CLASSIC CLIPS: Gary Oldman On What Modern Football Took Away from Manchester United & Critiquing THAT Rooney Advert
That Peter Crouch Podcast
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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FROM THE VAULT: In this clip, Gary Oldman opens up about his lifelong love for Manchester United — from being mesmerised by George Best as a kid to watching the modern game lose its sense of loyalty and identity.
The Oscar winner reflects on the era of the first XI, players who stayed for decades, and why today’s constant churn has changed the relationship between fans and clubs.
He also shares why texting Sir Alex Ferguson still feels surreal, and critique's that infamous Casillero del Diablo advert starring Wayne Rooney; Ryan Giggs and Patrick Evra... and the Oscar goes to who?
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is part of the ACAST creator network. |
| 0:04.6 | What's the pinnacle for you? |
| 0:06.0 | Like, what's the, what's the, of all your achievements? |
| 0:08.5 | I mean, the Oscar must be on that role of church. |
| 0:10.6 | That was up. |
| 0:11.3 | Yeah, it's, it's up there. |
| 0:14.3 | I mean, it's a thing that, well, you see, it's not in, you're not conscious of it. |
| 0:21.5 | You don't do it, you don't say, oh, I'm going to, I'm going to play this part because I'll have the opportunity to win the Oscar. |
| 0:31.9 | It's the last thing you're thinking of. |
| 0:35.1 | Yet, with football, you've got the. Yet with football, |
| 0:39.8 | you've got the manager, |
| 0:41.3 | I mean, you and the going, |
| 0:43.2 | we're going to win, |
| 0:44.7 | we won the fucking cup. |
| 0:47.3 | You know, that's your... |
| 0:49.5 | Main goal, yeah, main goal. |
| 0:51.0 | That's what you're heading to. |
| 0:53.2 | To the acting, |
| 0:57.2 | you're doing it, and you're not doing it for prizes yeah in that in that sense and that is a lovely that's icing on the cake you know at the |
| 1:07.2 | end of at the end of the film i've worked just as hard on other movies, |
| 1:11.2 | and some of them are, you know, |
| 1:16.6 | they sort of disappear into obscurity. |
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