An Incredible statistic.

[HuSsAiN]

From October 1937 until May 2011, Manchester United went 3516 consecutive competitive matches with a player on the pitch who'd come through the youth system (a player who was at United from 15-18 and didn't play for anyone else in that time). Arsenal away was the game that broke the run - O'Shea was on the bench but didn't come on. Saw that on another forum and thought it deserved repeating - what a flippen record that is

[Mr Pouya]

yh i saw that too

[KC McElroy]

OK, but are all of these players sexy?

[yashar_fasihnia]

good stat, but im not sure man utd is the only team.
i expect teams like bayern, real madrid, barcelona, ajax, sporting lisbon, etc to also have similar records.
one needs to dig into statistics.

[HuSsAiN]

good stat, but im not sure man utd is the only team.
i expect teams like bayern, real madrid, barcelona, ajax, sporting lisbon, etc to also have similar records.
one needs to dig into statistics.

do the bayern one for us please

[HuSsAiN]

btw,over 74 years.. i pretty much doubt it.
The closest english team would probably be West Ham

[Shervin.]

to be honest it only starts getting impressive from the 90s onwards, before that isnt anything special.

[HuSsAiN]

to be honest it only starts getting impressive from the 90s onwards, before that isnt anything special.

It is still special.

please don't hate, but appreciate the beauty of this football club in producing talents from the youth academy.

[Mort Nejad]

What about Manchester City?

[HuSsAiN]

What about Manchester City?

Are you serious? Can't you see the amount of foreigners they have?


this was vs their local rivals man utd.


Man City
25 Hart
04 Kompany
05 Zabaleta
17 Boateng (Kolarov 80)
28 Kolo Toure
07 Milner (A Johnson 73)
18 Barry
21 Silva
34 De Jong
42 Yaya Toure
32 Tevez (Adebayor 90+4)

none which came from the youth academy.