Podcast Appearances
The archive that we were getting from ITV, et cetera, was the game that was chopped up that everybody else saw.
And then I think into the process at some point, the archive guy go, oh, I found some footage from two ISO cameras that were placed.
One was placed near Kenny Dalgleish, near the tunnel, the dugout.
And the other one was somewhere else.
I can't remember where it was, behind the goal or something.
And it was like, nobody's really seen this footage.
They inserted tiny little bits into the match every now and again, but there was so much of it that you can't use on normal game coverage because it's too close, it's blurred, it's too noisy, whatever it is.
And there's a brilliant piece, it's probably my favorite bit of the film,
apart from the goal, it's when the ISO camera's really low near Kenny Dalgleish, and Merce tries to keep the ball in right near the dugout, and he sort of keeps the ball in, and then he runs off the pitch.
Remember, Merce, and you run off the pitch onto the sort of red grass, and you run back on the pitch.
But because you nearly hit the camera that you obviously didn't know was there, because it's on a little tripod, and also the noise of your studs on the concrete as you run by, it kind of...
It just brings home how fast, how furious, how aggressive, how in the moment the game was.
And when we saw that bit, I went, that's got to go in.
Because that is professional football as we know it as players.
Because it was almost like you were in the game yourself.
Go on, tell the story.
Well, he's probably got me 30 times in the games I've played against Liverpool or wherever he's been playing.
So, Kenny used to sort of sit on the dug, lean on the dugout with his foot because the dugouts were dropped down.
So, he used to put his foot on the edge and sort of sit like that watching the game, sort of in the front of the dugout.
And the ball, nine times out of ten, he went out for a throw-in near him.