MANCHESTER UNITED are set to hand a title winners’ medal to a Hollywood superstar.
That’s after his dad won the league with United 71 years ago.
Harry McShane, who passed away at the age of 92 in 2012, scored eight goals in 57 games for United between 1950 and 1954.
The Scot also played for Blackburn, Huddersfield, Bolton and Oldham.
But McShane’s greatest career moment came when United won the Football League First Division title in 1952.
He played 12 times that term and even scored the winner in the Manchester derby.
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However, McShane was cruelly denied a winners’ medal as he fell short of appearance regulations by just two matches.
Yet there is now good news for his family, with Man Utd successfully appealing to the EFL to grant McShane his medal.
Current regulations mean former stars can be recognised if they played just five times.
And McShane’s Hollywood superstar son Ian has been invited to Old Trafford for a special ceremony.
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Ex-Man Utd stars being honoured
Full list of medal winners to be awarded:
- 1952 first division champions: Harry McShane, Jack Crompton, Frank Clempson.
- 1956 first division champions: Fred Goodwin, Albert Scanlon.
- 1957 first division champions: Geoff Bent, Fred Goodwin, Colin Webster, Albert Scanlon.
- 1965 first division champions: David Sadler, David Gaskell, Maurice Setters.
- 1967 first division champions: Shay Brennan, John Connolly, David Gaskell, Jimmy Ryan.
- 1975 second division champions: Tony Young, Jim Holton, Steve James, Arnie Sidebottom, Steve Coppell, Mick Martin, Ron Davies.
The 80-year-old won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 2005 after playing Al Swearengen in HBO’s smash hit Western TV show Deadwood.
Ian has also featured in Tinseltown box-office successes like Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean and John Wick.
And he will now collect a winners’ medal on dad Harry’s behalf in front of 75,000 fans at a Premier League game next season.
But McShane isn’t the only ex-United star to be honoured.
A lengthy research process revealed that 20 former players are owed a total of 23 medals.
Just eight of them are still alive, with the likes of David Gaskell and Steve Coppell set to attend the event.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
