In this episode of It’s United, we sit down with Ben Thornley to explore a career shaped by talent, resilience, and a lifelong connection to Manchester United.

Hear about:

• Breaking into the Manchester United first team and what it truly meant to wear the shirt at Old Trafford

• Life alongside the Class of ’92 and the standards set inside the youth and first-team dressing rooms

• How his playing career unfolded after leaving United, with spells at Huddersfield Town, Aberdeen, Blackpool and Bury

• The injury that changed his path and the mental strength required to rebuild

• How he became involved with MUTV and why media and storytelling became a natural second career

• The role he plays today in helping former players stay connected, socialise, and support one another after football

• Reflections on Barcelona ’99 after making a spontaneous trip thanks to a ticket from the Malta Manchester United Supporters’ Club

• His thoughts on Manchester United this season and what still defines the United identity

This is an honest, thoughtful conversation about football, identity, and staying part of Manchester United long after playing days are over.

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This week on It’s United, Keith Gillespie delivers one of the most unbelievable football stories you’ll ever hear, from the highs of Manchester United and Newcastle to the night a Leicester City trip to La Manga ended with him in a Spanish jail.

Keith opens up on:

– His United years and why he left Fergie’s empire too soon

– Being part of the £7m swap deal that shocked English football

– Life inside Keegan’s Newcastle Entertainers

– The La Manga incident: the police, the chaos, the cell, and what really happened

– How the experience changed him — on and off the pitch

– His battles with gambling and his path to rebuilding his life

~ Exactly his football career now helps him guide the next generation of footballers in his current career as an agent

It’s raw. It’s revealing. It’s Keith Gillespie like you’ve never heard him — honest, unfiltered, and telling the full story at last.

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This week on It’s United, we sit down with the incomparable Sammy McIlroy, Sir Matt Busby’s last signing and one of the great storytellers of United’s past.

Sammy relives his unforgettable years in red: the battles, the dressing-room personalities, the pressure, the pride and the pure love he still holds for the club.

We then take a deep dive into life after Old Trafford, management, rebuilding clubs, dealing with the realities of football away from the spotlight, and the lessons only experience can teach.

A compelling, heart-on-sleeve episode full of insight, warmth and classic Sammy humour.

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We’re joined by Manchester United’s FA Cup-winning hero Lee Martin — the man who wrote his name into Old Trafford folklore with that unforgettable goal at Wembley.

Lee takes us inside the dressing room of Sir Alex Ferguson’s early United, sharing:

• What it was like breaking through in a team on the rise,
• The build-up and emotion of the 1990 FA Cup Final,
• The characters and camaraderie that shaped those formative years,
• And life after that magical moment under the Wembley lights.

It’s a story of resilience, redemption, and one perfect strike — told by the man who lived it.

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An absolute privilege for us as Manchester United’s legendary European Cup Winning Keeper Alex Stepney joins us to share

the secrets of Sir Matt’s great side,

the triumph of Wembley ’68,

the stories direct from the dressing room,

and a mysterious tale of some golf clubs that vanished from a car.

It’s football folklore told first-hand — funny, revealing, and pure Manchester United.

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It’s United sit down with Steve from The 1958, the largest, fastest growing and most active independent fan group of Manchester United.

We talk about its beginnings, it’s dealings with the club hierarchy, and how they’ve organised some of the biggest football related protests the country has seen.

Steve shares the 1958’s hopes and ambitions and discuss exactly what changes are needed to make the club fit for fan purpose.

This is our most explosive episode yet.

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In this episode, Manchester United fan extraordinaire Pete Boyle sits down with Sacha to share some great laughs and never before-heard stories about

* his life as a Red,

* behind the scenes creating the most recognised United chants of recent years,

* how he met some of the club’s biggest stars,

* what started him visiting and compèring United themed events across the UK and beyond.

And no exclusive chat with Pete would be complete without the truth around his most infamous incident ever, you know the one..

So download, listen in and enjoy the best independent United podcast.

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In Part Two of our exclusive conversation, we talk more about greats like Duncan Edwards and we’ll explore the story and inspiration behind Wayne’s latest book, Football, Taught by Matt Busby

Plus we also find out about Wayne’s future creative projects around this great club of ours.

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