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United Opus

 
United Opus

The story of Manchester United is one of the most emotive in the entire world of sport.

It's the tale of a football club established by a humble group of railway workers in 1878 and taken on an incredible journey to the summit of world football; a journey encompassing the tragic loss of Sir Matt Busby's incomparable Babes in the 1958 Munich air tragedy, and the manager's own recovery from life-threatening injuries to build a new team and lead them to European Cup glory a decade later. Busby's inspiring success and the style in which it was achieved attracted a global fanbase and set a template for future managers. After years of hopes and false dawns, Sir Alex Ferguson finally emulated and exceeded those feats, culminating in the Treble of 1999.

The Official United Opus is the ultimate tribute to a unique sporting institution, telling this story in greater depth than ever before with 400,000 words and 2,000 images displayed on an epic scale. Weighing in at 37 kilos and 850 pages long, each half a metre square, The Official United Opus is the biggest football book ever produced, and contributions by Britain's finest sportswriters and photographers in collaboration with Red icons ensure that the Opus brings the reader closer to United than ever before.

The Opus

  • Dimensions: 52cm x 52cm (page size: 50cm x 50cm)
  • Leather-bound by hand
  • Hand stitched
  • United Opus spineSilver leaf guilding on United Opus
  • Printed on 200gsm silk-coated paper
  • Six-colour processing
  • Three 2m x 50cm gatefolds
  • Ronaldo gatefold from the United Opus
  • 850 pages edged in silver leaf
  • Over 2,000 images, each individually varnished
  • 400,000 words-plus
  • More than 50 exclusive interviews and photo shoots
  • Weighs 37kg (81 lbs)
  • Each edition personally signed by United legends

Clamshell box

  • Dimensions: 60cm x 60cm x 14cm
  • 8mm thick wood construction
  • Handmade, silk covered
 

Reviews

Your money buys you a thing of beauty, produced with love and flair The Times

Packed with high-quality photos and features on the club's history The Independent On Sunday

Now that's what we call a deluxe history of Manchester United FourFourTwo

The design and graphics are superb. Everything about the book is different class The Daily Telegraph

Remarkable The Observer

 

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