Middleton's Danny Moore: 'It's not just about the match'

Of course, the only people who have longer relationships with a football club are its supporters. That connection often stretches from cradle to grave, and the United ‘thread’ within certain families and communities goes back to even the Newton Heath days.

Danny Moore, of our Middleton supporters' branch, is just 33. But that connection with the past is something he already feels intimately, due to the fans he has got to know during years of match-going.

“I’m sat on the bus with people in their fifties and sixties,” he tells our matchday programme, United Review.

“I like the fact I’m sat there and one of my good mates is 30 years older than me, but we go everywhere together. Then I’ve got a…