a bit of an outsider.

464
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,800
What Peter loved about
Moller Nielsen was,

465
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,200
he shared the same drive.'

466
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,280
Where I was here, not wanting to
play there, he got me over to here
straight away.

467
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,320
(SPEAKING DANISH)

468
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,680
(SPEAKING DANISH)

469
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,920
Quiet before the storm.

470
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,200
Denmark-England play in
Frankfurt, where we are now.

471
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,160
The fact that my son is in it
gives that true emotional feeling.

472
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,560
Hopefully, hopefully, fingers
crossed, I get to say hello to him,

473
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,760
to Kasper, as well.
That would be very nice.

474
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,760
'I have to do Talksport.

475
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,200
It's quite volatile,
because it's my native country

476
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,200
and my adopted country.'

477
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,360
I don't wanna create
stupid headlines.

478
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,840
'It's not going too well,
because my brain is so tired.'

479
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,040
They've got me in a good time.

480
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,560
They want me to say a stupid thing.
Well, they've got me now.

481
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,480
How are you?
Thank you so much for coming.

482
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,360
These guys are following me.
You don't mind them filming you?

483
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,600
You're... Fucking hell, you love
some fucking exposure, don't you?

484
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,320
(LAUGHTER)
By you?

485
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,360
Would it be a shock result
if Denmark beat England today?

486
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,920
I think that, that's a big word,

487
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:29,320
cos that's saying that Denmark's
not a very good team,

488
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,440
and I think we are a very good team.

489
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,440
It wouldn't be a shock result.
It'd be a big result.

490
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,920
I was wondering if we could get
a photo by the Hull flag.

491
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,760
Alright. Enjoy today, alright?
Thank you.

492
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,960
No fighting.

493
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,200
It's a bit early to have a beer,
isn't it?

494
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,560
I guess if you've gotta go through
ten litres before the game,

495
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,320
you've gotta start early.

496
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,360
FANS: Come on, England!

497
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,800
I do a lot of post-match interviews
with players. I never do this.

498
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,880
(BOTH LAUGH)

499
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,160
Well played...
Oh. There you go!

500
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,000
So, not disappointed at all?

501
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,520
I think there's always a tinge of
disappointment when we don't win.

502
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,320
Peter, a big night for Denmark.

503
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,400
Did you surprise yourselves
a bit here in Malmo?

504
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,160
No, I wouldn't say
that we surprised ourselves.

505
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,240
I'm a bit disappointed
we didn't win the game.

506
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,960
When we played that game against
England, we were the better team.

507
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:41,120
'We're looking at each other,
thinking, "We might just be able
to do something here."'

508
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,600
We'd been together
for about six years.

509
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,240
We knew that we'd got a good team.

510
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,880
And suddenly the belief was starting
to change a little bit.

511
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,760
The confidence starts to build up.'

512
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,840
So we go to Stockholm and play
the second game against Sweden,

513
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,840
and we create so many chances, and
we miss every single one of them.

514
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,800
'They have one chance and score.

515
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,640
And I remember I was sat there in
the dressing room,

516
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:08,120
so disappointed and so angry,

517
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,080
and none of us felt like speaking
to the media.'

518
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,440
'We were under pressure,
the manager was under pressure,

519
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:18,240
so it was a very difficult situation
we were in.'

520
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,960
But of course if we beat France
in the last game,

521
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,480
we then would go to the semi-final.

522
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,400
'They were the pre-tournament
favourites.

523
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,680
I remember before the game,
they come up to us and say,

524
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,840
"Go easy on us, cos we've got
to play Holland next."'

525
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:41,280
I just remember feeling, "My god,
we cannot let these guys win!"

526
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,920
'And from that moment on, everybody
believed that we could do something
here.

527
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,560
And you see Denmark become red and
white, you've got flags everywhere.

528
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,680
Everything was red and white.
It was unbelievable.

529
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:03,000
For me, playing for Denmark,
representing your country,

530
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,760
is just the pinnacle.'
(CROWD CHEERING)

531
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,400
'That was the ultimate.'

532
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,640
'When my father passed away
and I went through all his papers
and everything,

533
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,400
I actually realised

534
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,520
that I was born Polish,

535
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,040
that I was a Polish citizen
until I think about six years old,

536
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,360
when he became a Danish citizen.

537
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,720
Up until that point,
I was actually a Polish citizen.'

538
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,600
It's weird,
because I am half-Polish.

539
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,080
I am, but I have no relationship
to Poland whatsoever.

540
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,920
Don't know any family members.

541
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,680
I knew a couple,
they've all passed away.

542
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:11,240
But it's really weird,
because you've...

543
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,560
There's half the family probably
still living on

544
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,440
that I don't know about.

545
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:23,880
Are you a little Polish dog?

546
00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:26,880
Are you?

547
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,080
You're German, aren't you?
Born in Germany.

548
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,480
And he's got a Dutch footballer's
name,

549
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,320
the best Dutch footballer ever.

550
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,400
That's funny, isn't it?

551
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,160
Holland and Germany,
in terms of football,

552
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,600
they just hate each other,
don't they?

553
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,280
So we named a German dog
after a Dutch superstar.

554
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,440
(LAUGHS)

555
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,200
Eh?

556
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:53,800
'So, Holland, the holders,
and the most successful nation

557
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,520
in the history of the Euros,

558
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,160
bid to join Germany in the final

559
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,040
that most of Europe wants to see.'

560
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,320
'The game we played against Holland
could have gone either way.

561
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,480
We were 1-0 up and 2-1 up.
The game finished 2-2.

562
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,240
I'm gonna face five penalties.
And I looked forward to it.'

563
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,920
It's part of the game, and there's
no need for me not to enjoy that.

564
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,080
But as a goalkeeper in a penalty
shootout,

565
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,360
you have absolutely zero control.

566
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,600
So, how do you get control?
I said to myself,

567
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,640
"OK, on the first one
I'm gonna go there,

568
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,040
on the second one,
I'm gonna go there."

569
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,520
I mean, it was an instinct,
you know, what pops into my head.

570
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,960
'I could decide left, right, left,
right, or all five to the left.'

571
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,480
It would always be random,
which means if I get beaten,

572
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,920
I got beaten by my own choice,
they haven't outsmarted me.

573
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,480
(REF BLOWS WHISTLE)

574
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,960
Isn't that amazing?
Schmeichel has saved it.

575
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,400
A vital save for Denmark.

576
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,680
I guessed right. Not guessed,
because it was a choice.

577
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:09,520
'My choice was right. I'm in
control.

578
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:18,680
JENSEN: 'No other Danish team
has been in the final, in the World
Cup or the Euros. Never.

579
00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:22,200
We made history, and we celebrated
with loads of beers.

580
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:24,880
And I remember, like,
five o'clock in the morning,

581
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,520
sitting around a piano, where Peter
was playing, and we were singing.

582
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:32,440
The manager came down,

583
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,600
because he was starting to have
his breakfast, and he came and said,

584
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,880
"Listen, guys. You need to go up
and sleep now,

585
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,320
because we've gotta train
in four hours' time.

586
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,280
And you have to play the cup final
against Germany
four days after that.'

587
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,480
(WHISTLING AND SHOUTING)

588
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,720
Jack Charlton, nobody gives Denmark
any chance at all of winning
this match.

589
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,160
How do you feel about that?

590
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,400
Well, logically, I would say
exactly the same.

591
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,760
'When we get to the final, the kit
manager asked me into the kit room,

592
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,480
and he shows me the shirt.'

593
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,400
He says, "They want you to play
in that tonight."

594
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,000
He thinks it's a terrible shirt,
and I'm looking at this shirt,

595
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,840
I'm thinking, "That's the most
beautiful shirt I've ever seen
in my life,

596
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:19,120
there's no way I'm NOT gonna play
the final in that."

597
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,520
'I felt that gave me
some extra powers.

598
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,760
I knew I had to play
one of my best games.'

599
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,160
Germany were the world champions.

600
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,280
They are fantastic.

601
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:31,960
They came flying
for the first 20 minutes.

602
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,760
'It was just one chance
after the next.'

603
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,080
It was relentless,
but we're riding out the storm.

604
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,480
'And then we score.'

605
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,400
'A terrific goal by Jensen!'

606
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,640
(CROWD CHEERING AND WHOOPING)

607
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:57,000
'I scored a stunning goal, but if
we didn't have Peter in goal,

608
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,080
we would have lost the game
by two or three goals.

609
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,800
And in the second half,
when Germany start to do everything,

610
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,880
Peter came out with saves
I've never seen before.

611
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:10,800
It was like Peter had eight arms,
like an octopus.'

612
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:18,640
BRIAN MOORE: 'Vilfort... It's in!
They've scored another one!

613
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,840
And Denmark are now just one short
stepping stone

614
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:29,040
from the greatest night
in their football history.'

615
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,560
'We knew that he was
a world-class goalkeeper.

616
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,440
Sometimes you need to play the right
day to show it, and he did that.

617
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,560
That was the moment.
It was unbelievable.'

618
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Final whistle blows.
Weird... What do you do?

619
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,000
How do you celebrate that?

620
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:56,600
'I am honest, I haven't got a clue
what happened after that.

621
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:58,880
Honestly.

622
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,880
Everything was just so unreal.
Just so unreal.'

623
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:09,200
I mean, less than two weeks
prior to that,

624
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:10,880
we were not even in there,

625
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,160
and then we take the place
from a football team

626
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,800
that's already in the hotel.

627
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,800
'So, all of a sudden, they're kicked
out, and we are in their rooms.

628
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,080
It was for them as well.'

629
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:24,920
'Peter Schmeichel, dare I say it,

630
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,400
the most popular man in Denmark
now.'

631
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,720
(ROCK MUSIC)

632
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,800
(SINGING AND CHANTING)

633
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,160
(SIRENS)

634
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,280
(SPEAKING DANISH)

635
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,120
'I got elevated into another status
from winning that.'

636
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,800
'It was the pinnacle of what
Danish football and Danish sports
had ever achieved.

637
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,880
It wouldn't have been possible
without Schmeichel

638
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,360
playing what was just an absolute
masterpiece

639
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,160
of a goalkeeping performance.

640
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,960
Took him to a level that
we hadn't really seen before.'

641
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:40,440
(PLAYS POIGNANT PIANO PIECE)

642
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,600
'Playing for Denmark was always
a big dream of mine.

643
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:51,680
Walking out, hearing the national
anthem was just incredible.

644
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,480
We had this burning desire
to be successful,

645
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:58,160
in spite of being a small country.

646
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,120
And I was in the team for 14 years

647
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,880
and I loved every minute of it.

648
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,880
That never goes away.

649
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,160
It's with me very, very often,
because it really meant something
to people here.'

650
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,560
We showed the world that
it can be done.

651
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,280
We showed people in Denmark
this can be done.

652
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,400
(FINAL CHORD)

653
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,160
He's come back a winner
of a European final.

654
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,800
I mean, he's buzzing. He's buzzing.
I think that helps him.

655
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,200
I think that no matter
where we're gonna be playing here,

656
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:38,600
we're ready for it.

657
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:45,200
'Football's new Premier League has
finally been given the go-ahead.'

658
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,080
The league replaces the First
Division and will start this August.

659
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,160
'The Premier League was different.

660
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,160
The game really opened up to
television money,

661
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,840
and in many ways, it was built
for Manchester United.

662
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,240
Psychologically, it was a good way
to be able to draw the line

663
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,080
under what had happened
the previous season.

664
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,320
It was a useful tool for Ferguson.

665
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,360
£Let's be the first winners
of this new competition."'

666
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,120
'There was a really good atmosphere
in the dressing room.'

667
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,000
And there was a lot of optimism.
And then we start.

668
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,920
'We're beaten twice
and we have one draw.'

669
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,800
'They were in the bottom three
after three games.

670
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,800
All the old questions about United
are back.'

671
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:29,840
'But there was no panic.'

672
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,720
The manager, he always said,
"The season starts at Easter,

673
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,320
this is when it really counts.

674
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,000
If you're gonna make mistakes
and lose games, we do it early."

675
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:41,920
'October was a miserable month.
Three defeats

676
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,000
and four games
without scoring a goal.

677
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,120
Peter Schmeichel said,
"If we don't buy a striker,

678
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,520
we're not going to win anything."'

679
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:53,920
'When Eric was signed, it was one of
those moments where things changed.'

680
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,480
NORTHCROFT: 'He was the key figure
for Leeds the previous season.

681
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,920
Somehow Alex Ferguson signed him.'

682
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,920
CANTONA: 'This club was special.
I know it was special.

683
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,000
To come to United,
you need to be good.

684
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,920
You need to have
a strong personality,

685
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,840
to handle the pressure of
this club.'

686
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,080
Because some players cannot.

687
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,560
'Eric was different to anything that
we'd ever seen in English football.'

688
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,680
INTERVIEWER: Was it hard to adapt
to English football
when you first arrived?

689
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:24,720
No. No.

690
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:31,160
No, because English football
has to adapt to me. (LAUGHS)

691
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,720
'Cantona. Oh, that is gorgeous.

692
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,320
And Denis Irwin's in again!

693
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,240
Eric Cantona on a different level!'

694
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,240
I loved the fact that he was
different. He made a massive impact.

695
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,840
Now we can win the league.

696
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,160
'I roomed with Eric
for a long, long time.

697
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,320
'For five years we shared a room,
so we had a very good relationship.

698
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,800
He's interested about many things.'

699
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,560
He has a strong point of view,
and also an open mind.

700
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:06,200
'Peter took care of me.
He's a real leader.

701
00:47:06,240 --> 00:47:12,000
Strong physically, strong mentally.
He has a real personality.'

702
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,120
So he's a winner and a leader.
Take everybody with him.

703
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,840
(LAUGHS)
To the top of the hill.

704
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,760
(REF BLOWS FINAL WHISTLE)

705
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,120
'Manchester United
are the champions of England.'

706
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,440
(CROWD CHANTING)
# Glory, glory, Man United

707
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,320
# Glory, glory, Man United

708
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:34,360
(EXCITED CHATTER)

709
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,920
INCE: We are the fucking bollocks,
aren't we?

710
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:41,960
(KIDS TALKING EXCITEDLY)

711
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,600
And what's your name?
Um, Kasper Peter Schmeichel.

712
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,880
'So, we win the league.
Hadn't won it for 26 years.'

713
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,200
Fucking hell, polish it up.

714
00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,040
'Fantastic.'

715
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,960
It looks fucking worse.
Don't spoil it.

716
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,840
Well done, lads.

717
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,320
Denis? Denis...

718
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,880
This is good in here!

719
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,720
(LADS SHOUTING)

720
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,960
(EXCITED CHATTER)

721
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:30,960
'Now we have to go back
and do it again.'

722
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,880
My attitude was, once you win
something, it doesn't matter.

723
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,920
Shelve it. Store it away.

724
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,960
We have to go on and on and on.

725
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,640
'The champions, Manchester United,
they are most emphatically the team

726
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,200
the others will have to catch.

727
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,160
'We always knew what
the requirements were,

728
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,280
and Sir Alex never wavered
from that.'

729
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,120
You have to win the Premier League.
That's it.

730
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:57,960
You have to perform
at your highest level.

731
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,920
If not, somebody else
will take your place.

732
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,240
You went into the first-team
dressing room as an 18, 19-year-old,

733
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,320
and you were almost like
you were surrounded by maniacs.

734
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,240
'Peter was an immense character

735
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,480
and you realised what a massive
personality he was,

736
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,600
not just on the pitch,
but also in the changing room

737
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:15,840
and on the training ground.'

738
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,960
Make sure we start right.
Fucking our day today.

739
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,600
Come on, Gaz, are we ready?

740
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,760
Don't fuck about,
let's get out there.

741
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,960
Gary, concentrate well today.

742
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,960
NEVILLE: 'They were aggressive,
all front-foot,

743
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,160
they were all intense,
they were all demanding figures.

744
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,400
They were ferocious with it.

745
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,160
Nothing else
you were gonna face in your life

746
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:42,920
was as ferocious as Keane
and Ince and Hughes and Schmeichel.

747
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,800
Obviously, Sir Alex Ferguson,
the boss, as well.'

748
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,040
Hey!

749
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,640
'Peter was extremely demanding.

750
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:50,720
Mistakes couldn't happen.

751
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,680
I've never seen anybody hate
conceding a goal

752
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:54,600
more than Peter Schmeichel.'

753
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:59,360
I always liked to see some part
of myself in my players.

754
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,000
I see a big part in Peter.
He's a winner.

755
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,480
NEVILLE: If I made a mistake
in front of him, I mean,

756
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:09,640
it was as if you'd basically stole
the handbag off his grandma,

757
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,200
you know what I mean?
It was like a crime.

758
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:15,760
So I felt like I got the brunt
of his big Danish voice.

759
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,920
You'd now call it bullying,
but when I look back now,

760
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:23,960
it was just a harsh, intense
environment,

761
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:27,920
an environment where you just had
an unbelievable winning mentality
driven through it.

762
00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:31,560
'When they all started
to enter the team,

763
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:36,200
you have a pretty fair idea of what
it's like to play for United.

764
00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:38,920
You need to be mentally
very, very strong.

765
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,400
So, you've gotta toughen them up.

766
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:43,600
I know it sounds so old-fashioned
when I say that,

767
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,960
but it builds character
and standards.

768
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,000
If you can't deal with instant
adversity,

769
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,080
if you can't deal with criticism,

770
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:57,200
then there is no place in that team
for you. No place.'

771
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:03,720
I've got to ask you,
how's your temper?

772
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,760
Because Steve Bruce and
Gary Pallister, for years,

773
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,960
have just... I mean, their ears
must be bashed with it!

774
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,360
I know. But that's mostly
part of the act.

775
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:16,200
It's an act, is it?
Well, no, you can't call it an act.

776
00:51:16,240 --> 00:51:18,160
'I mean, there's no hard feelings
between us.

777
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,760
I say it was an act, and I always
said, "Well, I had the ability

778
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,440
to step out of that character
when the game was over."

779
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,680
That's just an illusion. You cannot
jump in and out of that character,

780
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:35,560
cos it's difficult to bring it on
for 90 minutes.'

781
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,120
'He never showed emotions
back then.'

782
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,480
Anger, he would show anger,
but he wouldn't show emotions
and feelings,

783
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,040
and I think for him,
that would be a sign of weakness,

784
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,920
and we were not meant to see him
be weak.

785
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:54,760
Like, that was not him.

786
00:51:54,800 --> 00:52:00,200
'If my dad lost a game, none of us
wanted to drive with him. (LAUGHS)

787
00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:02,720
You would want to drive
in another car.

788
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:07,240
I remember one game where he was
very angry, and we were flying home.

789
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:09,640
It was not very comfortable!'

790
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,960
We just had to get home and then
pray to God we live. (LAUGHS)

791
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,960
KASPER: 'Having been in the same
profession as him now for 23 years,

792
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:22,840
I really have a very broad
understanding of his behaviours.'

793
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,960
Constantly assessed and under
pressure to perform.

794
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:29,680
Football does that to you.

795
00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:34,440
'The work rate, the effort,
what it takes to get there.

796
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,800
They aren't always traits conducive
to being the best person

797
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,480
around other people.'

798
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,240
My dad was quite uncompromising,
quite regimented,

799
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:48,320
whereas I'm a bit more relaxed
when it comes to the routines.

800
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:52,000
'My mum probably has given me
the more easy-going nature

801
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,800
of being with people,
being more social,

802
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,120
and not wanting to miss out.'

803
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:02,160
'He can seem to be very arrogant,
and he has been,

804
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:07,120
but I just learned that arrogance
covered often shyness.

805
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:14,120
He's more shy than arrogant,
if you ask me.'

806
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,800
It's so many years ago since
I've played that I can look back

807
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,200
and think, 'Oh my god.

808
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:27,240
Pete, for Christ's sake,
why were you like that?

809
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,960
That's embarrassing.'

810
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,080
But I know deep down

811
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,080
that if I hadn't been like that,

812
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,040
it wouldn't have happened for me.

813
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:40,120
I had to be like that,
in order to be the best of the best.

814
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,040
The best teams, they're always
a reflection of the manager.

815
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,960
We reflected Sir Alex Ferguson,
to a T.

816
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,520
He was absolutely perfect
for a guy like me.

817
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:01,640
Yes, he's intense,
but I was intense.

818
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,280
He was demanding.

819
00:54:03,320 --> 00:54:06,960
If you are ambitious,
you want a demanding boss.

820
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,120
And what was brilliant about it
was if he really went off on

821
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,920
one of his tangents,
you could actually argue with him.

822
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,600
He was looking for a reaction,
and he'd be disappointed

823
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,640
if you didn't come back at him,
showing that you cared.

824
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:30,160
When he came to Liverpool, there was
a slight change in his demeanour.

825
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:34,520
'Guys, it's fucking Liverpool next.
Be ready.'

826
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:40,480
This particular game, we were
three-nil up very, very quickly,

827
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,160
and we could have been
five and six-nil up, easily.

828
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,200
But it was kind of like
we stopped playing. They scored.

829
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,040
Three-one, and three-two,
just before half-time.

830
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:54,160
And I felt that I kept the team
in the game in the second half.

831
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,200
They were bombarding us.
They equalised.

832
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,960
So, after the game, of course
he was disappointed, and angry.

833
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,280
He blamed me.

834
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,200
The reason that
I lost my temper with him,

835
00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:11,440
the third goal they scored,

836
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,200
is it's the kind of cross
that he was coming for

837
00:55:14,240 --> 00:55:16,480
every day in his life.

838
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,400
To my mind, it should've been—
it was his ball.

839
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,240
That's what angered me.

840
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:24,440
I felt that it was definitely
not my fault, and I reacted to it.

841
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:27,600
We had a face-to-face argument.

842
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,800
I don't like to speak about
this kind of thing.

843
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,720
It's all between us, you know?

844
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,680
I understand that the people
want to know many things, you know?

845
00:55:36,720 --> 00:55:40,360
But me, I'm not the kind of guy
who will say these kinds of things.

846
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,080
I wish there'd just been
a camera to film it,

847
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,920
because I honestly cannot
explain in words —

848
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:50,120
I mean, that's the most ferocious
argument I have ever seen

849
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,200
in my life,
between manager and player,

850
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:54,040
or between player and player.

851
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,800
I've never seen anything like it.
I thought they were gonna fight.

852
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,720
Genuinely,
I thought they were gonna fight.

853
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,320
I saw the manager have a go at
many players over 20 years,

854
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:03,640
saw him come in at half-time
and tear people to shreds,

855
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:07,520
including myself. But I— This one
was Peter going for it full-on,

856
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,600
and the manager going for
it full-on, and thinking,

857
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,440
'What the fucking hell is this?'

858
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,160
Absolutely madmen.
Vicious. It was evil.

859
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:19,720
I just lost it.

860
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,280
I said things about my teammates
that I shouldn't have done.

861
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:26,840
You don't do that.
That's almost like treachery.

862
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,720
It's not my job as a teammate
to criticise other players.

863
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,480
That's maybe my biggest regret.
Definitely crossed a line.

864
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:36,440
I crossed a line with him,
said things to him.

865
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,200
And I can never allow
to lose my control.

866
00:56:39,240 --> 00:56:42,680
I said, 'You're finished.'
I had my shower, I went on the bus.

867
00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,680
I was fuming,
I was fuming when I got back home.

868
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:49,840
I told my agent, 'He sacked me, and
you've gotta get me somewhere else.'

869
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,800
I'm ready to go anywhere, you know.

870
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,000
So, I get in Monday morning,
I go up to his office.

871
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,360
He says, 'I have to let you go.'
I said, 'That's fine.

872
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,360
I have no problem with that.'

873
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,320
At this point,
I'm not even disappointed.

874
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,960
You know, I'm not,
because I'm like that as well.

875
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,400
I'm thinking,
'I'm not having this,' you know.

876
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,680
He called a team meeting, and he
went absolutely berserk on the team.

877
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:15,120
He left, and I said, 'Guys, I really
want to apologise for my behaviour.

878
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,760
It was out of order.
I'm really, really sorry.'

879
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,720
And then he never sacked me.

880
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,560
It was never, ever,
ever mentioned again.

881
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,200
He told my agent
that he stood outside the door,

882
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:29,560
and he heard my apology.

883
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,760
I don't know why he was surprised,
but he said,

884
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,040
'No, OK, that's fine,' you know.
'I'll keep him.' (LAUGHS)

885
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,960
I was thinking, 'How the flipping
heck are we gonna get out of this?'

886
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,520
(LAUGHS)
And he come out and apologised.

887
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,320
'Thank Christ,' I said to myself.
(LAUGHS)

888
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,720
That season, Manchester United
became one of the best teams

889
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:56,760
that's ever won the Premier League.
They won the double.

890
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,800
That took the team to another level.

891
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:05,400
I mix all the seasons together.
It all becomes a blur.

892
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:10,080
We were setting standards for
the rest of the teams in England.

893
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,000
It was what I'd been dreaming about
since I was a kid.

894
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,480
When you sat in that dressing room
and you looked around

895
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,560
at the players, you were thinking,
'We're gonna win everything.'

896
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:24,520
There is this idea
that we didn't get along.

897
00:58:24,560 --> 00:58:27,680
I was not there to have friends,
I was there to win.

898
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,600
Everybody was there
for the same reason.

899
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,720
Yes, we could have arguments.
It's totally irrelevant.

900
00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:36,960
We were there to win.
We were greedy.

901
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,520
We wanted to win everything.

902
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,760
That was a common ground
that we shared.

903
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,440
(CROWD CRY OUT)

904
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:49,040
You kind of remember
the ones you don't win,

905
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,360
when you came away with nothing.

906
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:52,760
That's what you used.

907
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,640
That's a tool you have to use
to become better.

908
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:57,680
Your job is to win.

909
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:04,560
Every time you play, you put
everything you have on the line.

910
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,320
(CHATTER)

911
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,520
(CAMERAS CLICKING)

912
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,600
PRESS: Good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.

913
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,800
We've invited you down today
to announce that Peter Schmeichel

914
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,680
has indicated that he wishes
to retire from English football

915
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,640
at the end of the present season.

916
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,160
I've asked Manchester United
to release me

917
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:42,000
at the end of this current season,

918
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,120
which they have generously agreed
to do,

919
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,120
and for that I am truly grateful.

920
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,920
It is important now that I'm now
allowed to concentrate totally

921
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,320
on the rest of this season.

922
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:54,920
I've had a fantastic career
with Manchester United,

923
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:59,200
and I owe it to the club, players,
and the fans to do whatever I can do

924
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,760
to finish on a high
and winning note.

925
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,760
There's no doubt about burnout,

926
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:16,080
probably also being
a condition of stress.

927
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,360
At the end of the World Cup
in '98...

928
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,560
..we get knocked out
in the quarter finals.

929
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,600
So, I phone Sir Alex and,
'When do you want me back?'

930
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,000
and he says,
'I want you back tomorrow.'

931
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:31,160
And I'm thinking,
'My god. I'm done for.

932
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,520
I've not had a break for,
like, four years.

933
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:38,160
I'm 35 years of age. How long can I
do this for?' you know?

934
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,960
It's one thing being
a good goalkeeper,

935
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,600
but being number one
for a Premier League club,

936
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:48,000
being number one for your country,
that's not about goalkeeping only.

937
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:49,360
That's mentality.

938
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:55,760
A mistake costs your team,
which means you have to be perfect.

939
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,440
And no one's perfect,

940
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,480
but you have to be as close
to perfect

941
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:01,880
in every single action you make.

942
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,160
If you haven't stood there,
you don't actually know.

943
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,280
Probably bigger pressure than anyone
would ever understand.

944
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:15,400
NORTHCROFT: Having played at this
high level for such a long time,

945
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:16,840
for the first time,

946
01:01:16,880 --> 01:01:20,320
Peter really felt signs
of vulnerability as a goalkeeper.

947
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,880
In modern football,
there would've been psychologists,

948
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:27,360
there would've been
performance specialists.

949
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,240
This was an era where footballers
were supposed to be indestructible,

950
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:33,800
where if you played for a club
like Manchester United,

951
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:35,400
you admitted no sign of weakness.

952
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:37,960
And he'd always been that player.

953
01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:40,880
I always promised myself,

954
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:44,080
'If I feel that I'm not up for it,
I have to do something.'

955
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,000
I came up with the solution
of this being my last year

956
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:51,680
playing for Man United,
because I can't carry on doing this.

957
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,800
And I came up with that decision
all by myself.

958
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:57,320
Never spoke to anyone.

959
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:02,720
With maturity, I look back
and think, 'How stupid is that?'

960
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,160
You've gotta speak to people.
They will tell you that,

961
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:09,960
'Hey, you're not in a fit state
to make such a big decision.'

962
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:13,720
But they had to let me
go for nothing.

963
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,160
That's what I asked for.

964
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:18,080
It wasn't that easy,
but they accepted it in the end.

965
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:21,480
Alex, is this a sad day
for the club in general,

966
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:23,400
and I suppose yourself,
after all these years?

967
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,600
Yeah. Oh, he's been incredible.

968
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:28,760
He's without question the best
goalkeeper in my playing career,

969
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,880
or management, managerial career,
ever, to my mind.

970
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:34,800
Right, OK, thanks very much.

971
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,320
Fergie didn't put up a fight at all.

972
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,440
He always said, 'I could see
the determination in his eyes,

973
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,000
so I didn't wanna fight it.'

974
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:45,800
So, I had this meeting with him
saying,

975
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,320
'This is gonna be my last season.'

976
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:49,440
He said,
'Make sure it's a good one.'

977
01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,520
The next step was to win Europe.

978
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,320
If we just keep winning
Premier Leagues, we're stagnating.

979
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:58,760
We have to win in Europe.

980
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:03,160
NORTHCROFT: Alex Ferguson was that
manager who'd done everything,

981
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,120
but hadn't won the European Cup.

982
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:09,080
It became an obsession,
and it became United's quest.

983
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:12,520
And the traditions of that club
demand,

984
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:14,080
'We have to win the European Cup,'

985
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,200
and that's where United found
themselves.

986
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,320
COMMENTARY: It's Manchester United
and Inter Milan,

987
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,360
the pick of the week's
European quarter finals.

988
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:24,720
The team they had was just
incredible,

989
01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:26,880
and they absolutely hammered us.

990
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,160
Zanetti for Inter Milan.

991
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:32,000
Kept out at the near post
by Schmeichel, who reclaims it.

992
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:34,560
..here on Stam.
Schmeichel's made a save.

993
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:36,400
It's Colonnese with a chance!

994
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,440
Blocked On the line by Henning Berg!

995
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:41,720
And he's got in a cross,
and Zamorano has a chance!

996
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:43,840
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

997
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:52,120
Something like...
he did that all the time.

998
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,920
I remember we played Everton and
their centre forward going through.

999
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:57,680
Brilliant save from Schmeichel.

1000
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,840
And he came out screaming at him,
'Argh!'

1001
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,000
Got the fright of his life. (LAUGHS)

1002
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:07,200
And there's no way past
the big blond giant.

1003
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:12,040
He was famous at spreading himself,
you know. And he was huge.

1004
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,080
(LAUGHS) I don't know
understand it myself.

1005
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,080
High jump, you have Fosbury.

1006
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,040
Dick Fosbury,
his incredible Fosbury flop.

1007
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:20,320
And the Panenka.

1008
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:26,040
But now all goalkeepers,
they arrive like this, like monster.

1009
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,000
The Schmeichel. Schmeichel.

1010
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,120
Peter created something.

1011
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,160
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

1012
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,640
COMMENTARY:
Fantastic stop by Peter Schmeichel!

1013
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:40,200
And how critical a moment
in the quarter final

1014
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:41,560
will that turn out to be?

1015
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:46,560
So, they absolutely hammered us,
but we won it two-nil.

1016
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,520
After Inter,
we get drawn against Juventus,

1017
01:04:51,560 --> 01:04:52,920
and Juventus was a big test.

1018
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,720
Two Italian teams that in all
the seasons prior to that,

1019
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:57,960
we would have lost.

1020
01:04:58,000 --> 01:04:59,600
(PLAYERS CHEERING)

1021
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,080
Peter, congratulations. You've made
the Champions League final.

1022
01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:07,840
Yeah, I mean...
I couldn't have dreamt of this.

1023
01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:11,600
In the Premier League, Arsenal
are the defending champions.

1024
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:13,960
We're neck and neck all the time.

1025
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,600
(TENSE STRING MUSIC)

1026
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:25,120
This rivalry between us and Arsenal
is when I had the most fun.

1027
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,440
Because we came out on top.

1028
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:30,080
And to come out on top against
that kind of quality,

1029
01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:31,360
that's just brilliant.

1030
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:34,560
Sometimes they stepped over the
line, yes, but it added to football.

1031
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:36,240
It made football important.

1032
01:05:38,160 --> 01:05:40,840
Everything we did that year
was earned.

1033
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:42,400
Nothing was given to us.

1034
01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:45,680
We never stopped believing.

1035
01:05:45,720 --> 01:05:49,000
We carried on until the referee
said the game's finished.

1036
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,560
And all of a sudden,
three more games, three more wins,

1037
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:58,320
and we would have
an unbelievable season, you know.

1038
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:00,200
Three more wins, more wins.

1039
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:04,440
And so the dream became
a possibility.

1040
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:08,520
COMMENTARY: Manchester United on the
verge of true sporting greatness.

1041
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:14,320
Peter Schmeichel coming out
for his last league game in England.

1042
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,120
He's taken goalkeeping on to another
level, I think.

1043
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:25,880
Once we got to those three games,
for me,

1044
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,880
there's absolutely no doubt
about the first two.

1045
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:32,800
There's no way we were not gonna
win against Tottenham. No way.

1046
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,360
(CHEERING)

1047
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:40,720
It's gone right to the final whistle
on the final day

1048
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:42,000
of the league season,

1049
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:46,200
and Manchester United are champions

1050
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,240
for the fifth time in seven seasons.

1051
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:54,920
The first leg of this astonishing
treble is in place.

1052
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,320
(PLAYERS CHEERING)

1053
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:01,880
Two more games.

1054
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:05,960
There's no way
we were gonna lose the FA Cup final.

1055
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:09,280
So, the question mark was,

1056
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,840
having played Bayern twice already
that season

1057
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:15,080
and drawn both of the games,
would we come out winning that game?

1058
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,960
COMMENTARY: United know
that Bayern Munich are giants,

1059
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,000
three-times winners
of the European Cup,

1060
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:22,160
chasing a treble themselves.

1061
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:26,720
Manager Alex Ferguson won't name
his starting line-up until tomorrow.

1062
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,960
Once certainty, though,
is Peter Schmeichel,

1063
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:32,720
the United keeper in his final
appearance, will captain the side.

1064
01:07:35,480 --> 01:07:39,360
When I was young, I was seriously
nervous before games.

1065
01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,800
My first game for Brondby
was quarter final

1066
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:46,200
in the Champions League,

1067
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:49,080
and I'm actually hoping
that the bus would crash

1068
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:51,040
so we didn't have to play this game.

1069
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,680
Such a big game, and there'd
be more people in the stadium

1070
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:58,880
than I've ever played in front
of before, and I was so nervous.

1071
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:03,000
I went outside myself and looked
at myself, and I said,

1072
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,120
'Pete, all of your life you've been
dreaming about these games,

1073
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:07,400
and you're afraid.

1074
01:08:07,440 --> 01:08:10,360
You should be enjoying it.
This is fantastic.'

1075
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:12,720
And I decided
I wouldn't be nervous anymore.

1076
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:15,200
From that moment on,
I was never nervous.

1077
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:18,800
(SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC)

1078
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:25,440
What is it inside of me that enables
me to do something like that?

1079
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:29,160
It takes an incredible amount
of strength.

1080
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:34,200
I don't know where that strength
came from, but it was there.

1081
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:40,480
Champions League final.
You are right at the pinnacle.

1082
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:43,440
Everyone in the world are watching
what you're doing,

1083
01:08:43,480 --> 01:08:45,880
and I don't think you can get
any higher than that.

1084
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,800
Why be scared of that?

1085
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,440
You're there because you love it,
so enjoy it.

1086
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,760
But too easy for Bayern Munich.

1087
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:57,120
Their players were simply too good,
and they were too disciplined.

1088
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:00,720
One-nil.
They completely controlled the game.

1089
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:06,560
But they had the opportunities,
and they never took them.

1090
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,800
They hit the post,
and they hit the bar.

1091
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:12,640
What do you wanna know?

1092
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:17,960
One that hits the post, I'm a little
bit in doubt if it's going in.

1093
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:21,680
The Carsten Jancker one on the bar,
that's, honestly,

1094
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:23,040
I know it's not going in.

1095
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:26,760
We were riding our luck
a little bit. Three minutes left.

1096
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:29,920
And then we get the corner kick,
so I know this is the time.

1097
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,880
The big goalie's coming up!
Peter Schmeichel is forward.

1098
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:35,480
Go up to create havoc and confusion.

1099
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:38,240
You do everything that you can
in order to win.

1100
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:42,280
It comes from the manager.
I had no authority whatsoever.

1101
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:45,880
In towards Schmeichel!

1102
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,720
He got a touch on the ball.

1103
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:51,120
His head wasn't big enough
to head it towards goal.

1104
01:09:51,160 --> 01:09:53,680
Come for Dwight Yorke.
Cleared. Giggs with the shot!

1105
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:56,240
Sheringham!
But then we got the goal out of it.

1106
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,080
(CHEERING)

1107
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:03,800
As I'm running back. The adrenaline,
it makes me breathless.

1108
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:05,920
So, I'm now trying to focus again,

1109
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:09,600
'Get your pulse down, focus,
concentrate.'

1110
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,000
I'm talking to myself,
I'm telling myself all that,

1111
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:13,160
you know.

1112
01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:17,920
And all I can think about is,
'Please don't shoot.

1113
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,200
Please. Because I am not capable
of saving anything.'

1114
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,400
Beckham. Into Sheringham!

1115
01:10:23,440 --> 01:10:25,920
And Solskjaer has won it!

1116
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:27,160
We score.

1117
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:30,360
And then...

1118
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,040
Then I go blank.

1119
01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:35,760
(CHEERING)

1120
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:40,320
Then I don't remember anything. So,
don't ask about anything after that.

1121
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:42,080
(LAUGHS)

1122
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,840
The best last line of defence that
Manchester United have ever had

1123
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:49,000
will perform his last act
as a Manchester United player.

1124
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,520
(CHEERING)

1125
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,560
I tell you,
I'm fucking sick of celebrations.

1126
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:00,920
(LAUGHTER)

1127
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,560
(CHATTER)

1128
01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:19,120
Kasper was crying when the game
was done, and I was like,

1129
01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:20,280
'Why are you crying?'

1130
01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:22,240
And he was like,
'Well, this is the last game.

1131
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:24,960
You know, Dad is not
a United player after this.'

1132
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,080
So, 'OK, that's quite big.'

1133
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:29,280
Like, 'Fuck this is over.'

1134
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,720
Like, 'He's not gonna play
for Man United again.'

1135
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:38,160
I never thought about that
being my last game for Man United.

1136
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,680
I wasn't thinking about beyond
the game at all.

1137
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:43,440
I was just focused on
my first Champions League final.

1138
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:48,200
I didn't wanna bring all that
sentimental stuff into it.

1139
01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,720
I said, 'This is gonna be the
most important game

1140
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:52,000
you're ever gonna play.'

1141
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,000
Like I said to myself
with every game I play.

1142
01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:02,360
You never looked ahead. Never.
Win the game, move on.

1143
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:06,600
I woke up and I wasn't
a Man United player anymore.

1144
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:13,520
Of course it was a massive mistake
leaving Manchester United.

1145
01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:15,880
Why would you leave
Manchester United?

1146
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,760
Why didn't I just go in to
the manager and say,

1147
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:21,160
'I can still do a really good job
for you,

1148
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,400
but I don't think I can
play every game'?

1149
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:25,840
I was too proud.

1150
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:29,080
I thought that he would see
that as weakness.

1151
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:32,360
He wanted strong personalities,
armoured people,

1152
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,320
nothing could penetrate them.

1153
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,560
I'm very sure that I was wrong.

1154
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,040
I think he would have respected me,
and he would have helped me.

1155
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,960
There was something in me
that stopped me and said,

1156
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:44,720
'No, I've made my decision.'

1157
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:50,480
He was a great player for me,
a great character,

1158
01:12:50,520 --> 01:12:53,720
and a person I really admired.

1159
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,120
When you look at the hundred-year
history of Manchester United,

1160
01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:00,920
Peter Schmeichel is right
at the top of that, you know.

1161
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,360
After Peter, that was
when the real problems started.

1162
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,480
I tried— I don't know how many
goalkeepers I tried.

1163
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:11,440
I became famous
for trying goalkeepers. (LAUGHS)

1164
01:13:13,360 --> 01:13:16,480
At no point did I speak to
any other club

1165
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:18,360
before the Champions League final.

1166
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:22,120
I wanted to play a hundred per cent
fair with Man United.

1167
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:27,800
So, when I played that last game,
I didn't know where I was going.

1168
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:32,040
I went to Sporting Lisbon,
in Portugal.

1169
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,240
I'd been in Lisbon before, but not
with the view of living there,

1170
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:38,040
and I fell in love with the place
straight away.

1171
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,840
What I've seen so far is
very talented players,

1172
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,120
and, you know, very inexperienced.

1173
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:45,880
But they can play.

1174
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:50,040
I mean, it was obvious today
that there was definitely potential

1175
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:54,360
of creating some— a team that can
at least compete for the trophies.

1176
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:59,000
I enjoyed my years,
much as we won the championship,

1177
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:02,560
but it was so different
to what I was used to.

1178
01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,600
I mean, we were playing
for half-empty stadiums,

1179
01:14:05,640 --> 01:14:06,800
and I wasn't happy.

1180
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:10,000
My god, I missed the Premier League.

1181
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:14,000
NEWS: The big Dane's back
into English football.

1182
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:17,000
After two seasons in the sun
with Sporting Lisbon,

1183
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:19,760
he wanted one last chance
in the Premiership.

1184
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,320
He just hopes everyone
at Old Trafford will understand.

1185
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,560
I didn't have a problem with Peter
leaving Manchester United.

1186
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:30,120
I wondered why, because he was still
relatively young for a goalkeeper,

1187
01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:31,680
but he'd made his mind up,

1188
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:33,680
and you were never gonna change
his mind.

1189
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,800
The disappointment I had was,
you know,

1190
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,920
when you play for United,
you don't go and play for City.

1191
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,120
We've lost a great goalkeeper,
the greatest in the world,

1192
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:44,640
you've just won the treble,

1193
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:47,320
you've popped off and had a little
bit of sun, then you've come back

1194
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:49,760
and played in Manchester,
and played in Birmingham.

1195
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,200
He could've carried on playing
for United.

1196
01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:56,640
An elderly woman who was
stood behind the goal,

1197
01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:00,200
Manchester City supporter, right,
she was shouting right in my face,

1198
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:03,920
'Let's see where your fucking
loyalties are today, Schmeichel!'

1199
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:07,760
Christ, you know.
What was going on here?

1200
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:10,200
It was a really, really weird day
for me.

1201
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:13,480
Giggs!
Saved valiantly by Schmeichel.

1202
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:16,400
Well, the United hero is
a City hero today.

1203
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:20,080
Three-one winners!
What a day for Peter Schmeichel.

1204
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:24,720
I know we won, I know it counts
towards the record

1205
01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:26,840
that I've never lost
a Manchester derby,

1206
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:29,160
but it's absolutely meaningless
to me.

1207
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,200
Sometimes you don't think
everything through.

1208
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:35,000
I didn't think that I was gonna
play against Manchester United,

1209
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:38,160
I didn't think what that was gonna
be like, until it happened.

1210
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:40,800
Oh my god, I hated it.

1211
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:50,960
NEWS:
After a month of soul searching,

1212
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,960
to make what he says is the most
difficult decision of his life,

1213
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:57,080
Schmeichel will be retiring
at the end of the season.

1214
01:15:57,120 --> 01:16:00,120
NEWS 2: So, this Sunday sees
Peter the Great hang up his gloves,

1215
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:01,960
only a week after showing us

1216
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:04,960
why he's probably the Premiership's
greatest ever keeper.

1217
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,160
Diouf! Oh, Schmeichel!

1218
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,920
That's one of the great saves of
his career, in his penultimate game.

1219
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:15,520
But will the end be
an emotional moment?

1220
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:17,880
I don't know,
my wife keeps asking me that.

1221
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:20,160
She says I'm very cold.

1222
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:21,320
(STAMMERS)

1223
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:25,040
You know, you live a life where
you're under pressure all the time.

1224
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:26,920
Whatever decisions
you make in your life,

1225
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:28,600
whatever decisions you make
in the game,

1226
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:29,880
you have to live with that.

1227
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,000
I'm not gonna be too emotional
about that on Sunday.

1228
01:16:32,040 --> 01:16:33,960
I don't think I'll be thinking
about it a lot.

1229
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:39,360
When I decided to retire from
football, I was more than ready.

1230
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:41,880
I wasn't happy.

1231
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:50,800
My father was very, very proud of me
playing for Man United.

1232
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:52,560
He made sure to tell me as well.

1233
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,240
But towards the end
of my career at United,

1234
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,880
it was also a period
where his drinking,

1235
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:02,240
which we were not aware of,
became more and more apparent.

1236
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,800
He told me that he was
an alcoholic for 40 years.

1237
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:10,200
It's an illness, and many,
many people are suffering from it.

1238
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:13,480
In a family,
when there is an abuser,

1239
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:15,720
you always call it something else.

1240
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:20,840
And his excuse was
that he had this tough background.

1241
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:23,520
It's his childhood,
or blah-blah-blah.

1242
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:26,520
In the run-in to the treble,

1243
01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:30,800
that was the first time
I really saw how bad it had got.

1244
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:34,240
You didn't think he could get any
worse, but he did, every day.

1245
01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:38,280
When I moved to Portugal,

1246
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,680
very, very quickly
my mother came there,

1247
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:42,520
because you can say she escaped.

1248
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,360
We took a lot
of professional advice.

1249
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:49,040
They said that
you can't do anything.

1250
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,880
It's gotta be up to the person
who's got the problem.

1251
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:55,720
You have to isolate the person.
That's so, so tough.

1252
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:57,560
It's so difficult.

1253
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:00,440
So, me and the family just moved
to Portugal.

1254
01:18:00,480 --> 01:18:04,000
We didn't give him any phone
numbers, no addresses, no nothing.

1255
01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:07,160
One day,
I'm walking my dog in the garden,

1256
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:10,080
and it's pitch black,
I've got a torchlight in my hand.

1257
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:12,240
I get a phone call on
my mobile phone,

1258
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:13,600
and it's my then wife.

1259
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,240
She says,
'Your father is at the gate.'

1260
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:17,760
And I'm like, 'What?'

1261
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:21,200
Somehow, he's managed to book
a flight to Lisbon,

1262
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:23,520
then stumble into a taxi,

1263
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,640
telling the guy to take him
to my house.

1264
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:28,200
He didn't have an address,
and the guy knew where I lived,

1265
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:29,560
which was scary.

1266
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,960
And then he ended up there.
He was very drunk, by the way.

1267
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:36,440
And I'm still holding
this torchlight as I open the door,

1268
01:18:36,480 --> 01:18:39,040
and he's there.
It's not something I thought about.

1269
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:43,520
I was just straight into his eyes,
kind of, the ultimate humiliation.

1270
01:18:43,560 --> 01:18:46,000
And I ask him, 'What do you want?'

1271
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:48,200
'I wanna come in,
I wanna see my family.'

1272
01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:51,320
'You can't.
We don't want you. You have to go.'

1273
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:53,040
After ten minutes, he left.

1274
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:56,960
I'm stood there, haven't got
a clue what I've just done.

1275
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:59,360
My instinct was I had to do that,

1276
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:02,800
but I didn't know
what the consequences would be.

1277
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:07,320
He went back to Copenhagen,

1278
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:10,280
and from that plane
he went directly into treatment.

1279
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:15,080
He lived 20 years after that,
and never had a drink again.

1280
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:19,480
Strength. The Schmeichel strength.
(LAUGHS)

1281
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,840
He became clean,
he mended the bridges,

1282
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,880
built new relationships
with everyone in the family.

1283
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:31,560
But he didn't wanna talk to me.

1284
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:34,280
And it turned out it was
the torchlight,

1285
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:38,160
that I humiliated him
so much with that torchlight,

1286
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:39,800
and he couldn't forgive me.

1287
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:41,760
So, one day I said to my mother,

1288
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,360
'Tell him that torchlight
saved his life.

1289
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,520
That humiliation was
the final push.'

1290
01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,400
A couple of hours later,
my father rang me,

1291
01:19:49,440 --> 01:19:51,200
and he apologised to me,

1292
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:54,680
and we became really, really close
in those last 20 years.

1293
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:04,240
My dad has different characters.

1294
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:07,640
He had a character when he was
a professional footballer,

1295
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:10,680
and he has a character
as a grown man,

1296
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:13,520
and the last ten years
he's got a new character.

1297
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:16,480
So, there's loads of different
versions of him,

1298
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:19,600
and I love the version
he is now the most.

1299
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:26,080
He's become very calm and happy,
and just he's present.

1300
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:28,160
He's much more present
than he used to be.

1301
01:20:31,240 --> 01:20:34,600
Once you finish football,
you can relax.

1302
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,040
He's quite rightly begun to enjoy
life a lot more than he did

1303
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:39,240
when he played.

1304
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:46,280
I'm very conscious
about giving up control.

1305
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,520
If we'd done this documentary
five years ago,

1306
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:52,720
I would've been all over
everything you said.

1307
01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:54,440
I've improved on that,

1308
01:20:54,480 --> 01:20:58,160
because I hated always trying to be
in control of every situation,

1309
01:20:58,200 --> 01:20:59,520
'cause it's stressful.

1310
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:01,480
It's stressful,
not only for yourself,

1311
01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:02,920
but for your surroundings,

1312
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:07,160
that every little thing's
got to be in a certain way.

1313
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:13,000
With me, it's a big, big challenge,
to realise that always being

1314
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:15,560
in control doesn't make me
a better person.

1315
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,160
It's been important.
It's not important anymore.

1316
01:21:25,480 --> 01:21:29,480
I think having met Laura,
it's helped me a lot.

1317
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:32,560
She's not somebody that you control,
definitely not.

1318
01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:36,200
There's a lot of things
that I am able to do today,

1319
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:38,880
the way I'm able to think,
the way I'm able to behave,

1320
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,920
that I would have loved to have had
earlier in my life,

1321
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:43,400
and also in my playing career.

1322
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:47,960
But for me to do what
I had to do back then,

1323
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:51,200
for some reason
I had to be like that.

1324
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:56,280
I always saw myself as him on
the pitch and him outside the pitch.

1325
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,720
I'm not sure that
I'm completely right about that.

1326
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,840
I think they were probably
a little bit closer

1327
01:22:03,880 --> 01:22:05,960
than I would have liked.

1328
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:09,680
But I'm definitely making
a bigger gap now.

1329
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:16,520
It's funny, because I never seen
him play, I never seen him on TV.

1330
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:21,360
When I met him, I just saw
this super happy, funny man.

1331
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:24,720
So, when I see a clip of
him playing football, I'm like,

1332
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,520
'Why are you yelling so much?
Why are you so angry?' (LAUGHS)

1333
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,720
You know, 'What's going on?
What did he say?'

1334
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:32,560
You know, because I don't know
that side of him.

1335
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:38,400
She was that person who wandered
down the shopping street

1336
01:22:38,440 --> 01:22:41,960
on June 27th,
walked into the town hall square,

1337
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,120
200,000 people there,
and thinking, 'Why are they here?'

1338
01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,600
You know, when they looked up
to the balcony, where I am,

1339
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:49,560
with the European Championship
trophy.

1340
01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:53,720
She's totally oblivious to that.
She knew nothing about football,

1341
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:57,160
which has been absolutely fan— She
knows everything about football now.

1342
01:22:57,920 --> 01:23:01,200
It's been an important development
for me to meet somebody

1343
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:02,840
who didn't know about football,

1344
01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:06,360
who was introducing me
to other values in life,

1345
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:08,680
and other ways of being,

1346
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:11,360
and other ways of being
around people as well.

1347
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:19,200
I'm going on tour with a band that
I've literally just stumbled into,

1348
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:22,920
so I'm now gonna do what my father
used to do, go out and play music.

1349
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:28,480
They used to have a sound guy
who called the genre of country...

1350
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:32,040
..horse jazz.
Horse jazz, yeah.

1351
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:35,680
(LAUGHS) Horse jazz.
So, we're moving into horse jazz.

1352
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,880
You heard it here first. (LAUGHS)

1353
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:43,400
Peter said, 'Well, I just wrote
this new song, could we try that?'

1354
01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:45,800
So yeah, this is—
We're trying it.

1355
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:47,320
It's the first time we play it.

1356
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:49,440
It's very new.
We never heard it before.

1357
01:23:56,520 --> 01:23:58,520
He's a childhood hero, yeah?

1358
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:00,560
Then all of a sudden,
we're on the same team.

1359
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:02,400
That was pretty mad to start with.

1360
01:24:02,440 --> 01:24:04,240
Before it was like, 'Oh my god.

1361
01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:06,720
He's the captain
of the national team.'

1362
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:12,040
Yeah. He's really nice.
Not like in the TV from the '90s.

1363
01:24:13,200 --> 01:24:15,440
They are professional musicians,

1364
01:24:15,480 --> 01:24:18,520
they have a completely
different idea about time.

1365
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:23,360
They'll arrive, yeah, they will come
and rehearse and all that,

1366
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:26,480
but if you say ten o'clock,
it's not necessarily ten o'clock.

1367
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:28,440
It's definitely not my ten o'clock.

1368
01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:30,760
But that's two different worlds.

1369
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:35,320
It's challenging me on my OCD.

1370
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,560
It's a little bit of—

1371
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:40,760
Yeah, it's a big challenge.

1372
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:44,240
Now my sporting discipline,
and that, kind of,

1373
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:48,520
strict personality, is calling
for us to play this again.

1374
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:49,800
Yes.
'Cause—

1375
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:51,080
Agreed.

1376
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:55,760
# I see you...

1377
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:00,920
Yeah. I fucked it up.

1378
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:04,280
Start again? Let's start again.

1379
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:09,240
But, you know, funny, because
football never really left me.

1380
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:14,760
I have to be honest,

1381
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:18,040
I realised that his football has
been more important

1382
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:19,240
than my football.

1383
01:25:20,440 --> 01:25:23,360
(SPEAKING DANISH)

1384
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:29,320
I looked up to my dad,
so I copied him a lot.

1385
01:25:29,360 --> 01:25:30,720
(SPEAKING DANISH)

1386
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:37,200
(CHEERS)

1387
01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:43,120
I was volatile in my determination
to win, to be the best.

1388
01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:46,680
Regardless of what it was.

1389
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:48,840
Whether it was a game
in the backyard,

1390
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:52,240
or if it was a game of Monopoly,
or whatever it was, I wanted to win.

1391
01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:54,320
(SPEAKING DANISH)

1392
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:00,520
I didn't save that one.

1393
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:02,160
As a kid, you're a sponge.

1394
01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,560
You're taking everything in
all the time.

1395
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,640
MARGARETHE:

1396
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:30,800
Sometimes we had training,
and the kids were allowed to come.

1397
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:36,040
And Kasper was, and my son, Raphael,
were there. They played together.

1398
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:41,200
My son didn't care. But we could
feel the personality of Kasper.

1399
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:42,560
He had a goal, you know.

1400
01:26:43,320 --> 01:26:47,080
He wanted to become like his father.
We could feel that.

1401
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:53,440
The Barclays Premier League
has a sixth different winner,

1402
01:26:53,480 --> 01:26:55,320
and no one saw them coming.

1403
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:59,400
Leicester are smiling,
and the whole world smiles too.

1404
01:26:59,440 --> 01:27:01,680
Bring on the champions.

1405
01:27:03,480 --> 01:27:08,240
That day at the King Power Stadium,
when he lifted that trophy,

1406
01:27:08,280 --> 01:27:10,720
that's the best Premier League win
I've had.

1407
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:14,160
For the first time...

1408
01:27:16,320 --> 01:27:17,800
..it was emotional.

1409
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:25,160
And in all of this,
I was more proud and more happy

1410
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:28,440
than when I was one of
the players receiving this trophy.

1411
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:33,600
I don't understand that feeling,

1412
01:27:33,640 --> 01:27:36,080
because all of my life
since I was a kid,

1413
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:37,480
I dreamt about that.

1414
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:40,200
That was my driving thing,
that was my energy source.

1415
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:42,560
So,
how can somebody come into my life

1416
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:44,920
and make that even more important?

1417
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:46,920
But it is. It's your child.

1418
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:48,880
My son.

1419
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:50,520
(SPEAKING DANISH)

1420
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:59,000
He knew that,
regardless of how good I was,

1421
01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:02,000
it will never be good enough
for anyone else.

1422
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:06,080
What he's always made a point of
to me is saying,

1423
01:28:06,120 --> 01:28:09,280
'You are more than enough.
You are more than good enough.'

1424
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:12,200
And he said it to me
when I was 14, before games,

1425
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:15,160
he still says it to me.
'You have nothing to prove.'

1426
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:19,880
You know, as a son, having your dad
tell you that- that's enough for me.

1427
01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:30,560
When you're in the flow
of a career like football,

1428
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,680
you get numb to a lot of things.

1429
01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:37,040
So, the highs aren't as high,
and the lows aren't as low,

1430
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:39,920
because you're so used to
that rollercoaster

1431
01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:41,720
that you're on every week.

1432
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:43,840
When you first start your career,

1433
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:49,040
playing in front of 60,000 people
is a dream, it's incredible.

1434
01:28:49,960 --> 01:28:52,640
But 15 years down the line,
that's your everyday.

1435
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:54,080
That's part of your job.

1436
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,480
But when you then go back
and you look at, I think,

1437
01:28:57,520 --> 01:29:00,320
what is it my dad played,
nearly 700 games.

1438
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:03,880
Like, 700 games, that's incredible.

1439
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:06,800
129 caps. That's special.

1440
01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:11,720
And now he's, kind of,
restarting, at 60,

1441
01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:13,800
his— the next part of his life.

1442
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:16,000
'Cause, as an athlete,
you die twice.

1443
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:21,680
Once you finish your career,
it's been your whole life,

1444
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:24,440
your whole identity,
from when you were a child.

1445
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:27,680
And all of a sudden,
you're not this anymore,

1446
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,520
and you are never coming back.

1447
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:34,720
What now? Like, who are you now?

1448
01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:38,640
So, that's why I say
an athlete dies twice,

1449
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:42,360
'cause that's your identity gone.
Now you have to— You're reborn.

1450
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:45,960
(GENTLE MUSIC)

1451
01:29:55,160 --> 01:29:58,560
My father, he's buried
about 200 yards from my house.

1452
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:00,720
We always go past and say hello.

1453
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:13,560
He's got a really nice
resting place here,

1454
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,560
'cause obviously he became
a Danish citizen,

1455
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:18,240
but he was born in Poland,

1456
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:22,640
and Poland is actually directly
in line with that tree.

1457
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:24,600
So, he can have a look at Poland.

1458
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:27,040
(BELLS CHIME)

1459
01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:30,120
And he can listen to the music
of Denmark.

1460
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:35,840
Right, come on. Come on, you.

1461
01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:50,640
(GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(BELLS CONTINUE CHIMING)

1462
01:31:09,040 --> 01:31:12,680
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