Mikael Silvestre - "Sir Alex was like a policeman"
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ex-Manchester United defender Mikael Silvestre dialled into the UTD Podcast from his home in Dubai for this week's episode.
The former France International looked back on a glittering career at Old Trafford, and picked out some of his highlights from working with both Sir Alex Ferguson, and later Arsene Wenger at Arsenal.
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| 0:00.0 | Free header and the goal, Mikael Silvestra, against the club he almost joined, gives United |
| 0:10.1 | a dream star inside 20 minutes, and it's another header and it's another goal for Mikael |
| 0:18.8 | Silvestra, and the Frenchman has scored two goals in a game for the first time in his |
| 0:24.6 | United Korea, and United have reclaimed the league. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Manchester United podcast. I'm Helen Evans |
| 0:34.9 | and I'm joined by Sam Homoer. Oh yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | And not Maisie, unfortunately. We don't know where Maisie is. We think he's probably playing |
| 0:43.9 | golf in Ireland, in Malta. That's usually the place as you find him. He spends a lot of |
| 0:49.2 | time in Scotland too. He's with Ben Thorne, isn't he? And I know Ben was going to Malta |
| 0:53.2 | after the season finished, so they made with the iron water. |
| 0:55.9 | How can we not know where Maisie is? He's a mysterious, mysterious man. |
| 1:00.5 | He is, he is, but he couldn't join us for this one, which is disappointing. Yeah. |
| 1:04.8 | Because he would have really enjoyed this one. Yeah, former teammate and a defender. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. Right up his street. I'm really excited to talk to Mikael Silvestra. |
| 1:13.8 | I am too. I wanted to do this one in person when he was over for a Legends game, but he |
| 1:17.6 | had to shoot off. But do you know what? This is why Zoom was created for people like us |
| 1:23.2 | to make fantastic content when people are across the world from us. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's perfect. It's absolutely ideal, isn't it? |
| 1:30.1 | Good plug for Zoom, though. Yeah, no, there are other video things available. |
| 1:37.9 | Yeah, but no, I'm using it today. |
| 1:39.5 | Other, I don't know. Video of a client. I don't know. |
| 1:44.8 | I don't know. Video conferencing software. Oh, yeah, video conferencing hotware. |
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