Peter Schmeichel - "Why leaving United was my biggest regret"
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🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
The Great Dane, Peter Schmeichel joins the Pod in this week's feature-length episode, where he talks about his explosive bust-up with Sir Alex Ferguson which almost cost the legendary goalkeeper his job. He also opened up about his regret at leaving Manchester United immediately after the success of the Treble in 1999 and why going on to play for rivals Manchester City didn't work out the way he'd planned.
Helen and Maysie welcomed former Premier League defender, Alex Bruce to the Pod to share his childhood memories of growing up next door to the Schmeichels, leading to his life-long friendship with Peter's son, Kasper.
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| 0:00.0 | In by right out over the top, Schmykel with a wonder say. |
| 0:05.0 | The most did again in a good one. |
| 0:08.0 | A wonderful say by Schmykel. |
| 0:10.0 | You won't find a better say anywhere than that. It was past him and he got it away. |
| 0:15.0 | Smigold! He's playing the goal. |
| 0:18.0 | Two international grades here in a decisive moment in an epic |
| 0:23.1 | up semi-final replay. |
| 0:24.8 | Bergamp and Schmichael has saved it. |
| 0:28.3 | What a hero for Manchester United. |
| 0:31.3 | Arson on the brink of Wembley, |
| 0:34.0 | turned away by the hands of the Great Day. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Manchester United |
| 0:42.0 | podcast. I am delighted to say I am joined by |
| 0:44.4 | David May. Alex Bruce is a new member of our pod team. Pleased to be here. |
| 0:48.8 | How are you? Yeah, I'm good, thank you. You are here because you actually know this person quite well, especially in your childhood. |
| 0:56.4 | Obviously work with dad for a number of years and he was our next door neighbor as well for even a large amount of time in Bramall, so yeah. |
| 1:02.5 | So you must know a lot of secrets about him then. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah, it would be interesting to see which ones come out. |
| 1:06.5 | And a former teammate of yours, of course, may I see. |
| 1:09.7 | Best keeper played with by far. |
| 1:11.9 | Best keeper probably to ever play between the sticks. |
| 1:15.4 | He's always number one when you do any polls in the Premier League best goalkeeper by far. |
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