With over 75 million fans worldwide, a roll of honour stretching the length of the M62, and an annual income of more than £200 million, Manchester United can justifiably claim to be the biggest club in world football. And yet, until now, its story has never been fully told.

Unofficial and unbiased, MANCHESTER UNITED: THE BIOGRAPHY has everything a football fan needs to know about the club, from its birth in the smog-bound mud of Newton Heath through to its emergence as the Premier League's dominant force in the twenty-first century. From working man's team to rich man's plaything, from the solid yeomanry of Lancelot Holliday Richardson to the dazzling artistry of Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, award-winning journalist and lifelong red Jim White has produced an unmissable account of the club's history. By speaking to everyone from fans and backroom staff to players and board members, he has unearthed a wealth of new material from voices not always heard in the great United story.

It is all here: the Munich air crash of 1958; the gilded days of Law, Best and Charlton; the high drama of the 1999 and 2008 Champions' League Finals - all observed with a quizzical eye. But this book also covers acres of fresh ground as it seeks to discover what sort of beast is today's United. Is it a football team? A commercial juggernaut? A point of secular worship? And who are the people who made it what it is? In Jim White's peerless hands the story comes vividly to life.

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