Introducing - Manchester United: The Lost Tapes

No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

Studio 1878

Sports, Soccer

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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This is Manchester United: The Lost Tapes. Stories about United's rich history, told in a way you've never heard before. Written by Wayne Barton, narrated by Patrick Barclay and produced by Studio 1878. Episode One: Cantona Eric Cantona’s arrival from Leeds United transformed Manchester United after a 25-year title drought, reshaping the club’s fortunes and igniting the Premier League’s imagination. Internal conflict at Leeds and Cantona’s infamous disciplinary issues under Howard Wilkinson, culminated in a startling twist when Leeds approached United about signing Dennis Irwin. Instead, United countered with an offer for Cantona—setting in motion one of football’s most pivotal transfers and redefining what it meant to be a United legend. Some episodes coming later in the season include ... Bitter Rivals In the late 1990s and early noughties there were no more fierce rivals than Arsenal and Manchester United. From the mass brawl at Old Trafford in 1990, to trading titles in 1997, 1998 and 1999, two epic FA Cup semi-finals and pizzagate, no holds were barred. Welcome to Hell In 1993, Manchester United ended the 26-year wait to win a league title. Their reward for that piece of history was to compete in the European Cup. United had qualified for the semi-finals in each of their five campaigns under Sir Matt Busby, winning it in 1968. The club's first foray into the tournament tin almost a quarter of a century was to end in stunning, controversial fashion, with one of the most memorable ties in the history of the competition. This is Manchester United's Welcome to Hell. Knighton It is 1989 and Michael Knighton is on the Old Trafford pitch juggling a football and scoring at the Stratford End in front of a bemused crowd. Knighton had secured a £20m acquisition of Manchester United, agreeing to purchase shares from then club Chairman Martin Edwards. The investment would be put towards improving the first team and rebuilding the Stratford End. Yet, within a fortnight the deal had collapsed amid acrimony and accusations that Knighton didn't have the money to complete the deal. This is the inside story from those who covered it on the ground. More to come ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, no question about that, listeners. This is me, Ed, and I wanted to introduce my new project
0:05.1	that I'm working on with journalist Patrick Barclay and Wayne Barton, author of many, many
0:11.0	United books. It's called Manchester United, The Lost Tates, and we use archival audio from
0:17.4	Tom Tyrell, longtime BBC Piccadilly radio, host and commentator,
0:24.0	followed the Reds during the 80s, 90s, and we have lots of his old archival audio,
0:31.2	many of it has never been heard before, and we've put this together in a season covering
0:36.3	memorable incidents such as Cantonar's time at United, the rivalry with Arsenal,
0:43.8	welcome to hell in 1993 and the night and takeover, and so on.
0:47.5	We'll have about seven or eight episodes in the first block of the season, and a few more to come after that.
0:53.1	And I hope you'll be able to join us.
0:54.8	You'll find it at Manchester United, The Lost Tapes, wherever you find your podcast. On with the trailer.
1:03.5	This is Manchester United, the lost tapes. Stories from United's rich history told in a way
1:10.7	you've never heard before.
1:13.6	Few footballers have had a transformative impact to compare with that of Eric Cantanar at Manchester United.
1:22.6	When he arrived at Old Trafford from Leeds United, the club was still licking their wounds after passing 25 years
1:29.7	without a league title, ironically marking the occasion by coming agonizingly close in a battle
1:37.4	with Cantana's then club. In November 1992, the relationship between Cantana and Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson had deteriorated.
1:49.0	Cantona had scored the Premier League's first ever hat trick, and his immense talent was not in doubt.
1:55.5	But his discipline was.
1:57.7	Wilkinson had brought Kantana to Leeds as recently as January after the Frenchman had been effectively thrown out of his domestic league.
2:06.6	The Leeds manager was known as Sergeant Wilco for a reason. However, so too was Eric nicknamed Enfant Terrible.
2:16.6	Wilkinson found himself with an unexpected solution
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