To say that the blond-haired Scottish genius was one of the greatest players ever to pull on a football jersey isn’t open for discussion. As part of the famous ‘Best, Law and Charlton’ trinity of the 1960s he reached, along with George and Bobby, the very pinnacle of his chosen profession and, in doing so, became idolised by an entire generation of United supporters.
It was those denizens of the raucous, passionate, swaying mass of humanity who regularly squeezed into the Stretford End that singled him out as their number one. It was no surprise that they eventually bestowed upon him the regal status as their very own ‘King’.