goodfoot seems to have issues that goes beyond football.
Ironically, Best was the only protestant in the 1968 European Cup winning team.
United themselves started out as a catholic run football club in the days they were known as Newton Heath.
The Irish connection doesn't begin and end with football, but is ingrained in Manchester history.
The links with Ireland run through not just the history of the club, but through the history of the city too.
http://www.prideofmanchester.com/mancirish/history1.htm