Dennis Viollet's greatest season ever

But no Red has offered a more incisive cutting edge than Dennis Viollet in 1959/60, when he plundered 32 goals in 36 games, setting a club record for league football that has never been beaten.

You can be forgiven for thinking such an achievement was reached during our period of dominance under then-manager Sir Matt Busby, but quite remarkably, the reality is that Viollet’s prolific campaign was in the wake of the Munich Air Disaster in 1958 as Busby built his side from the ground up.

By the beginning of 1959/60, having survived the crash but still recovering mentally from its ravages, Viollet had succeeded stalwart defender Bill Foulkes as captain and was preparing for a new season for which…