"United's ability to do well in League football was hit on the head by the action of a certain Herr Hitler, former painter in civilian life," decreed the Manchester United match programme ahead of the club's only ever league fixture previously played in June. Stanley Matthews, a man with an almost incomparable legend in English … Continue reading Manchester United’s last league game in June – led by Stanley Matthews
Episode Three: John Henry Davies
United Through Time looks at John Henry Davies – the man who saved Manchester United from extinction in 1902, took the Reds to Old Trafford and oversaw the club’s first league and Cup glories.