Gibson was a visionary businessman who helped to lay the foundation of the modern United.
He was the man who answered the club's desperate calls at the height of the Great Depression, who worked with secretary Walter Crickmer to create the MUJAC - the predecessor to the Academy, and who appointed and trusted a fresh-faced Matt Busby after the second world war.
THE STORY
In early December 1931, Christmas was approaching, the cold was setting in and United were a poor team.
Club president John Henry Davies had died in 1927 after a quarter-of-a-century in charge of United, who had been called Newton Heath when he'd taken over in 1902.