The Hard Working Michael Clegg

Michael Clegg

Born in the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, Michael Clegg began as a trainee with Manchester United where the prom­ising prodigy made his first league appear­ance in a 2–2 draw with Middle­bor­ough at River­side Sta­dium in Novem­ber 1996. Clegg struggled for a place in the first team at Manchester United, how­ever, and the strong and hard work­ing defender was first loaned out to Ipswich Town and then Wigan Athletic.

Dur­ing his time with Manchester United, Michael Clegg man­aged to make only 21 first team appear­ances for the club. As things even­tu­ally turned out, the frus­trated player moved to Foot­ball League Divi­sion Two side Old­ham Ath­letic on a free trans­fer mid­way through the 2001-02 cam­paign. The strong run­ning full back pro­ceeded to play 46 league matches for the Bound­ary Park out­fit before he finally decided to fin­ish his pro­fes­sional play­ing career at the com­par­at­ively young age of 27. Michael Clegg was later appoin­ted by Sun­der­land boss Roy Keane as the club´s strength and con­di­tion­ing coach.

Manchester United Books