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Castaway
1 appearance
Footballer and manager best known for managing England and Ipswich Town, winning the FA Cup and UEFA Cup.
On the island
Eight records
It Was a Very Good YearFavourite
Robbie Williams and Frank Sinatra
It's a beautiful song. I like Robbie Williams and he made um an album not uh not too long ago, Robbie Williams, and he introduced Sinatra into this particular song. So you've got the young voice of Robbie Williams and the mature voice of Sinatra.
Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
It's a stirring song. It's an emotional song. It makes the hairs on my neck prick up. It reminds me of war and sadness and and I can listen to it every day.
I've always liked Peggy Lee. There was once a uh this jockey called Ray Moo how who I used to enjoy very much. And it w this was um Ray Moo's favourite song. It's a funny little song.
I'm a bit of a romantic, I guess. I mean, I love love songs and and It's me, and it is, I have to say, one of my favourite songs.
And when they showed me this tape, I couldn't believe how stupid I looked, because there I was on the touch line, I was jumping up and down... And then they put this lovely song, and it's a song I've always liked, but because I'm on this c uh compilation, I had to choose it.
The Three Tenors (José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti)
And that was me in the World Cup, I tell you, in 1990, because for about five weeks I didn't sleep. It was the theme song of the World Cup. The World Cup in 1990 will live with me forever.
Whose voice I love, just the way you are, which is a lovely song, a lovely melody, lovely words. And it reminds you differently of your loved ones.
We Have All the Time in the world
We have all the time in the world just makes me relax, it makes me sit down and just contemplate life and I look back over my life. Unfortunately I haven't got all the time in the world. It's kinda diminishing, but I do love the song.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:57Was [being sacked from Newcastle United] in many ways the unkindest cut of all to end in that kind of way?
Well, yes, just about. I was v very disappointed, and actually I was stunned, shocked, uh bewildered. I didn't expect it... It is a tough life. You have to win football matches... Five years I'd been at the club. I loved every minute of it. My father took me there as a boy. He bled black and white, so did I. And I loved the job. And we'd made great progress. So it's still hurting, aren't we? Well, it'll always hurt. Because it was my club, and I loved it very much.
Presenter asks
6:29What do you feel that [your childhood and family] did for you then?
Well, family is the most important thing in your life. It's more important than work, I guess. You know, mum was reliable and uh constant and my father was a terrific father... I grew up feeling very well taken care of and very much loved.
Presenter asks
10:04What's been the point of [taking your footballing squads and boards down the pit]?
Well, like I'm saying, the other side of life. The unpleasant side of life, the tough side of life. And I think people who who play in football love their life and love their jobs, and they get up every day and they enjoy g going there... But not many people in this world get up every day and want to go to work and go to a job which is going to give them a great deal of contentment and happiness and and safety.
The keepsakes
The book
A History of the First and Second World Wars
John Keegan
I don't know much about those wars. I wasn't alive for the fourteen, eighteen, but it must have been traumatic. It must have been just dreadful. I mean, how soldiers and men and young boys lived through those days I will never, never know.
The luxury
I would need something very comfortable to lie on, so I'd take the biggest, most comfortable, softest sun bed that money can buy. With a sun hood, obviously to protect the sunshine on my head all day, and I would happily see out the rest of my life reading John Keegan's History of the First and Second World Wars in a comfortable position.
Presenter asks
11:05Do you think [the high wages and flash lifestyles of modern footballers are] bad for them?
I do, yes. I just wish they would appreciate it. I don't think they do. I think some do. You know, you can't tie them all with the same brush. But many don't appreciate it.
Presenter asks
22:20What's it like for the manager in that moment [of the 1990 World Cup penalty shootout]?
On the night, you know, things get to you, I guess... And so we were out. And we were a fine team. If we'd won, we'd have meet again fully enough Argentina in the World Cup. And we had a score to settle with them. So there wasn't any doubt in my mind that had we beaten West Germany on that particular day, we would have won the World Cup Cup for the second time. I was very disappointed. I was sad. I could have cried myself, but I knew I couldn't. I went in the dress room after the match. I mean, the two boys, Waddell and Piers, were inconsolable... all I could do was just put my hand on the on the ba on their backs, on their shoulders, and just say Forget about it. You've done your best, that's all you can do.
Presenter asks
25:55What was [your cancer] and how did you discover it?
To cut a long story short, I went to please her to the doctor's. He said, I have to refer you to an ear, nose and throat specialist... He just said, I've got some very grave news for you. Do you have a malignant melanoma? in your nose, inside your head... He said, I've got a consultant surgeon coming today to see you. You need an operation yesterday.
“I started my professional managerial career with Fulham. So I guess you could say I started my managerial career with being dismissed, and I finished my managerial career with being dismissed.”
“I was so distraught I actually went on to the middle of the pitch, stood in the centre circle, alone, nobody there... And I actually cried out I shed tears that this had happened to me.”
“The World Cup in 1990 will live with me forever. That penalty situation that I've been talking to you about. I recall that virtually every day of my life. I think about that situation where England could have got to the final of the World Cup. I was in charge, we just didn't quite get there. I'll never forget it.”
“Without my wife I wouldn't be here. She saved my life. She made me go.”