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  Manchester United: A Definitive Guide - SoccerPulse Community
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.
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.
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.
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  Gordon Banks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gordon Banks, OBE (born Sheffield, England, 30th December, 1937) is a former English footballer, considered by many to be the best goalkeeper to have played the game.
A careful student of goalkeepers during childhood, Banks played in local colliery football as a boy and was offered an apprenticeship by Chesterfield after initially going to work down a mine and then as a bricklayer on leaving school.
Having lost two FA Cup finals, Banks' attempts to be luckier with Stoke in the competition fell agonisingly short as Arsenal beat them in the semi finals of both the 1971 and 1972 competitions.
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 David Herd (footballer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Herd (born April 15, 1934 in Hamilton) is a Scottish former football player, the son of Scottish international and Manchester City player Alex Herd.
Herd started his career at Stockport County, for whom he played up front alongside his father, though Herd junior's appearances were limited by his national service duties.
Herd would help the club to the 1963 FA Cup and the 1965 and 1967 league championships.
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 BOBBY CHARLTON - International Football Hall of Fame
Charlton was born in October, 1937, into a football family in the Northumberland mining village of Ashington.
In a 1961 football annual he wrote of "wanting to create something, something that might be remembered." It was only five years away.
They had played some breathtaking football that season, but inexplicably they missed out on honours, their FA Cup run also ending in the semi-finals and finishing fourth in the League.
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 Denis Law "Lad to Legend" - A biography
Not with a regular football you understand, but with a ball of wool which he suspended from the pulley (this was a wooden and metal frame work for drying clothes on, which hung from the kitchen ceiling).
Denis was sure that this was as far as his footballing career was going to take him, but at least he was in an atmosphere purely football orientated and that for just now was all that matter to young Denis.
The game of football has suffered over the years by these supposed neutrals who seem to go power crazy - perhaps, as the fans often call out from the terraces, it has something to do with their parents and whether or not they were ever married.
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 Meek: The greatest game I ever saw him play | News | Guardian Unlimited Football
For this was not a desperate last throw of the dice but a 19-year-old stripling grabbing the football world by its ears in a tour de force that changed the perception of the game.
Benfica added to the tension by presenting Eusebio with his Footballer of the Year trophy out on the pitch, a move that delayed the kick-off for 20 minutes with the United players left fretting in the tunnel.
Then after another six minutes David Herd headed Harry Gregg's goalkick down and into the path of Best who streaked away on a solo run to score and put United further ahead.
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 Soccer Legends: January 2007
He wanted to be a footballer but his father, Alf, insisted that he learn a trade and he became an apprentice plumber - an occupation he was to follow all his life, even at the height of his international fame.
Football in wartime was played on a regional basis and that season Preston were not only the Northern Section Champions, but they also reached the final of the Wartime Cup where they met Arsenal at Wembley.
A measure of the Dutchman's domination of European football in that period was that he twice won the World Player of the Year award (in 1987 and 1989) and the European equivalent in 1987, which he dedicated to Nelson Mandela, still languishing in prison in South Africa at the time.
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 Meek: The greatest game I ever saw him play | Football | The Guardian
For this was not a desperate last throw of the dice but a 19-year-old stripling grabbing the football world by its ears in a tour de force that changed the perception of the game.
Benfica added to the tension by presenting Eusebio with his Footballer of the Year trophy out on the pitch, a move that delayed the kick-off for 20 minutes with the United players left fretting in the tunnel.
Then after another six minutes David Herd headed Harry Gregg's goalkick down and into the path of Best who streaked away on a solo run to score and put United further ahead.
www.guardian.co.uk /football/2005/nov/25/benfica   (1018 words)

  
 homeofthepenaltykick.com - Gordon Banks
Czech footballer Antonin Panenka made history by scoring the decisive goal for Czechoslovakia in a penalty shoot-out after the final of the European Cup of Nations against West Germany ended in a draw.
Banks played in local colliery football as a boy and was offered an apprenticeship by Chesterfield after initially going to work as a coal bagger and then as a bricklayer on leaving school.
Herd scored his second to conclude a 3-1 win.
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 HISTORY
David Herd became top scorer of United, scoring 14 goals in his first season.
Finishing a poor 11th in the league and losing in the 6th round of the cup to Everton a loss in the semi final of the European cup completed a disappointing year for United.
This disappointing season meant the end of the managerial spell of Dave Sexton at United, he was dismissed at the end of the season and succeeded by Ron Atkinson.
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 Full History Of Manchester United
After a decade in the Football league all they had to show was two years in the top flight (both years finishing at the bottom) and eight years in the second.
Football was officially suspended at the end of the 1914-15 season due to the war in Europe.
Some football writers were predicting a great future for the exciting new team, but many of them quibbled that there was two much youth, and too little experience for the team to actually scale the top heights.
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 Football attacks driven by society's insecurity - Football News - Telegraph
To identify the guilty in a 40,000 crowd is as difficult for the police as apprehending political terrorists.
It really is the ultimate irony to say that fans don't like certain footballers because we are greedy and insecure when it appears that much of the greed in the game surrounds a lot of insecure young men on the pitch.
It appears a lot of football journalists are of the prawn sandwich eating brigade and do not realise the existence of local rivalries.
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 George Best | News | Guardian Unlimited Football   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When David Herd headed on a long kick from the keeper, Ulsterman Harry Gregg, Best dashed past a formidable centre back and scored again.
In 1968, Best was deservedly voted European Footballer of the Year, and might have been seen to have reached his peak - a sublime compound of pace, courage, skill, balance and invention.
His glorious footballing days were far distant, but his allure remained.
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 RedWeb.tk // Full Manchester United Club History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was then the Football League realised that they had not made any provision for relegation/promotion and they decided that the bottom three teams in Div 1 would play the top three teams in Div 2 to decide the issue.
The Football League however were not impressed with the Heathens victory and after more complaints from the Walsall players who were supported by the ref a Mr Jefferies they cancelled the result and demanded the teams play again.
After their Cup win the United team were taken to the Alhambra Theatre where they were entertained by football 's favorite comedian of the time Mr George Robey, accompanying united fans in tweed caps and jackets were a stark contrast to the clientele of the dress circle in their evening jackets and bow ties.
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 oatcake.co.uk - Messageboard
If Plan A (attacking football) didn't pay off he was quite happy to adopt Plan B (the Waddington Wall) for a while until he had the players to revert to Plan A. I have seen no sign that Bozzie has similar breadth of imagination when it comes to tactics.
David Herd scored 228 goals in 428 appearances during his career, that is probably better than Bangoura.
Herd and Stevenson were both better than the players in their positions in the current team.
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 Sports
The simple fact is the officials are not in a position to start the top flight football of the country without any sponsor which would lament their organisational weaknesses but will also make the league a little bit dull.
Two goals from David Herd and one from Denis Law gave Matt Busby his second FA Cup success as United’s manager, 15 years after the epic win over Blackpool.
As a result, a host of football stars from the world came to town for a taste of glamour and glitz off the pitch.
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 Caught 4
They had staved off relegation and then outplayed their favoured opponents in the Football Association's centenary year to win the Cup with a goal from Denis Law and two from David Herd.
Seen as the golden boy of British football at the time, he joined United six months after the Munich air crash, and brought speed and glamour to the team's attack.
Herd Jr, who had been overlooked by both City and United despite growing up in Manchester, proved himself as a striker at Stockport before joining Arsenal.
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 Lochgelly Memories
I remember well David Campbell the provost and have a letter of recommendation signed by him when I left to live in Kirkcaldy.
His father David was a miner in the Lochgelly mines along with his older brothers.
Grandad Tim was a professional footballer both in Scotland and for West Ham and Newcastle United.
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 Manchester United - General - Review - take a trip down memory lane
In 1992 he was voted the PFA Player of the Year and had become a regular full England international.Pallister’s united record he played 427 times 4 as sub and scored 15 times,his international career gained 22 caps scored no goals.
The Sixties saw a glorious era when British football was in awe of Charlton, Law and Best, three world class players who togetherhelped make Manchester United an integral part of popular culture in that decade.
It is extremely rare for a football club to have a single shirt sponsor for as long a period of time as 18 years.
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 Manchester United FC History, Players, Team, Information
Although their dominance in English football is considered by some to be over, they are still one of the best teams in British football, the only team who remain a viable threat to Chelsea F.C. in the current 2004-2005 season.
First-class football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War (1939-45), but Manchester United continued to compete in part-time regional competitions.
But the sale of David Beckham and the suspension of Rio Ferdinand (for a total of 8 months, including the final 4 months of the season) sabotaged United's title challenge in 2003-04 and they finished third in the Premiership, which was won by unbeaten Arsenal.
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 Sol Campbell @ Arsenal.y2u.co.uk
The game was locked at 2-2 with fewer than ten minutes to go (and with England down to ten men after David Beckham was sent off) when Campbell managed to head a corner into the Argentinian net.
His partner at the back was Tony Adams, who would retire from football at the end of that season, leaving Campbell as the senior defender for both club and country.
Campbell continues to play for Arsenal, winning an FA Cup winners' medal in 2005, as well as England, although his place in the international team has been less secure since the emergence as a partnership of Terry and Ferdinand, which blossomed during Campbell's period of absence with injury in 2005.
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Little suspecting the impact they were about to have on the national, even global game, the workers in the railway yard at Newton Heath indulged their passion for association football with games against other departments of the LYR or other railway companies.
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.
Leeds, after all, were not the greatest of football powers in the 1990's and their star quality was further reduced when they allowed one of their best players to join Manchester United in December 1992.
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 1961   (Site not responding. Last check: )
David Herd became top scorer of United, scoring 14 goals in his first season.
Morgan, Sartori and James were Uniteds recruits this year although playing attractive football and attracting the crowds United seemed to wane after their triumph over Benfica.
Finishing a poor 11th in the league and losing in the 6th round of the cup to Everton a loss in the semi final of the European cup completed a disappointing year for United.
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 [RED NEWS] RED NEWS DAILY NEWS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
David Herd had already scored but they ran out of goals and Albion hit back for a 2-2 draw.
It was a similar story with David Beckham, who before he became a cult hero had to be content with occasional first-team appearances.
His main objective away from football will be to keep off the front pages." speaks the man! --------------------------------- [13] George Best on Rooney --------------------------------- Posted Thursday, September 30, 2004 by db: "You look at that performance and you have to say that's as good as anything you've ever seen.
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 Manchester United History - Information - Profile - Biography
Although their dominance in English football is considered by some to be over, they are still one of the best teams in British football, the only team who remain a viable threat to Chelsea F.C. in the current 2004-2005 season.
First-class football was suspended for the duration of the Second World War (1939-45), but Manchester United continued to compete in part-time regional competitions.
But the sale of David Beckham and the suspension of Rio Ferdinand (for a total of 8 months, including the final 4 months of the season) sabotaged United's title challenge in 2003-04 and they finished third in the Premiership, which was won by unbeaten Arsenal.
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 Arsenal.com
Football historian LEIGH EDWARDS profiles every Arsenal player from 60 post-war League seasons.
World class Dutch international striker Dennis Bergkamp was Footballer of the Year and PFA Player of the Year when Arsenal won the 'double' in 1997/98.
Starring as Arsenal also won the 'double' in 2001/02, the Premiership title in 2003/04 and FA Cup in 2003 and 2005, he netted 87 goals in 315 Premiership games and had a testimonial last month.
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 Bobby Charlton Soccer Schools and Sport Academy - Football and sports training in Manchester United Kingdom UK
Bobby Charlton was born in October, 1937, into a football family in the Northumberland mining village of Ashington.
In the close season, Charlton was one of a United squad that undertook a remarkable overseas tour.
Bobby, then aged 31, was rewarded with an eight-year contract, the longest in Football League history, and received the OBE.
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 TotalFootballForums.com > Legends Thread
He was, said the sportswriter David Miller, "fantasy brought to life." Yet those hopes were embodied in a character totally unsuited to deal with the demands on him.
In 1996, Zola joined Premier League football club Chelsea F.C. He won the FA Cup with Chelsea and was voted the English Football Writers' Player of the Year in 1997: the only player ever to receive the accolade without playing an entire season.
Always a threat when on a football pitch, they are few clubs, if any, who would have passed over the opportunity to have Zola on their books.
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