UTD Podcast: Arthur Albiston | Manchester United

Albiston, who sits 11th on list of our all-time appearance-makers with 475 matches, tells several brilliant stories, from seeing Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best in the car park, to offering his FA Cup winner’s medal to an injured team-mate, and meeting Sir Alex Ferguson for the first time.

The former left-back, who played for the Reds from 1974 to 1988, also speaks about his two spells playing for Molde, Solskjaer’s former club.

“It was fantastic,” Albiston recalled.

“I really enjoyed it. The young lads were so enthusiastic about English football, it was incredible. They asked me, ‘how do you play three games a week, and all over Christmas and Easter time? How do you play them all?’ It wasn’t Spanish football or German or French or Italian [that they talked about]. It was all English football.”