Perhaps most poignantly of all, there’s a prophetic statement from Solskjaer that’s guaranteed to give you goosebumps: “To be on the bench is agony… it’s the worst moment of my career maybe, to sit there and watch and just listen to the sound of my heartbeat.”
What you will hear is the United players on the edge of glory, in the moments before they achieved sporting immortality.
The interviews, from the archive of legendary commentator Tom Tyrrell, reveal a much more intimate side of the United players than we’re perhaps used to, due to the very nature of them beginning to understand and appreciate the scale of the historic achievement that awaited them.
The latest in our Unheard podcast series, 1999 follows February’s episode Memories of Munich, which featured interviews with Jackie Blanchflower, Bill Foulkes and Albert Scanlon.
Like that episode, Unheard: 1999 is narrated by the renowned football journalist Patrick Barclay.
