Home games Manchester United tickets allows one the chance to see one of the most popular and dynamic football clubs in Europe play live, but also enables to ticket buyer to experience the unique atmosphere that permeates Old Trafford, also named the Field of Dreams, and to witness the excitement that is the Red Army.
Manchester United tickets have been sold for home games at Old Trafford since 1910, apart from the 8 years it took to rebuild after it was bombed in WWII.
The stadium was named Field of Dreams by one of its most renown players Bobby Charlton.
Best known for his midfield attacks Sir Robert “Bobby” Charlton also had a deadly long-range shot which helped him win the World Cup and get names the European Footballer of the Year in 1966.
Able to seat over 76,000 Manchester United ticket buying supporters, Old Trafford is the second-largest football stadiums in England and it is one of the two stadia in England to have been given a “UEFA elite stadium” five-star rating by UEFA.
As a neutral venue, Old Trafford has hosted many FA Cup semi-final matches and a number of “English national football team” England international fixtures.
It has also hosted matches during the “1966 FIFA World Cup” and “UEFA Euro 1996″ and the “2003 UEFA Champions League Final”.
The Old Trafford playing field is surrounded by stands, officially known as the North, East, South and West Stands.
Each stand has at least two tiers, with the exception of the South Stand, which only has one tier because of construction restrictions.
The lower tier of each stand is split into Lower and Upper sections, the Lower sections having been converted from standing room only terraces in the early 1990s.
The best-known stand at Old Trafford is the West Stand, more famously, or infamously known as the Stretford End.
Originally designed to hold 20,000 fans, the Stretford End was the last remaining where fans watched the game on their feet at the ground before the forced upgrade to seating in the early 1990s.
Stretford End is where Manchester United’s most die-hard supporters, known as The Red Army have their seats.
Much of the noise and atmosphere at Old Trafford emanates from this stand, and the roar from the Red Army there was once measured as louder than the roar of a jumbo jet lifting off.
Unless you’ve been subscribing to your season Manchester United ticket for many years it is impossible to get a seat in the Stretford End, even for the most die-hard fan.
Manchester United’s fan’s, better known as the Red Army was once the biggest and most notorious group of followers British football has ever seen.
When the Red Army followed their team to an away game, the town would be in a uproar: the fans would travel en-mass by train, coach, car or even by foot if necessary to get to the game.
In “1974–75 in English football” the mid-seventies when Manchester United had been relegated from the top flight of English football and played one season in the “Football League Second Division” Second Division, the Red Army caused such mayhem at grounds up and down the country visiting stadiums where they would at times outnumber the home support, it led to the introduction of home and away fan segregation and fencing at football grounds throughout England.
These days, the Red Army is nothing like it was in the 1970’s & 80’s.
This Manchester United supporters club, now has a fan base of over 300 million fans across the world.
The sheer number of Manchester United fans, all of whom would like to get to Old Trafford, both to see the game and to experience the atmosphere there, result in it almost always being difficult to buy Manchester United Tickets.
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