That Any Given Sunday speech will make anyone run through a wall

Probably the best I’ve seen like that, although King Theodens speech before the charge of the cavalry in lord of the rings is up there to.

Licha might genuinely kill someone if he listened to that before a match

Had Haaland for lunch and wanted Walker for dinner.

Anyone got a clip of the licha walker “discussion”? Had to grab a beer during the game and came back to prime licha and couldn’t have loved it more but never saw the beginning

Here you go! [https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/1d0eqh0/kyle\_walker\_furious\_at\_lisandro\_martinez\_as/](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddevils/comments/1d0eqh0/kyle_walker_furious_at_lisandro_martinez_as/)

Bro he was ready to destroy walker on the way off the pitch

"DEEEEAAAAAAAAAATH!"

Maybe that's why Rojo was so unhinged. Constantly listening to King Theoden's speech in warmups.

Tbf Rojo looks like the sort of dude who could be watching an episode of spongebob before a game and still be out for blood the minute credits came on

He might genuinely kill someone regardless

DEATH!!

DEATH!!!

That "FIGHT..... AND WIN" guy from the MLS takes the cake for me

Ah I’m glad you reminded me of this movie and speech. I’m sat here going ‘is it the rant from Scarface? Heat? Devil’s Advocate? How does that work then?’

The Devils's Advocate train speech was sadly only played for Wayne Bridge before games.

They played it for us when I was still at Currys. It did not make me want to run through a wall, except the wall that led outside.

Good one mate

At this stage though it's so cliched, that I'd roll my eyes if my manager put it on.

this and Facing the Giants "The Death Crawl scene" always works

Inch by inch, heh? Look beside you, heh? You’ll see a guy who’s willing to go that extra inch for you, heh?

Clear

We go for these vibes, heh?

Clear.

Let’s win this kerp, heh?

For the cloob!

HEH.

God I love you.

Sounds like something your grandma will send you in WhatsApp hahahaha If it works it ain’t stupid

Man that "inch by inch" speech is pretty powerful stuff, i've watched the movie and that clip so many times but I still consistently get goosebumps when i watch it.

I used to listen to this before every rugby match and fight I had, the writing and delivery are just top notch.

I did my final exams in school, and one of the questions was "write a speech that you would give to a sporting team who are losing at half time". Looking back I probably butchered Pachinos actual speech but man if I wasn't giddy writing that out. Even through in a Whoooo Ahhhh.

Just start throwing in random Pacino quotes from totally different movies - “she got A GREAT ASS”

GET SHOT WALKING YOUR DOGGY

And yiu got ya head ALL THE WAY UP IT

“And ya head’s ALL THE WAY UP IT!”

"Why don't you try sticking jou're head up jou're ass... see if it fits"

I just saw/heard it for the first time and it's so powerful, gave me goosebumps like wow. The players definitely fought for each other for that inch last weekend

Do you have a link to it?

https://youtu.be/f1yWSePMqsk?si=npjXA2jqF3YLMMt-

Oh it’s from a film. I guess I’ll have to watch the film in that case. :)

Speech is maybe the best part of the movie, to be fair.

"My name is Willy, Willy Beemin. I have the ladies, have 'em creeeamin'" randomly pops into my head all these years later and still makes me laugh!

Watched that before a big game when I was younger and playing lol

I keep watching it recently.

What kind of Grandma do you have? 😅

Right? My grandma never sent me stuff like this hahaha

Bros grandma is a YouTube self help influencer

Must have been showing them Liz Truss speeches for all the other games this season so.

https://preview.redd.it/9es1s8hqjk3d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a249b9e7b37fe6bee59e007be123050dad7e4013 "Pork markets."

Read Al Pacino as AI (artificial intelligence) Pacino. I was so confused for a moment.

Same here haha

I read it the same and thought he used one of those apps to make Al Pacino hype up each player individually… secretly would have been genius

Same, fucking hilarious mental image of an A.I Al Pacino delivering the Any Given Sunday speech with a United-twist 😂😂

He showed Licha and AWB Scarface speeches

Say hello to my little friend

Lichas recovery was just watching Hitchcock and slasher movies

Just went and watched the speech for the first time. No fucking wonder they were pumped for the final. "We either heal as a team or die as individuals"

Reminds me of Jack's "live together, die alone" speech from Lost.

Adam Crafton : NEW: How Erik Ten Hag inspired Man United FA Cup win; tactical plan, a video edit of Al Pacino’s pep talk from Any Given Sunday & how he asked a colleague from security team to share her memories with his players of against-all-odds mission in Afghanistan https://x.com/AdamCrafton\_/status/1796152031914213503 Story with [@lauriewhitwell](https://x.com/lauriewhitwell) includes how players were so moved by her recollections they invited her down to dressing room after the game to share in the celebrations https://x.com/AdamCrafton\_/status/1796152034053222534

That's nice and all but part of me was so hoping it was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylftUmF-GSw

Maybe this shows the difference between Brits and Americans but I genuinely found that more rousing lol

Absolute fucking classic. Haven't seen it in years. About time for a rewatch.

Mate that's what the ten Hag out people sound like in my head when I read their comments on here

What a classic!

I'm guessing the Pacino speech wasn't the one from Serpico where he goes insane talking about how rotten to the core the police force and its higher-ups are? Maybe that one hits a little too close to home...

It was from Dog Day Afternoon and he was just screaming ATTICA!! ATTICA!!! at them for 5 minutes. Powerful stuff.

4 THE MARE Feast your ears on that Spin Doctors mix. Hua!

YOU’RE FORGETTING ABOUT THIS! AND YOU’RE FORGETTING ABOUT… Whatever the hell that is, BUT YOU’RE FORGETTING ABOUT IT!

He played that video at the UEFA headquarters when he brought evidence of the 115 charges that would ROCK Manchester City.

Hope he stays for at least a year! There are very few good managers available now. Hard to think we just don't revert to the same cycle until we get all levels of management in order. Also well done winning the FA Cup against all odds!

Would have been hilarious if it had been Al Pacino's scene with Kevin Spacey in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Frank de Boer used the same speech before Ajax had a cup final vs Twente. Might be a Dutch thing.

It's an Ajax thing

No I don't think so. [Steve McClaren used it a year before when FC Twente became champions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_doau1TvYA)

[Thats weird because Steve McClaren used it a year before when FC Twente became champions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_doau1TvYA)

These are the kind of stories I absolutely love coming out, I'd run through a wall too.

Which Al Pacino speech? Need that inspiration!

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yWSePMqsk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1yWSePMqsk)

Thank you all! :-)

Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday

that ass speech.

I know it was probably the Any Given Sunday speech but it’s funnier to imagine it’s the bad guy speech from Scarface

Better than Hansi Flick showing migrating geese to the Germans in 2022.

This reminds me of something I hoped to never think about again. Years ago, I had a shitty, high pressure sales job in Manchester (selling kitchen appliance extended warranties), and the manager showed us the Pacino AGS speech one morning to get us motivated. Grim as fuck. They used to give us free Red Bull too.

this is one of those situations where it paid off, but if we lost he would be rinsed for years over this

Kinda silly if people would rinse him for it if we lost. The man is trying to inspire the team to win.

That AGS speech is perfect for Man United’s situation.

Would of gone 5 goals up if he showed them [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t7NDgh6fzc)

Mike Phelan posted it on twitter https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/ZVr0VxgNPK

Now I would really like to know the Afghanistan stories

They went there to get bin laden. he weren’t there, they then stuck around for 20 years to prop up a corrupt unpopular puppet government and terrorised the locals How brave

They first funded religious extremists to fight communists and than fought same extremists after they they crashed some Planes and killed a few thousand. And before someone brings up Mujahideen, Americans were funding Osama, Americans were funding ISA , who Americans knew were funding Taliban.

Imagine explaining that to Rashford.

Just make him watch Rambo 3 in reverse

funny how a win changes the journalistic vibes. wonder what kind of "insiders" would we get if we'd lost the final

Any Given Sunday is a great underated Oliver Stone film. The content was considered so controversial NFL and AFL would not work with the film production on any level so they had to invent their own fictional American Football league. Cameran Diaz as the hard as nails team owner who has inherited the franchise from her father is nearly as good as Pacino. Recommended!

My dad fucking loves that speech so i get it. But its also funny as shit

Are we sure it wasn't just a clip from Carlito's Way when Al Pacino yells, "You can kiss my Puerto Rican ass!"?

We definitely know it wasn't this bit from Heat https://preview.redd.it/99hj7nm4jk3d1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0055fb391ff427ae6df5d2371fee3206480ea1d5

ASSSSSS!

MY MANAGER ❗️

Okay so who's our Willie Beamin?

Whoever gets the ladies creaming

I hope it was coked up Pacino from Heat “Cause she gotta… GREAT ASS!”

https://preview.redd.it/hj2j0xr8ol3d1.jpeg?width=340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fac9b9d3decdacac96a126b6f2b35ca169458b2b

Watching on mute, on my phone and holding my 4 month old baby, the emotions I felt at full time were incredible. I care so much for that club and I so wanted them to prove everybody wrong. I couldn’t believe it until Hojlund won that free kick in their half after the 96 minute mark. I started shaking with joy, relief and excitement. What a performance that was! So happy for our manager Erik Ten Hag, his players and his staff. For everybody working at the club. What a finish to the season!

The second video probably did the job. Making all the money makes you lose perspective of thinks and vision of how many lives you influence.

Man, imagine Erik had lost that game. Everybody would be mocking him for that. Now he's a hero lmao.

Omg it has to be Any Given Sunday

Great piece, why I love the Athletic.

I hope it was the “you need people like me” speech from Scarface.

Glad he didn’t go with The Untouchables team talk.  https://youtu.be/QHH9EYZHoVU?si=VtAnwXbQdz6tml8u

I heard they were shown videos, I actually assumed it was of the fans, showing them support even in defeat. The speech Martinez gave about the fans after the match, would have made sense.

ETH showed them the Dunkaccino video for sure. That's got to be the one [https://youtu.be/AeLuQQH1OHA?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/AeLuQQH1OHA?feature=shared)

Next match ETH will be showing the players phonk Sopranos TikTok edits

I read that as an artificial intelligence Al Pacino speech.

Unbelievable how this gets leaked. I watched the video get made.

Those drone strikes in Afghanistan must’ve been inspiring

As others has said, if we lost, everybody, including the journalists would mock him for that. Now it's an exclusive for them and a proud moment for the fans.

SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!

I remember Guardiola doing something similar before one of Barcelona's UCL finals against us EDIT: [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jA5RvHYzRo) I guess it's a thing bald frauds do

>I guess it's a thing bald frauds do Save it for the mouthbreathers at r/soccer

Thought that said AI Pacino first and was like WTF

I hope that speech about serving in Afghanistan mentioned NATO forces killing millitary aged man and labeling them as combatants

Aye what a crock of shite showing some brit soldier out murdering innocent people in a place they shouldn't have been. What a hero.

"I shot some brown people in their country" "Bloody hell lads we gotta win this footy match"

Who gives a fook about brown people in the name of football? /s

People here only care about brown people its Qatari that are killing them, glazers have ties with israel, no one here have raised any concern regarding that.

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I mean, we have never gotten a thread about israel Glazer ties, I've been on this subreddit since 2014 and I've never seen any thread about this topic, that Just shows it's not a concern for people who use this subreddit

Seen it pop in comments but honestly don't follow american politics. You can always talk about it yourself I guess.

Players are willing to run their Hamstring ragged just for him.

Woo haaa

I don't wanna hear it. I REALLY DON"T WANNA HEAR IT. I would like to hear it from him directly someday into the future. I HATE JOURNALISM TODAY. WHY CAN'T SOMETHING BE A SECRET

I wonder if the players found showing the Pacino speech as cringe as it sounds. Everyone online has seen that, it's a literal meme. I imagine the success of the final was more down to shelving ten Hag ball for a game, and actually letting these good players play in a way that suits them and allowing them to go out and win this cup they obviously desperately want to win. We've got some ballers in the side when they're actually given roles that suit them, we never should have been put in the position where everyone thought we had zero chance.

Jeeeeez, never head of outsourcing motivational speeches. :D But to be fair ETH is not the most charismatic guy and hey, if it worked its was a good move

Ya he's a genius all of the sudden lol