UTD Unscripted: Tales of the Trinity

Even so, everybody knew about the United Trinity.

Best, Law, Charlton.

The newspapers told you how good they were. The headlines they inspired, the language that was used about them, you could tell they were special. I was a late starter in football, having only turned pro at 20, and I only spent three years at Millwall and then four months at Chelsea before I joined United, so I had no experience of playing against them before I signed.

The way things panned out, I only had a couple of brief encounters with them in my first week at Old Trafford. I went up to Manchester with Matt Busby and Jimmy Murphy on the Tuesday, sat in the stands with Denis Law on the Wednesday to watch the team lose at…