Manchester United: A Definitive Guide

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M A N C H E S T E R..... U N I T E D..... F O O T B A L L..... C L U B
A Definitive Guide



Club Name: Manchester United Football Club
Nickname: Red Devils
Founded: As Newton Heath LYR: 1878 As Manchester United FC: 1902
Location: Manchester, North West, England
Home Ground: Old Trafford
Club Address: Manchester United PLC, Sir Matt Busby Way, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0RA
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Club Owner: Malcom Glazer dry.gif
Chief Executive: David Gill
Group Commercial Director: Andy Anson
Non-Executive Director: Joel Glazer
Non-Executive Director: Bryan Glazer
Non-Executive Director: Avram Glazer
Non-Executive Director: Edward Glazer
Non-Executive Director: Kevin Glazer
Non-Executive Director: Darcie Glazer
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Manager: Sir, Alex Ferguson
Assistant Manager: Carlos Queiroz
First Team Coach: Mike Phelan
Goalkeeping Coach: Tony Coton


Honours:

European Champion Clubs Cup: 1968, 1999, 2008

European Cup Winners Cup: 1991

FA Premier League: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008

Football League Division One: 1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1967

FA Challenge Cup: 1909, 1948, 1963, 1977, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004

Football League Cup: 1992, 2006

Inter-Continental Cup: 1999

UEFA Super Cup: 1991

FA Charity Shield: 1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965*, 1967*, 1977*, 1983, 1990*, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007
(*as joint holders)

To be continued

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Humble Beginnings



Manchester United were first formed under the name Newton Heath LYR (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway).

The group of workmen who started the club played matches in Clayton often playing against other teams established by the LYR of other departments connected to the Railway company. Little did any of the players know of the impact they were eventually going to cause on a world scale.

The English Football League was first formed in 1888, Newton Heath decided not to enter as founding members alongside other North West teams like Preston and Blackburn and instead carried on their preperations for their league debut in 1892.

Newton Heath were plunged into financial trouble in the 1890's and were thought to be on the brink of dropping out of the league and ending their dreams of success but a local Pub owner John Henry Davies heard of these troubles and began to invest in the club. Davies requested that in return for his money the club should reform under a new name. After proposals of Manchester Celtic and later Manchester Central were turned down the club settled on Manchester United in April 1902.

The first manager to take charge at Manchester United was Ernest Mangnall who was given the role in 1903 he built a side that finished third in the Second Division twice in two seasons, in the 1903-1904 season and again in 1904-1905 season.

The season of 1905-1906 was to prove one of the greatest in United's early life, reaching the quater final of the FA Cup and finishing second in the second division which resulted in promotion to the English top-flight for the first time in twelve years United were back at the top, where they belonged.

To Celebrate the club's triumph Mangnall signed winger Billy Meredith from local rival Manchester City. Meredith had landed himself the title of the 'Welsh Wizard' during his time at City but had to be sold along with 15 other players after the club (Manchester City) landed themselves in hot water with the FA. Having been involved in a bribery scandal Meredith was one of the first players to leave and was swiftly signed by Mangnall.
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Billy Meredith, the Welsh Wizard

Meredith was to become the first legend of Manchester United. After setting up countless goals for star striker Sandy Turnbull in the season 1907-08 United won their first English Football League Championship and were duly invited to participate in their first Charity Sheild event which they won with a 4-0 drubbing of FA Cup holders Queen's Park Rangers.

United then added a third trophy to their cabinet winning the FA Cup in 1909, beating Bristol City 1-0. With a goal from Sandy Turnbull.

This hattrick of trophies was to be the start of a great tale for Manchester United.

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The Busby Babes Era

The second world war broke out forcing league football in England to decline dramatically, however, Old Trafford the ground which was bulit on the land John Henry Davies' brewery stood on was bombed. On March 11th 1941 a German air raid ripped throgh Old Traffor destroying most of the main stand, dressing rooms and clud offices. Times looked bleak for the club yet optimism resurfaced with the arrival of a man name Matt Busby.

Busby, who later proved to be one of the greastest men ever to venture to Old Trafford. He initially signed a 5 year contract in 1945, yet Busby would still be at the helm at United for another 25 years after that.

The new manager wasted no time in reinstalling quality into the United ranks. Bringing together arguably the best forward-line ever at Old Trafford, this attack became know as 'The Famous Five' and consisted of Jimmy Delaney, Stan Pearson, Jack Rowley, Charlie Mitten and Johnny Morris. However, Busby didn't see this as his greastest transfer coup. Busby had met Jimmy Murphy during the war and the two had built up a great friendship, so great infact that Busby offered Murphy the role as assistant manager at the club. Murphy and Busby worked together well blooding a crop of stars that would become in no uncertain terms the best.

Busby and Murphy's first step on the road to glory was to build a team that was capable of challenging for domestic honours. They succeeded almost at the first attempt, as United finished second to Liverpool in the first Football League campaign after the war, 1946/47. It was the club's highest placing for 36 years, and there was extra cause for optimism when the Reserves won their (Central) League Championship in the same season.

Busby's mix of youth and experience payed dividends when United lifted the FA Cup against a Balckpool side containing Stanley Matthews in 1948, 39 years to the day United had lifted the trophy in 1909.

As the 1950's began the break up of Matt Busby's first successful United side happened. Dressing room dissent led to Johnny Morris departing for Derby and Charlie Mitten exporting his wing wizardry to Colombia.

Busby, however had a plan, he decided to unleah his crop of youngsters he had been grooming during the late '40's. Jackie Blanchflower and Roger Byrne were the first to emerge and be labelled 'Babes' by the newspapers; in their debut season 1951/52, United won the League Championship for the first time since 1911. Byrne played a key role in this triumph making 24 appearances, including the final six games from the left-wing, a postion which he scored seven goals from before returning to his usual left full-back role. Busby now had the confidence in Byrne to name him captain, Byrne did his duty and led the team for four years from February 1954.

In 1955/56 and 1956/57, Byrne lifted the Championship trophy as skipper of a great young side that included several more products of Busby's youth academy. Eddie Colman, Mark Jones and David Pegg were all first team regulars, having cut their teeth in the FA Youth Cup, which United won five years in a row from its inception in 1953.

However, not all of the babes were home-grown. Tommy Taylor the Barnsley striker signed for United in March 1953 for the then relativley large sum of £30,000. Taylor proved to be worth his fee and continued to knock in goals for England and United alike. Another big-money transfer saw Harry Gregg arrive from Doncaster Rovers in December 1957. The fee of £23,000 was a world record fee for a goalkeeper at the time, but it was money well spent as Gregg immediately became United's regular shot-stopper.

Another young man who excelled for club and country was Duncan Edwards. So powerful, talented and mature was the Dudley teenager that Matt Busby could not hold him back from United's first team. In April 1953, he became the First Division's youngest-ever player at the age of 16 years and 185 days.

In February 1958 Manchester United flew to Belgrade to play the second leg of a European Champions Cup tie against Red Star Belgarde. Sadly, this would be the last time the Busby Babes ever played together, they won the game 5-4 on aggregate. However it was on their way home disaster struck;
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The Busby Babes, lining up for the final time in Belgrade

After refuelling in Munich on 6 February 1958, the United team's areoplane struggled to take of from the runway at the airport in Munich. After little less tah an hour the pilot declared it fit to take-off. It was then the United aeroplane crashed, killing twenty-two people, including seven players; Byrne, Colman, Jones, Pegg, Taylor, Geoff Bent and Liam Whelan. Duncan Edwards became the eighth player to die of his injuries, fifteen days later in a German hospital.

Manchester went into mourning as did the rest of England. No one expected Manchester United to bounce back from something like this. Even more so when they knew staff at the German hospital didn't expect Matt Busby to recover from his wounds. However Busby did recover and led United to the FA Cup final. Although the team lost they were considered to be the real winners of that game.

Busby and Murphy yet again had to work together to build another squad capable of completing what Busby and his Babes had set out to accomplish, winning the Football League Championship...

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Sir Matt's Immortals

After building one of the greatest teams seen in England, Matt Busby had to start all over again at the start of the 1960's. The Munich air disaster had robbed him, and football, of some of the era's greatest players. Nevertheless Busby set about building another great Manchester United side.

Busby's previous team had been built through the youth systems however this one included a few new names whom had been brought to the club for record transfer fees Denis Law who signed from Torino for £115,000 was arguably the best of these new recruits.

Despite a poor start the new players soon settled in and almost five years to the day of the Munich Air Disaster Busby's side reached the 1963 FA Cup final beating Leicester City 3-1 at Wembley with two goals from David Herd and one from Denis Law, however, the best was yet to come from United's newly energized team.

United built upon their FA Cup triumph by stringing a good series of results together and challenging for the league title finishing second, only four points behind eventual winners Liverpool, who United lost to both home and away. However this season was more notable for the arrival of another new player, George Best. Best had made his debut in the 1962 - '63 season but his full potential was yet to be realised.

In 1964/65, the famous trio of Best, Law and Charlton took United to new heights. They won the League Championship, pipping Leeds on goal difference, and reached the semi-finals of the European Fairs Cup and the FA Cup.

Despite looking like a team caple of winning the league again Uited finished fourth in the league during the 1965 - '66 season losing again to Liverpool. United did however put together another set of impressive cup runs losing in the semi-finals of both the FA and European Cups. The 5-1 thrashing of Eusebio's Benfica the major highlght of the season, this wasn't to be the only triumph over Benfica.

In 1966/67 United were crowned League Champions again, with Law scoring 23 goals in 36 games. The title success secured another season of top-level European football in 1967/68. Hibernians, FK Sarajevo, Gornik Zabrze and Real Madrid were swept aside as the Reds marched towards the European Cup final at Wembley;

Manchester United - Stepney; Brennan, Dunne, Crerand, Foulkes, Stiles; Best, Kidd, Charlton, Sadler, Aston.
Benfica - Henrique; Adolfo, Humberto, Jacinto, Cruz; Graca, Coluna; Agusto, Torres, Eusebio, Simoes.
Referee: C. Lo Bello (Italy).

Manchester United 4 - 1 Benfica - Full report of the match from The Gaurdian by; Albert Barham, Thursday May 30, 1968.
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The Magnificent Treble

The start of the nineties and a new era beckoned the appointment of Scot Alex Ferguson brought many happy memories including United becoming the first ever to team to win the double (The league title and FA Cup) many thought this was going to be Ferguson's greast ever achievment, however in the season of 1998-1999 he proved that, that wasn't to be the case.

United's team went through many transitions before the great season of '99, the old blood was shed with players like Hughes, Kanchelskis and Cantona all moving on after a very fruitful turn of the decade which saw United lift the Cup-Winners Cup in 1991.

During the mid 90's United would began to emulate the same youth policy that had served Sir Matt Busby so well and United began to build a side that once again consisted of players who had come through the great United youth academy.

David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Gary and Phil Neville and Paul Scholes all came to the forefront of the United side in 1996 and since then they each played key roles in propelling their United side to perhaps their most succsessful period to date.

The influence that this crop of youngsters could have on results was never more apparent than in the 1998/99 season. United booked United's place in their fifth FA Cup final of the 1990's, and this time they won it, beating Newcastle United 2-0 with goals by Paul Scholes and substitute Teddy Sheringham.

That result clinched United's third Double, six days after the Premiership title had been wrapped by Andy Cole's goal against Tottenham at Old Trafford. But still there was more to come from a remarkable campaign.

After an epic Champions League semi-final against Juventus, when Keane inspired the team to fight back from 2-0 down in the second leg, United marched into an epic final against Bayern Munich in Barcelona.

United's attempts to win the European Cup for the first time since 1968 looked to be doomed when Bayern took an early lead through Mario Basler and defended it with typical German resilience. But then, in injury time, the Reds produced one of the most stunning revivals in sporting history; Sheringham equalised, and moments later his fellow substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjaer fired in the winner to make the score 2-1. United had won the Treble; their manager Alex Ferguson was subsequently knighted as his fans around the globe basked in the glory.

The Treble became a quadruple later in the year when Sir Alex Ferguson's men travelled to Tokyo to compete for the Inter-Continental Cup. Keane's goal against Palmeiras of Brazil bestowed upon United the title of World Club Champions. Officially, at the end of the millennium, the biggest football club in the world had also become the best in the world!
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The goal that sealed the historic treble, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer fires his late winner against Bayern Munich

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