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-[TV static]
-[upbeat music playing]

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[man] There's no such thing
as the archetypal footballer.

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There are the gifted,
the powerful, the brave, the tricky,

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and the sly.

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And there are those
who offer a combination of these things,

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the hard men.

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But what makes these men a breed apart?

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What makes them kick?

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Your guide to the men of grit and guile

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is today's self-confessed
creator of havoc, Vinnie Jones.

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[crowd cheering]

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One of the most colorful and
controversial figures in football.

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[commentator 1] That's
inexcusable, frankly.

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You'd be forgiven for thinking
he was a professional delinquent.

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Yeah, yeah, I was the punk rocker
of football, weren't I?

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[Vinnie Jones] See you after,
you gobshite!

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-See you after, you gobshite!
-[crowd chanting]

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The Scud missile of soccer,
Mr. Vinnie Jones.

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[commentator 2] Vinnie Jones, a volley…

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It's in!
Oh, we'll never hear the last of that!

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[Jones] I never wanted to be
an ordinary footballer.

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He's a nice fella, but I wouldn't have him
to me daughter's 17th birthday.

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[Jones] I wanted to be somebody.
Leave a mark.

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[crowd cheers]

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[reporter] You've got a reputation.
Does that worry you?

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Shouldn't worry me,
should worry me opponents.

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[TV host] Did you bring the game
into disrepute more than you ought to?

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I've been known to, Jon,
from time to time.

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[announcer] Vinnie Jones
is taking on the Wolf!

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[cheering]

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I have to send you off.

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[cheering and applause]

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[music fades out]

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[Jones] I had the perfect life,
playing football.

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[male pundit] Plenty calling for
Vinnie Jones to be kicked out of the game.

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And that came to an absolute car crash.

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[man 1] This is suicidal!

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[man 2] His exuberance has seen
Jones sent off an incredible 12 times.

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-Fuck!
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[male pundit 1] Vinnie Jones is a man
the tabloid press love to hate.

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[reporter] Do you think you are
the most hated man in football?

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[male pundit 2] Is Vinnie Jones everything
that's wrong with the English game?

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I think my career's over.

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The footballer Vinnie Jones
has been found guilty…

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Has been fined a record…

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Laying a charge of misconduct
against Wimbledon player Vinnie Jones.

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What am I gonna do?

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[music fades slowly]

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If you're gonna go over the top of me,
you've got to put me out the game.

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Because I'm gonna be coming back for you.

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[gun cocking]

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[gunshot echoes]

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[dramatic music playing]

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[male commentator] It's the biggest
occasion in English football.

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The day the whole world watches,

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as the mighty Liverpool
take on the Crazy Gang of Wimbledon

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in the FA Cup Final.

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And there will be a lot of talk
about Vinnie Jones.

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Just 18 months ago,
he was working on a building site,

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and now he's in an FA Cup Final.

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[male reporter] I hope they're watching
this program and not listening to pop,

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or their own record,
or anything like that.

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That's Vinnie Jones saying
something back to me.

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That's great, lads. Are you watching?

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-[Jones] Yeah.
-[reporter] Good lads.

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What about the game?

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What's your role going to be in it?

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I'm not goalkeeper, I know that.

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[players laughing]

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I dunno. Just wait
until what the boss tells me to do,

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and then go out and do it.
Normal game. Yeah.

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The night before the game,
we had a few beers,

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we had a crack, had a laugh.

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The locals were like,

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"Are you the lot
that are not playing tomorrow. The squad?"

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"No, no, we're playing.
Don't worry about that."

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Yeah, we will.

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[Jones] Just pure adrenaline
we were going on. Pure adrenaline.

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Ready for the game, you know?

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[fanfare music plays]

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[male pundit] He's already carved out
a reputation as a fearsome competitor,

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but can he be trusted
on the world's biggest stage?

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[Jones] We walk onto the pitch,

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and I've gone, "Fucking hell."

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[crowd cheering]

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[Jones] The FA Cup was everything.

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This is insane!

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It's just such an emotional day.

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I didn't think it would be, you know,

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take over this much,
just even walking out here.

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I know the lads will be watching
at home in Hemel and in Watford.

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And it's just over…

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you know, overcome.

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[Jones] Hold on a minute.

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How the fuck does a lad like me… get here?

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[tape rewinding]

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[dramatic music rises]

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I grew up just outside Watford.

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So I loved the countryside,
shooting and fishing.

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But if you cut me in half,

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you would read football.

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Football to me
was everything on this planet.

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[indistinct shouting]

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Captain of Watford Boys.

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Semi-pro at Wealdstone.

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And we won the non-league FA Cup.

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My day job is on the building site.

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But,

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all around Watford now,
I was known as a good player.

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Here we go. I quite fancy meself.

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As it happened,

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a mate of mine knew
the Wimbledon manager at the time,

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Dave Bassett.

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I basically got my hands and knees…

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"Give me a chance. Give me a chance."

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[music fades]

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The first time I met him,
Vinnie was a Jack the lad

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from Watford who thought he'd arrived,
and he was quite lippy, to be fair.

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He was tough. He was a competitor.

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But he'd not followed the normal route

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of being an academy player
and everything else.

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And I think if he'd gone to other clubs,

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the managers would have told him
to fuck off.

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But in a way,
Vinnie came to us at the right time.

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Wimbledon is more immediately associated
with tennis than soccer.

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But amazingly, less than nine years
after entering the Fourth Division

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they're now in the First.

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[tense music playing]

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This is Plough Lane,
Wimbledon's home ground

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and by far the most humble stadium
in the First Division.

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[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to Wimbledon Football Club.

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Wimbledon will be bottom
of the attendance charts

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in the First Division next season.

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Wimbledon had just got into
First Division, the now Premier League.

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They were the minnows,
fighting the mighty forces…

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-Liverpool, Everton, Man United.
-[crowd cheering]

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[indistinct chatter]

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We were't able to sign a load of players
because we didn't have the money.

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And so, even though
Vinnie wasn't the finished article,

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it was worth taking a risk.

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[music fades]

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Bassett went, "All right, son, um…

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I'm going to sign you."

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"I'll give you a year and a half contract.
150 pound a week."

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"Um…

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Now fuck off."

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That was our contract talks.

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Like the boys are saying,
"You're in, you're in."

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You know, I just couldn't believe it.
And after, he named the squad and said,

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"You're in the squad."

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So I had to go down London and get a suit.

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It was just unbelievable.

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-Did you play the Barnes against us?
-Yeah…

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[Jones] Bassett always had
an entourage of mates around him.

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Vice presidents, and vice wankers,
and complete wankers.

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They were like,

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[imitating Bassett's friends]
"Harry, Harry, you fucking idiot!"

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[laughs]

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"He's a fucking hod carrier."

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"You think you can turn a hod carrier
into a Division One footballer?"

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I'll never forget it.

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I said, "Well, I haven't got a clue,
to be quite honest,

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but we need a bit
of extra strength in midfield."

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"If the worst comes to the worst,
get him to do maintenance on the ground."

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[ominous music playing]

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[Jones] Yeah, me first game
was an absolute disaster.

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We lose, and I give a penalty away.

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[Bassett] As he come off,
he asked Syd Neal, who was our kitman,

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"How am I doing, Syd?"

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Syd said, "That's the worst debut
I've ever seen in my life."

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"Keep your shirt 'cause
you're not going to get another one."

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Now that could kill people.

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But Vinnie told him to fuck off.

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[Jones] We played Man United
at home on the Saturday.

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Alex Ferguson had just taken over.

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Bryan Robson was the England captain.

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The whole occasion was ridiculous.
"What am I doing here?"

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[indistinct chatter]

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But you've got to crawl out
of that greasy drainpipe.

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You got to keep going.

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You might just find that dry patch.
Something might just happen.

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Use that power. Get out there and win.

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[players cheering]

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[Jones] Lift it! No fucking prisoners!

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It's now or never.

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[upbeat music intensifies]

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[commentator] Oh, incredible!
It's a goal from Vince Jones!

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He is making a name for himself
early in his career.

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[Jones] What do I do?
I was just going mental.

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Yeah! Come on!

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I'd scored the winner.

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In the boardroom, everyone was cheering.

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And I said, "I'll bet you're glad
I'm not a hod carrier now, ain't ya?"

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[music fades]

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[Bassett] Scored the goal,
and the genie was out of the bottle.

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But I told him
that he was going to have to fit in

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because Wimbledon was
a unique club in those days.

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[upbeat band music playing]

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[male reporter] Wimbledon
were hard at training today.

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But this is not just
any other training ground.

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Our training ground was
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and the clubhouse was a transport caf.

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[reporter] Inside the pavilion,
you can get a good, cooked breakfast,

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a game of pool,

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plus a chance to spot
top-of-the-table soccer stars,

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like John Fashanu,

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who has to join the queue
like anyone else.

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["Lo Chiamavano Trinità" -Franco Micalizzi
& Gianfranco Plenzio playing]

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[Fashanu] When Vinnie first came
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I said, "Who's this guy?"

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"Who does he think he is?"

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"He's walking in here like a gangster."

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"I'm the boss here."

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♪ He's the guy
Who's the talk of the town ♪

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♪ With the restless gun ♪

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♪ Don't you bother to fool him around
Keeps the varmints on the run… ♪

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[Fashanu] We sit down, we talk,

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and I see we have so much in common.

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"You're a thug and hooligan.
I'm a thug and a hooligan."

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"So, snap. Where do we go from here, bro?"

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-♪ When you've seen him use his gun ♪
-[music fades out]

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[Jones] We are an odd couple
on the surface.

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Fash is street educated, worldly educated.

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He was a businessman first
and a footballer second.

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[phone ringing]

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Hello? Yeah.

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Yeah, Isaiah. Yeah. Okay.

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[Jones] And I always remember
Fash saying to me,

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"Don't be that player
that plays 400 games,

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and no one's ever heard of him."

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[dramatic music playing]

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"Be somebody."

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"Leave a mark."

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[crowd murmuring]

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Now, I spoke to you yesterday
about not being overawed with the game.

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Just be nice and competitive, aggressive.
And let's win the ******* game.

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[cheering]

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[Fashanu] I told Jonesy,
"We're hooligans, thugs."

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"If the ball wasn't there,
you kick whatever else is there."

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Very simple.

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This is what your job is.

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"The hatchet man."

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[commentator] Jones has gone in
really hard there.

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I knew how to tackle and that because
I'd come through the non-league ranks.

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Right now. Let's go.

250
00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,160
[commentator] That's Jones again.

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Tempers are rising, revolving mostly
around the Wimbledon number four.

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[Jones] We were hated
by the other players.

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[commentator] Jones
with a thunderous tackle.

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I knew of players' wives that would beg
their husbands to be careful

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or not to play against us. [laughs]

256
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Things like that!

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[commentator] Jones going in
strongly there.

258
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And that provides a platform for the Dons.

259
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[Fashanu] We won so many games
because we just scared people.

260
00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,040
[commentator] And it comes to Sanchez,
who scores!

261
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Vinnie got stronger,
and he got stronger, and he got stronger.

262
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And he became a real challenge
to every single team.

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[commentator] Opponents
might not like him,

264
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but Jones is fast becoming
a cult hero for the Wimbledon fans.

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-[camera clicks]
-[music fades]

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Wimbledon's antics mean
that they're rarely out of the headlines.

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To outsiders,
this may just look like yobbish behavior.

268
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But in fact, it's all part of a carefully
calculated psychological strategy.

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[Bassett] Left, right. Left, right.
Left-- Look up!

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[man] Vinnie! Come on, son.

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[Jones] The core of Wimbledon
at that time,

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engraved on me and on my soul,

273
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was this unique team spirit.

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Call me your back-straight general, son.

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Young, aggressive men,

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foaming at the mouth with testosterone.

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You cut him, you cut me.
If you kill him, you've gotta kill me.

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[cheering]

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We were a brotherhood.

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This gang, this posse, this band of mates.

281
00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,680
[dramatic music playing]

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[over PA] Ladies and gentlemen,
we are making our final descent…

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[Jones] We'd get pissed up together.
We'd have a punch up.

284
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Please, God,
it didn't get in the papers and shit.

285
00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:07,000
I'd go at two and get them out
of the bar, so not too bad.

286
00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,880
I'm looking for the culprit
that's turned my room over.

287
00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:11,960
My bed was on the balcony
a few minutes ago.

288
00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:13,640
Me clothes were all over the place.

289
00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:15,720
But I've got suspects. They'll pay later.

290
00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,920
Bassett used to instigate it all
to get that camaraderie.

291
00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,280
"Right, you against you.
And bang, and let's have it."

292
00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:25,640
[reporter] A lot of managers would ban
a drink and ban a late night,

293
00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,520
but Dave Bassett seems
to almost encourage you to do that.

294
00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:29,760
Yeah he's--

295
00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,400
[shouting]

296
00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,680
[laughing]

297
00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:36,720
And that's how Wimbledon prepare.

298
00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:38,680
People sort of ask me and say,

299
00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,240
"God, what was it like
managing Vinnie Jones?"

300
00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:42,600
Easiest thing in the world.

301
00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,920
The only time Vinnie might cause trouble

302
00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,160
is when him and the lads go out
for a night out,

303
00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,800
and there might be a bit
of a shemozzle along the line.

304
00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,360
[dramatic music playing]

305
00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,120
Well, the Crazy Gang did
what it said on the tin.

306
00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:01,560
They were a bunch of complete headcases,
uh, led by Mr. Jones.

307
00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,960
But there's something about Vinnie
that was utterly compelling.

308
00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,640
He was big. He was aggressive.

309
00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:10,960
He was a character…

310
00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:12,400
[camera clicking]

311
00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,080
…and we in the newspaper game
wanted to have people

312
00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,840
like Vinnie on your front page
because he sold papers.

313
00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,920
-[music stops]
-[phone ringing]

314
00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,880
[Jones] This reporter from The Sun,
he rung me up.

315
00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:29,920
"I heard you had a tackle with Dalglish,

316
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,640
and you said, 'Do that again, Scotch git,

317
00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:33,480
I'll rip your head off
and shit in the hole.'"

318
00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,920
Well, you know… Did I? I never said that.

319
00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,360
[suspenseful music playing]

320
00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,640
Kenny Dalglish is a legend.

321
00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,560
Somebody I looked up to.

322
00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,880
And to this day,
I can't remember saying that.

323
00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:48,000
But the reporter said,
"I'm going to give you 250 quid."

324
00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,440
-Fuck, that's two weeks wages.
-[bell ringing]

325
00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,560
That's a lot of money in them days…

326
00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,080
When you was earning 150.

327
00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:55,600
So I said, "All right, then."

328
00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,080
[Bassett] He was talking bollocks,

329
00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:01,880
and he had to be put in his place.

330
00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:03,000
But he decided,

331
00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,920
"I think if I go along, and I become
one of the hardest men in football,

332
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,200
it's quite useful
to supplement the income."

333
00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,720
[Fashanu] I'd always say to Jonesy,
"At the end of the day, cash is king."

334
00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,040
I say it again.

335
00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,560
Cash is king.

336
00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,040
Never forget that.

337
00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,800
If you haven't got cash,
you ain't going to be a king.

338
00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:23,440
Very simple.

339
00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,280
[Jones] And the journalist said,

340
00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,640
"You took the money. Now we own you."

341
00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:30,320
And he's right.

342
00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,440
Once you sell your soul to the devil,

343
00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,200
you gotta dance for him.

344
00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,280
-[music intensifies]
-[crowd shouting]

345
00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,760
But, we still had to do
the business on the pitch.

346
00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,200
[commentator] Up goes the kick
from Dave Beasant,

347
00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,280
and down it comes on Fairweather's head.

348
00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,680
And Sayer is in here.
And Sayer… Good stop.

349
00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,760
Fashanu for Wimbledon.

350
00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:51,840
-Goal!
-[crowd cheering]

351
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,920
[energetic music playing]

352
00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,840
[Jones] That first season,
we finished sixth in the league.

353
00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,360
We thought we were invincible.

354
00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,600
[Fashanu] We've got confidence.
We've got Vinnie Jones.

355
00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,680
He's like Christmas Day every day.
So we're going for it now.

356
00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:12,840
[camera clicks]

357
00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,040
[Jones] And that's the inner belief
that you get

358
00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:17,960
when you believe in the system,
you believe in the manager.

359
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,920
Some of the players have now realized

360
00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,040
that they can be
First Division footballers.

361
00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:24,400
They've shown the potential
that I knew they had.

362
00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:27,680
[Jones] I think we all owed him.

363
00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,280
And we all bought into his way of winning.

364
00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:37,360
[music fades]

365
00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:40,520
At home, the big soccer story
of the last 48 hours

366
00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,920
has been Dave Bassett's decision
to quit as manager of Wimbledon.

367
00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:46,760
What? Ey?

368
00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:47,920
[cheering and applause]

369
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,240
[male reporter 1] Dave Bassett's farewell
to Wimbledon,

370
00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:53,680
shared by the supporters
who've watched Bassett and his team rise

371
00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,320
from non-league football
to sixth place in the First Division.

372
00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:58,960
"You can't go to another club."

373
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,120
"We're all in this together!"

374
00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,680
[male reporter 2] This evening,
Elton John was at a reception

375
00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,480
with his new Watford manager,
Dave Bassett.

376
00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,840
[Bassett] Vinnie was disappointed
when I went to Watford.

377
00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,200
He wanted somebody there for him…
You with me?

378
00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:14,320
…looking after him.

379
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,080
I've not got any relationship

380
00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,240
that's close
to what I've got with Bassett.

381
00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,840
And I didn't have the confidence to think
another manager would put me in the team.

382
00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:27,960
[man 1] Bobby's here.

383
00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:29,840
-[man 2] Okay.
-[man 3] Happy?

384
00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,240
[man 1] Nice and quiet, everyone, please.

385
00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,440
[fan] Rubbish football, Gould. Rubbish!

386
00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,600
[man 2] Just a second.

387
00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,680
[dramatic music playing]

388
00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,960
I said,
"I'm not going to call you Vinnie."

389
00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,200
"You're going to get called Vincent."

390
00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,960
And he says, "You sure?" I said, "Yeah."

391
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,560
-[indistinct chatter]
-[whistle blows]

392
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,960
[male reporter] Bobby Gould has taken
the reins at Wimbledon,

393
00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,920
but Dave Bassett will be
a hard act to follow.

394
00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,240
[Gould] What Dave Bassett had created,
it was unique.

395
00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:02,800
But people didn't like the way we played.

396
00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:08,360
And we had to "lose"
the tag of being naughty.

397
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,400
[Jones] The changeover
of Bassett to Bobby Gould,

398
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:13,960
they were so different.

399
00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,160
And he'd brought a couple of signings in

400
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:18,840
and put a couple of noses out of joint.

401
00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,920
[indistinct shouting]

402
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:25,720
[Gould] I used to pull him to one side

403
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,360
and make sure
that you're not stepping out of order.

404
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:35,520
"I want you to be a good player
and people to take notice of you."

405
00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,160
[commentator] Wise. Sanchez.

406
00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:41,400
Falls to Jones!

407
00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:43,960
[crowd cheering]

408
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,280
A silky moment from the hard man.

409
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,280
[Jones] Gouldy knew I could play,
and I showed it.

410
00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:51,200
[camera clicks]

411
00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,640
But looking through Bobby Gould's eyes,

412
00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,920
it was like having
a load of kids in playschool.

413
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,560
-[siren wailing]
-[upbeat music playing]

414
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,280
[cheering]

415
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,000
[commentator] Look at Vinnie Jones,
playing close attention

416
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,640
to Paul Gascoigne here.

417
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,720
[Gould] We played against Newcastle,

418
00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,880
and there was a certain Gascoigne
in the team.

419
00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:21,040
Everybody was talking about Gazza,
you know, this wunderkind.

420
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,240
And he had this absolute fan base,
and it was ridiculous.

421
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,440
[crowd cheers]

422
00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,440
[commentator] This is turning into
a real battle between these two.

423
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,760
[Jones] As I said before,
life is about climbing that greasy pole.

424
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,360
You gotta make your mark.

425
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:40,320
You gotta seize the moment.

426
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,720
-[camera clicking]
-[crowd groaning]

427
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:44,920
Let's have some of that.

428
00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:50,040
And I think Gascoigne squealed.

429
00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:51,160
And that was it.

430
00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,200
Front page and back page.

431
00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,120
[Morgan] I thought that picture
of Vinnie and Gazza was fantastic.

432
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,280
And it made Vinnie a household name.

433
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,480
Albeit, because he grabbed
Gazza's bollocks.

434
00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,400
-Pull!
-[gunshot]

435
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,280
-Pull!
-[gunshot]

436
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:12,240
Yidaho.

437
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,040
[reporter] Did you have him
in your pocket?

438
00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,080
I had him in the palm of my hand
at one stage.

439
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,080
[both laugh]

440
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,160
That's it. That's all right.
I'll just get my own back here!

441
00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,080
I think it's the newspapers
that do half of it.

442
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,760
I mean, I think people judged me
too early, you know?

443
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,240
When I was roaring about,
that's all I knew.

444
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,640
I'd only been in the game…

445
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,280
I've only been in the game now 18 months.

446
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,200
[Match of the Day theme tune playing]

447
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,280
I don't think any footballer ever forgets
winning this little chap on my right.

448
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,000
[Jones] In them days, the FA Cup was
the biggest competition in football.

449
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,120
It was absolutely massive.

450
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,240
A club like Wimbledon was
never expected to win it.

451
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,040
[hip-hop music playing]

452
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,080
[Jones] But we really
didn't give a fuck about anybody.

453
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:03,280
[crowd cheering]

454
00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:05,120
[commentator] St. James's Park,

455
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,600
crackling with anticipation
for an FA Cup fourth round tie

456
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,400
between Newcastle United and Wimbledon.

457
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,360
[announcer] Number four, Vince Jones…

458
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,960
[crowd booing]

459
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,000
[commentator] Boos for Vinnie Jones,
but that will be music to his ears.

460
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,800
Jones, the shot is on for him,
and it's a useful one too.

461
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,400
It was a cruel bounce for Jackson.

462
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:32,400
Fashanu!

463
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:33,560
[crowd cheering]

464
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,640
My word! He'll take a bow here.

465
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,080
I think Wimbledon showed the nation

466
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,680
that they can play
entertaining, attacking football,

467
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,120
despite the things
that have been said and written.

468
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,160
I don't think they'll be many
tomorrow listening to the draw,

469
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,800
who'll want to go to Plough Lane.

470
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,840
[commentator] Wimbledon hosting Watford

471
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,880
in the FA Cup quarterfinals.

472
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,360
[crowd groans]

473
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:58,000
[commentator 2] Dear oh dear.
Jones arrived in time for the replay.

474
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:00,360
Foul by Jones.

475
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,960
He's going to be booked.

476
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:03,880
Vinnie!

477
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,600
[commentator] Fashanu,
he's got Gibson up with him,

478
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,120
but he finishes it on his own.

479
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,840
And Wimbledon are in the semi-finals
for the first time

480
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,120
of the FA Cup.

481
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,280
This football club has no tradition,

482
00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:20,800
and traditions are built
on experiences like today.

483
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,080
Well, now for our second FA Cup semi-final

484
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,200
between Wimbledon and Luton Town.

485
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,440
[commentator] The Dons, now just one step
away from Wembley.

486
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,120
I'm not sure
anyone could have predicted this.

487
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,480
Jones, poised for another massive throw.

488
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,720
Cork… Oh yes!

489
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,160
It's little Wise.

490
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,640
[crowd cheering]

491
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,600
It's a magic moment for the club

492
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,600
who only five years ago
came out of the Fourth Division.

493
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,480
What a fairy tale!

494
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,680
That takes Vinnie Jones to Wembley.

495
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,200
Now there's a thought to conjure with.

496
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,800
[Jones] Ever since I was a kid,
the only dream that I've ever had

497
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,040
was to play at Wembley and win the FA Cup.

498
00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:08,120
[music fades]

499
00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,520
Now it's happening.

500
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,880
[male reporter 1] Good afternoon.
Welcome to a glorious day

501
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:13,800
here at Wembley

502
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,600
for a real David and Goliath FA Cup Final.

503
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,520
Liverpool, searching for their second
league and cup double in only two years,

504
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,040
cast of course, as Goliath.

505
00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,760
And playing David,
well, Wimbledon, the homely little club,

506
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,720
who in only ten years have defied logic
by smashing their way

507
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,000
from non-league football
to the First Division

508
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:31,280
and now here to Wembley.

509
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:33,680
[indistinct chanting]

510
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,800
[male reporter 2] The FA Cup Final
is one of fascinating contrasts.

511
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:43,120
The current Liverpool line-up
is arguably the greatest club we've seen.

512
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,520
As far as Wimbledon is concerned,

513
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,400
I mean, everybody wrote them off
this morning in the papers.

514
00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:53,680
They're saying that football needs
to triumph and that Liverpool should win.

515
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:56,240
Well, the pressure's all on us.

516
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,320
We've got to go and win.4/1 on.

517
00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:02,320
If I was a betting man,
I wouldn't even have a go at that price.

518
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,920
But certainly if we play to our potential,
then we've got a chance.

519
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,720
We're trying to find
a Wimbledon supporter along the way.

520
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,840
-[laughing]
-Can't seem to see any.

521
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,960
That's causing us concern
for the kick-off.

522
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:18,240
[crowd cheering]

523
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:22,320
[Jones] We had to show

524
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,560
that we weren't intimidated
by the big names, you know what I mean?

525
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,200
We got to smash them early.
We had to set the precedent.

526
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,080
[male reporter 3] Steve McMahon
had a marvelous season in midfield,

527
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,320
a key player today in the Liverpool side.

528
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,480
[Jones] If you shoot the general,

529
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,440
how's his troops going to react?

530
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,600
[reporter 4] Steve McMahon
against Vinnie Jones,

531
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,680
that really whets the appetite.

532
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,440
Well, let's hope
that we can do everyone justice.

533
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,440
I think everyone's looking forward
to the confrontation.

534
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:51,800
None more so than meself.

535
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,960
[reporter 4] What about you?
What about the game today?

536
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:55,640
Yeah…

537
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,240
There'll be plenty of that going on.

538
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,360
[somber music plays]

539
00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:02,840
I'm gonna fucking smash McMahon.

540
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,000
[dramatic music playing]

541
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,640
[crowd cheering]

542
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:19,280
[announcer 1] Vinnie's got to be
on his best behavior because…

543
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:21,560
The whole country,
the world's looking at him.

544
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,040
[announcer 2] Well, he is what he is.
He's a non-league player.

545
00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:25,800
That means he's going to battle.

546
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,280
He's got no respect for anybody,

547
00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:31,920
and he's going to make sure
that he shows it this afternoon.

548
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,960
[Jones] Me and the lads
planned the tackle beforehand.

549
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,760
Do it early.

550
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,640
The referee will not have the bollocks
to send me off.

551
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,040
And that was the gamble.

552
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:43,640
[crowd shouting]

553
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,640
[commentator] Liverpool get us underway,
attacking the goal to our right.

554
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,000
[Jones] The lads are looking at me like,
"Go on, then."

555
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,840
And I could see it opening up.

556
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,520
[crowd cheering]

557
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,560
Bang!

558
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,520
Oh, fucking… I did get him.

559
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:01,440
[crowd booing]

560
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,920
[commentator 1] He really set about
McMahon there,

561
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:05,960
and right under the eyes of the referee.

562
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,320
[tense music playing]

563
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,280
[Jones] I think we all
started looking around,

564
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,520
and believing.

565
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:14,760
[crowd cheering]

566
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,720
[commentator 1] The ball might come
to Houghton.

567
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:19,320
Is it there?

568
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,080
-No, it's not! Incredible…
-[crowd groans]

569
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,000
Vinnie Jones puts it away!

570
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,640
[Jones] And the more
that they sort of slumped,

571
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,400
the more bigger we got.

572
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,040
[commentator 2] And Wimbledon may well
thrive on a free kick in this position.

573
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,200
-[commentator 1] And it's in there!
-[crowd cheering]

574
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,880
Well, Sanchez has put Wimbledon ahead!

575
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,000
Yidaho! Yidaho!

576
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,520
[commentator 1] There goes
the half-time whistle.

577
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,080
And in many ways a remarkable first half.

578
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,520
Have they gone some way

579
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,640
towards spoiling Liverpool's prospects
of a second double?

580
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,840
Well, if football was predictable,
we wouldn't bother to watch it.

581
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,080
[commentator 1] And Jones is going to get
himself into trouble here.

582
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,160
Jones and McMahon.

583
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,200
When you're fighting
for every scrap, it's hard.

584
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:15,600
[commentator 1] Here's Jones.

585
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,680
[Jones] Wembley's like a big sponge.

586
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,880
And it drains every ounce out of you.

587
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,360
[commentator 1] He might score here.

588
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:24,440
Penalty!

589
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,000
Goodyear on Aldridge.

590
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,440
And here we have high drama

591
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,640
because never has a penalty been missed
in the FA Cup Final at Wembley.

592
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,640
It looks a really tough decision.

593
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,080
But what it does, it gives Aldridge,
who's scored 11 times

594
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,440
from the penalty spot
this season, and is 29,

595
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,560
the chance to bring Liverpool level.

596
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,800
-Saved brilliantly by Beasant!
-[crowd cheering]

597
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,360
Amazing!

598
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,360
By my watch,
there's still 20 seconds to go.

599
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,480
Barnes plays it in,
Vinnie Jones gets it away.

600
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,600
Oh, the tension here!

601
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,000
He's checked with both linesmen.

602
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,840
-Sanchez missed a kick.
-[whistle blows]

603
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,400
There is the final whistle!

604
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,040
The Crazy Gang have beaten
the Culture Club.

605
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,640
And Vinnie Jones
will not hang back on the celebrations.

606
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,720
-[camera clicks]
-[cheering fades out]

607
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,240
My heart… heart exploded.

608
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,240
[cheering]

609
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,520
[commentator 1] It's a weird
and wonderful world

610
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,840
if you come from Wimbledon.

611
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,200
They've won the FA Cup.

612
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,080
[Jones] You're the king of the world

613
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:34,840
at that moment.

614
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,720
[emphatic music playing]

615
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,080
And then I remember Gouldy getting us.

616
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,640
"Slow down. Slow down."

617
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,280
"When you get round to there, it's over."

618
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:53,440
"It's over."

619
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,400
[commentator 1] Vinnie Jones will be
a hard man to control at this moment,

620
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:57,520
I'll tell you.

621
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,440
[crowd shouting]

622
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,360
Look at Vinnie Jones. [chuckles]

623
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,840
[Jones] I think my life
really changed that day.

624
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:11,600
[music fades]

625
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,280
And it was like,
"Wow, now we're somebody."

626
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,560
We was told it was going to be a battle
for the midfield.

627
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,080
But there were another nine players
out there, you know…

628
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,680
It's just a brilliant day.
I'm just happy for the lads.

629
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,680
I hope the lads are watching in the pubs.

630
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,640
You've got one or two scars over here.

631
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,800
-His girlfriend gave him that.
-Yeah, you should see the other boys.

632
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:31,760
[camera clicks]

633
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:35,720
[Jones] We've all got an ego.

634
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,520
Some of us, it's quite small.

635
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:40,320
Some of us, it's big.

636
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,720
Mine's fucking massive.
He's a big bastard.

637
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,960
-[horns blaring]
-[dramatic music playing]

638
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,800
After the Cup Final,
the fucking thing was running riot

639
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,160
and getting bigger and bigger.

640
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,760
[blows raspberries]

641
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:57,800
You know what I mean?

642
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,360
[horns blaring]

643
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,160
Who didn't want to be famous?

644
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,000
I've won the FA Cup, mate,
in front of a hundred thousand people.

645
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,200
Shall we talk about that?

646
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:09,120
[camera clicks]

647
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,080
[Fashanu] I said to Jonesy,

648
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,080
"Now you're somebody
that everybody wants to see."

649
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,400
"People want to see what you're wearing."

650
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,800
[camera clicking]

651
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,080
"People want to see the car you drive."

652
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,320
"And now you've got this wonderful,
strong reputation."

653
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,000
"This is what we want to see."

654
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,920
Put your hands over your private parts,
and welcome Vinnie Jones!

655
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,240
-[applause]
-[jazz music playing]

656
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,640
[Jones] The show at the time…
The A-listers of Hollywood were on Wogan.

657
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,080
And I got invited on that
on a Friday night.

658
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,120
That kind of blew my mind a little bit.

659
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:52,560
I've come up from being one of the lads
into something

660
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,200
where people recognize me now
when I walk down the street.

661
00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:00,760
Which is something which even now,
really, I'm still not understanding.

662
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,520
Would you say you had it tough coming up?

663
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,960
Yeah, I think it's a Cinderella story,
you know.

664
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,640
-You've seen the film…
-Cinderella is pushing it a bit…

665
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,200
[audience laughs]

666
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,240
Are you proud
of that reputation as a hard man?

667
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,360
No, I don't think it's a question
of being proud of it.

668
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,160
Footballers are not perfect,

669
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:23,560
and sometimes things get overheated
and situations happen.

670
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,480
-[dramatic music playing]
-[clapping]

671
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,880
[Fashanu] The next year,
on the football pitch, things changed.

672
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,880
"We don't want to see you now
tackling like any normal person."

673
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:41,120
"We want to see you starting at the neck,
and finishing at the ankles."

674
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,040
"Because this is what
we've heard you do, Jonesy."

675
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,120
"Oh, yes."

676
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,760
[commentator] This really could go
either way.

677
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,360
Jones, with a lunge.

678
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,840
It's his reputation, isn't it?
It's his reputation.

679
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,680
But he's got to know,
"Don't step over that fence."

680
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,040
[commentator] Stevens and Fashanu…

681
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,280
Oh, and in goes Vinnie Jones!

682
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,040
And what on earth
is he getting involved in that for?

683
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,760
[man] The tackle on Gary Stevens

684
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:14,080
ended with the Spurs man nursing
a serious knee injury.

685
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,880
[pundit] It was a bit
of a horrendous tackle.

686
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,320
And Vinnie does tackle late,
you can't argue with that.

687
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,560
I never set out to hurt you,
break your legs.

688
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:24,640
Not at all.

689
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,960
I was a tough player.
Weren't a dirty player.

690
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,520
Fucking liked a tackle.

691
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:30,000
[commentator] Sharp…

692
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,720
And Vinnie Jones came back.

693
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,640
And that wasn't a very bright tackle.

694
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,240
And now, Jones and Ratcliffe squaring up.

695
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:40,960
Ratcliffe left holding his head…

696
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,280
but Jones, with a reputation
that will always work against him,

697
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:45,600
he's off.

698
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,160
Vinnie Jones sent off.

699
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,360
That'll be the headlines
in the papers tomorrow.

700
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,880
[Morgan] I mean, Vinnie was acting
the big man now at Wimbledon.

701
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,840
And his violent behavior
on the pitch was escalating.

702
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,360
Which we didn't care about.
It was all great copy.

703
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:09,240
Vinnie, is it all right if I just ask you
one or two questions? It won't be long.

704
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,960
What do you think about people saying
that you should be banned from football?

705
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,280
Any opinion on that?

706
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,680
Suddenly the television camera
is running after you.

707
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,880
You're not running after
the television camera.

708
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,600
Is that as bad as the press made out?
Here's your boss now.

709
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,560
-Who are you?
-I'm from LWT.

710
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,400
We're just having a chat with Vinnie.

711
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,720
You're… you're not allowed to film here.
This is private…

712
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,920
You're in this pantomime world,
and you just want to come out of it.

713
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,760
You're being sucked into it.
Being sucked in, sucked in,

714
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,040
and finally
you just got to break out of it.

715
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,680
[commentator] The star attraction,
villainous Vinnie Jones.

716
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,480
Or should that be vilified Vinnie?

717
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,360
His dismissal at Everton a week ago
brought a wave of overreaction.

718
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,000
His fans' response today, predictable.

719
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,040
I don't want this anymore.

720
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,400
I want to be a footballer.
I was a good player.

721
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,920
[crowd chanting]

722
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,040
[commentator] After another
controversial season,

723
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:00,160
rumors are swirling

724
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:03,680
that Wimbledon's Vinnie Jones
may be looking for a fresh start

725
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:05,080
with another club.

726
00:35:06,240 --> 00:35:08,840
[reporter] Well, one man who might be able
to give us some insight

727
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,320
is a gentleman who's guided
the financial fortunes of Wimbledon,

728
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,920
the man who owns the club, Sam Hammam.

729
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,360
What's going to happen now?
To Vinnie Jones and to the football club?

730
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,720
Vinnie Jones in our book is all right.

731
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:26,520
And I can't say that we stand behind him,
or alongside of him.

732
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,160
I stand in front of him,
and nobody's going to touch Vinnie Jones,

733
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:32,320
except me, when he's in the wrong.

734
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,520
I went to see Sam round his house,

735
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,760
and I said,
"You've got to let me go, Sam."

736
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,520
He said, "Not in a million years."

737
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,480
[male producer] Why do you think
he wanted to leave in that moment?

738
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:51,280
Well, to start with,

739
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,640
he probably was going to make
ten times the money!

740
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:56,720
Look, one thing Vinnie loves…

741
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,520
Vinnie loves the old dosh. He loves dosh.

742
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,400
You put money…
I tell you. He understands money.

743
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:06,520
He knows money, this guy.

744
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,000
And he must have just decided,
there and then.

745
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,360
He said, "Jonesy, boy."

746
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,320
"If this happens, it happens now."

747
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,840
Well, Leeds came in.

748
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,880
He wanted to go to Leeds.

749
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:19,720
Of course, I…

750
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,280
I wanted him to stay.
I mean, Vinnie is part of me.

751
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,120
-[camera clicks]
-[somber music playing]

752
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,040
At that time, I thought, for Vinnie
to be successful at another club…

753
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:30,160
Zero chance.

754
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:31,680
[jubilant music playing]

755
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,320
[male reporter] Sleeping giants
Leeds United are bidding

756
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,560
to get back to the top
of English football.

757
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,880
[Jones] Going to Leeds,
there was so much hype.

758
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,880
Yes, the club had fallen
into the Second Division,

759
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,000
but we were at the top end
trying to win the league.

760
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,800
[indistinct shouting]

761
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,680
Come on! Put it up them.
Early doors. Come on!

762
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,560
[Jones] I wanted to prove
a few people wrong.

763
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,760
Show them that I was just more than
the bad boy or a hard man, or whatever.

764
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,280
Let's play football. Let's play.

765
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,680
[commentator] In comes Vinnie Jones!

766
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,240
[crowd cheering]

767
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:12,040
Vinnie Jones…

768
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,280
It's a fabulous goal!

769
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,080
And the Elland Road faithful
have got a new hero.

770
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,000
I didn't have to be an animal anymore.

771
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,760
It's a total different feeling.

772
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,920
And it's a total different confidence
as a player.

773
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,560
You've not been sent off at Leeds,
have you, once?

774
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:29,960
Been booked once.

775
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,120
Well, I mean, that's neither here
nor there, is it? A booking…

776
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,520
[commentator] And now Jones arriving!

777
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,440
[crowd cheering]

778
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,120
There it is. That's it!

779
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,840
Leeds United, back in the big time.

780
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,360
They've won promotion to the top flight.

781
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,600
[singing]

782
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,760
[Jones] That season with Leeds
was magnificent.

783
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,320
[singing indistinctly]

784
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:56,840
I thought I was a lifer.

785
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,400
But then, of course,
it didn't last too long.

786
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,160
[music fades out]

787
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:05,680
We got promoted.

788
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,960
And then the manager, Howard Wilkinson,
brought in some new players.

789
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,880
He'd left me out and left me out.

790
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,320
The Leeds fans going, "Vinnie,
what's going on?" And I didn't know.

791
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,680
I don't handle rejection very well,
you know?

792
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,160
And I was a wounded animal,
and I was backed up against a wall.

793
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,560
And I leap before I look over the edge.

794
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:31,000
The region's best known and most
controversial footballer, Vinnie Jones,

795
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,480
dramatically switched clubs today
from Leeds United to their archrivals,

796
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:36,600
Sheffield United.

797
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,160
Now, is this
the quickest foul in football?

798
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:40,760
[commentator] The referee blows.

799
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,160
One, two, three, and he's down.

800
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:45,320
Gazza is down!

801
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,720
Vinnie has Gazza down.

802
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,520
[Jones] I did a season
at Sheffield United.

803
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:52,960
I'd done a year at Chelsea.

804
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,600
[commentator] Jones, lunging in!

805
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:01,360
And I think he's broken his own record
for the fastest booking ever.

806
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,960
Totally a gun for hire.
I was totally a gun for hire.

807
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,040
Just to check, you're still with Chelsea?

808
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,160
-Yeah.
-You've been hopping around quickly.

809
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:11,160
You've been through
a lot of teams recently.

810
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:13,800
Wanted to check you're still
with the same one this morning.

811
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:14,720
[audience laughs]

812
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,800
[Jones] And I get a phone call
from Chelsea.

813
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,160
"We've accepted an offer from Wimbledon."

814
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:23,800
"You can go and talk to them."

815
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,040
I was like, "Eh?"

816
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,120
[light guitar music playing]

817
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,000
[reporter 1] Since Vinnie
was with Wimbledon,

818
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,560
they've moved out of Plough Lane,
to discover the joys of ground sharing,

819
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,120
sold most of the original members
of the Crazy Gang,

820
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,040
and been bottom of the Premier League.

821
00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:41,920
[reporter 2] Joe Kinnear is now being
given the job

822
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,640
of reviving the club's interests

823
00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:47,280
and winning back the fans
who have left them in their droves.

824
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,440
Money's been made available to me.

825
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,200
And so now I've just got to go out
and get the players

826
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,600
where I think we need to improve the side,
and go back again to what we're good at.

827
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,040
Joe needed to get some
of the Crazy Gang back.

828
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,720
I was such a big character at the club

829
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,680
that I don't think
they knew how to replace me.

830
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:13,520
I've got to come home.
I've got to come back.

831
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:14,960
Former don, Vinnie Jones,

832
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,640
returned to Wimbledon
from Chelsea today for 700,000 pounds,

833
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:20,400
three years after leaving the club

834
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,840
where he made his first marks
in professional football.

835
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,440
[dramatic music playing]

836
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,960
[Fashanu] Great to have the madman back.
We missed him, you know?

837
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,880
We've lost one or two points
where we could…

838
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,880
If we had a bit more meat in the middle
we'd have got good results.

839
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,680
I always wanted to see Vinnie coming back.

840
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,200
But equally at the same time,

841
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,720
I was actually cross with Vinnie
because I felt that he abandoned us.

842
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,520
But when we were able to calm down,

843
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,600
we realized we were all goddamn friends.

844
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:58,080
You need people to be with you
in the trenches when the going gets tough.

845
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,040
This is what Wimbledon's ethos was.

846
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,720
With Wimbledon, he was at home.

847
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,560
He just came back to his family.

848
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,120
The one-time bad boy of soccer
returns to Wimbledon,

849
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,120
he says, an older and wiser player.

850
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:19,200
Right. An extract
from my second spell at Wimbledon,

851
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:21,160
from the middle pages.

852
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,080
"Because of my reputation,
any little thing I do in a game,

853
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:27,920
or even off the pitch,
is going to make headlines."

854
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
"And I have to accept that."

855
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,400
"I know that I did some stupid things
when I first came into the game."

856
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,120
"But I was young and naive."

857
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,120
"Wimbledon fans will be seeing
a different player."

858
00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:43,200
And then…

859
00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:45,760
That was against Blackburn,

860
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,960
my home debut on my return.

861
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,640
And I think I lasted about 30 minutes
and got sent off.

862
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,280
[crowd murmuring]

863
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,640
[commentator] Vinnie Jones
seemed to lash out.

864
00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:57,960
[tense music playing]

865
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,600
And Martin Bodenham, the referee,
shows a red card to Vinnie Jones!

866
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,600
[crowd shouting]

867
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,520
I'm like, "Fuck me."

868
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,600
[commentator] What is it
about Vinnie Jones and Wimbledon

869
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,640
that brings out the worst in him?

870
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:16,480
I was just going back
to… being a caveman again.

871
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,040
[whistle blows]

872
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:20,560
[whistle blows]

873
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:22,360
[whistle blows]

874
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,040
"Well, this is easy enough.
This is what I'm good at."

875
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,360
And that's what I keep
getting asked to do.

876
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:28,600
[whistle blows]

877
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:30,800
[crowd groans]

878
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,080
[whistle blows]

879
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,560
You kind of get in the boat,

880
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,240
and you pick an oar up,
and you start rowing, don't you?

881
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:38,680
[whistle blows]

882
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,680
[Jones] I got back into it.

883
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,280
[whistle blows]

884
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,240
We started winning.

885
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,200
[commentator] Goal by Jones.

886
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,640
[cheering]

887
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,680
It doesn't matter, as long as you win!

888
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,920
[interviewer] Have you changed
as a person of late?

889
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,040
I don't know anyone
that can change their character.

890
00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,920
Can people change their characters?

891
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:03,280
How do you change your character?
I'm not going to change my character.

892
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,760
[crowd chanting] Wimbledon! Wimbledon!

893
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,600
[Jones] They need someone
to be controversial.

894
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,560
And I, you know, I go…

895
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:12,840
I go into things

896
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:16,040
like a bull in a china shop
with my eyes closed a lot of times,

897
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,000
and it makes me controversial.

898
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,080
[mysterious music playing]

899
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,320
[Jones] I got a phone call
from a TV producer.

900
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,840
"Do you want to do an interview
for a video called Soccer's Hard Men?"

901
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,240
"We just want to talk about
all these players, so-called 'hard men.'"

902
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:32,720
He said, "It'll take 20 minutes."

903
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,640
[narrator] Your guide
to the men of grit and guile

904
00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:38,400
is today's
self-confessed creator of havoc,

905
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,280
Vinnie Jones.

906
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,440
[Jones] We'd been at the pub all day,
and I'm pretty pissed.

907
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,240
And I'm young, and I'm honest,

908
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,560
and I don't give a fuck
'cause I want to get back to the pub.

909
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,680
So I told them a load of shit
that I knew they wanted to hear.

910
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,680
One of the oldest ones in the book is,

911
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,680
you know, going up for the header
with the elbow out,

912
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,920
giving your opponent
a nice lump behind the ear.

913
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,760
Pick him up under the arms
and grab the hairs under the arms.

914
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,120
They scream. You say,
"Ref, it's him. It ain't me!"

915
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,240
They poke you in the eye
when you're not looking,

916
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,480
or when the ball's up the field,
center-half lays out the center-forward.

917
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,320
Grab them by the bollocks
and just squeeze them by the bollocks.

918
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,720
Follow down with your studs on the back
of his Achilles, down the calf.

919
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:17,800
That's always a nice one.

920
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,960
Okay, thanks a lot. Boom, boom.

921
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:21,480
That was it.

922
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:25,160
These sorts of things do happen,
and it's no good saying they don't.

923
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,360
[Jones] I'd forgot about it.

924
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,320
Then all of a sudden,

925
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,600
the bomb goes off one day. Boom!

926
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,120
The Football Association is to consider
laying a charge of misconduct

927
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,720
against the Wimbledon player Vinnie Jones,

928
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:43,040
for his part in a new video
called Soccer's Hard Men.

929
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,160
[tense, dramatic music playing]

930
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:47,880
[reporter 1] Vinnie Jones,
who earned the nickname Psycho,

931
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,800
has frequently fallen foul
of football's disciplinary code.

932
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,120
This latest charge
was caused by his talking

933
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,160
about football's dirty tricks.

934
00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,960
A charge of misconduct
looks more than possible.

935
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,840
A fine, or more likely suspension,
could follow.

936
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,720
It's on the news.
It's on the one o'clock BBC News.

937
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,960
Oh my God,
it's like I was a fugitive on the run.

938
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,840
I think it's the video nasty
that football could do without.

939
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:17,000
Any professional footballer
needs to set the best possible example.

940
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:21,480
To try and show people
how to do this sly, cynical fouling

941
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,600
and say you're proud of this
because this is what you do,

942
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:25,840
is shocking for the game.

943
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,680
This sort of video
and behavior is unacceptable.

944
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,560
[reporter 2] Wimbledon colleague,
John Fashanu, organizing the statement…

945
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,640
The damage limitation
exercise got underway.

946
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,080
I was very angry.

947
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,200
I was very pissed off.

948
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,760
Because that's my brother.
That's my soulmate.

949
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,240
That's my very good friend.

950
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,880
Did they pick on Vinnie?

951
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,760
Very simple. Yes.

952
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,600
They're blowing it out of proportion,
which we all know.

953
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,560
If you forget about that,
he's been a good role model for kids.

954
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,360
I've said some things on there
which have upset a lot of people.

955
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,720
You know, it's a very
regrettable thing I've done.

956
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,200
Every hour it was getting
worse and worse and worse.

957
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,200
The Wimbledon footballer Vinnie Jones

958
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,440
has been fined a record 20,000 pounds

959
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,240
for taking part
in a video about dirty play.

960
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,000
Jones also received a six-month ban,
suspended for three years,

961
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,720
at today's FA hearing,
for bringing the game into disrepute.

962
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:22,480
And I started panicking.

963
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,240
[indistinct chatter]

964
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,880
I ain't got 20 grand for a start.

965
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:29,880
What am I gonna do?

966
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,280
[indistinct shouting]

967
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:37,040
[interviewer] What are we going to do,
you think now, about your image, Vinnie?

968
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,440
Because this has cost you
a lot of money, hasn't it?

969
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,600
-Yeah.
-You are gonna turn over a new leaf now?

970
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,240
They've said they don't want to see you
at the Football Association anymore.

971
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,200
They don't want to see you there
at the disciplinary hearings.

972
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:49,600
[tape clicks]

973
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,080
Look, I'll tell you something…

974
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,800
People who make it to the top

975
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:57,280
mostly are naughty people.

976
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:58,880
They have a naughty streak.

977
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,080
[tape rewinding]

978
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,240
I don't know. You always have
a bit of banter on the field

979
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,520
with the referees
and with the other players.

980
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,320
Banter with the referees?

981
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:09,320
[audience laughs]

982
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,720
I used the other word in my video
and got very severely dealt with.

983
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,000
[audience clapping]

984
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,240
[interviewer laughing]

985
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,160
[Hammam] He crossed a certain line,

986
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,080
and he got fined for it.

987
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,240
But it is true.
All publicity is good publicity.

988
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,040
[dramatic music playing]

989
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,440
[Jones] The video was a piece of shit.

990
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:34,560
But everything's dramatized
to draw viewers or to draw readers,

991
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:35,840
or whatever it is.

992
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,680
Makes you a bigger,
bigger, bigger celebrity, don't it?

993
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,640
[Fashanu] Oh, he loved it.
He loved the publicity!

994
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,560
The more people know you,
the more money you make.

995
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,000
[music fades out]

996
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,320
I told Jonesy, "We're going for it."

997
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,480
I said, "I'm gonna make you a star."

998
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,560
[audience cheering]

999
00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,560
[audience clapping]

1000
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,680
I was already into television,
doing Gladiators,

1001
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,920
one of the biggest shows in the world.

1002
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:10,400
So it's no wonder 14 million of you
tuned in to watch this show.

1003
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,360
I said, "Vinnie,
you've got a great chance."

1004
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,440
"You're a hard motherfucker.
You're a hard guy."

1005
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:21,560
"And you are good at being
what you portray."

1006
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,560
Will you please give
a very warm welcome to Vinnie Jones!

1007
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,640
[audience cheering]

1008
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:28,760
[Fashanu] Come on, guys!

1009
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,920
[Jones] All of a sudden,
I was this celebrity hard man.

1010
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:33,000
And I thought,

1011
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,520
"This could be a great move for me here."

1012
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:36,760
"Hold on a minute."

1013
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:38,280
There's no two ways about it.

1014
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,880
You really are
the naughty boy of football, aren't you?

1015
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,400
Well, I do like to bend the rules
every now and then.

1016
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:45,880
Sometimes it helps us to win,

1017
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,480
and sometimes we don't get nothing
out of it, just a lot of problems.

1018
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,760
-You gonna stick to the rules tonight?
-Probably not.

1019
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,280
[audience laughing]

1020
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,440
[male announcer 1] Contenders, ready!

1021
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,520
[announcer 2] Here's our Vinnie.

1022
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,160
That's a promising start!
Throws the ball at Saracen.

1023
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:05,800
[indistinct shouting]

1024
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,520
[announcer 2] After winding
the Gladiators up, I bet he doesn't score.

1025
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,440
I've heard there's a little lad here
called the Wolf Man.

1026
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,520
[audience cheering]

1027
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,080
I haven't seen him yet,
I think he's hiding in the toilets.

1028
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:22,840
[Fashanu laughing] Who fights Wolf Man?

1029
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:24,960
Wolf Man eats people alive!

1030
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,280
-[audience cheering]
-[indistinct shouting]

1031
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,560
[announcer 2] Hello?
Where's Vinnie off to?

1032
00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:34,000
Vinnie Jones is taking on the Wolf!

1033
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,080
[crowd shouting]

1034
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,000
[Fashanu] I told Jonesy,

1035
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,680
"Calm down, Jonesy.
Hey, we're showbiz, man."

1036
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,000
You scored three points.

1037
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:50,840
[audience cheering]

1038
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,240
Three?!

1039
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,880
[Jones] Playing the tough guy,
playing the villain…

1040
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,680
Yeah, I played up to it. I enjoyed it.

1041
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,200
Now, they was clapping and laughing
along with me.

1042
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,000
This is Vinnie, Vinnie…

1043
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,360
With my Wooly Bully!

1044
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,280
-[upbeat music playing]
-[audience cheering]

1045
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,360
Wooly bully.

1046
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,160
[Morgan] Throughout his career, Vinnie had
never really had the incentive to change.

1047
00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:14,280
♪ Yeah, dawg, yeah, dawg ♪

1048
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,840
Britain loves a bad boy.
Always has done, always will do.

1049
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,800
There will be non-Wimbledon people
who say, "That guy is just a thug."

1050
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,360
What would you say to that?

1051
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:25,600
Where's their addresses?

1052
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:26,960
[audience laughing]

1053
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,240
[commentator] Pulled back for Jones…

1054
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:30,880
And Wimbledon are level!

1055
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,080
Give us your hardest look in there.

1056
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,160
Hardest look.

1057
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:36,960
-[puppet] Ooh!
-[presenter] Ah, ah!

1058
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:39,800
[commentator] And Jones
getting involved again.

1059
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:41,960
He's at the center of everything today.

1060
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:45,560
-Have you ever played a full game?
-[audience laughs]

1061
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:46,560
The thing is, see,

1062
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:48,840
the smart people
go into the showers early.

1063
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,520
-That's when they're hot.
-[audience laughs]

1064
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:52,880
I had two businesses.

1065
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:56,120
I had Vinnie Jones on the field
and Vinnie Jones off the field.

1066
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,040
Would you like to go into management,
when you…

1067
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:01,720
Yeah, sure.
At Lloyds Bank or something like that.

1068
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,320
[all laughing]

1069
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,160
Yeah, I'd like to ask you for a loan!

1070
00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:06,360
[all laugh]

1071
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,200
That side of it…
became bigger than the football.

1072
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,160
[dramatic music playing]

1073
00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:14,360
Even though football
was becoming big business now.

1074
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,040
[commentator] Two years after the launch
of the Premier League,

1075
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,600
football's revolution continues apace.

1076
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:24,320
And while the big clubs are splashing
the cash like never before,

1077
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,920
the chasing pack
are struggling to keep up.

1078
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:33,080
[Hammam] The money was more,
and the level far higher.

1079
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,200
So we had to sign so many players.

1080
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,440
I mean, we were reinventing a team.

1081
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,560
[Fashanu] "Yeah, Jonesy,
we're the gang members!"

1082
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:44,920
That had now gone.

1083
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:48,640
Because the truth was
that there were some enormous changes.

1084
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:53,360
[Jones] In the old days, after training,

1085
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,640
you'd expect there to be two
or three pints waiting for you, you know?

1086
00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:57,880
Give me the word, Fash.

1087
00:51:58,720 --> 00:51:59,840
Just give me the word.

1088
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,080
[Jones] "No, that's not for us."

1089
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,400
"We want to be in the gym
after training, not down the pub."

1090
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,080
We had our team photo,

1091
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,520
and I said,
"Let's all shave our heads, go skinhead."

1092
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:14,440
Well, a lot of them didn't want to.

1093
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,200
You know, and it's like,
where's the team spirit in that?

1094
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,000
They won't be laughing
when they see me start serving.

1095
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:22,680
Ace!

1096
00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:25,960
[Jones] And I thought it was
an absolute load of bollocks.

1097
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,600
And I wanted to get back to that era.

1098
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:33,840
[man] Hey, Vinnie.

1099
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,840
[Jones] The original Crazy Gang, you know.

1100
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,320
[music fades]

1101
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,080
[tense music playing]

1102
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,320
[announcer] It's the biggest game
of the lot. Our live FA Cup tie.

1103
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:51,000
It's Wimbledon against the cup favorites,
Manchester United.

1104
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,360
Manchester United are favorites
to win the lot this season,

1105
00:52:57,240 --> 00:52:59,520
but first they need to win today.

1106
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,360
Our guest today, Bobby Gould, who won
the cup with Wimbledon back in 1988.

1107
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,640
The gulf between the two sides
couldn't be greater.

1108
00:53:06,720 --> 00:53:08,600
How should they approach this task?

1109
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,440
Only one man that will dictate that,
and that's Vinnie Jones.

1110
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:12,840
[upbeat music playing]

1111
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:16,280
[Jones] I slept all right on Friday night,
knowing I'm playing Man United,

1112
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,640
because that's what
you wanna be a footballer for.

1113
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:21,200
No good shitting yourself
because it's Man United.

1114
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,120
It's like me
with the Cup Final with McMahon.

1115
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,880
I'm going to get a tackle in. Bang!

1116
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:28,600
[player] Fucking get amongst it!

1117
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:32,360
Get amongst it, eh?

1118
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,160
[Jones] Who do you stop?

1119
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,640
Keane. Or Cantona.

1120
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,640
The bigger you are,
the harder you'll fall.

1121
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:46,160
[crowd cheering]

1122
00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:51,160
[commentator 1] Everybody's talking
about Vinnie Jones and Eric Cantona today.

1123
00:53:51,240 --> 00:53:53,320
[commentator 2] But I think
Vinnie Jones will make sure

1124
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:55,600
that he doesn't get involved
in any skirmishes

1125
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,120
that might lead to him
being booked or anything.

1126
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,440
People have made a lot of Vinnie Jones,
but he wants to be a good competitor.

1127
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:03,680
[commentator 1] This is Giggs.

1128
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:05,960
-Keane again.
-[whistle blows]

1129
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,280
And that was a bad challenge by Jones.

1130
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,680
Fashanu didn't know
where it was then either…

1131
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,960
And that's a two-footed challenge
by Fashanu.

1132
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,200
I'm surprised the referee let that go.

1133
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,360
And then Vinnie Jones
reacts against Keane.

1134
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,600
They get so wound up,
these Wimbledon players.

1135
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,600
[crowd shouting]

1136
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:28,400
And another challenge by Vinnie Jones.

1137
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,000
-[whistle blows]
-Again, it's just not acceptable.

1138
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,560
You can't do things like that
on a football pitch.

1139
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,360
Referees know about his reputation.

1140
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,040
I believe he's saying to him,

1141
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,880
"One more challenge like that,
and you're off."

1142
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:44,640
I just said, "Bollocks."

1143
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:46,720
"This is the way it is."

1144
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,360
Cantona, I'll have some of you, mate.
You know what I mean? Let's go.

1145
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:52,960
[commentator 1] Parker for United.

1146
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:54,040
Cantona…

1147
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:56,120
[whistle blows]

1148
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:57,840
Bang! Take it like a man.

1149
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:58,760
Bang!

1150
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:00,400
Bang!

1151
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:05,600
[commentator 1] Deserves to be cautioned.
It's a totally unacceptable challenge.

1152
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,920
Now how does he react?
That's what it was all about.

1153
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:18,040
[commentator 2] Kanchelskis coming in.
Elkin's header only goes to Cantona.

1154
00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:19,960
-[crowd cheering]
-Glorious goal!

1155
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,880
Two minutes before half-time,
and what can you do about that?

1156
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:26,840
Oof.

1157
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:28,440
Hold on a minute.

1158
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,200
[commentator 1] And that’s another.

1159
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:33,320
[crowd cheering]

1160
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,520
It’s two-nil.

1161
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:35,840
[cheering fades out]

1162
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:36,960
[hoarsely] Fuck!

1163
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:38,840
Fuck!

1164
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,360
[commentator 1] Irwin again,
brilliant play. Brilliant from Irwin.

1165
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,040
-What a magnificent goal that was!
-[crowd cheering]

1166
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,000
[Jones] That was when it started changing.

1167
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:51,040
There's a gap now.

1168
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:52,840
[interviewer] How long into today's game

1169
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,080
did you think
you were still in with a chance?

1170
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:57,320
In the warm-up, I think. [laughs]

1171
00:55:57,400 --> 00:55:59,400
I think it was quite even in the warm-up.

1172
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,040
And after that, it sort of went haywire.

1173
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:05,000
Vinnie, he's got to grow up at some stage.

1174
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:06,640
This is suicidal!

1175
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,200
Vinnie, nobody wants to see it.
Not even his ex-manager.

1176
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:15,040
The whole concept
of being a hard man was changing.

1177
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:16,880
They didn't want us anymore.

1178
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,120
They wanted to wash their hands,

1179
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:23,280
you know, of us now, our type of football.

1180
00:56:25,720 --> 00:56:29,280
[crowd chanting]

1181
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,680
[Jones] The fucking suits who ran the game
wanted to get rid of me.

1182
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:35,360
Definitely, I was the target.

1183
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,640
[commentator] That is horribly late
from Jones…

1184
00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:41,840
And Vinnie Jones sees red!

1185
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:47,480
Whilst other aspects of the game change,
Jones stays resolutely the same.

1186
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,440
Referees have got to have
more common sense.

1187
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,200
Obviously, they're not allowed
to have common sense, so…

1188
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,120
It's only the game that's going to lose.

1189
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,480
[female reporter] The scuffle
between Liverpool's Stan Collymore

1190
00:56:58,560 --> 00:56:59,800
and Wimbledon's Andy Thorn

1191
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:02,000
attracted a few more
players into the fray,

1192
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,880
including Wimbledon captain Vinnie Jones.

1193
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:06,280
[TV host] Vinnie sent off again.

1194
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,640
But why does he get involved
in those things?

1195
00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:11,360
Well, because it's the nature
of the man, I'm afraid.

1196
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:13,640
Why is he getting involved?

1197
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:16,920
He's giving the referee
the opportunity to victimize him.

1198
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,040
[interviewer] Do you think
it's your reputation?

1199
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,280
It's got to be something

1200
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:22,800
because there was nine players,
and I get sent off.

1201
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,040
So, I won't try
and split up anything anymore,

1202
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:27,040
I know that much.

1203
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:28,640
The misunderstood Vinnie Jones.

1204
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:30,840
[clapping]

1205
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,520
[Jones] I was born on this earth

1206
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:35,360
to be a footballer.

1207
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,480
Before you know it,
you can become a cartoon character.

1208
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:41,400
[crowd laughing]

1209
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,760
But there's a stage that comes,
and then you go,

1210
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:46,520
"I can't do this anymore."

1211
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,960
"I just want to play my football."
You know?

1212
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:51,480
[crowd cheering]

1213
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,320
[commentator] It's the 10th time
in his career

1214
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,880
that Vinnie Jones has taken an early bath.

1215
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:58,520
Too late, mate.

1216
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,200
[crowd] Vinnie Jones is a wanker!

1217
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:03,480
[Jones] And I hated it.

1218
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:05,400
Enough.

1219
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,960
-Vincent Jones was reckless today.
-Fuck off.

1220
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,200
-It's the nature of the man.
-Fuck you.

1221
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:12,280
[Gould] He's got to grow up at some stage.

1222
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,120
This is suicidal!

1223
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,680
It was an absolute load of bollocks.

1224
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:17,080
[crowd exclaiming]

1225
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:20,640
Fuck off.

1226
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:21,640
[shouting]

1227
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,160
[crowd exclaiming]

1228
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:24,640
Fuck this.

1229
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:26,600
Fuck the world.

1230
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:31,760
[crowd] Let's all laugh at Vinnie!
Let's all laugh at Vinnie! Na, na, na, na.

1231
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:33,160
[music peaks and halts]

1232
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:35,600
[Jones] And the way to drown it

1233
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,160
was not going to see
a psychologist or psychiatrist,

1234
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,360
it was going to the pub.

1235
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,240
Obviously, everybody knows
that we're all off after here, and

1236
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:45,760
we're going to cause
major bollocks in Watford.

1237
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,840
[pub chatter and music]

1238
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,160
[Jones] Most of us have a drink,
and now suddenly,

1239
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,560
we think we're the funniest,
we're the toughest,

1240
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:57,080
we think we're the strongest,
the tallest, and all that.

1241
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,080
"Fuck it, have a drink.
Yeah. Have a few more."

1242
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,240
This is how I was thinking,
with the booze.

1243
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,560
Yeah, arrest me. Arrest me, son.

1244
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:07,880
All right, I just… I'd just like…

1245
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,280
I'd just like to welcome
Dano to the party.

1246
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:12,840
We just got… Fash knows.
Fash… we talk the talk…

1247
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,280
[Fashanu] You know, the Jones boy.

1248
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:17,720
He could switch.

1249
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:22,080
When he's nice, he's bloody nice.

1250
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:25,880
When he switches…

1251
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:28,520
Run.

1252
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,360
[phone ringing]

1253
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,440
[Morgan] When I became editor
of the News of the World,

1254
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,400
I thought, Vinnie Jones would be
a perfect columnist for us.

1255
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,320
'Cause he's a straight talker.

1256
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,720
He's a big puncher, verbally.
News of the World readers loved him.

1257
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:44,800
[tense music playing]

1258
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:52,160
I had a contract that was twice as much
as my yearly salary playing football,

1259
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,440
you know, for eight stories a year.

1260
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:56,720
Bang, bang. Thanks very much.

1261
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:03,760
[commentator] Well, Dublin's fair city
has had some blustery weather,

1262
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,400
some squally showers…

1263
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,800
[Morgan] England were playing
the Republic of Ireland, in Ireland.

1264
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:10,960
So I've sent Vinnie over

1265
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:14,080
to cover the match
and report on what he saw.

1266
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:15,440
[crowd shouting]

1267
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:20,000
[commentator] There's, I'm afraid to say,
a disturbance…

1268
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:21,640
And then there was a riot.

1269
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,520
A group called Combat 18,
a very far right group of thugs.

1270
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,400
And they were horrific scenes.

1271
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:37,920
I thought, what an amazing story.

1272
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,920
"What I witnessed at the stadium,"
by hard man Vinnie.

1273
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:46,720
[phone dialing out]

1274
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:48,320
But we couldn't get hold of him.

1275
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,240
And we couldn't get hold of him
all night long.

1276
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,560
The next morning, I got a call saying,
"We have a problem with Vinnie."

1277
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,360
"What's the problem?"
He said, "He didn't go to the game."

1278
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:03,440
"What?"

1279
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,200
[rewinding]

1280
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,000
-[Irish music playing]
-[cheering]

1281
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:11,880
[Jones] We get to the hotel
before the game,

1282
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:13,680
and it's an absolute party.

1283
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,400
You didn't even sort of walk in there.
You got lifted off your feet, and sort of…

1284
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:18,680
[sputters] You're in it.

1285
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:22,000
I just thought,
"Well, I can report on the game,

1286
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:24,800
because I can sit in the bar
and watch it, can't I?" [laughs]

1287
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,600
"I don't have to be at the game."

1288
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,560
[commentator] We're just hearing
the announcement

1289
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,720
that the game is abandoned.

1290
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:34,800
When's the last time an international game
gets abandoned? How's my luck?

1291
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,400
I'm having a beer in the hotel.

1292
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:38,680
Before you know it, now…

1293
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:40,960
You're pretty pissed up.

1294
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:43,280
And I'll be totally honest,
I don't really know

1295
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,760
what was said or what happened
because of the booze.

1296
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,680
[static crackles]

1297
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:52,720
[Jones] And then the next minute,

1298
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,360
I was front page, not the abandoned game.

1299
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,720
[tense music playing]

1300
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,640
[female reporter] Today's Mirror story
is graphic in its description

1301
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,000
of how he bit the nose of the reporter.

1302
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:06,200
Fuck!

1303
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:08,120
What have you done?

1304
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,480
[reporter] The paper says it was
an unprovoked attack.

1305
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,640
He got very drunk,
and he got into a fracas,

1306
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:19,120
it was described to me,
with a guy called Ted Oliver.

1307
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:20,920
And he bit half his nose off.

1308
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:26,360
[male reporter] Vinnie Jones apologized
to his victim, but said it was a joke.

1309
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,520
It's understandable
that Ted is very mad about it.

1310
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,440
He said his piece in the paper. Um.

1311
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,000
And again, I can only apologize.

1312
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:37,640
[male reporter] The FA says
it will investigate the incident

1313
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,200
and may take action.

1314
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,760
But the Wimbledon
chairman is backing his player.

1315
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:46,080
Clearly, Vinnie has not meant any harm.

1316
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:49,880
I could tell that this is not right.

1317
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:52,240
The way he was talking
and the way he was behaving.

1318
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:56,320
The alcohol was doing something
way out of order.

1319
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:00,760
You know, it affected him
much deeper, this one.

1320
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,240
-[photographer] Morning, Vinnie.
-Morning.

1321
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:07,120
[Jones] Some psychologist or psychiatrist

1322
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,360
wrote a big article about me
and the Ted Oliver thing.

1323
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,280
"Why do you need to keep doing this?"

1324
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,480
It wasn't that culture at that time
to get somebody to give you help.

1325
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:23,080
And no one turns around and says,

1326
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,480
"Let's take you to someone
and talk this through."

1327
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,800
So I go back to the booze again.

1328
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,440
[Jones] I have got a tendency, I know,

1329
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,680
that things always seem
to go wrong when it's me.

1330
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:36,760
You know, I've come out on the wrong end.

1331
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,480
[Morgan] He knew he had dropped the ball.

1332
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:41,240
-All right, chaps?
-[man] All right.

1333
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,360
I said, "Well, look,
you're going to write a big mea culpa,

1334
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:46,440
but I can't promise
I'm not gonna fire you."

1335
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:49,720
"Because it will depend
how much hotter this gets."

1336
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,960
Piers had to sack me,
but he didn't tell me, which…

1337
01:03:58,560 --> 01:03:59,400
That hurt.

1338
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,840
I didn't want to fire him. I loved Vinnie.

1339
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:04,840
Personally, I loved him. Professionally,
he was a brilliant columnist.

1340
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,040
But I underestimated
just how much it got to him.

1341
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:15,600
[Jones] I was on the bed
and was just curled up in the…

1342
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,040
You know, in like, the baby position.

1343
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:21,880
And I was just curled up like that.
And I was like… [sputters]

1344
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:23,680
"Enough."

1345
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,960
"Can't keep doing this to people.
Can't do it to the family."

1346
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,240
So, I thought
I'd go for a walk up the wood.

1347
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:31,240
I took the gun.

1348
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:33,040
Walked up the wood, and then…

1349
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:35,280
[tense music playing]

1350
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:38,920
All stupid things go through your head.

1351
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,240
[reporter] Footballer Vinnie Jones
has been found guilty…

1352
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,200
[reporters talk indistinctly]

1353
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:48,240
And the easiest thing to do
was just to stop it right there and then.

1354
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:49,520
That would have been it.

1355
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:52,160
And then I…

1356
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:53,880
[puffs] I sort of came round.

1357
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,960
It's like being knocked out,
I suppose, like in a boxing ring,

1358
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,320
and you come round,
and there's all the screaming,

1359
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:02,560
the shouting, and it's all muffled
and everything else, slow motion…

1360
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:04,560
-And it goes… [whooshes]
-[reporters stop]

1361
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,280
And you’re kind of back.

1362
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:08,480
And you go, "Right, fuck this."

1363
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:13,720
Fucking get amongst it!
Fucking winners, come on!

1364
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,040
[commentator] Ardley, second attempt…

1365
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:17,360
Jones!

1366
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,280
He's taken that superbly!
Wimbledon have the lead.

1367
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,520
-Vinnie Jones cracked it past Lukic.
-[crowd cheering]

1368
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,600
Vinnie's a complex, emotional guy.

1369
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:27,800
[crowd cheering]

1370
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:31,480
But even when he crossed a line,
like when he bit Ted Oliver,

1371
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:34,760
the Vinnie Jones hard man show
always rolled on.

1372
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,280
You know, if you said,
"What am I like as a person?"

1373
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:39,640
I can only say to you,

1374
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:42,880
I play football
in a manner which I only know,

1375
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:44,680
which my heart tells me to.

1376
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,240
And when I'm not in the arena…

1377
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:52,120
I'm just me. I just do what I want.

1378
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:54,400
[crowd cheering]

1379
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:58,320
[male host] If somebody wrote
the history of Wimbledon Football Club,

1380
01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,000
what would they write about you?

1381
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,800
[Jones] Hopefully, they'll say
one of the great captains,

1382
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,000
and a great leader, and typified

1383
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:07,360
the name Wimbledon Football Club.

1384
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:08,320
[crowd chanting]

1385
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:13,080
So therefore, I would prefer
to be a legend and not a myth.

1386
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,360
[indistinct shouting]

1387
01:06:21,400 --> 01:06:24,560
[Jones] I was 32 or 33.
Something like that.

1388
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,920
And everybody knows
football, it's not forever.

1389
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,360
You know, it's kind of the old dinosaur,

1390
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,400
in a kind of a new age bit,
you know what I mean?

1391
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,760
It fucks you up and these two rot heads
don't know how to get the goals.

1392
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,280
[Jones] A journalist once said to me,
"When you finish,

1393
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,680
you'll end up
at fucking Wealdstone, you will."

1394
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:48,360
Back to non-league, and that.

1395
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,720
To this day, that stuck in my head.

1396
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:55,720
And the worries of being nobody.

1397
01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:59,560
How am I going to earn this much money?

1398
01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:01,080
Doing what?

1399
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:02,440
[phone ringing]

1400
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:04,760
Hello?

1401
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:06,560
Yeah, who is it?

1402
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,360
[Jones] And then I got a phone call.

1403
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:12,640
"Would you do a couple of days
on this movie as a cameo role?"

1404
01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:16,160
What's this about you being a movie star
or going into acting or something?

1405
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:18,840
Yeah, I'm just keeping strings
to my bow, you know.

1406
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:20,840
There's a chance for me to be in a film.

1407
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,320
-[host] Not a Noël Coward play?
-No, it's about the East End of London.

1408
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,200
It's called Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels.

1409
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:32,840
Meet Big Chris, a serious caricature.
Chris comes in the shape of Vinnie Jones.

1410
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:40,200
[Ritchie] It's his personality
I've always rather admired.

1411
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,520
And I just like the baggage
that he brings to the party.

1412
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:44,960
I've seen him on the television

1413
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:49,720
looking somewhat perturbed
and aggravated sometimes,

1414
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,240
and I think he looks
very menacing when he wants to.

1415
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:54,320
[suspenseful music playing]

1416
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,760
You got something there for me, have you?

1417
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:03,840
Come on. Chop, chop.

1418
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:06,000
Smashing.

1419
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:07,800
Guy saw what everybody else saw.

1420
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:09,040
[man] Sound's rolling!

1421
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:13,320
Let's say the football pitch is the stage.
They saw this madman on the stage.

1422
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:15,560
-[Ritchie] Action!
-You got something there for me?

1423
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:17,960
Come on.

1424
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:19,760
Chop, chop.

1425
01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:23,280
[Ritchie] Cut.

1426
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,840
[female reporter] He might not be
Richard Gere, but co-stars are impressed.

1427
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:31,120
Vinnie, I've had enough of Vinnie.
I'll tell you why.

1428
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:32,720
I've been working for ten years.

1429
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,040
Vinnie walks on
and is stealing everyone's lines.

1430
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:36,520
He wants your bar.

1431
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:38,360
And?

1432
01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:41,480
You want me to draw you a picture?

1433
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,960
[music crescendoes and stops]

1434
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,680
Now, I was with the writer yesterday.

1435
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,960
He's saying to me, they think
this film's going to be a blast.

1436
01:08:54,040 --> 01:08:55,360
It's gonna be the business.

1437
01:08:55,440 --> 01:08:57,200
-[interviewer] You'll be an actor?
-Yeah.

1438
01:08:58,200 --> 01:08:59,760
Now, if that goes well,

1439
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:03,400
then I could become a very rich lad.

1440
01:09:04,080 --> 01:09:05,280
If that goes well.

1441
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:07,480
[majestic music playing]

1442
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:08,960
[indistinct chatter]

1443
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,640
[female reporter] The celebrity spotters
have come to see a new type of star.

1444
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:16,040
The footballer turned actor,

1445
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who is determined to make a name
for himself in another field.

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[emphatic music playing]

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[Morgan] It turned out
he had an absolutely brilliant aptitude

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for looking like a villain on screen.

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-I've got some bad news for you, John.
-What the fuck?

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Mind your language in front of the boy.

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Jesus Christ!

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That includes blasphemy as well.

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And he had timing. He had acting chops…

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You all right, mate?

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Cheeky bastard!

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And it was as big a surprise
probably to him

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as it was to everybody else.

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[female reporter] Ewan, what did you think
about the film?

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I think it's a fucking brilliant…
It's a brilliant film.

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-[reporter] And Vinnie's performance?
-Vinnie is really good in it!

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He's really, really good in it.
I'm, uh… pleasantly surprised.

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[reporter] What was it like, the people
in the cinema reacting to your film?

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It was bigger than the normal
Wimbledon crowd. Put it that way.

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-[reporter] What did you think of Vinnie?
-I love Jonesy. Sensational.

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Better than I expected.

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-[reporter] And the film?
-And the film? Yeah, the film! Fantastic.

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The movie was fantastic. It was great.

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That was one of his first movies.

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I forget what it was called now…
One of the first ones.

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Boy, when he started,
he started with a bang.

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In the first week of its release
in Great Britain, it's taken £1.6 million!

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[cheering and applause]

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And it's British!

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[cheering]

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Oh my God.

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It turns out to be
the biggest British movie in years.

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And we all came back…
Most of us came back for Snatch.

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And then they brought Brad Pitt on…

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[female reporter] You get on well
with Vinnie Jones?

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He's a class act! He's original.
You should be good to him.

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[indistinct chatter]

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You know,
I found another tribe, um, and loved it.

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You got the sports people

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and people that write
on a Monday morning about,

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you know, "You beat Man United,
yeah, but Wimbledon are crap."

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I've had this constantly for 12 years.

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Now, the other side of it is, you know,

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the people that are involved
with movies and that.

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And, you know, they seem to like me.

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Ultimately,

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my football career is over.

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I'm thinking of going to Hollywood!
[laughs]

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[dramatic music playing]

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[Jonathan Ross] Vinnie Jones has just
moved into the big league,

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clinching a deal
which will make him a Hollywood player.

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I know I've got that screen presence.

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And I had that presence
on the football field.

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I just transferred it
to the movies, really.

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When it's your scene, it's match day.
It's three o'clock, you know?

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Roll sound, action. Bang!

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[grunting]

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Thanks.

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[Morgan] Vinnie was living
the complete dream.

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The great thing was he loved it.

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He wanted it all.

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[Jones] When you actually drive up
to the house,

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it don't look all that.

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But when you come in, everybody goes,
"Oh my God, what's going on here?"

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Jack Nicholson's at the top of the road.
Bruce Springsteen, Warren Beatty…

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They're all there.

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[Jones] I looked around and thought,
"How did I get here?"

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Because if you looked at the TV
all them years ago,

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you'd go, "This is insane!"

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-[overlapping reporters] Vinnie Jones…
-[shouts]

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And I sit here now before you,
and I still say it's fucking insane!

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Fucking hell.

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Over the years, look,

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I've taken as many knocks as I've given.

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But I've grabbed every opportunity
that's come my way.

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Be someone.

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Make your mark.

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I've made my mark.

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[football crowd chanting]

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[dramatic Western-style music playing]

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[music fades out gradually]