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But when a supporter tells United Review that his first match was in May 1943, we know we're in for a truly Homeric sweep through United folklore.

“I was on a coach and a television company filmed us throughout the journey, in the ground... He was a local lad, a top goalscorer, and so wiry.” Then it was something to eat, a few beers, the game, and the same after, before the coach back at midnight. We’d get there about five in the morning, go to Covent Garden for a beer, and then play football at Hyde Park until about half 11. By the late ’40s, I was going regularly to watch us at Maine Road and local grounds like Bolton, Burnley, Anfield and Stoke.” My dad once walked from Hulme to Edgeley Park, when United and Stockport were in the Second Division.