Brian Kidd

Um, the, you know, that, it was the European Cup then, but it was still, still huge.

Wembley Stadium, George Best, Bobby Charlton, Bryan Kidd.

Uh, the Manchester United team that, that became the first English team to win the, the Euro- European Cup as it was then.

And then you, you know, f- go across all the years to '99 and the, that night in Barcelona when there was no Roy Keane, but that was because he paid the price for getting Manchester United to the, uh, the final with a, a second yellow card.

... th- th- there is a rivalry there between the two cities.

I mean, you could go back to the '76, '77 season when Liverpool, when the league, the team that came second was Brian Kidd-fired Manchester City.

Uh, I think if you'd spoken to City fans in the '90s, they still would not have enjoyed Liverpool a- as a concept.

Hmm.

Before this podcast came on, I was on YouTube and the game.

between Liverpool and Man City come on in 1977, when Liverpool won 2-1 and you're looking at people like, you know, Brian Kidd and Mike Doyle and Dave Watson and people like that.

Tony Booth.

Tony Booth.

And then they had the ex-Man United player or assistant coach, who's on the tip of my tongue, as a caretaker.

Brian Kidd? I'm not including caretakers.

So you are right with Mark Hughes.

I'll give you that one.

Mark Hughes was...

And then you're right, Brian...

You were right about Brian Kidd as well.

He was the interim

Um, the backstory's really good as well.

The fact that, uh, he was spotted, like, by Brian Kidd as Ferguson sought to reorganize and improve the youth system at Manchester United.

Scholes was an Oldham fan.

He wasn't a Manchester United fan.

People tell me and ask me to tell players.

Just never planned for anything like this happening, but this has, this happened.

So I had to ring Brian Kidd and say, "Kiddo, Denis Law died." Kiddo was his teammate, and he'd give me the most incredible words about him.

He'd just say, he said, "Andy, all the Law Man would say to me is, 'Put the ball in the middle, and I'll be there.

That was kind of the start of the Fergie time winners, wasn't it? That was m- the first of those, really.

Um, and you know, it's such an iconic moment where his second header he scores, I think Fergie and Brian Kidd are actually on the pitch celebrating.

Obviously there was [laughs] clear encroachment there.

I don't think they were, uh, strictly allowed to do that, but obviously their emotions, uh, had got the better, got the better of them.

Come over, he's, uh, in the boardroom having a meal.

So I th- get myself ready, go down to go on the, uh, round the track at Watford to up to Jose, and Brian Kidd's there.

So Kiddo, who was, uh, God rest his soul as well, Kiddo was, uh, assistant to Pep Guardiola at the time.

So he goes, "Have you met Pep?" And I'm thinking, "Oh-

He's a big name for sure.

No, no. Brian Little, Martin O'Neill, John Gregory, Brian Kidd, just to name a few.

Who had the biggest influence on you? God, it is hard because...

Well, that's a no-tone anyway.

It's a factor.

Not being under pittance when he came back, so did Brian Kidd.

Finding lads like Paul Scholes, what value do you put on them? And Martin Buchan, that was really nice.

I did tell him he was going to be in there.