In a golden era rich with world-class Scottish footballing talent, legend Denis Law was the King
In a golden era rich with world-class Scottish footballing talent, legend Denis Law was the King
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Denis Law was an extraordinary Scottish footballer. But for Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish, he would lay a legitimate and irrefutable claim to be the greatest of all time. Scotland’s joint record goalscorer, The Lawman scored 30 goals in 55 caps to Dalglish’s 30 in 102.
![[Law is Scotland's joint-top scorer having found the net on 30 occasions in 55 appearances]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/21/94227711-0-image-a-133_1737150050132.jpg)
In an era rich with world-class players - Baxter, Greig, Henderson, Johnstone, McNeill, Murdoch et al — Law was ‘The King.’. The only British player who would have been good enough to get a game for the great Brazil team of his era, claimed Pele. While he spent the majority of his club career in England, most famously with Matt Busby’s Manchester United, he was a proud, patriotic Scotsman, famously playing golf on an otherwise deserted course while England triumphed in the World Cup final of 1966.
![[The forward is widely regarded as one of the best to ever pull on the Scotland jersey]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/21/94227717-0-image-a-134_1737150062870.jpg)
In an odd quirk, a love for his native land wasn’t always reciprocated by the people who lived there. Because he left so young, generations of Scots grew up feeling as if they never *really* knew him. Manchester United and Scotland legend Denis Law has died at the age of 84.
![[Law (right) starred in the great Manchester United team of the 1960s alongside George Best]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/21/94227767-0-image-a-136_1737150110370.jpg)
Law is Scotland's joint-top scorer having found the net on 30 occasions in 55 appearances. The forward is widely regarded as one of the best to ever pull on the Scotland jersey. At the age of 15, the boy from Aberdeen stood on the platform of Huddersfield station. Puny, pencil thin and bespectacled, the kid with the squint in his eye was no one’s idea of a predatory goalscorer.
![[Law was delighted to be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in 2004]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/17/21/94227695-0-image-a-137_1737150117661.jpg)
Within a year of his first-team debut for Huddersfield, Manchester City paid a British record transfer fee of £55,000 for his services before Law became the first player from Britain to be sold for a six-figure sum when Torino signed him for £100,000.
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