Manchester United Football Club Manchester United Football Club is one of the most successful clubs in Britain along with the likes of Liverpool, Rangers and Arsenal but in this paper I will take a look why United are simply just the best there is. It all started way back in the 1870s when a group of railway workers decided to form a football club to play in on the weekends. They called the team The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club but in 1878 renamed themselves Newton Heath.In the early 1890s the Football League accepted their application to join the league and were placed in the First Division, as there was two divisions. They started indifferently as they lost their first game to Blackburn Rovers, the powerhouse of the 1890s, 4-3 but a week later they beat Wolverhampton 10-1 to notch up their first ever victory. This victory is still a club record.In 1894 the club moved to Bank Street in Clayton because they werefacing major financial problems but John H. Davies, a brewery director, was persuaded to put some money into the club therefore becoming the chairman and a director at the club. He decided changes were needed so he board renamed the club Manchester United and changed the strips from green and gold halved shirts and dark green shorts to red shirts and white shorts.The club appointed their first ever manager in Ernest Mangall in 1903 and three years later United had pulled themselves out of the Second Division back into the First Division, but real success didnt come till 1907/08 when they won the First Division title for the very first time. A year later in 1908/09 the club then won its first F.A. Cup. John H. Davies brought a plot of land near Lancashire Cricket Club in the mid 1900s and started to build a new stadium. Old Trafford opened in 1910 but Liverpool won the first game there 4-3. In 1910/11 United won their second First Division title and a year later picked up their second Charity Shield, after win...
