Dennis Law RIP (1 Viewer)

[The Great Eastern]

Passed away today from alzheimers and vascular dementia. Truly a quality player in the 1960s and one member of the great Man Utd side of that era.
I saw him play at Highfield Rd a couple of times and you could tell he was utterly adored by his teams supporters.
RIP Dennis

 

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RIP

 

[Frankly_Mr_Shankly]

One of my late Dads fave players. RIP The King.

 

[Cov kid 55]

My second ever Cov game, v Man U Quarter Final FA Cup 1963. Denis Law played, Bobby Charlton scored two, Albert Quixall the third. Attendance 44,000. A great goal scorer. RIP Denis Law.

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Best,Law and Charlton.Almost made Utd likeable.
RIP Denis king of the hangers.

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

My second ever Cov game, v Man U Quarter Final FA Cup 1963. Denis Law played, Bobby Charlton scored two, Albert Quixall the third. Attendance 44,000. A great goal scorer. RIP Denis Law.

Your first wasn't the Sunderland cup game on the Monday before by any chance, another great game. More in that night officially just over 40,000 but gates broken down behind us and many more got in for free..

RIP Denis king of the hangers.

Him and Mr Greaves. Poachers extraordinary.

 

[nicksar]

Your first wasn't the Sunderland cup game on the Monday before by any chance, another great game. More in that night officially just over 40,000 but gates broken down behind us and many more got in for free..

Him and Mr Greaves. Poachers extraordinary.

Those two games were my first as well

 

[glasgowfan]

My second ever Cov game, v Man U Quarter Final FA Cup 1963. Denis Law played, Bobby Charlton scored two, Albert Quixall the third. Attendance 44,000. A great goal scorer. RIP Denis Law.

I was there too, on the kop. Great days, a big crowd and quality opposition

 

[Cov kid 55]

Your first wasn't the Sunderland cup game on the Monday before by any chance, another great game. More in that night officially just over 40,000 but gates broken down behind us and many more got in for free..

Him and Mr Greaves. Poachers extraordinary.

Yep, absolutely right. My Grandad, a Mackem from South Shields took me to the Sunderland game, and then queued a couple of days later for tickets for the Man U game. What a night, as you say, broken down gates, the attendance thought to be nearer 50,000. A privilege to be at those games, eh?

 

[Torquay Sky Blue]

Absolutely loved the guy. Used to pull the cuffs down on my replica shirt when I was a kid to be like him .
RIP legend

 

[dadgad]

Met him once - lovely guy, a gentleman. RIP.

 

[Ashdown]

Crikey all the senior brigade on this thread , before my time , only seen film footage. My first live game wasn’t until ‘77 .
Was a legend though RIP

 

[Gosb]

My second ever Cov game, v Man U Quarter Final FA Cup 1963. Denis Law played, Bobby Charlton scored two, Albert Quixall the third. Attendance 44,000. A great goal scorer. RIP Denis Law.

But we scored first through Terry Bly in front of a 44,000 crowd. I remember the newspaper report that said 'when the cheering had died down to a crescendo'. Great times

 

[ccfcchris]

One of the greats in my lifetime.

 

[itsabuzzard]

Another footballing great gone. Few things mark the inexorable passage of time as the passing of those who formed part of childhood memories. RIP.

 

[Houchens Head]

I can't stand Man Utd, but strangely, three of their past players are among my list of all time favourites - Law, Best and Cantona.

 

[ccfcchris]

Shamelessly nicked from the Betfair Forum. With thanks to jimnast.

My favourite Denis story was when playing against England in the home internationals for those who don’t know what that as it as a 4 team competition with Northern Ireland and wales also in it and back then only 3 games were shown live annually

Anyway just before kick off his united team mate nobby stiles ran up to the half way line and held out his hand to shake the hand of Denis and wish him good luck.

The reply from Denis was f… F you English ba….d

 

[bigfatronssba]

Always liked his reply to this question during an interview in 2016:

 

[Stevenage_sky_blue]

My mum passed away last year with Alzheimer's, Vascular Dementia and Cancer, all 3 diseases devastating in their own right, awful time, RIP Mr Law, legend!