David Herd Sinks Sunderland

David Herd

David Herd was the man of the match as Matt Busby´s Manchester United recor­ded their biggest home win of the 1966–67 cam­paign with a 5–0 suc­cess against Sun­der­land at Old Traf­ford in Novem­ber 1966. The nat­ural born goal plun­derer scored four of the goals with fel­low Scot­land player Denis Law also mak­ing the score sheet.

Sun­der­land boss Ian McColl could only sit and watch in dis­be­lief as Manchester United trashed the plucky Roker Park side to the tune of 5–0. Scot­land inter­na­tional David Herd opened the scor­ing with a fero­cious shot leav­ing Sun­der­land goal­keeper Jim Mont­gomery com­pletely help­less. An accom­plished and power­ful centre for­ward, Herd went on to score three more goals before the match offi­cial finally sig­nalled the end of the game. Dur­ing his Manchester United play­ing career, David Herd man­aged to notch up an impress­ive 145 goals in 265 first team appear­ances for the club between 1961 and 1968.

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