Tony Coton - "How I brought van der Sar to Old Trafford"
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Current Manchester United Scout and former club goalkeeper Tony Coton joins the UTD Podcast this week.
TC shared some great stories from his spells at Birmingham City and Watford - including a pre-season tour with Elton John!
We breezed through his time at Manchester City to get to his stories of working with Sir Alex Ferguson as his goalkeeper and, later, as the club's first full-time goalkeeping coach.
Tony worked with Peter Schmeichel before being tasked with finding his replacement. That eventually led to the arrival of Edwin van der Sar from Fulham and we heard all about how that transfer came about, climaxing in the Dutchman's heroics in Moscow to lift the 2008 Champions League trophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Manchester United podcast. I'm Helen Evans. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm David May. It is and I'm Sam Homwood. We did it again, guys. Nice, nice. |
| 0:11.6 | I don't know if I like it. Oh, to please Shane. Yeah, it feels a bit like, I don't know. |
| 0:17.2 | It's not the vibe I think we give off. Well, you're a Simon anyway, so. |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, that's a good point actually. If you're a Simon Simon. |
| 0:23.6 | Guys, the sun is shining on all Trafford. It looks very beautiful. |
| 0:27.6 | Everything feels a little bit more positive this week. Macy's played golf. |
| 0:30.9 | Yes. A little bit of sunburn, I might add. Quite a lot of sunburn. |
| 0:35.0 | It's quite a lot, yeah. Forgot your sunscreen. Oh, I just don't think it's, you know, |
| 0:38.9 | March sunshine. I think it'd be that hot. But yeah, good to be back though. |
| 0:43.0 | Good to be back. Have you had to put after sun? I've heard about his golf once or twice. |
| 0:47.6 | Did you put after sun on? Yes, last night. Did you? Did you feel better? |
| 0:51.1 | Alavira. Alavira. Oh, God, I needed it. I tell you a funny story about after sun, |
| 0:55.6 | as you like. I really, really break my name, but just glowing. |
| 0:58.8 | It's a really, really breath man. What a reference if you don't know YouTube it. |
| 1:03.2 | I bought my feet last summer and got some after sun, but it was fake tan. |
| 1:07.8 | So I was just putting fake tan on the feet and they were such a weird colour, |
| 1:11.9 | because they were red from being burnt and then orange from the fake tan. |
| 1:14.6 | They did not feel better. I spent a month in Dubai 10 years ago and the apartment I was staying in |
| 1:21.0 | at a roof terrace, but because it was in foreign language, the cream, I was actually putting |
| 1:26.1 | a moisturizer on thinking it was sometimes lotion. Oh, I bet your skin was soft and burnt. |
| 1:31.2 | I've got a big number on the front, which indicates which foundation is like moisturizer six, |
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