Football Question. What Would You Have Done?

[10ClarionSt]

There is a knock on your door. When you answer it, the person standing there is the assistant manager of Manchester United, Jimmy Murphy. He wants you to play in the first team for United in the next First Division fixture. The answer he got was "No thank you. I can earn double those wages laying bricks". It was in the days after the Munich crash. What would you have said?

[RATTER15]

I cant play football!

[Tilly2]

Is it a ladies team?

[-Talbot-]

I would say he obviously knows a good player when he sees one.

[Mick-the-Miller]

The Munich Air Disaster - I think that was in 1958, I would have been four - I think I would have asked him if he could wait until I was in long-trousers!

[Baldric]

I would have said yes, so long as MU played Rugby, a proper game.

[PankySmooch]

I would've said "Who the feck are Man Utd"

[Arksided]

You'll have wait at least fourteen years until I'm born, then another sixteen until I'm eligible. for now though it's back to the Deloren

[Arksided]

I kind of wondered if it may of being you (Not knowing your age) but know your a fellow United supporter.

[Arksided]

Blimey your not wrong, it's a different world now to the one I grew up in. I bet you were sat at the back of the bus though ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

Who are you ? Are you pished ?

[Arksided]

Lol OG, I think he'd have quickly realized he'd called at the wrong house.

[Cloverjo]

I think if they wanted a woman in the team and if I were talented enough to be asked to play I would do it, even if just the once. Back then you could just walk into a new job whenever you felt like it, as far as I've heard from my parents and my partner. So I'd play then leave when I realised I needed more money. I don't think footballers got the colossal wages they get now.

[DaisyNonna]

Do you understand the sexual bias against women in football?

[ToraToraTora]

they only got boot money in those days. There was a maximum of around £50 a week I think, so a good brickie would have got more i guess.

[fiction-factory]

I'd be surprised if good brickies earned more than £50 a week in 1958 but I'd be interested see any data. According to Hansard the average full time male manual worker earned 253 shillings a week- i.e. around £12.50.

[Gromit]

I have serious doubt that this person is telling the truth about refusing United. Even then, it would be a bonkers move.

You may find this article interesting if you do not already know it...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/how-real-madrid-helped-to-rebuild-manchester-united-after-munich-air-disaster-8492422.html

[Arksided]

Interesting, I still have a real dislike of Real Madrid though.