This Saturday, Roy Hodgson leads his men to the Theatre of Dreams, Old Trafford, for a battle against one of England’s biggest clubs.
Manchester United have been a team in existence for 140 years, first forming as Newton Heath LYR F.C in 1878 and then making the transition to Manchester United in 1902, three years before Crystal Palace sprung itself into life.
In that time, the Red Devils have become such a force in English football that their full name is seldom used in modern sporting rhetoric. Instead, they’ve claimed one single and all-encompassing word that, despite its frequent use across the country’s most popular sport, instantly associates itself with the northern powerhouse.