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Manchester United Memories: Eric Cantona, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo

Manchester United's No. 7 shirt has taken a bit of a hammering in recent seasons. Perhaps Sir Alex Ferguson's decision to award it to Michael Owen after Cristiano Ronaldo's departure resulted in some kind of curse, or perhaps for more prosaic reasons neither Owen, Antonio Valencia, Angel Di Maria nor Memphis Depay have been able to live up to their illustrious predecessors' billing.

For a little over 20 years, though, that number was infused with a sense of mystique and cool by three different but equally iconic players. Eric Cantona, David Beckham and Ronaldo each stand as a symbol of different periods of the club's most dominant era.