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The Lost Dog that saved Manchester United

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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, the club had made tre