Waterford had huge Manchester United connections back in the day , Charlton , Herd , Tommy Jackson and Shay Brennan .
The latter being our player manager who also scored the first competitive goals for United post the Munich disaster.
Tommy Jackson was our player manager when we won the Cup in 1980.
Martin Ferguson , brother of Sir Alex , won a league title with Waterford as player manager at the age of 26 and went on to become United’s chief European scout .