The man who received 100 for Arsenal and man Utd | History | Beginner

“There are definitely some benefits to having played the game as early as the 1950s and 1960s,” smiled the brilliant owner of David Herd Motors. “One of them is that hardly anyone recognizes me outside this building. My football career ended long ago.”

When he heard the conversation one of Herd’s mechanics laughed and told me that during lunchtime pair of lunch on the back of the Lostock Road, Herd still took football in earnest, even though he retired in 1971. “You do not score over 100 goals for Arsenal and United for nothing,” said the mechanic. The modest crew seemed somewhat embarrassed by the compliment.

There is a lot about David Herd’s career that stands out. In addition to being the only football player who has looted for lots of goals for Arsenal and our rivals from the northwest, he is also one of the selected British football players who played in the same team as his father (Alex – on his shepherd JR’s first Club Stockport County).

Then it was the strong Mancunian accent, despite being born in Lanarkshire. “It might explain why I only won five Scotland caps,” mentioned Herd to me when we talked in 1998, “because I didn’t seem Scottish.”

In addition to Trivia, Herd was a formidable striker. The undersigned from Stockport for £ 10,000 in 1954 by Tom Whittaker made the young striker his breakthrough in our first team in the 1956/57 campaign, after Cliff Holton was converted to a Ving half.

A quick and relentless hardworking forward quickly won the crew over the Highbury audience, who loved to see his thundering right-footed shots (one was timed at over 72 mph) fly in from all angles.

Although it was more effective on the ground than in the air, Herd recalled that his favorite goal in our colors was a classic dive head that gave his team a 3-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in October 1956. “If I close my eyes, I can still hear the noise in the audience now,” said Herd.

During his seven-year-old spell at the club, he was our best goal scorer for four seasons straight, from 1956/57 to 1960/61, a campaign that saw him meeting 30 League and FA Cup goals, including four hate tricks. He would bag 107 in 180 Gunners games, but despite his very impressive goal feats, it apparently wasn’t enough

The new manager George Swindin was looking for alternatives in front as he tried to find the difficult winning formula in northern London and offered a crew to Huddersfield Town in the sub -exchange for Denis Law and to Newcastle United for George Eastham.

Eventually, Herd went to Old Trafford for £ 35,000 in the summer of 1961, where he distinguished himself. He scored two goals in the FA Cup finals in 1963 against Leicester City when United started the rebuilding process after Munich’s air disaster five years earlier and led the line expert when Matt Busby’s team won league titles in 1965 and 1967.

A broken leg meant that the crew (like teams) failed to play in United’s victorious European cup -winning team on Wembley in 1968. George described best Herd as “the most underrated player in British football during that era”, and his wonderful score of 114 goals in 202 matches at Old Trfford.

He would later present to Stoke City and manage Lincoln City before starting his car maintenance business, which he drove for over 30 years. He died in October 2016 aged 82, but his heritage lives on. “I was overshadowed by Law, Best and Charlton, but I was a decent player in my own right,” jerked the crew.

It was an understatement. In the black and white era, our loss showed to be Manchester United’s win.