As Manchester United prepare to head to the US for this summer's pre-season tour, we're rewinding to 1908, when the champions of England were about to get a first taste of exotica and foreign travel...
Champions of England for the first time – with a record 51 points – it made perfect sense for the directors to spread the burgeoning name of Manchester United at the end of the 1907/08 season with the club's first foreign beano.
Victory over Bury in the Manchester Senior Cup secured on 30 April, United – with Thomas Cook & Son Ltd in tow to look after the touring party – set off the following day by train to London, for a night in the capital before early departure for Dover.