The Lost Dog that saved Manchester United
The Manchester United squad of 1909: FA Cup winners: Pictured (Back row): Mangnall, Bacon, Picken, Edmonds, Murray, Moger, J Davies, Homer, Lawton, Bell, and Deakin: (Middle row), Meredith, Duckworth, Roberts, Turnbull, West, and Stacey: (Front Row), Whalley, Hofton, Halse and Wall. The Lost Dog that saved Manchester United Strange but True Facts by Don Hale I t’s quite strange by today’s modern standards when you consider that Manchester United Football Club and its multi-million pound financial and sporting empire, may not have come into existence, had it not been for the City Police, and a notorious lost dog! The curious tale of the dog - excuse the pun – is still a legendary story in the region that dates back to 1902 just before the original Newton Heath LYR (Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway) football team changed their name to Manchester United. Founded in 1878 from an enthusiastic bunch of young railway workers at the local Carriage and Wagon Works, th...