A ton of United's landmark August debuts

Read on to see decades' worth of progress, pomp and occasional pain, strung together via the debuts of different United players down the years – each with their own personal chapters in an epically grand narrative…

And order your copy of August 2022's Inside United, which includes the full century-covering feature and plenty more, here.

100 YEARS AGO: FRANK BARSON

Debut: 9 September 1922, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-1 United

We pick up the thread with United somewhat in the doldrums compared to the golden age of a decade previously, but these are still early chapters in the club story…

The ‘Roaring Twenties’?