Manchester United obtain 2 new Chinese contracts

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Back in the day after United had won the 2nd Division Championship, they embarked on a trip to the Far East and played in Hong Kong.

In those days it was part of the Empire-a thought the current Chinses authorities have banished from their thoughts!.

However, United were early pioneers of marketing even then and there are no programmes that have ever shown up from that match in 1975 but here is this item! and to this day i have never seen another one and i have advertised in HK years ago looking to find something else, so here it is and one of the best looking tickets i have:

http://flic.kr/p/9oehYA

Leslie Millman is manchesterunitedman1

Furthermore, here is an image of the scoreboard end at Old Trafford during the 1938-9 FA Cup Semi-Final between Grimsby Town and Wolverhampton Wanderers-what an image-what a crowd-a pick pockets delight! except in those days no one had a pot to pee in!

http://flic.kr/p/6dV5h6

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Rangers Legend Willie Henderson played for Hong Kong Rangers round about that time.

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From wikipedia.
Henderson left Rangers at the end of the 1971-72 season, mainly because he had fallen out with the manager Willie Waddell who had left Henderson out of Rangers’ 3-2 European Cup Winners Cup Final victory over FC Dinamo Moscow in Barcelona in May 1972. Henderson later admitted that missing that game was one of the worst moments of his career. He signed for Sheffield Wednesday for the 1972-73 season and made his debut on the 12 August 1972 in a 3-0 victory over Fulham. Henderson was a great favourite with the Wednesday fans in the two seasons that he was there even though the club had little success. He made 50 appearances for Wednesday with six as substitute, scoring five goals in his two seasons there. His last appearance for the club was on 27 April 1974, the last match of the 1973-74 season against Bolton Wanderers, a match Wednesday had to win to avoid relegation to Division Three. They won the match 1-0. Henderson left Wednesday at the end of that season and went to play for Hong Kong Rangers. He spent three years in the colony and captained the Hong Kong League XI (a team made up of foreign professionals plying their trade in Hong Kong) before returning to Scotland for a final season with Airdrieonians.

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Furthermore, here is an image of the scoreboard end at Old Trafford during the 1938-9 FA Cup Semi-Final between Grimsby Town and Wolverhampton Wanderers-what an image-what a crowd-a pick pockets delight! except in those days no one had a pot to pee in!

http://flic.kr/p/6dV5h6[/quote]

Just to make the picture complete(excuse the pun!!) here is a ticket for the game.
At lease by paying 5/6d this person sat in the nobs as opposed to being squashed behind the goal.
Was it ticket only or pay at the gate?


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Got the buzz for rare tickets?

Not really my collecting habit but here is a rare one anyway from my collection.
Possibly the only ticket in existence from the 1945 War Cup Final North between Manchester United v Bolton Wanderers

This and other rare Manchester United items can be viewed at your leisure on

www.flickr.com/photos/63580000@N04/sets

The worlds largest private Manchester United collection
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My nephew was issued with the very first ticket for the UEFA final 2008 in Manchester. the number is something like 000001