Denis Law was the last surviving member of the fabled United Trinity. Together with George Best and Bobby Charlton, he helped to rebuild Manchester United after the Munich Air Disaster threatened to destroy it.

The three-pronged strike force of Denis Law, Bobby Charlton and George Best led Manchester United to English league titles in 1965 and '67 and the European Cup in 1968 — a first for an English club

Old Trafford, one week on from Denis Law’s death. “We’re striving to do justice to a legacy that will endure until football ceases to be played on this planet,” acknowledged the editor of the United Review in notes for the excellent match programme for Thursday night’s game against Rangers.

With his eye for goal and effervescent personality, Denis Law was the darling of a generation as the Scotland striker played a key role in Manchester United's rise from tragedy to triumph.

Eric Davidson, a fan who visited Law's statue in Aberdeen the day after he died, said the footballer meant a lot to people in the city. "When you're playing football at primary school, all you wanted to be was the second Denis Law," he said.

Denis Law, who won the Ballon d'Or in 1964, scored 237 goals in 404 appearances for Manchester United during an 11-year spell at Old Trafford and also played for Scotland

On "windswept touchlines" in Aberdeen in the 1950s, people began to talk with excitement about a "puny, bespectacled kid with a squint who was somehow ramming home goals for his school and boys' club teams", said Michael Grant in The Times.

At Manchester United Law scored 236 goals in 393 games; third behind his team-mate Sir Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney on the all-time scoring list, and set club records for the most goals in the FA Cup (34 goals), which still stands, and in Europe with 28 goals in 33 games.

(AP Photo/Dave Thompson) A statue of Manchester United trio of George Best, left, Denis Law, center, and Sir Bobby Charlton is seen prior the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Brighton and Hove Albion, at the Old Trafford ...

Denis Law, who has died aged 84, was, with the possible exception of Eric Cantona, the most exciting striker to have played for Manchester United; his partnership with George Best and Bobby Charlton was integral to the club’s glory years in the mid-1960s,

Denis Law was one of the greatest British footballers of all-time, arguably Scotland’s finest ever player, and a man whose very name conjured notions of skill, flair and toughness. Born during the privations of the Second World War,

Manchester United legend Denis Law has died, his family confirmed in a statement on Friday. He was 84. Law is widely regarded as one of the greatest figures in the club's history, remembered for his part in an infamous "United Trinity" partnership with Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best, with the trio immortalised in a statue outside Old Trafford.