RIP Denis Law

[Bald fraud]

Did the back heel count for anything in the end?

Yes. It broke those twats hearts
RIP Dennis

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Can you explain why he was so popular with City fans given he was only with us for very brief spells either end of his career?

A 100% player

Class.

Very complimentary & respectful of City.

Maintained good social friendships with many City players,and.....

.....he signed twice !!

 

[TonyBookEnd]

My Dad's favourite player. Said it broke his heart when he moved over there from Torino.
RiP Denis

 

[CC1]

Very sad week. Out of interest did Sky dedicate the same huge number of hours of reporting when Skip passed away? He was equally, if not more, important for us & was involved in great achievements both here & in Europe?
I might have missed the coverage so only asking.

Bell, Lee, Summerbee, Law, Best, Book.
The great Manchester legends

 

[Big Swifty]

Sad news indeed.

Law was one of the few United plyers I liked - a cheerful, friendly man who never stooped to throwing cheap slurs at our club (are you listening, Rio Ferdinand?).

Not too many like him theses days, alas.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Thanks for that back heel ...RIP Mr Law

 

[Damocles]

It's weird seeing all of the tributes to him who describe him as a wonderful man. I met him once as a young kid and he was rude and dismissive.
People have bad days or bad moments and that one incident shapes false perceptions for years to come. I know a few people at United over the years and they always described him as a great guy, sharp and funny and caring.

 

[mancityvstoke]

It's weird seeing all of the tributes to him who describe him as a wonderful man. I met him once as a young kid and he was rude and dismissive.
People have bad days or bad moments and that one incident shapes false perceptions for years to come. I know a few people at United over the years and they always described him as a great guy, sharp and funny and caring.

You probably called him a red **** ;)

 

[Withnail]

A really sad week, Skip and now Dennis Law.

Heard Buzzer on Sky earlier, he mentioned it has been a very tough week with 2 of his former team mates passing. away.

 

[Palerider]

Well liked person, beloved by both Manchester teams and never said a word against either. RIP Denis, a life well lived.

 

[Vienna_70]

I’d forgotten, until I just read it on Wikipedia, that the fee we paid Huddersfield and the fee we received from Torino for Denis were both British records.

 

[CC1]

Heard Buzzer on Sky earlier, he mentioned it has been a very tough week with 2 of his former team mates passing. away.

Yes. He sounded very emotional.

 

[Vienna_70]

Alex Stepney just on BBC Breakfast now
"My first game was against Man City , and we won one nil with a Denis overhead kick,
And his last game was against us playing for City , and scored a backheel "THAT PUT US DOWN"
I can see he will be dragged in to Old Trafford for some media training !

Whenever I’ve taunted rags with the, "Denis Law relegated you," line, they are always quick to deny that was the case, as if it was better to be relegated by any other team.

 

[mimicmickmickdoyle]

I can remember when Dennis signed for City for the second time, we played the rags at Maine Road, when the teams come out the United fans singing " Dennis Dennis come back home " May God rest your soul.

 

[Paul1970]

Watching the coverage of Dennis law and it appears his time at city as been wiped from history

 

[GH64]

Watching the coverage of Dennis law and it appears his time at city as been wiped from history

Sky just slipped the backheel into the highlights, nice.

 

[Paul1970]

Sky just slipped the backheel into the highlights, nice.

The only one that matters but very one sided

 

[Jim Tolmie's Perm]

Sky just slipped the backheel into the highlights, nice.

That was my first away game. My United supporting dad took me. Amazing to think it was 50 years ago. Dennis was a great man in all respects. RIP.

 

[bridgeno1]

Fun fact - Dennis Bergkamp was named after Dennis Law. Bergkamp's parents were massive Law admirers.

 

[stan bowles]

Tom English

BBC Scotland's chief sports writer

In City’s last game of the 1973-74 season, against a relegation-haunted United at Old Trafford, Law famously scored with a back-heel which gave City a 1-0 lead with nine minutes left to play.

United got relegated. The story has been retold many times, in almost poetic terms, about how Law sealed the fate of the club he loved the most, but he didn’t.

Results elsewhere meant they were going down regardless of what Law did, but it bothered him none the less. “I seldom felt so depressed as I did that weekend,” he said later.

Law went to the World Cup in 1974 and began the season with City, but retired almost immediately on 10 August. His body had had enough.

See, I don't get this. Didn't United have to beat City to have any chance of staying up AND if results elsewhere went their way, they could do so ? Denis' goal meant it didn't matter what happened elsewhere. They were down anyway. That's the way I prefer to look at it anyway.