United magazine issue two

We hope you enjoyed issue one of the relaunched publication, which took the theme ‘Music’ as its inspiration and received rave reviews. It’s completely timeless, too, if you want to catch up. 

This time, for issue two, our umbrella subject is ‘Matchday’. It’s a theme that brims with possibilities. After all, is there anything in football not pointed in some way towards the day of the game and the all-important match action?

Our cover is an original shot of the players running out for the start of a second half, a unique view that is rarely captured or seen. It was taken exclusively for issue two by club photographer Ash Donelon and encapsulates the spirit of our theme. 

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WHAT’S INSIDE THE MAG?

The ‘Matchday’ themes is a broad canvas, but we’ve endeavoured to stay close to matchday in its purest sense, for the most part: the day of the game itself, and all that goes into it.

Kobbie Mainoo leads our player representation with an exclusive interview in which he talks us through his personal match regime, from his morning pancakes to his post-game scoff. 

Kobbie is backed up by team-mates Luke Shaw, Matthijs de Ligt and Josh Zirkzee, plus United Women’s Elisabeth Terland, all of whom speak exclusively to the magazine.

Supporters are the beating heart of a matchday, bringing its colour, its noise and its unique culture. You can expect plenty that evokes the fan experience inside the issue – from era-spanning imagery of thronged streets as all roads lead to OT, to individual stories of rites, rituals and red-letter days.

And of course… there’s match action. 

The football itself is the gravitational centre around which everything else orbits, so to honour the hallowed 90 minutes (and in some cases 120) we have hand-picked our favourite 25 matchday moments of the century so far, to ensure that there’s plenty of drama to be relived.

Throughout, we have naturally taken Old Trafford as our ideological base, the prism through which to view the matchday phenomenon – whether that be taking a broad outlook (what was match-going like 50 or 100 years ago?) or zooming in on the details (how many hotdogs are munched on a matchday?).

We’ve endeavoured to approach matchday from a range of angles, and bring you a variety of ways to consider what is, after all, football’s great centrepiece. And all of it is written just for United supporters, coming from inside the club.

Enjoy the issue. Thank you for the support. And we’ll see you next quarter for the third edition.

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