Jonathan Greening - "Playing pool with Sir Alex for a Champions League Final place"
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Manchester United
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🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Greening joined the UTD Podcast this week, looking back on his playing days and ahead to his future in the game as a coach.
Jono's stories from his first year at Old Trafford were incredible, particularly his paintballing session with the likes of David Beckham, Peter Schmeichel and Gary Neville - on his first week at the club!
He also told us the story from Barcelona where - on the day of the 1999 Champions League Final - Sir Alex Ferguson challenged him to a game of pool to win a place on the bench that night.
At the time of recording, Jonathan was finding it difficult to break in to coaching, but has since been named the Manager of Scarborough Athletic. We wish him the best of luck!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another Manchester United podcast. I'm Helen Evans. I'm Sam |
| 0:06.7 | Homewood. I'm David. David May, who's looking very |
| 0:10.0 | town. I'm very town, but I tell you I'm absolutely |
| 0:12.1 | Baltic. It's absolutely freezing. We are all traffic. Always morning, always morning. |
| 0:16.8 | One of the lounges' sweets. The international sweet, isn't it? The international |
| 0:20.6 | sweet. It's beautiful sweet. It is lovely. It's lovely. It's great, yeah. It's really |
| 0:24.2 | lovely if I have a little bit of tad more heat. But clearly, Macy has been golfing |
| 0:28.6 | this week. Hi, guys. Restrictions have lifted a little bit lighter, getting a little |
| 0:34.3 | bit back to normal. Yeah, nice, isn't it? Helen's phone is beeping. My phone is beeping. |
| 0:38.5 | Sorry. She's got a hot water bottle. Yeah, hand warmers and a poncho. A poncho. Yeah, |
| 0:44.6 | fair enough. Good week, everyone. Yeah, it's very nice. How was yours? Good, yes, |
| 0:48.0 | good. Thank you. Great week. Yeah. And we're through to the, well, the time that we're |
| 0:52.0 | doing actually in this recording. We are now through to the semifinals of the Euro |
| 0:56.2 | league. It's great, isn't it? Life is good. Yeah, and Jonathan Greening, another |
| 0:59.8 | treble winner. Yes, great lad, Jono. Yeah, lovely, lovely lad. You were together at the club |
| 1:04.6 | aren't you? Yes, we were. Yeah, lovely fella. He's a great footballer as well. Maybe his |
| 1:10.5 | time at United was, I won't say cut short, but he decided to leave the club a little bit |
| 1:15.8 | earlier to play more football, really. So hopefully he'll elaborate on that a little |
| 1:22.4 | bit more and tell us his thoughts band it brilliant career though, the clubs that he played |
| 1:26.8 | for. Yeah, great career. Good footballer, absolute, terrific football, so skillful, but |
| 1:33.0 | yeah, I don't think you know, he got the best out of him when he was here, but didn't |
| 1:36.6 | see the best. Competition, the time when he was young, wasn't it? Yeah, well, yeah, you |
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