Of the top-flight titles contested between 1949 and 1959, United and Wolves shared six – three apiece – and finished runners-up on two occasions each. In only one of those 10 seasons did both clubs finish outside the top two; an achievement all the more remarkable in an age where the concept of a 'big four, five or six' was merely a glint in a marketing man's eye – if the notion of a marketing man had even been considered then.
Such were the relative strengths of the game's elite, that if United and Wolves didn't get you, Portsmouth, West Bromwich Albion or Burnley probably would.