Club History

Old Trafford

Old Trafford

Old Trafford, Manchester is one of the most impressive football stadiums worldwide and is home to Manchester United. There’s been a long arduous history over Old Trafford and here, we are going to look at the beginning of a new stadium, the destruction which followed, the rebuild and of course what stands proud today on [...]

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Hat-Trick Hero’s! (And Better)

Here is a section devoted to those players who have netted 3 or more times in one game for the Red Devils. You will see the date of the feat and the team which had to suffer the wrath of the United offensive qualities.

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Manchester United Trophy Room

Manchester United Trophy Room

Below you will see what our great club has won down through the years, and I think you will agree with me in saying, its quite a remarkable haul!!

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Sir Alex Vs. Sir Matt

Sir Alex Vs. Sir Matt

As a United fan, I consider myself quite lucky that two of the greatest managers to ever grace the game have done so at our great club. It’s fair to say our trophy cabinet would look decidedly bare in comparison to what it is now if we hadn’t had these two legends running the show. [...]

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1958 : Munich Air disaster kills United Players

1958 : Munich Air disaster kills United Players

The events of that black day of Thursday 6th February 1958 even now are no easier to absorb. The cruelty and enormity of the tragedy on that fatal day is hard to believe , it was 3pm, the BEA Elizabethan airliner had already tried to take off twice on the main runway at Munich airport [...]

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The European trail 1957/58

The autumn of 1957 was a carefree, buoyant time for Manchester United fans. They had watched as the team had made a decent start to the season and also as they had brushed aside the Shamrock Rovers club from Dublin, in the first round of the European Cup. After being League Champions for the previous [...]

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End of the Dream – Real Madrid April 1957

After the euphoria of the victory against Bilbao on that never to be forgotten evening of 6th February, 1957, the fans had to wait until the 11th April for the 1st leg of the European Cup semi-final. United also had to wait to find out who they would be playing as joining them in the [...]

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The greatest game I have ever seen

It was quite late on Thursday January 17, 1957, when the silver Elizabethan aircraft lifted out of Bilbao’s small municipal airport, and into the dim, grey, wet and cloudy, Spanish afternoon. The United players had spent the previous four hours or so helping to free the aircraft of ice and snow, and now they just [...]

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The European Trail – January 1957 – 1st Leg

After the hard fought battle with Borrussia Dortmund towards the end of November 1956, Manchester United had to wait another eight weeks before they would face European opposition again in the European Cup. They had been paired with Athletico Bilbao in the forthcoming quarter final tie, and the matches were to be played in Bilbao [...]

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The Greatest – Duncan Edwards

The Greatest – Duncan Edwards

“The best player that I’ve ever seen, the best footballer that I’ve ever played with for United or England, the only other player who ever made me feel inferior.”
Those are the words of one of the greatest players ever to grace the world football stage, one of the greatest ambassadors of the game, and most [...]

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