Manchester United should celebrate the day a fax machine broke to help them keep David De Gea
THERE should be a special place in Manchester United’s museum for that fax machine which messed up on deadline day two years ago.
If ever the office staff wanted technology to let them down it was in August 2015 when United were trying to send the paperwork through to complete David De Gea’s Real Madrid transfer.
A glitch meant it all went wrong and he stayed.
United fans now celebrate Fax Machine Day every August 31.
Saturday was another example of just why.
De Gea’s incredible save to deny Joel Matip was just another to put on an already impressive C.V.
And his point-blank stop from Jese at Stoke earlier in the season was one of the best you will ever see.
De Gea, 26, is currently the best in the world.
The Spanish star is one of the greatest keepers the Premier League has seen and stands alongside Peter Schmeichel and Alex Stepney at United.
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Even he sometimes is at a loss to explain just how he does it. It is instinct.
He dominates his area and Saturday was his seventh clean sheet in eight league games and 103rd in 280 club appearances.
Some record, some player, some fax machine.
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