A reminder that Manchester United were not always too rich to go down | Barney Ronay

Being relegated is now unthinkable but when they went down in 1973 the club was revitalised

There was a good story at the start of this week’s BT Sport documentary Too Good To Go Down, a highly watchable 90-minute blockbuster about Manchester United’s relegation in 1973. Ten minutes into the film the United winger Willie Morgan starts to talk about Wilf McGuinness, who enjoyed an uneasy succession to Matt Busby.

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