![]() ![]() ![]() Luke Shaw pinpoints the game that changed Manchester United's season.I was in my mid-teens and left the ground buzzing that I had been in such a famous place. His dad drove us all up the A34 to a stadium we had only ever seen on Match of the Day. Home was Walsall in the West Midlands, but my mate was a Wolves fan. The ground was basking in sunshine and it was my first ever trip to Manchester. It was that squad that I witnessed against Wolves in the mid-seventies. Tommy Docherty was in charge and his classic line up included the flair-heavy wingers, Gordon Hill and Steve Coppell. ![]() They had won the Second Division at a canter and were about to embark on their comeback season in the top flight which would see them reach the FA Cup final and placed third in the First Division. The glory days of Best, Law, and Charlton were over.īut after relegation in 1974 the Reds were on the cusp of a renaissance. Here, the M.E.N's Neal Keeling looks back on a vanished era in English football. When football comes in for criticism these days, hooliganism is rarely the reason.īut in the days of some of the game's most fabled players, violence on and off the pitch was commonplace. ![]()
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