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Denis Law

Denis Law (born 24 February 1940) is a retired Scottish football player, who enjoyed a long and successful career as a striker from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Law's career as a football player began at Second Division Huddersfield Town in 1956. After four years at Huddersfield, Manchester City signed him for a transfer fee of £55,000, setting a new British record. Law spent one year there before Torino bought him for £110,000, this time setting a new record fee for a transfer between an English and an Italian club. Although he played well in Italy, he found it difficult to settle there and signed for Manchester United in 1962, setting another British record transfer fee of £115,000.

He is best known for the eleven years that he spent at United, where he scored 237 goals in 409 appearances and was nicknamed The King and The Lawman by supporters. He is the only Scottish player in history to have won the prestigious European Footballer of the Year award, doing so in 1964, and helped his club win the First Division in 1965 and 1967. Law left Manchester United in 1973 and returned to Manchester City for a season, then represented Scotland in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. Law played for Scotland a total of 55 times and jointly holds the Scottish international record goal tally with 30 goals. Law is also United's second highest goalscorer behind Bobby Charlton. Law holds a United record for scoring 46 goals in a single season.

Early life

Law was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to George Law, a fisherman, and his wife Robina, and was the youngest of seven children. The Laws were a poor family, living in a council tenement in Aberdeen. He went barefoot until he was 12 years old, and wore handed-down shoes until well into adulthood; his first pair of football boots was a birthday present from a neighbour, which he received at 16 years of age.

He supported Aberdeen and watched them when he had enough money to do so, watching local non-league teams when he did not. His obsession with football led to him turning down a place at Aberdeen Grammar School, as he would have had to play rugby there instead. Instead, he attended Powis Academy (now St. Machar Academy) in Aberdeen. Despite having a serious squint, he showed great promise once he was moved from full back to inside-left, and was selected for Scotland Schoolboys.

Club career

Huddersfield Town
In the 1954–55 season, he was spotted by Archie Beattie, a scout for Huddersfield Town, who invited him to go for a trial. When he got there, the manager said, "The boy's a freak. Never did I see a less likely football prospect — weak, puny and bespectacled." However, to Law's surprise, they signed him on 3 April 1955. While he was at Huddersfield, he had an operation to correct his squint, which greatly enhanced his self confidence.

Huddersfield's relegation to what was then the Second Division made it easier for Law to get a game, and he made his debut on 24 December 1956, aged only sixteen, in a 2–0 win over Notts County.Manchester United's manager Matt Busby shortly offered Huddersfield £10,000 for Law, a substantial amount of money for a footballer at that time, but the club turned the offer down. Bill Shankly was manager of Huddersfield between 1957 and 1959, and when he left for Liverpool he wanted to take Law with him, but Liverpool were unable to afford him at that time.[8]Over the next decade or so, Liverpool would emerge as one of England's top club sides, rivalling and often eclipsing the Manchester United side that Law would by that stage be turning out for.

Manchester City
In March 1960, Law signed for Manchester City for what was then a British record transfer fee of £55,000, although Law's share of the fee was "precisely nothing". Once again, Matt Busby had attempted to sign Law for Manchester United, but United's cross city rivals beat them to Law's signature.

Although a First Division side, City had narrowly avoided relegation the previous season, and he genuinely felt that Huddersfield had a better team at the time. Law made his debut on 19 March, scoring in a 4–3 defeat to Leeds United. In April 1961, he scored two goals in a 4–1 win over Aston Villa that ensured City's survival in Division One.

Although he had thought about leaving, he was playing well and in 1961 Law scored an incredible six goals in an FA Cup tie against Luton Town. Unfortunately for him, the match was abandoned with twenty minutes to go, so his six goals didn't count. To make matters worse for him, Luton won the replay 3–1, and City were knocked out of the Cup.

Although he enjoyed his time at City, he wanted to play in a more successful side and was sold to the Italian club Torino in the summer of 1961.

Torino
Law's time in Italy did not go according to plan. Another Italian club, Internazionale, tried to prevent him becoming a Torino player as soon as he arrived, claiming he had signed a pre-contract agreement with them, although they dropped this claim before the season started.

Players in the UK were not treated well at the time, and the maximum wage for footballers had only recently been abolished there, so he was pleasantly surprised to find that pre-season training was based in a luxury hotel in the Alps. However, Torino took performance-related pay to something of an extreme, giving the players bags full of money when the team won but little, if anything, when they lost. Like many British footballers who have gone to play in Italy, Law did not like the style of football and found adapting to it difficult. The ultra-defensive catenaccio system was popular there at the time, so forwards did not get many chances to score.

On 7 February 1962, he was injured in a car crash when his teammate Joe Baker drove the wrong way around a roundabout and clipped the curb as he tried to turn the car around, flipping it over. Baker was almost killed, but Law's injuries were not life-threatening.

By April, he had put in a transfer request, which was ignored. The final straw for Law came in a match against Napoli when he was sent off. After the match, he was told that Torino's coach, Beniamino Santos, had instructed the referee to send him off because he was angry at Law for taking a throw in, which he had been told not to do. Law walked out, and was told that he would be transferred to Manchester United. A few days later, however, he was told that he was being sold to Juventus and that the small print in his contract committed him to going there whether he wanted to or not. He responded by flying home to Aberdeen, knowing that Torino would not get a penny in transfer fees if he refused to play at Juventus.

He eventually signed for United on 10 July 1962, for a new British record fee of £115,000.

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Glory years

Law moved back to Manchester, boarding with the same landlady that he had lived with during his time as a City player. His first match for United was against West Bromwich Albion on 18 August 1962, and he made an excellent start, scoring after only seven minutes. The match finished in a 2–2 draw. However, United's form had been erratic since the Munich air disaster in 1958, and because of their inconsistency they spent the season fighting relegation. In a league match against Leicester City Law scored a hat trick but United still lost. They found form in the FA Cup though, with Law scoring another hat trick in a 5–0 win against his old club Huddersfield, and they went on to reach the final against Leicester City. Leicester were strong favourites, having finished fourth in the league, but Law scored the first goal as United won 3–1 in what turned out to be the only FA Cup final of his career. He also married his wife Diana that season, on 11 December 1962.

Unfortunately, an incident had taken place that season which Law felt had repercussions in years to come. In a match against West Brom on 15 December 1962, the referee Gilbert Pullin consistently goaded Law with taunts such as "Oh, you clever so and so, you can't play", and after the match, Law and his manager Matt Busby reported the matter to the Football Association. A disciplinary committee decided that Pullin should be severely censured, but he did not accept their verdict and quit the game. Law later claimed that "in the eyes of some referees, [Law] was a marked man" and blamed the incident for the "staggeringly heavy punishments" that he received later in his career.

Law scored a number of goals early in the 1963–64 season and was selected to play for a Rest of the World side against England at Wembley, scoring their goal in a 2–1 defeat. He later described this as the greatest honour of his career. His season was interrupted by a 28-day suspension for a sending off that he received against Aston Villa. The unusually cold winter forced United to play many of their fixtures in a short space of time, and their results suffered. Law later blamed this for United's failure to win a trophy in that season.

In 1964–65, Law won the European Footballer of the Year award, and Manchester United won their first league title since Munich. Law's 28 league goals that season made him the First Division's top scorer.

The following season, Law injured his right knee while playing for Scotland against Poland on 21 October 1965. He had previously had an operation on the same knee while at Huddersfield, and the injury was to trouble him for the rest of his career.

In 1966, Law asked United's manager Matt Busby to give him a pay rise at his next contract renewal, and threatened to leave the club if he did not get one. Busby immediately placed Law on the transfer list, announcing that "no player will hold this club to ransom, no player". When Law went to see him, Busby pulled out a written apology for him to sign, showing it to the press once he had done so. Law later claimed that Busby had used the incident to warn other players not to do the same thing, but had secretly given him the pay rise.

In 1968, United won the European Cup for the first time, but Law's knee injury was causing him serious problems and he missed both the semi-final and the final as a result. He was regularly given cortisone injections to ease the pain, but playing while the knee was still injured was causing long-term damage. He visited a specialist in January 1968 who wrote to United claiming that a previous operation to remove the cartilage from the knee had failed and recommending that a second operation be performed, but Law was not shown the report for several years and had to continue full training.

In 1968–69, United reached the semi-final of the European Cup, playing AC Milan. United lost the first leg in the San Siro 2–0, winning the second leg at Old Trafford 1–0 with a Bobby Charlton goal. Law put the ball over the line only to see it kicked away by a Milan defender. Law claimed a goal but the referee waved play on and United went out on aggregate. Busby, who had now been knighted, resigned at the end of the season and United's decline began.

Decline

Wilf McGuinness took over as first team coach at the start of the 1969–70 season. United finished eighth in the league, but Law missed almost all of the season through injury, and in April 1970 he was transfer listed for £60,000. Nobody made a bid for him, so he stayed at United.

After a poor 1970–71 season, Frank O'Farrell took over as United manager. They made a good start to the 1971–72 season and finished 1971 five points clear at the top of the league, with Law having scored twelve goals. However, results deteriorated and they finished the season in eighth place. Law scored in the first match of the following season, 1972–73, but his knee injury was troubling him again, and he failed to score for the rest of the season. The poor results continued and O'Farrell was sacked.

Law recommended that United replace O'Farrell with Tommy Docherty, having known him from his time playing with the Scottish national side. The club followed his recommendation, and things started well with the team's improved results lifting them into mid-table.

Return to City
Docherty gave Law a free transfer in the summer of 1973, after 11 years at the club during which he had scored a total of 237 goals in 404 games in all competitions, as well as collecting two league title medals and an FA Cup winner's medal. Only Bobby Charlton (who retired in 1972) had scored more goals for United.

He moved back to Manchester City. He played in City's 2–1 defeat in the League Cup final against Wolves. In City's last game of the 1973–74 season against Manchester United at Old Trafford, Law's back-heel gave City a 1–0 win but, thinking his goal had relegated United, he did not celebrate it (it turned out they would have been relegated even if the match had been drawn but Law did not know this at the time), walking off the pitch with his head down as he was substituted immediately afterwards. This game was the last club match of his professional career, as he retired that summer after appearing for Scotland in the 1974 World Cup, not wanting to be confined to the reserve team of a City side who were bringing in younger players.

Law still had a contract with Manchester City but their manager Tony Book told him that he would only be playing reserve team football if he stayed. He did not want to end his career in this way, so he retired from professional football in the summer of 1974.

International career
Law was not chosen to play for Scotland in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, but scored on his debut against Wales on 18 October 1958 and quickly established himself as a first choice player. He played but did not score in Scotland's match against England on 15 April 1961. Scotland lost the match 9–3, and Law described it as his "blackest day".

While with Torino, Law continued to play for Scotland, although the club were not keen to release him for international matches and had put a clause into his contract stating that they were not obliged to do so.

Law was chosen for the Rest of the World team that faced England in the FA Centenary match in 1963

Law injured his right knee while playing for Scotland against Poland on 21 October 1965. Law scored in Scotland's famous 3–2 victory over England on 15 April 1967 in the 1967 British Home Championship, less than a year after England had become world champions. Manchester United won the league that season, but Law felt that the victory over England was even more satisfying.

Scotland reached the World Cup finals in the summer of 1974, for the first time since 1958. Although he had not played much first team football in the preceding season, Law was included in the squad and played in their first match, against Zaire. He didn't score, but Scotland won 2–0. Law was "very disappointed" not to be picked for the following match against Brazil, and was not selected for the following match against Yugoslavia either. Although Scotland were not defeated in any of their matches, they did not qualify for the second phase and were out of the World Cup.

Personal life

Since then, Law has often worked on radio and television summarising and presenting games.

He appeared as a special guest on the TV guest show This Is Your Life on 19 February 1975, months after retiring as a player.

As of July 2005, he is still married to Diana, and they still live in the Manchester area. They have five children, and their daughter, also called Diana, works as a press officer for Manchester United.

Law was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game.

On 23 February 2002, a statue of Law was unveiled at Old Trafford, in the part of the stadium known as the Stretford End. He had a successful operation to treat prostate cancer in November 2003 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen on 5 July 2005.

The emergence of Dutch international Dennis Bergkamp in the 1990s uncovered a story that the player's parents, who were fans of Manchester United in the 1960s, named their son after Law. However, Dutch authorities refused to recognise the name unless it was spelt with two n's as they felt it was otherwise too similar to the female name Denise.

On 25 November 2005, Law was at the bedside of former United team-mate George Best as he died of multiple organ failure.

In May 2008 at the Manchester City ground, Law (with UEFA President Michel Platini) presented the medals to the winners of the UEFA Cup, Zenit St. Petersburg, and their opponents, Scottish side Rangers.

In February 2010, Law was named as Patron of the UK based charity Football Aid, taking over from the late Sir Bobby Robson.

Career summary

Clubs:

* Huddersfield Town (1956–1960)
* Manchester City (1960–1961)
* Torino (1961–1962)
* Manchester United (1962–1973)
* Manchester City (1973–1974)

Honours:

* FA Cup (1963)
* English Football League First Division (1965, 1967)
* European Footballer of the Year (1964)

(Law was a Manchester United player when the team won the European Cup in 1968, but he missed the match through injury).

* Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame (2002)
* Scotland's Golden Player (most outstanding player of the past 50 years) by the Scottish Football Association (November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee)

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Future King: Denis Law backs Wayne Rooney to become Manchester United's top scorer of all time
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Denis Law and Wayne Rooney

Denis Law is backing Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney to become the all-time king of Old Trafford.

And he believes the England striker’s quest to be ranked alongside Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the best player in the world will see United close the gap on European champions, Barcelona.

Legendary striker Law has been nicknamed the king by United supporters ever since his incredible goal-scoring exploits in Sir Matt Busby’s all-conquering team of the ’60s.

He scored 237 goals in 404 appearances and was named European Footballer of the Year in 1964.

As part of the famous ‘Holy Trinity’ with Bobby Charlton and George Best he won two league titles, but was injured for the European Cup triumph over Benfica in ‘68.

Law has been immortalised in the form of a bronze statue alongside Charlton and Best, which sits proudly outside Old Trafford, which is a measure of the esteem in which he is held by the club.

But he is convinced Rooney is on the way to eclipsing every United legend from Duncan Edwards to Eric Cantona.

“He could be the top – the greatest of them all,” said Law. “I said when he first came to the club that if he stays away from injury he will probably turn out to be United’s highest scorer ever.

“This year he’s got off to a flying start and he looks like he’s going to get a hat-trick every game. When you’re in that form and scoring goals, you feel like you can’t miss.”

That’s bad news for Norwich tomorrow, with Rooney expected to return from the hamstring strain that ruled him out of United’s draws with Stoke and Basle.

Before that injury he was in the form of his life with nine goals in his first six games of the season – including two hat-tricks in successive games, against Arsenal and Bolton.

That has seen him move to within 11 of Law’s all-time United record of 18 hat-tricks – which is yet another target he expects Rooney to surpass.

“At this rate, that doesn’t seem like a great deal given the way he’s playing,” said the 71-year-old.

“Football is like that. He’s got so much confidence at the moment.

“When you think about last season, he’d had an ankle injury and he wasn’t at the top of his game. I went through the same myself as a player. But when it’s going well, the confidence goes through the entire team.

“It is difficult to explain it but you just feel as though he is going to score every game.” Apart from being a United icon, Law is also Ferguson’s all-time favourite player.

“As far as I’m concerned, Denis Law is the best Scottish player of all time, bar nobody,” writes Ferguson in Law’s new book, ‘My Life in Football.’

“Anyone who has the slightest doubt about his stature in the game might care to heed the words of no less eminent judge than Pele, who once said that the only British player who could possibly get into the Brazil team was Denis Law.”

Just this month the United manager compared Rooney to Pele.

But the striker, who has scored 156 goals in 328 games for United, has more immediate rivals in the form of Messi and Ronaldo. Law sees comparisons with his own bid to emulate the greats of his day – Alfredo di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas – and Busby’s pursuit of the great Real Madrid side of that time.

Busby eventually led United to the European Cup. Now if Ferguson is to win a third Champions League trophy before he retires, he must rise to the challenge of Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona, who defeated United in last season’s final.

“You can already see with some of United’s passing this season, they are trying to copy Barcelona,” said Law.

“It will be difficult to do, but we did the same thing in our day in trying to copy Real Madrid.

“They were dominating European football too. My favourite players were Di Stefano and Puskas. We all wanted to be like Real.

“They were everybody’s favourite team. Barcelona are the same now and the way they played in the final just shows you how football can be played.

“I was at Wembley and I know there won’t have been any neutrals there. But even Manchester United fans would have to watch and admire this team.

“I presented Messi with the European Player of the Year trophy a couple of years ago. I couldn’t believe the size of him. I’m not big, but he came up to about my chin. What a fantastic player.

“In that final against United, he, Xavi and Andres Iniesta were just fantastic. That’s the way the game should be played.

“When you talk about Messi and Ronaldo, you are talking about the two most exclusive, outstanding players in the world,” added Law. “But when you look back to the Champions League final – the one part where United looked like Barcelona was Rooney’s goal.

“It was one of Barcelona’s goals. It was one-two and then in the back of the net.

“He will be in that category of the best players in the world if he keeps doing it at that level.”

:: DENIS Law will be signing copies of his book: My Life in Football on Saturday at Waterstones in the Arndale Centre at noon.

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Born : 24 Feb 1940
Signed : 12 Jul 1962
Debut : 18 Aug 1962 v West Brom (H) League
Goals total : 237
Appearances total : 404
Position : Forward
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Bagi yang belum tahu, Denis Law juga terpilih sebagai salah satu dari 3 pemain legendaris Manchester United yang diabadikan dalam bentuk patung di depan stadion Old Trafford :


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Denis Law - Stretford End King!
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There's plenty of great footage of the legendary Manchester United team of Best, Law, Charlton - but there's not much better than this stunning goal from the Scottish striker, which is straight off the training ground.

Check it out for yourself... it's 18 seconds into this compilation video...



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Face to Face: Denis Law
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ASK Denis Law a question, almost any question, and he’ll start talking about football.



The beautiful game is his default setting. Raise his childhood and he talks about football. Discuss his parents and he talks about football.

Maybe it’s because he’s got a new book to promote. Maybe it’s because he thinks that’s what we want to hear (which we do, of course). Maybe, most likely, because the residual heat of his days in the sun warms him still.

And so it should. In his new book, Denis Law My Life In Football, there is image upon image of him wearing the glowing red of Manchester United or the dark blue of Scotland, black and white reminders of how much colour he gave to football. (The colour photographs are even better.) Sir Alex Ferguson, no less, has said Law was the greatest ever Scottish player. He’s certainly the only Scot to be named European Player of the Year (in 1964). No wonder then that football is central to him and his image of himself.

“It gives a lot of happiness and you meet great people. I was lucky. I played under two great managers and travelled the world,” he tells me as we sit in a bland office surrounded by copies of his book in Bishopbriggs. “I went to Italy and I thoroughly enjoyed everything bar the football and unfortunately that was what I went there for. I loved the food, I loved the wine. I was single in those days and the ladies were quite nice. But the football was rubbish.”

And so it goes, a constant circling back to the sport that made his name, even though it is now the best part of three decades since he finished his football career. He’s not sure the game has improved since his day. “I think money has taken over, you’ve got to say that. There’s an area where you get to a certain stage where you’re not hungry any more because you’ve got plenty.”

Law has now entered his eighth decade though he’s not showing his age especially. There’s the familiar Chuckle Brothers bogbrush of a haircut that gives him a cartoon outline. Underneath it, his face is pure animation. It’s a face you can recognise even in the book’s oldest images, of a teenage Law as an Aberdeen schoolboy, and in the back row a Scotland Under-15 team photo. “When you think of that time there was nothing else to do other than play football,” he recalls. “That’s what we did every day. There was no television as such. You were out playing football in the street and unknown to yourself then you were learning your trade. You didn’t realise that. You were just enjoying football.

“You were proud on a Friday when the teacher came round with your shirt because you were in the school team for the game tomorrow. You had to supply your own shorts, of course, and your own socks. There were all different colours of socks.”

The war was not long over at the time and Scotland, like the rest of Britain, was feeling the chill of austerity. “Nobody had anything. We weren’t any different from anybody else. I remember all that.”

Law’s dad was a trawlerman with little time for football. “He was out on Monday morning, didn’t come home to Saturday lunchtime so he was not into it. I used to think my old man was an alcoholic because he came home on a Saturday and that was him in the pub Saturday night and then he slept all day Sunday and then he was back to sea and it wasn’t until later in life I realised that was the only time to drink on a Saturday because they weren’t allowed to on the boat.”

Growing up, Law says he didn’t think of himself as a potential football professional (difficult as that might be to believe). “I was quite good at technical drawing so I fancied myself as a bit of an architect really but football came.” Even when he went to Huddersfield as a teenager he went thinking he was going to be a member of the ground staff first and foremost. “I wasn’t going to be there too long and then of course Bill Shankly, who was assistant manager, took over and then the whole world changed.”

He was in the first team at 16. “You couldn’t be a professional until you were 17, so out of the blue I became a professional footballer. I never intended that to happen.”

Those first years playing football were hard. He was homesick all the time. In the close season he would return to Aberdeen and not want to go back. But he was lucky that Shankly was his manager. He could see Law’s talent. More than that, though, Law says, he was a father figure, perhaps a replacement for the father who he rarely saw growing up. From Huddersfield he went to Manchester City, then Torino, before returning, for a record fee of £115,000, to Manchester – to the very same digs he was in while playing for City – to join Matt Busby’s reconstruction of Man United. He was 22.

“I was part of the team that was recovering from the Munich air disaster and when you think of what they achieved in that short time after that, it was really good. I knew Sir Matt from Scotland days. He selected me to play for Scotland when I was only 18 so I knew him then. It was just a lovely time.”

He won two league titles with United but missed his chance to play in the European Cup final in 1968 because of injury. His biggest regret?

“Absolutely yes, but even then though we’d get there again because we had a very good team and really in ’69 we should have got back. We were robbed. We played Milan at Old Trafford in the semi-final and I scored a goal which was about … I’m not exaggerating, it was a good two feet over the line. That would have been the equalising goal because we’d already been beaten 1-0 in Milan. The referee didn’t allow it and they went on to qualify.”

We can romanticise the era, seeing it in the glow of old photos and blurry TV footage. But football was a more brutal profession in some ways then. Denis, I say, I counted at least two punches thrown in the book. “Given to me?” No, thrown by you. Did you ever throw a punch off the pitch? “Nah, nah, nah. I was a coward off the field, didn’t want to get involved in anything like that.

“I think the philosophy was then if somebody kicked you on the field and you don’t do anything back then they’ll keep kicking you. It’s the same off the field, of course, too. Right, if you kick me I’m going to kick you back.” Or punch you back?

“Yeah whatever. That’s what you call bullies, isn’t it? If you don’t hit back at them they’ll keep hitting you, so no way. I don’t care how big you are or whatever … I didn’t always come off best but at least I showed that you’re not going to get away with it.”

The game was certainly more brutal in terms of medical treatment. Law’s problematic knee that kept him out of the 1968 European Cup final would finally go under the knife. “The treatment you got in those days was not like it is today. It was cut your leg open. It was not good surgery. If I had to look back on it now and I had any say I wouldn’t have had it done.”

He played on until 1974, returning to Man City where his most famous goal was the one he scored against United that helped condemn them to relegation. He didn’t celebrate. He even made it to the World Cup for the first time, though he says now he was taken as a token gesture. His time on the field had run out.

Of course life went on off the field as well as on through the good years and bad. He met his wife Di, had five children, became a family man. Was he a good parent? “I hope so. Well, I’ll just phone the children and see.” I ask, I say, because it doesn’t sound as if he had a role model. “No, no. I think you’ve got to put it down to your good lady.”

Did he ever change a nappy? “I changed one nappy one time and that was the only one I ever did. My wife and her sister went out shopping and left me with the babe and he’d done the business in the nappy. It was like Maltesers in the nappy and for some reason – I don’t know why – I put it under the hot tap thinking it would melt. That’s how naive I was at the time.”

Ask him what he’s proudest of in his life and he says playing for his country. But then he reconsiders. “My family. Yeah, family more than anything. I’ve got five great children. Well they’re not children any more.”

Law laments the fact there are not the Scottish players now that there were when he was in his pomp. If you offered him, he’d take another 50 caps playing for his country in return for those two league medals he won with United. He still hasn’t watched the 1966 World Cup final. He remains what he always was, a football man, and a Scottish one to boot. He talks about football because football has been his life. It still is.

Denis Law: My Life In Football is published by Simon & Schuster, priced £25.

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Denis Law: Legends, patriotism and derbies
By Brian Viner


Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best keep watch over Old Trafford in statue form

Three Amigos: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best keep watch over Old Trafford in statue form, (top) Law and Best train during their Manchester United days, (middle) Denis congratulates George on his Freedom of the Borough of Castlereagh back in 2002 and (above) the three together in their old Man United tops DENIS LAW ON LEGENDS,|PATRIOTISM AND DERBIES ANYONE who considers that current master of controversy Carlos Tevez the greatest goalscorer ever to play for both Manchester United and Manchester City clearly doesn't remember Denis Law in his pomp.

Such pomp, indeed, that at Old Trafford he was nicknamed “The King”, while City fans remember him with affection mainly for the backheeled goal in the last game of the 1973-74 season which, albeit to his manifest distress, helped consign United to Second Division football.

At any rate, with Manchester looking decidedly like the first city of English football, not many men are better-qualified to reflect on the prospect of a season dominated by its two great clubs, who are in Champions League action this week prior to their eagerly-awaited weekend derby.

But it’s national issues first and, like every Scot of his generation, and with another qualification failure for the Tartan Army to weep over, he has his theories as to why the country that produced players of the calibre of Law himself, as well as Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Billy Bremner, Jimmy Johnstone, Dave Mackay, Jim Baxter and on back through the annals of the game, no longer seems to do so.

“There used to be at least a couple of good Scottish players in just about every English team. Now they seem to come from every country except Scotland. There are lots of reasons.

“In Scotland boys used to play in the street, now the streets are full of cars. There's no schoolboy football in some areas, the kids are all on their computers.”

But it's the same in England.

“We have fewer players playing for the big clubs, but that's a problem for England too. England always had terrific goalkeepers, maybe four or five at any one time who could have played for their country, like Banks, Shilton, Clemence, Joe Corrigan...”

The same, I venture with a stab at impishness myself, was not often true of Scotland, even in the halcyon years. Law, indeed, played in the 9-3 slaughter at Wembley in April 1961 when Frank Haffey established the template for the hapless Scottish goalie, and emigrated to Australia before the month was out. “I can't remember that game,” says Law, with a grin.

“Oh dear. Was it really 9-3? That's a disgrace, isn't it?”

Revenge of sorts was achieved in 1967 when Scotland came back down to Wembley, this time to play the world champions, and won 3-2.

“Now that one I do remember,” says Law. “That was like

winning the World Cup.” His memories of Wembley, it is fair to say, are bittersweet. He was injured, watching from a hospital bed when, in 1968, his Manchester United team-mates beat Benfica there to win the European Cup for the first time.

But he was in fine fettle in October 1963, playing for the Rest of the World against England to celebrate the Football Association's centenary, and scoring.

“That,” he recalls, “was a dream. My favourite player was Alfredo di Stefano and there I was playing in the same team as him, Eusebio, Puskas and Gento. In fact, Puskas played me through and I managed to round Mr Banks to score the equaliser. That's the beauty of football.

“If you're playing in a team with terrific players, it's easy. It's not hard, it's easy. At United we had Bobby (Charlton) and George (Best), but not just those two. Pat Crerand was a terrific passer of the ball, Nobby Stiles was such a battler.

It's like Barcelona now, and the way they played against United in that (Champions League) final. Alex (Ferguson) would be disappointed but also a bit relieved that it was only 3-1. And what I like about Barcelona is that when they get knocked down, they get back up. That Messi gets some knocks, but he doesn't roll about. Some of them roll back to their own countries, but he doesn't, and that's like the game we played in the Sixties.”

I tell him I wasn't going to invite him to compare teams of different eras, but he started it, so... which does he consider the greatest? “It's so hard, isn't it? United in 1958, you wonder what they would have achieved had the plane crash not happened. Real Madrid at that time were fantastic. The 1968 United side. Liverpool in the 1980s. International-wise there won't ever be a better team than Brazil in 1970. And players: Maradona, Pele, Best, Charlton, but also wee Jimmy Johnstone, you know. The way he bamboozled defenders... he cost me my cartilage, because every time I went to get the ball he dummied me, and we were on the same team. And Jimmy Greaves, the best goalscorer I've ever seen.

The respect is mutual. In My Life In Football, a sumptuous pictorial record of Law's career just published, Greaves cites Law as the best goalscorer he ever saw. There were certainly plenty of goals scored; 30 in just 55 games for Scotland, and 237 for United, just 12 behind Charlton's record. “A lot of my goals came from Bobby, and David Herd, who could both whack the ball,” he tells me. “I knew there was a fair chance the goalkeeper wouldn't hold it, so I was always on the run. From six yards I was deadly.”

Among the managers who benefited from his deadliness were Bill Shankly, Matt Busby and Jock Stein; indeed, I can't think of anyone but Law who played for all three, which makes him uniquely able to consider the virtues of those giants of the game.

“I played for Shanks for five years at Huddersfield, and he taught me so much. I thought I'd go to Liverpool with him, but they didn't have the money. Sir Matt was a fatherly figure, but also ruthless. He'd let you get away with only so much, but if you crossed a line, you'd know about it.

Jock was similar. His Celtic side that won the European Cup in 1967, all born within 25 miles of Glasgow... can you think of that happening now? You could add three zeros to that figure. Everything's changed. After United games we'd go to the pub, The Quadrant, near the cricket ground. And then home on the bus. Imagine them doing that today.”

A pause, while he rocks with laughter. “They all wanted us to play entertaining football. Why? Because they knew the working man had had a hard week. But they weren't tacticians. Training was running up the terracing and down, and at Huddersfield Shanks had a ball under the stand on a string. Once you'd headed it, it was pulled up a bit more. That's where I learnt to head the ball.”

In 1960, Law left Second Division Huddersfield Town for First Division Manchester City, where he played for a year before multiplying his £20-a-week salary fivefold by joining the Italian club Torino.

“Imagine, two young guys (him and Joe Baker, signed from Hibs) living in an apartment over the River Po. We were 21, which is not like being 21 today. We were very naïve. But the wine was lovely, the food was lovely, the women were lovely. The only thing that wasn't lovely was the football. It was very defensive. Whoever scored first won the game. But I was so tightly marked that when I came back to join United, I felt like I wasn't being marked at all. I had so much space. So it was good for me.”

By the time he left United, after 11 years, he was immortalised as part of the great footballing trinity of Best, Law and Charlton. I tell him a story Ian St John once told me, that before Liverpool played United in the 1960s, Bill Shankly used to pull out 11 Subbuteo players. “He cannae play,” he would say, knocking one over. “And he cannae play, either.” And on it went, with Shankly knocking over eight little

figures, leaving only the three representing Charlton, Best and Law. “Now, these three,” he would grunt, “these can play. But if 11 of you cannae beat three of them, you shouldnae be playing for Liverpool Football Club.”

Law roars, and dabs the tears of mirth from his eyes.

“That wouldn't surprise me, although it was unjust. The statue (of him, Best and Charlton outside Old Trafford) is unjust. There should be 11 of us on that pedestal. But Shanks was one on his own. I remember at Huddersfield, we beat Liverpool 5-1, and he said, 'What a load of rubbish'. Not long afterwards he joined them, and they were the greatest team in the world.”

Just as Shankly in retirement ended up feeling sour towards Liverpool, the club he had raised from Second Division mediocrity, so there was bitterness in the way Law left United, abruptly informed by the manager, Tommy Docherty, that he was surplus to requirements. Shocked, he decided to retire, until City made an unexpected bid to take him back to Maine Road, a move that did not prompt the anger at Old Trafford, or the crowing from City fans, ignited years later by Tevez.

“No, there was nothing like that. It wasn't as bad in those days. And I knew all the guys at City. Ken Barnes (the assistant manager) was a great friend. Also, my good lady was expecting our fifth child, so it was nice to prolong my career. And I got back into the Scotland team.”

And what of the infamous back-heel? Does the memory of it still trouble him? “Even that, er, it was, er, no, next question,” he mumbles, whether feigning a loss of words or truly discomfited, I'm not sure.

Let me put it another way. Is his heart still entirely with United, or does part of it belong to City, the club that gave him a break both at the beginning and the end of his top-flight career? “Aberdeen,” he replies, with another huge laugh.

And so to the likelihood of the Manchester clubs jostling for the 2011-12 Premier League title. Law thinks it is rash to overlook Chelsea, but concedes that United v City is looking like the story of the season.

“I would think so,” he says, “and it's really good for Manchester. Even within families. I have a son and a daughter who are both big United fans, and a son who's a massive City fan. It's exciting. And although I don't think you can buy a team, City have bought very, very good players. But it's nice to see Alex bringing the young boys in, like Sir Matt did. Alex is remarkable. I don't think he'll be there until he's 100, though. I think he'll be in his nineties when he retires!”

What, finally, of the man wearing the No 10 shirt, as he once did at Old Trafford? “Rooney? He's a fantastic goalscorer. He excites me. But I like Silva at City, too.”

Is there a player who reminds him of himself, as Paul Scholes did Bobby Charlton. “No, my memory doesn't go back that far,” he says, and the staccato laughter follows me out of the clubhouse door.

'Denis Law: My Life In Football' is published by Simon & Schuster , priced £25

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Rewind to 1974
Law's parting gift to United

By Jon Carter

Denis Law, christened the 'King of Old Trafford' after scoring 236 goals in 11 years after joining Manchester United in 1962, also played his part in sending his former club down to the Second Division when he backheeled the winner for rivals Manchester City in the penultimate game of the season in 1974. While United would have been relegated even if they have drawn the game, Law's goal has gone down as one of the most memorable in history and, crushingly, proved to be his final touch in English football.


Denis Law made himself a legend at United after first joining City, and then returning late in his career.

Footballing dynasties are built and, with time, invariably tumble, and the early 1970s saw even the great Manchester United fall into decline. With manager Sir Matt Busby moved upstairs to a role on the board in 1969 and the retirement of Bobby Charlton four years later, the side were in a period of transition that also saw the high-profile exit of the legendary George Best at the tender age of 27 in 1974.

Unable to cope with the level of expectation at Old Trafford, Busby's two successors, Wilf McGuiness and Frank O'Farrell, had both lasted less than a year and even a brief return by the great man himself could not lift the side beyond eighth in the league. Indeed, the tenure of Tommy Docherty, in late 1972, began as a salvage job as they were staring relegation in the face; he had been recommended for the role by striker Denis Law, who had worked with him in the Scottish national side.

Docherty, arriving in December, managed to retain their place in the top flight by turning around the club's form in the second half of the season, but the new boss did not repay Law's faith in him.

Law's decline had also begun as the decade ticked over. Injury concerns had begun to hinder his ability to play first-team football and he had been transfer listed for around £60,000 in the spring of 1970, but no suitors had made themselves known. A blistering start to the following season had suggested that Law was not done just yet but, when his knee injury reappeared, Docherty decided that he was not worth keeping on the books (saying he was just ''going through the motions'') and let him join rivals City on a free transfer ahead of the 1973-74 season.

Any hopes the United fans had that Docherty would continue his good start faded quickly as seven defeats in the first 12 matches saw them plummet once more. Without Law leading the line, United struggled for goals and, by Christmas, the situation was such that one of the team's leading scorers - with two penalties - was goalkeeper Alex Stepney.

Away from their league woes, there was no solace either as United were knocked out of the League Cup by October, losing at home to Middlesbrough, and out of the FA Cup by January after a home defeat to Ipswich Town.

A brief revival occurred in April when they beat fellow strugglers Norwich and also Newcastle and Everton, but it proved only a flash in the pan and a 1-1 draw at Southampton and 1-0 defeat at Goodison Park saw them needing all three points from the visit of mid-table City in the penultimate game of the season and also a helping hand from Norwich to beat Birmingham.


Law slots home his famous goal

The first Manchester derby of the 1973-74 season had been a feisty affair at Maine Road as both Mike Doyle and Lou Macari were involved in a spat that saw them sent off. The pair had failed to leave the pitch after their dismissals, causing referee Clive 'The Book' Thomas to lead all the players back into the dressing room, and the police were even called to keep Doyle and Macari in place while the game restarted. The match ended in a dour 0-0 draw, but by the time that the second derby fixture came about in April, all the attention had turned to Law, who was returning to Old Trafford for the first time.

Law's appearance in the blue of City saw no bitterness from the United fans though. Having ''elected him to their exclusive monarchy'', according to The Guardian's Eric Todd, the second largest crowd of the season gave him a ''generous encore'' and ''cheered him again when he trotted up for the toss of the coin''.

Despite what was at stake and the events of Maine Road a few months earlier, the match itself was surprisingly uninspired. United, with more to lose, dominated the attacks but were unable to break through the City defence and were left frustrated as both Willie Donachie and Colin Barrett cleared off the line.

After a goalless 82 minutes, Francis Lee played the ball towards Law, who was standing with his back to goal. The Scotsman instinctively back-heeled the ball through the legs of goalkeeper Alex Stepney into the net, but remained motionless as the City fans cheered. Historian David Goldblatt remembers: ''Law, his arms frozen by his side, rigid and unemotive, was mobbed by his new team-mates.''

The United legend had helped condemn his former side to defeat and, in turn, relegation from the First Division for the first time in 37 years, although Birmingham's win over Norwich meant it would have happened anyway. Later, Law said: "I have seldom felt so depressed in my life as I did that weekend. After 19 years of giving everything I had to score goals, I have finally scored one which I almost wished I hadn't."

Todd wrote in his Guardian report that: ''Saturday's greatest irony at Old Trafford was, without doubt or exception, Denis Law's goal. It was 'the most unkindest cut of all' in the words of Marcus Antonious - he was not in the press box of course - who in the same speech said: 'If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.' Which seemed no less relevant.''


Manchester United fans invaded the pitch and covered Law with scarves after his goal.

Law, dishevelled and obviously distressed, was immediately substituted and never played league football again, but his career ended on an even more sour note as hundreds of United fans invaded the pitch in the hope that the game would be abandoned. The Daily Mirror's Frank McGhee wrote in the strongest terms possible of the hooligans, maintaining that ''they are a cancer that needs cutting out'' and advocating that the entire Stretford End be closed off for the next season.

The pitch invasion got its intended outcome - the first match in English football to be stopped after crowd disorder - but United were a Second Division side as the league decided the result should stand. McGhee felt there was a contrast between the hooligans and their former hero.

''They [the invading fans] have no love for the game, otherwise their reaction at the relegation of their team would have mirrored the reaction of the man who relegated them, Dennis Law,'' he wrote. ''Quite simply, that was sadness. I have seldom seen a more poignant moment in sport captured on television than the expression on Law's face after he had scored the goal that sealed his old side's tomb. And I have never seen anyone having to be consoled rather than congratulated for scoring. All his life, Denis has loved goals. That one, even though it was a bit special, he hated.''

What happened next? United, already knowing their fate, lost their final game of the season away at Stoke. The former kings of Europe were no longer even the kings of Manchester, although Docherty retained the confidence of Busby and the board and led them back into the top flight at the first attempt. It would not be long before they were back on top of the English game but, for Law, his backheel was his final touch of a ball in England as he retired after the 1974 World Cup with Scotland. Even though the goal actually made no difference to United's plight, the Scot has never been able to escape the moment and told the Daily Mail in 2010: ''I was inconsolable. I didn't want it to happen. How long did the feeling last? How long ago was the game? Thirty-odd years. There is your answer.''

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Video saat Denis Law yang berkostum Manchester City mencetak gol ke gawang Manchester United tahun 1974. Sama sekali tidak tampak ekspresi kegembiraan usai mencetak gol (mungkin Law sendiri berharap dia tidak mencetak gol ke gawang mantan klub tercintanya yang membuat United terdegradasi). Konon usai mencetak gol tersebut Law minta segera diganti dan kemudian memutuskan mundur sebagai pemain. Uniknya usai gol tersebut penonton langsung membludak masuk lapangan mirip pertandingan bola di Indonesia !!!


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