Denis Law, the one and only king, dead at 84.

He was my true hero as a young red. A passionate player and a natural goal scorer.

The triumvirate of United European Players of the Year now all together.

RIP king.

Sad news indeed and another player who suffered with dementia.

Rest  in peace

Although I am  BWFC fan , I used to love watching Denis Law play ,the original goal hanger , babby liner ,  what ever the title he was the master , albeit long before VAR , but even if they'd had it then , he'd have been onside every time, a master in the box , Farewell Denis Rip , condolences to family , friends & fans  .

 

Scotland's finest and the only Scottish player to win the Ballon d'or .

He came to my place of work long after he had retired, he was doing some promotional work for a printers supplier unfortunately I was on the opposite shift so missed my opportunity to meet the great man, i was gutted.

R.I.P. Denis

 

I used to know his nephew, and I met his son once, too. His nephew looked more like Denis than his son did!

Just been watching the Sky Sports News & the tributes to Denis , & it brought back memories of 68 & the European Cup , when United beat Benfica 4-1 , at Wembley , we where a split supporting team family , my old man was a football league Referee, but we all watched the big games on Tele together, & I remember vividly , we'd not long owned our first colour TV , it took up have the lounge it was that big , and not long after the kick off we had quite a few of our neighbours watching through the lounge window lol , so my Dad said let em in , and we had about 25 , watching all squeezed in sat on the floor , United played in Blue , Denis didn't score but played his part , Bobby Charlton 2, Georgie Best 1 & Brian Kidd 1 , wonderful memories , 

The ‘King’ 🇾🇪

9 hours ago, Happy Feet said:

Just been watching the Sky Sports News & the tributes to Denis , & it brought back memories of 68 & the European Cup , when United beat Benfica 4-1 , at Wembley , we where a split supporting team family , my old man was a football league Referee, but we all watched the big games on Tele together, & I remember vividly , we'd not long owned our first colour TV , it took up have the lounge it was that big , and not long after the kick off we had quite a few of our neighbours watching through the lounge window lol , so my Dad said let em in , and we had about 25 , watching all squeezed in sat on the floor , United played in Blue , Denis didn't score but played his part , Bobby Charlton 2, Georgie Best 1 & Brian Kidd 1 , wonderful memories , 

Denis didn’t play unfortunately. He was injured. John Aston took his place. I was there as a 13 year old.

Magnificent player, magnificent bloke.

10 hours ago, Happy Feet said:

Just been watching the Sky Sports News & the tributes to Denis , & it brought back memories of 68 & the European Cup , when United beat Benfica 4-1 , at Wembley , we where a split supporting team family , my old man was a football league Referee, but we all watched the big games on Tele together, & I remember vividly , we'd not long owned our first colour TV , it took up have the lounge it was that big , and not long after the kick off we had quite a few of our neighbours watching through the lounge window lol , so my Dad said let em in , and we had about 25 , watching all squeezed in sat on the floor , United played in Blue , Denis didn't score but played his part , Bobby Charlton 2, Georgie Best 1 & Brian Kidd 1 , wonderful memories , 

he was such a great player you would be forgiven for thinking he played in the final...but my memory (which is bad) has him as injured and not playing that final. Stretford End paddock supporter.

1 hour ago, Kenb said:

he was such a great player you would be forgiven for thinking he played in the final...but my memory (which is bad) has him as injured and not playing that final. Stretford End paddock supporter.

Spot on Ken , I did say I was a BWFC fan it was my younger brother who was the MUFC fan  , no excuse I know , Denis was out with a cartilage injury just checked, I bet it was great to be there live Jaco It was brilliant on the Tele, thanks to you  both for pointing it out  .

Edited January 18Jan 18 by Happy Feet

Luckily enough to see Denis in the latter stages at United along with Best, Charlton and the rest of that era. Was at the "back heel" game when he just walked off, and that was that. RIP, the king of Old Trafford

I paid 1shilling and sixpence to see his league debut for United vs. West Brom I think it was, and I remember he had scored inside the first few minutes. There were over 200 more to come.

9 hours ago, Meter man said:

I paid 1shilling and sixpence to see his league debut for United vs. West Brom I think it was, and I remember he had scored inside the first few minutes. There were over 200 more to come.

Correct Denis did score on his debut 1962 a 2-2 draw.

Denis played in the best game I ever saw live a 5-4 United loss at Hillsborough. The game was a few months after the European Cup win at Wembley, which Denis missed through injury.

https://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/match_data/match_sql.php?my_match_date=1968-08-31

 

Edited January 19Jan 19 by Shinehead

20 hours ago, Meter man said:

I paid 1shilling and sixpence to see his league debut for United vs. West Brom I think it was, and I remember he had scored inside the first few minutes. There were over 200 more to come.

My first game was Blackpool away 16 September 1963 so definitely didn’t see his debut. He didn’t play that day and we lost 1-0. Thankfully there were so many games where he played, scored and celebrated with the that iconic one arm raised gesture.

Seen him score a goal at Goodison 64/65 season , a cross from the left he got above Brian Labone and had to head the ball downwards for it to go in  just below the crossbar --stunning !! The game finished 3-3 .

Tonight  we'll drink, a drink, a drink.