The famous Manchester United FA Youth Cup winning side of 1992 will very likely be broken up soon with the imminent retirement of Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs. Nobody wishes it upon them obviously but time eventually catches up with everyone and the two veterans have managed to extend their careers far longer than anyone has a right to reasonably expect. Despite the many misconceptions, Paul Scholes and Phil Neville were not a part of this group and only made the team for the following season’s final.

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Back in the early 1950’s Manchester United made a far sighted decision which had major ramifications for the club at the time and has continued to produce handsome dividends until this very day. Their legendary manager Sir Matt Busby had concluded that rather than spend large sums of money on big name players, better long term results would be produced by recruiting youngsters just out of school and developing them himself. Read the full story