The blogs ‘ What went wrong ‘ and ‘ The Rest of the world ‘ February and April 2023 feature Denis Law who died yesterday aged 84.
The fact that I watched him 62 years ago in my first ever football match is perhaps sentimental but there you go. It was at Stamford Bridge home of Chelsea as they beat Manchester City 6 goals to 3 with my father alongside me on the terraces of tumult. Dennis went on to play for Manchester United and homesick whilst playing for Torino in Italy he loved the city of Manchester.
By chance on a business trip to Manchester we sat opposite each other on a first class train to Manchester in the dining car. Over what was then a very good British Rail lunch I listened to his native Scottish brogue. Lunch with a legend. Alas gone are the silver service lunches on British rail my last dinner on a train last year First Class to Edinburgh was a sausage roll in a plastic wrapper.
Law was a law unto himself very independent and his goal for City against United , a back heel relegated United. His lament at doing this meant it was the last ever league game he played.
My blog of January 2021 highlighted the disease Alzheimer which my mother in law suffered and died as with Dennis these last 4 years. Cruel endings to any life match decided by the penalty of loss of mind.
Once at £53,000 the most expensive player in Europe he was European player of the year in 1964 and he represented his native Scotland in their few heydays.
His other great success was having 5 children and let’s hope that the Scientists Medical find a cure for Alzheimer disease as well as he found the net 237 times in his 404 appearances for United. We see finally seeing the passing of the final member of the Manchester Trinity Law , Best and Charlton who together over 7 years produced miracles in Manchester.
Rest in Peace Dennis at last.
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