Manchester United FC - Stretford End: March 2011

Lee Sharpe Supports Green & Gold for Charity

Former Manchester United star Lee Sharpe, has joined the green and gold campaign to be part of fans bid to to get rid of the Glazers, and support Prostate Cancer.

"I am absolutely delighted to lend my support to such a worthwhile cause. I am committed to wanting to see every Green and Gold shirt sold, and I will personally be handing the £25,000 cheque over to The Prostate Cancer Charity," he said. "I can't believe the quality of the shirts, they're much better than the ones I used to wear. I'd urge all Manchester United fans to support this superb project and I look forward to presenting the charity with their cheque at some point in the near future."

Support the Green and Gold campaign

View from the New Stretford End

Looking from the new Stretford End down the United Road side at Old Trafford.

United Team Stand in Stretford End Goal

MANCHESTER UNITED 1962-63 TEAM PHOTO
From left to right: Tony Dunne, Nobby Stiles, Johnny Giles, Albert Quixall, Maurice Setters, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law, Pat Crerand, Shay Brennan, David Gaskell, David Herd, Bill Foulkes, Noel Cantwell, Harry Gregg, Ted Dalton (Man Utd Physio) Jack Crompton (Man Utd Trainer).

Sir Alex Ferguson Quotes

"We have people coming here to admire the scenery and enjoy their crisps."

"When an Italian tells me its pasta on the plate I check under the sauce to make sure. They are the inventors of the smokescreen."

"Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way."

"Go and make your mistakes in the first team. You'll learn more in a month in the first team than you will in two years in the reserves."

"You can't applaud a referee."

Sir Matt Busby Quotes

"It was a very simple team talk. All I used to say was 'Whenever possible, give the ball to George'"

"Nobby Stiles a dirty player? No, he's never hurt anyone. Mind you, he's frightened a few!"

"He (George Best) was able to use either foot - sometimes he seemed to have six."

"I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough."

“In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.”

"He (Bobby Charlton) was idolized from his twentieth year on."

"If you don't put them in, you can't know what you've got."

"Germany was one thing and facing Old Trafford another. When I approached the ground and moved over the bridge along which our supporters had squeezed fifty abreast in there tens of thousands to shout for us I could scarcely bear to look. I new the ghosts of the babes would still be there, and there they are still, and they will always be there as long as those who saw them still cross the bridge, young, gay, red ghosts on the green grass of Old Trafford."

"Over the years people called several players the new Duncan Edwards. First Dave Mackay, then Bryan Robson. But none of them came close. He was the only player that made me feel inferior."

"I do not worry about conceding goals because I know my forwards will double it at the other end."

"Manchester is my Heaven."