Your recollection is a bit hazy. Here's a link to save typing it all out. He should have patented his goal celebration. I remember all us kids jumping up whilst grasping the bottom of our sleeve. http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/Articles/DenisLaw6.htm
Maybe not if you are of the Blue and White part of Manchester, until lately, Emirates money that is, City were always chasing shadows with Utd, they caught up in the Bell, Summerbee, Lee etc era but the legacy of Munich was daunting mountain for City to climb, and to be fair Utd fell to bits big time pre Beckham and company.
As they've got a turnover in excess of £200m, I suspect there's plenty of activity there. Though Malcolm funded it, I don't think he has any day to day involvement in the running of the company.
That kick didn't send them down as it turned out. It did show what an instinctive scorer he was as he put it away and then looked crestfallen as he turned away as the possible consequences sank in. However other results meant that United would have been relegated whatever the result, even if United had won.
That's why I put the word 'apparently' in my sentence, I didn't bother to Google, but yes they would have been down anyway.
I remember it well. The look on Law's face was one of horror. Though in the end it didn't affect things. It did tough, as I said, show what an instinctive goalscorer he was. Don't know how it became such an accepted fact over time.
I remember finding a rusty copy of The Big Match from that game/weekend - fascinating stuff. The number of pitch inavasions, I recall, was ridiculous - or seemed to ridiculous -to eyes of the generation that followed.
Yes football was terrible back then. Slum stadia for slum people, dreadful jingoism, and worst of all, unsophisticated tactics. And of course we fluked winning the European Cup every year.
Not sure if you're wrong tree harking, but I love the football/social history of 70s/80s. Particularly thankful when I get mine hands on a full episode of a regionalised TBM (rather than just a match) or MOTD.
Well, in the 1970s it started off with Feyenoord winning the European Cup, follwed by Ajax 3 times and then Bayern Munich 3 times. It wasn't until 1977 we had an English winner. Up until then the only English finalist in the 1970s had been TWS.
Even middle to the table teams could generate a top atmosphere for FA cup games and a noise level that is almost never heard these days. No need for paid flag wavers behind the goals, the passion was authentic. (Did WBA's groundsman get a mention in the programme?)
