Jimmy Hill was earning £18 per week at the time but did not get a further pay rise during his career and Haynes didn't get a further pay rise for the next 9 years, before he retired. Still they made a point I suppose! They are peering out of a train window (Haynes left and Hill beard). Anyone know who the other one is?
On this date in 1964, some very special Manchester United players were no doubt benefiting from this pay rise as Charlton, Best and Law were bringing in the crowds and points for their club! On the 21st of January, United beat West Bromwich Albion 4-1 in a First Division game. Law scored 2 Charlton and Best one each. Worth every penny.
In 1973 on this day, Tommy Docherty was United's manager and he signed Lou Macari from Celtic for £200,000, the most paid for a Scottish League player at that time.
Macari was originally part of the "Quality Street Gang", the Celtic Reserves, who at the time included Lou, Dalglish and McGrain. In Macari's career for Celtic, United and Swindon, he played 423 games and scored 107 goals. He had 24 Scottish caps and once managed Huddersfield Town! He played for Scotland in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and complained about the £20,000 bonus proposed for them, if they won the Cup! He made money instead by revealing to the "press" moments of disarray and tensions in the Scot's camp! They lost to Peru in the first qualifying game, drew with Iran and then beat the Netherlands 3-2, but it was too late to get anywhere near that puny bonus!!
Tragically his Macari's youngest son of three, Jonathan, just released from his playing contract with Nottingham Forest, committed suicide in 1999 and Macari was quoted as saying that "Money in a young man's pocket is a recipe for disaster."
Macari, in 2016, set up with the city council, a "Centre" in Stoke on Trent for homeless people.
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