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MANCHESTER, England — The morning of the Manchester derby, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer decided the anecdotes from and the lectures about Manchester United’s past were no longer enough. His team’s pride was battered and its reputation bruised. It was time for some living history.
So when United’s players left their hotel in Manchester on Wednesday, they did not make the journey south of the city to the lavish surrounds of their training complex, but went north instead, to the place where the club’s great teams of the 20th century trained: the Cliff.
The logic was simple.