LAW NEW TO FOOTBALL MUSEUM WALK OF FAME
Manchester United legend Denis Law was inducted into the National Football Museum Walk of Fame earlier this week, together with four other iconic figures from the beautiful game.
The Lawman’s iconic career has been recognised alongside Alfredo Di Stefano, Eusebio, Jimmy Greaves and Paolo Maldini, with a plaque being laid in Cathedral Gardens, Manchester.
Our 1968 European Cup winner scored 237 goals in 404 Reds appearances across two separate spells at Old Trafford, while also playing professionally for Huddersfield Town, Torino and Manchester City. He also remains the only Scotsman to ever win the Ballon D’Or award, given to the world’s best player.
Law spoke to MUTV about joining the prestigious group of footballers on the Walk of Fame, saying: “I think it is lovely, absolutely lovely. Probably, more than anything, of the five people who have been rewarded today, one of them is my favourite player of all time in Alfredo Di Stefano.
"The second one was Jimmy Greaves, who was my favourite goalscorer of all time, so to be among those two people, and of course Eusebio and Maldini, cannot be any better.”
Paul Trevillion, whose illustrations will be familiar to football fans thanks to comic book Roy of The Rovers, created the portraits for the Walk of Fame plaques. He said: "Denis Law is one of the greatest footballers to come from Great Britain and deserves to be alongside global greats like Di Stefano and Eusebio."
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