Keown, Arsenal, and the Manchester United Rivalry Revisited

The Good, The Bad & The Rugby

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

From that iconic Van Nistelrooy clash to behind-the-scenes contract negotiations with Sir Alex Ferguson, Martin Keown pulls no punches as he opens up about his career highs, lows, and untold stories from his autobiography On The Edge.

This episode is about rivalries, physicality, and raw competitiveness that any sports fan can appreciate. You don’t need to love football to enjoy this—you just need to love sport at its toughest and most passionate!

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0:00.0	Today our guest is a three-time Premier League champion. It's no other than Martin Keogne.
0:04.8	Hello, mate. Guys, who was the better team, Martin, the Arsenal Youth Team of 1983 or the
0:09.9	United Class of 1992? Would you know the class of 83 is only something that's going to be
0:14.7	relevant now because I'm putting it in here? And it's over 5,000 first-class games.
0:19.4	I can feel the passion. I feel like, yeah.
0:21.2	I sat down with Sir Alex Ferguson.
0:22.9	The wages they were offering were half what I was being offered with Everton.
0:26.3	And he told me I need to think about my family.
0:27.8	Even though they went on to have 13 league titles,
0:30.3	I'd like to think I stopped them winning three of them.
0:31.9	Arson Benga comes in, and he's a man after your own heart. When I said to him, boss, can we go for a drink?
0:38.2	He was like, Martin, this is a poison.
0:40.3	You cannot do it.
0:41.2	It's a disaster, you cannot drink.
0:42.5	I'll try and police it.
0:43.6	Yes, you will.
0:44.5	I hold you personally responsible.
0:46.4	I came back to the hotel with two players.
0:48.6	Was he a genius?
0:49.4	How good was it to work with him?
0:50.8	He empowered us and that is everything. Just be very clear you want to give Rood a black eye. Oh yeah. No, a bottle of black eye, not actually. You've done enough damage
0:59.6	into the final moments. Alex Payne trying to keep this side going forward. Haskell takes it on
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