The joy of August 31 when Cristiano Ronaldo made his long-awaited return to Manchester United feels far away now.
21.01.2022 - 14:59 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester United fans now have the opportunity to bid for a rare number plate reading 'UNIITED'.
The seller has owned the number plate for close to a decade, but he's now decided it's time to part ways with the UNIITED plate, which is the closest possible legal arrangement of characters allowed to spell the word ‘United’ on a UK registration.
The current owner registered it directly from the DVLA and this is the first time it has ever been available on the open market.
Ian, 44, spoke to the Manchester Evening News to give some detail on his rare number plate: "I’ve had the number plate since 2012. It gets so much attention. Everywhere I go people take pictures of it."
"Some people ask if I’m a player, others ask if I work for the club.
"The best one was recent: I was in the car and someone asked me what the plate meant and I said ‘ah, it’s not mine, it belongs to my Portuguese mate who lives in Manchester and he’s lent me the car for a while."
Ian has supported United all his life. His favourite players past and present include Eric Cantona, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rio Ferdinand, Paul Pogba, Marcus Rashford and Cristiano Ronaldo among others, but it's the latter's return to the club that made him think.
"Who can’t say [their favourite player is] Ronaldo? That is a big part of why I’m selling the plate now," Ian admitted. "He’s brought a lot of jazz back to United. He's been at United at the start of his career, there at the end of his career, he's an absolute legend of the game."
But where would the plate ideally end up after its sale? Ian revealed his preferred destination. “Ideally it would end up with a player, a shareholder, a fan that is probably more obsessed with United than me, but ideally, maybe, the
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