
In their book, Admiral: 50 Years of the Replica Shirt, Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald write: “Football demands emotional attachment and the ready-made portal that shirts offer to a goal, a game, a season, a year, makes them an easy canvas for our own personal history; memories made solid.”
Few clubs in English football have dominated in terms of performance, and cultural significance, as Manchester United did in the Nineties and Noughties.