Football can offer many rewards both financial and otherwise for those who are successful yet the good days can come to an end at a relatively young age. One such player was Norman Whiteside whose career was certainly not so much a fairy tale as a roller coaster ride of wonderful highs and devastating lows because of chronic injuries.

He will always be remembered for being the youngest at everything. At 17 he was the youngest United player to play for the first team since Duncan Edwards, the youngest to score in an FA Cup Final and the youngest to appear in the 1982 World Cup Finals for Northern Ireland. Those same finals saw him break the previous record set by Pele as the youngest player ever to appear in a World Cup aged 17 years and 41 days old.

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The 6 years spent at Old Trafford and the £80 million pocketed by Manchester United for his transfer to Real Madrid may never have happened had destiny played a different hand for Cristiano Ronaldo and his family when he was still a small boy on the Portugese island of Madeira.

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Manchester United defeated Everton 3-0 at Old Trafford to climb above Arsenal into second place in the Premier League.

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Sir Alex Ferguson will be hoping for more European glory this season

Manchester United visit the hostile environment of Besiktas in their opening game of the Champions League group stage. United will be looking to start the new campaign with a victory but the Turkish champions will be no pushovers.

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Back home?

Stoke City promising defender, Ryan Shawcross, could be in his way out of Britannia Stadium where he is enjoying first team football.

Shawcross, 21 years old, began his career with Manchester United academy. He couldn’t break into first team so that he was sent on loan to Royal Antwerp FC and Stoke City.

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