Manchester United FC - Stretford End: January 2012

Old Stretford End Tunnel

Do you remember the light at the end of the dark tunnel? What a beautiful vision it was walking along the old Stretford End tunnel.

Fred The Red

Manchester United's mascot Fred The Red in the 1980's.

Stretford End in 1970's

Glory, Glory Man United. Look at this stunning picture of a packed Stretford End in the 1970's. United flags raised high as the fans sing their hearts out. The good old days.

Natasha - Manchester United Girl

Alex Ferguson names Law as hero

Alex Ferguson has named Denis Law, Muhammad Ali and John F Kennedy among the people he most admires.

Sir Alex said Denis Law - the King of the Stretford End, was his hero growing up, as the pugnacious centre-forward epitomised everything good about Scottish football.

Only Denis Law and Eric Cantona have reached the status 'King of the Stretford End' among the United faithful. The former for his formidable goal record, and now Denis Law has his own statue on the Stretford End, the latter for his on-pitch charisma and aura.

Manchester is Red

D-Day!!!

Manchester City, the FA Cup holders, flying high with money to burn in the transfer window. Fergie on the ropes with a depleted squad and injuries building up. This game takes on monumental stakes as the battle for supremacy in Manchester marches on.

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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."

Manchester United FC - Stretford End