Manchester Utd 1 Stoke 0

Man­chester Uni­ted 1 Sto­ke City 0, Old Traf­ford, Eng­lish Foot­ball Lea­gue Fir­st Di­vi­sion, Nov­ember 4, 1967.  Reign­ing Fir­st Di­vi­sion Cham­pi­ons Man­chester Uni­ted ma­naged to edge out Sto­ke City 1-0 at ho­me thro­ugh a goal by Wor­ld Cup win­ner Bob­by Charl­ton wi­th fif­teen min­utes re­maining of the tie. 

Man­chester Uni­ted had suf­fered a sur­prise 3-1 de­feat at the hands of Not­ting­ham For­est at City Gro­und in their pre­vi­ous Di­vi­sion One fix­ture, whi­le To­ny Waddington´s Sto­ke City had beaten FA Cup hold­ers Tot­ten­ham Hot­spur 2-1 at Vic­tor­ia Gro­und. The Pot­ters had come to Old Traf­ford to de­fend and the frus­trated ho­me sup­port­ers had to wait un­til the 75th min­ute for the break­through when Bob­by Charl­ton sco­red on a re­bound af­ter away goal­keeper Gor­don Banks had failed to hold a fe­ro­cious shot from North­ern Ire­land in­ter­na­tion­al Ge­orge Best. The Reds were nev­er really threat­ened af­ter that and the hosts saw out the mat­ch to claim a nar­row, but well de­served, win. Man­chester Uni­ted Te­am: Al­ex Step­ney, To­ny Dun­ne, Bill Foulk­es, Da­vid Sad­ler, Fran­cis Burns, Pad­dy Cre­rand, John As­ton Ju­ni­or, Bob­by Charl­ton, Bri­an Kidd, Ge­orge Best, Jim­my Ry­an. Sub­stitutes: No­ne. Sto­ke City Te­am: Gor­don Banks, Wil­li­am Bent­ley, Eric Skeels, Al­ex Eld­er, To­ny Al­len, Calv­in Pal­mer, Alan Bloor, Mi­ke Bern­ard, Harry Bur­rows, Pe­ter Dob­ing, Ge­orge East­ham. Sub­stitutes: None.

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Man­chester Uni­ted trashed Sto­ke City 3-0 in a Lea­gue Di­vi­sion One tie at Maine Road on the 12th of Mar­ch 1949 cour­tesy of a goal apiece from Johnny Downie, Jack Row­ley, and Char­lie Mitten.

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