Graeme Sharp
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But we knew South American teams would be difficult.
And to be fair, we knew that before we went out.
we go in and we play Germany you know and they've got fantastic players in there Matthias Augenthaler and they beat us as well so the last game against Uruguay was you had to win it and you know I wasn't involved in the first two games wasn't even on the bench but in the third game he played me from the start Sir Alex and it was an awful experience great experience to play
at a World Cup finals but against that Uruguayan team they were animals they got a man sent off in the first minute you know for a foul on Gordon Strachan and then that was just the story of the game it was like some of the antics they got up to it was a shame phone I know that Sir Alex as well I met him a couple of weeks ago at the Scotland game that was played at the Everton Stadium and it was incredible to just listen to him
Honestly, I was in his company for about an hour and a half, two hours, and it was absolutely an unbelievable pleasure.
And he always used to say that when that squad was named and we played the final game and he left out Graeme Souness, who was a big, big part of the Scotland team, and he admitted it was the biggest mistake he'd made in football.
So it just showed you, you know, he held his hand up and he said, yep, I was wrong there, I made the wrong mistake.