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'He had vision' - I knew the extraordinary fan who saved Manchester United from going bankrupt
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester United were once staring at extinction and were close to going bankrupt. Could you imagine if United did not exist?
Well, that could have happened if not for the intervention of local hero James W. Gibson, who saved the club from the brink in 1931.
United were in financial peril at the height of the depression but Salford-born businessman Gibson felt he needed to step up, so he paid £2,000 to rescue the club from collapsing.
There would be no United without Gibson. He saved the club, appointed Sir Matt Busby, created the academy and helped fund the rebuilding of Old Trafford after the Second World War.
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