Manchester United Player's Contract for Shay Brennan for the 1956-57 League Championship winning season, drawn up on behalf of MUFC by the Club Secre

Manchester United Player's Contract for Shay Brennan for the 1956-57 League Championship winning season, drawn up on behalf of MUFC by the Club Secretary Walter Crickmer, an agreement for the player to be paid £1 per week between 1st July 1956 and 30th June 1957, an unsigned file copy Seamus Anthony Brennan was on National Service during this period, hence the £1 nominal payment to keep the player under contract at United, and in accordance with Football League governance under these circumstances. Brennan was born in Manchester put played internationally for the Republic of Ireland. The full-back made his first-team debut in the F.A. Cup tie v Sheffield Wednesday, the first match after the Munich Air Disaster, filling the position left vacant by the tragic death of David Pegg. Brennan was a member of United's Championship winning teams in 1964-5 and 1966-7 and won a European Cup winner's medal in 1968.