Ben Thornley - The horror tackle that ended the dream
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Former Manchester United player and regular MUTV pundit Ben Thornley joins the Pod this week. The Class of 92' graduate spoke fondly of his time playing with Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and Paul Scholes.
He told the team about the moment when he opened the front door to his mum and dad's home to see Sir Alex Ferguson stood in the doorway, and how he made his way into the first team, making his debut at West Ham.
However his story took a sad turn after a horror tackle in a reserve game left him needing serious knee surgery and rehabilitation. Ben talks about the difficulty he had with the aftermath both physically and mentally, and the key role Sir Alex Ferguson played in getting Ben back on the pitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to another Manchester United podcast. I'm Sam Maisie and Helen are primed and ready to go. First up Helen, can we get an update on the pigeon situation? |
| 0:10.0 | I don't want to disappoint anyone. The first few days were good, not many pigeons. I think they have now realized that the Falcon isn't real, if I'm totally honest. |
| 0:21.0 | You mean need to get another one up there? |
| 0:22.8 | There's been a few more, a few more in the garden. |
| 0:25.9 | I have asked Johnny to go up and move it, to try and trick them again, but he's not |
| 0:30.4 | getting up on that roof again. |
| 0:31.5 | Why don't you buy a cat? |
| 0:32.9 | Not a real cat, just to see if that works. |
| 0:35.2 | How many fake animals can I have in my garden to scare away pigeons? |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, you know, it could be a whole thing. |
| 0:40.9 | You get a whole theme going. |
| 0:42.3 | So they have fake animals in your garden. |
| 0:44.0 | A couple of sheep. |
| 0:45.0 | But listen, I don't think there's as many if I'm totally honest, but they're starting to |
| 0:49.9 | feature a little bit more in the garden. |
| 0:51.5 | I've got crows in my garden and it's |
| 0:53.7 | doing my head in. We heard them in the last podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | Oh listen it's just a pity we weren't doing these in real life I could have given you |
| 0:59.5 | one of my falcons tomorrow. Yeah I do I need one I need something. This is sort of a bit surreal. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, let's move on. |
| 1:06.0 | Two of you chatting about needed for the guns in your garden. |
| 1:09.0 | Do you know what I would like to know? Anybody who has followed suit and had problems with pigeons, |
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