To describe Denis as one of Manchester United’s, and football’s, all-time greatest players doesn’t seem sufficient an accolade. This son of an Aberdonian fisherman, who went on to perfect the art of scoring goals, attained a status in the game that very few have gone near to matching.
He was idolised by United fans of all ages, but particularly by those who every home game squeezed into the heaving, swaying mass of humanity that was the Stretford End during the 1960s.
Remarkably, he is the only man to have two statues dedicated to him at Old Trafford – one on the Stretford End concourse, the other as part of the United Trinity statue overlooking the stadium’s forecourt where he’s immortalised alongside fellow greats George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton.