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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Darren Fletcher: I could have made a difference against Barca

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Darren Fletcher, who explains what it was like to miss the 2009 Champions League final in which Manchester United took on Barcelona’s greatest side.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll

0:18.8

hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

0:23.3

All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

0:27.2

which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.0

From Darren Fl, we hear about what it's like to not play against Bursa,

0:39.0

but instead to watch and to wish that you were in a Champions League Final to boot.

0:47.0

I expect that aside from that passion to lift the cop, we need to play in that game and to fulfill a boy who dreamed,

0:59.0

the competitor in you and the analyst in you would have been looking at those two Barcelona

1:04.7

sides I'm leaving Moscow side now because effectively you're a champion zig winner I

1:08.4

might ask him how you feel about that but the history books will always say you you know, Dan Fletcher was part of a

1:13.6

Champions of the winning squad. But analytically I'm fairly sure you'd have liked to

1:17.5

done what Joseph was talking about there and set yourself about stopping what Alex said,

1:21.8

you know, they'll kill you with your passing and from my humble

1:24.9

point of view even if he listens to this I think particularly in 2011 he put their

1:29.6

own team you weren't available in 2009 so you couldn't

1:33.0

in the record, but boy they got a lot of space in the two games.

1:36.0

I've followed Alex Ferguson's career closer than he has.

1:40.0

And here Alex Ferguson said after Rome, that goal after nine minutes killed us

1:45.1

And that's the most atypical Alex Ferguson phrase ever

1:48.1

How can Alex Ferguson team be beaten after nine minutes at one-n0. But it was because that team really wouldn't give the ball back.

1:57.0

And I think both in 2009 and 11, when we spoke a lot before Wembley, and I was convinced that you were going to make it and

2:03.6

that they would make a difference. I think, genuinely I thought maybe you

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