Alex Stepney - "In the shadow of an unspoken tragedy"
The Official Manchester United Podcast
Manchester United
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Legendary former Manchester United goalkeeper Alex Stepney is our guest this week, a man not short on stories or medals.
Alex took us back to when he was about to leave Chelsea - but didn't know which team he'd be signing for. He recalled his surprise as in walked Sir Matt Busby to bring him to Old Trafford.
He also revealed how he heard the tragic news about the Munich Air Disaster and how Sir Matt built a family in the years that followed.
The former keeper told the tale of the European Cup triumph in 1968 and his iconic save when faced with Eusebio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another Manchester United podcast. I am delighted to be joined by Helen Evans who is |
| 0:06.8 | mouthing voice memo to David May who's also with us. How you doing guys? |
| 0:10.3 | Is she? Yeah really good. I don't know what should we do. |
| 0:12.3 | I was reminding you to put your voice memos on. |
| 0:14.3 | Sorry, amazing. Hey, I'm a professional now. |
| 0:16.5 | Sorry, sorry, sorry. |
| 0:18.0 | Five shows bells, come on, get with it. |
| 0:20.0 | But everybody good. All good. All good in the Evans House Hall, thank you. |
| 0:24.5 | Excellent. This is Helen and she pointed out before we started, the first time we've had a |
| 0:29.5 | goalkeeper on and all three of us have been here. We struggle with goalkeepers. |
| 0:33.0 | Delight that we are all here. |
| 0:34.0 | For the legend that is Alex Stepney, great guy. |
| 0:38.0 | Legend. |
| 0:39.0 | Absolute legend. |
| 0:40.0 | So he works at Old Trafford and does hospitality and stuff now doesn't he? |
| 0:43.6 | How well do you two know him? |
| 0:45.2 | Well I used to know him quite a lot from being on M. U TV and then you always see him around |
| 0:50.0 | Old Trafford as you said on match days he's always done home games he was |
| 0:53.7 | always popping and out of the boxes never passes you without a nice little |
| 0:57.8 | conversation great guy yes exactly the same yeah see him in and around the stadium. Obviously Alex does the lounges and stuff. |
| 1:06.8 | But it's always great to see him. He always has a big smile on his face and he's always giving you... |
| 1:12.4 | And his chuckle. Yeah. And he always... smile on his face and he's always giving you. |
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