SI Weekly Presents: Guns, Drugs and Football Thugs

Fall of a Titan

SI True Crime

Sports, True Crime

4.3 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Hi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports Illustrated Weekly It began with fandom of one of the most iconic sports teams in the world, and ended with a bicycle-riding, Uzi-wielding assassin. In the shadow of Manchester United's legendary Old Trafford stadium, an almost mythic crime boss amassed power against a backdrop of drug trafficking, hooliganism, and rave music. Writer Reid Forgrave tells the story of Paul Massey, the Red Army, a grisly murder, and the one tiny mistake that landed two men in prison for life. Follow @podcasts_si | @JohnGonzalez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Fall of a Titan fans, if you're looking for more sports meets true crime stories,
0:08.5	we've got something we think you might like.
0:10.6	My name is John Gonzales, host of Sports Illustrated Weekly.
0:14.4	On our podcast, we go deep into the most fascinating stories in sports like this one we're
0:18.7	about to play.
0:19.7	We'll be dropping some of our favorite true crime stories in this feed coming up, so
0:24.1	if you like what you hear, please subscribe to Sports Illustrated Weekly, available wherever
0:29.0	you listen to your favorite podcasts.
0:30.9	We'll also put a link in the description of this episode.
0:34.1	Thank you, and we hope you enjoy this story.
0:42.2	A quick heads up that this story features foul language, gun violence, and murder.
0:48.9	The year was 1986, Manchester United had a new manager.
0:53.6	Here he is on the first day of his new gig, telling the BBC about the awkwardness of meeting
0:58.0	the players after former manager Ron Ackinson was ousted.
1:02.1	They'll be all right.
1:03.1	Once we get our relationship, I'm sure we'll do very well.
1:06.1	Alex Ferguson didn't know it, but very well was a vast understatement.
1:10.8	He was about to usher in a new era for the team, an era that would redefine English soccer.
1:16.3	Manchester United are the champions of the Premier League.
1:23.3	I really love Beckham team.
1:25.0	And of course you do.
1:26.0	No one can cross a ball or bend it like that.
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