In the football world, the championship will definitely not be a measure of the strength of a team. A team with excellent record may not necessarily capture people's praise, and a team with low record may not be ignored. There is such a team in Manchester today. Although they have been away from the championship for many years; although their city rivals are becoming stronger and stronger, this team has always been the team with the largest number of fans in English and even the world. This team is the famous Red Devils Manchester United .
Manchester United logo
Manchester United is one of the most successful football clubs in English football history. So far, they have won many honors such as 3 Champions League championships, 1 Europa League championship, 1 European Winners Cup championship, 1 European Super Cup championship, 20 domestic top league championships, 12 FA Cup championships, 5 League Cup championships, and many other honors. It can be said that Manchester United is a well-deserved "teacher of champions" .
Manchester United won the Champions League championship
Unfortunately, Manchester United has reached the trough of the new century. It is difficult for them to recreate the glory of the past in both the league and the European arena. Red Devils is being surpassed by their city rival Manchester City in an extremely embarrassing state. However, as mentioned above, Manchester United has not lost the huge fan base due to the sluggish record, and their number of fans can still lead the world. A large part of the reason why so many fans have been able to gain the loyal companionship of so many fans is the glorious glory created by Manchester United in history. It is these brilliant pasts that give this club that is currently in a trough period to rise. Today we will take you to learn more about the birth process of the Red Devils and Manchester United and its initial development history, so that we can get closer to this century-old wealthy family and understand its unknown past hardships.
Newton Heath LYR Football Club
The world's first football club-Sheffield United logo
With the vigorous development of modern football in the England region, regular football clubs sprung up on the British land like mushrooms after a rain. In 1857, England's Sheffield cricket enthusiasts established the world's first football club- Sheffield United . The birth of Sheffield United has opened a wave of full-scale club appearance. In just 20 years, more than 500 clubs have been established in England. Many of them did not die prematurely due to financial reasons in the early stage, but there are many clubs that have been passed down through the vicissitudes of the past for a hundred years, including our protagonist today - Manchester United.
Modern football is very popular in England
At that time, the football atmosphere in English society was already very strong. Football was definitely not exclusive to professional athletes. From princes and nobles to ordinary people, they could play on the court at will to release their enthusiasm for football. Manchester United's predecessor was born in such a background environment.
red dot mark is Newton Heath's location in Manchester
1878, a railway construction site called Newton Heath near Manchester City came from . Many workers on the construction site had a strong interest in football. Considering the high enthusiasm for football in English society at that time, they decided to jointly invest in the establishment of an amateur football club. The workers' original intention of investing in the club was very simple - they just wanted to become a team to facilitate competition with other railway companies' workers' teams.
"Newton Heath LYR Football Club" is the predecessor of Manchester United
It is precisely under such a simple original intention that this group of railway workers directly used the name of the construction site as the club name-Manchester United's predecessor "Newton Heath LYR Football Club" was born. This group of ordinary English workers would never have thought that the amateur football club they formed that year would become one of the greatest football clubs in English and even the world in more than 100 years.
Club's first recorded game
Although Newton Heath LYR Club was established in 1878, the club's original intention was to play some ordinary amateur games with other railway company teams, so almost no information about the game was recorded in the first two years of the club's establishment. It was not until two years later, on November 20, 1880 that the first record-breaking match in Manchester United history officially appeared.
Bolton team logo
On that day, Newton Heath LYR players wore the railway company uniforms of green and gold to face the reserve team of Bolton Club. Although Bolton only sent reserve members to play, Newton Heath LRY Club, which is composed of ordinary railway workers, will still not be the opponent of professional athletes. In the end, they lost 0:6 at at home and gave Bolton Reserve Team to the first recorded game in Manchester United history to end with failure.
The financial pressure is huge, Newton Heath is on the verge of collapse
Relying on a group of workers with shortage of funds, naturally, it is impossible to get a club to go further. The workers at the Newton Heath construction site are clearly aware that with their financial resources, they cannot help but watch the club they have built up to perish due to financial problems. After discussion, the workers decided to sell most of the club's ownership to the railway company. They hope to use the railway company's abundant funds to help the team buy a group of real professional football players. The impact of the England regional football league , which has been announced to be formed.
If there were no such group of workers who love football, there would be no Red Devils Manchester United today. After the Railway Company took over the team's operation rights, it immediately spent funds to introduce a group of professional football players with certain personal abilities. This group of professional football players also made Newton Heath LYR Club gain a certain reputation around the Manchester City at that time.
English Football League One (Old English League One) logo
1888, the England Regional Football League was officially established, and Newton Heath LYR Club also became one of the founding teams of the England Regional Football League with its outstanding performance in the Manchester City area in the past few years. Just a year later, English Football League (Old English League One) officially replaced the previous English Regional Football League, and Newton Heath LRY also followed several other regional football leagues to enter the League One.
Just when the players were eager to prepare for a big show of their strength in such a freshman league, the railway company suddenly announced the public sale of the team's ownership. The reason was that the railway company's recent operation was not good, and the upper-level managers decided to abandon all of the irrelevant "side business" to concentrate funds. Under such circumstances, Newton Heath LRY Club was successively bought by several private investors, but none of these private investors brought the team to normal track again. In the end, Newton Heath LRY Club , which was short of funds, was reduced to the second division in the 1891 season.
's record is sluggish and the funds are scarce. After the club was forced to reorganize
and lower it into the second division, the Newton Heath LYR club received less attention. In this way, few investors are willing to accept such a "mess". Soon after, the club went to the brink of bankruptcy, and the management can only rely on loans to maintain operations.
No one would have thought that the brilliant Red Devils had suffered the pain of disbanding
In January 1902, the foreign debt of Newton Heath LYR club had reached an astonishing 32,670 pounds (this number is equivalent to 280,000 pounds in the early 2000), which has exceeded the minimum foreign debt set by the FA for English regional clubs. Soon after, the FA ordered Newton Heath LYR club to liquidate, and Newton Heath LYR Football Club was dissolved.
The birth of Manchester United
The new management
Newton Heath LYR was disbanded, the club's last captain Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Harry Stafford Something John Henry Davies (John Henry Davies, who later became the club's chairman)Harry Stafford hrs finally agreed to invest £500 each in exchange for direct interests in running the club.
was renamed for the first time
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The four businessmen were unwilling to use the previous Newton Heath LYR after officially taking over the team. They began to discuss changing the team name to a name that represents the city. Initially, the management designated the team's new name as "Manchester Central Football Club" (Manchester Central Football Club) , but when they presented the team's new name to the FA, they were strongly opposed by the Manchester City Government. The reason for the opposition was very simple: although Manchester United (the team had no name at the time, we temporarily replaced Manchester United) was located in Manchester at the time, but the club's court was located in the suburbs. In the end, after careful consideration, the FA also rejected the Manchester United management's application for a name change of "not consistent with the actual situation".
The second name change
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After the first name change failed, Manchester United's management began to think about the new name again. They later designated the team name as "Mancheseter Celtic Football Club" (Mancheseter Celtic Football Club) . This time the name change application passed quickly at the FA. However, when Manchester United was preparing to participate in the first game with the new name, an unexpected episode happened again.
Scottish Celtic Club logo
We all know that there is also a football club called Celtics in Glasgow, Scotland. This football club, founded in 1888, is a veritable church team. At that time, the president of the Celtics Reed strongly opposed an English team with no Catholic background named "Celtics". Soon after, Reed personally came to the FA headquarters to sue Manchester United management. After the ruling, the FA had to admit that a "Manchester Celtic" "plagiarized" the Celtics football club far away in Scotland, and the name change agreement that had already taken effect was invalidated.
The third change of
After both rebrands ended in failure, in order to avoid this embarrassing situation again, Manchester United's management decided to always look for some typical tags from the team's history as the team's new name. We all know that Manchester United's predecessor was a workers' football team established at the Newton Heath construction site. The most prominent feature of the workers was "United" . At that time, Manchester United management also hoped to use the team's new name to give players great psychological support, so they designated the team's new name as "Manchester United Football Club" . The Red Devils, which has influenced the English football world for more than 100 years, officially appeared on the stage of history.
is different from many other professional football clubs in England. When the name "Manchester United" first appeared in English football, it symbolized the "speed rise" of absolute meaning.
Manchester United rises rapidly under Mangnar
As mentioned earlier, the last captain of Newton Heath LYR club successfully convinced four businessmen led by Davis to join the club after the team was disbanded. Davis and others took a fancy to the huge fan base behind Manchester United and the club's excellent past in history. In the early days of Manchester United's establishment, they invested a large amount of funds to introduce excellent coaching teams. In 1903, Mangnal officially came to the team, and he was also recognized by Manchester United fans as the first official head coach in the club's history.
Mangnal's meritorious coach of Manchester United's rise - Manganal
Mangnal's arrival brought this team that had just undergone restructuring back on track. Although Manchester United had a certain financial foundation at that time, the club could not be completely combined due to lack of reasonable and clear management. The first thing after Manganal arrived was to convene all the players to carry out in-depth "discussion on the future development direction of the team". While expressing their opinions, the players also subtly enhanced cohesion.
Manchester United League Two League Championship Team (the first on the left is head coach Mangenal)
In addition to further spiritual adjustment for the players, Mangenal once again clarified the team's technical and tactical play. He is the first head coach in Manchester United's history to clearly determine the team's tactical play as "team cooperation" . Under Mangenal's devoted teaching, Manchester United's team cooperation ability is becoming more and more mature. In the end, they also successfully won the English Football League Two Championship in the 1905-1906 season and returned to the top league.
I believe that many clubs will feel very incredible when they see Manchester United's early resume in their establishment. It is hard to imagine that a team that has just gone bankrupt and reorganized can return to the top league as the second league champion in just five years. However, what is even more incredible is that Manchester United won the first top league championship in team history after returning to the first league just one season. This season fully demonstrated Manchester United's strong offensive ability. They not only defeated Newcastle United with 6 goals, but also created the feat of veteran teams such as Arsenal and Everton 4:0.
The golden age
Mangnall with a keen eye
Under the leadership of Mangnall, a group of outstanding players came to the team
Mangnall gave another important help to the team after coming to the team. This is because of his keen eye for the signing target. In the first few seasons he came to the team, he introduced a group of star players who are well-known in English football, such as Duckworth, Bale, Roberts, Sandy . After winning the second division championship, Manganal spent a lot of money to buy Meridith from his arch rival Manchester City in the city. Compared with Bale and others, Welsh winger Meridith was a superstar player in English and even European football at the time. His arrival also laid the foundation for Manchester United to enter the first golden period of team history in the next few years.
Advanced youth training system
Mangnal's good financial management ability lays a solid foundation for Manchester United's financial reserves
Many people say that it is a "miracle" that Manchester United can win the championship in the second season of entering the top league. In fact, behind this "miracle", the management of Manchester United's club's management is inseparable from the reasonable and clear operation of the team. At that time, the club's chairman Davis and coach Manganal were both good financial management players. In the second division, they began to misappropriate part of the recruitment funds. In the establishment of the youth training system, Manchester United's youth training system was the earliest established in English football. A good youth training system also saved the team a lot of transfer fees in the years to come.
Welsh winger Meredis, who was credited by Manchester United from Manchester City,
When Manchester United returned to the top league with an absolute advantage, Manganal clearly realized that the intensity of the competition in the top league is far from comparable to that in the second division. A large amount of transfer fees "save" by relying on solid youth training in the past six months played an important role at this time. It can be imagined that without a lot of money to sign up, there would not be a feat of returning to the top league and winning the championship in the second season.
"English benchmark"
Meredis's Manchester United forward line gave the English League team a headache at that time
With the offensive line led by "Welsh Wizards" Meredis, Manchester United still has its power after winning the first top league championship in team history. In the next 1908-1909 season, Manchester United even started with a Charity Shield Cup champion (4:0 Queen's Park Ranger) and ended with a FA Cup championship. This season is also recognized as a key season for Manchester United to become a top team in England.
1908-1909 season Manchester United won the FA Cup lineup
Manchester United club not only set a perfect benchmark for other teams in the football field in England, but they also actively demonstrated their unique "leadership temperament" off the court. At that time, the FA and the English Players' Union had huge conflicts due to the inconsistency of the schedule. The FA strictly ordered any football player registered with the FA to not be allowed to join the Players' Union. At that time, almost all teams in England chose to compromise with the FA without exception. However, Manchester United's management did the opposite. Not only did they officially announce that they would not accept the FA's orders, but they also agreed to the club's players to enter and exit the Players' Union regardless of the FA's suspension.
FA logo
Manchester United's clear attitude in protecting the interests of players also successfully moved the support of a large number of clubs. In the end, Middlesbrough and other teams also changed their minds and returned to the England Players' Union. In such an environment, the FA, which has always been old-fashioned, had to make compromises and revoke the previously issued "English player ban". Since then, Manchester United's position in English football has increased, and they have naturally become the leading team in English football that era.
The end of the golden age
In the hearts of Manchester United fans, Manganal is both a hero and a traitor
Not long after, Manchester United won the championship again in the 1911 season, but this championship became a beginning of Manchester United's brief decline, because after winning the championship in this season, Manchester United's meritorious head coach Manganal suddenly announced his departure to join the team's arch rival Manchester City. Manganal's move was also criticized by Manchester United fans, especially after he helped Manchester City win the league championship 8 months later, many Manchester United fans regarded him as the "most shameless traitor" in the club's history.
Conclusion
After Manganal left, Manchester United's record declined as expected. They only won the bad ranking of 12th in the first season of Manganal's departure. In the years after the first game, they were relegated again. Due to further deterioration of finance, the team almost couldn't even ensure the qualification of the second division. Manchester United entered the most difficult dark period in the team's history. The following editor will explain how Manchester United entered the dark era and returned to glory after the dark era.
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