On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day – a day on which we remember those who lost their lives in World War II but also celebrate the end of the bloody conflict – it’s interesting to look back on how the club’s match programme reacted to the resumption of football.
Three months after victory in Europe came the end of hostilities with Japan, but it was another 12 months before the return of ‘competitive’ league action to England.
Much had changed in the intervening seven years, most notably our ‘home’. In March 1941, Old Trafford had been hit by a Luftwaffe air raid targeting Trafford Park and Salford docks.