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Manchester United are now just days away from kicking off pre-season, and in just two weeks' time they will be in the United States.
Erik ten Hag's side will face Leeds United in Oslo on Wednesday before meeting Lyon in Edinburgh a week later. But the long flight across the pond in the following days will see preparations kicked up a notch as many international players return from their respective holidays.
Four games in nine days - albeit the meeting with Wrexham in San Diego will be for an academy side - presents a busy schedule for United, but the players will no doubt be given time to unwind in their new surroundings. New York, Houston and Las Vegas will be the three destinations for first-team football, and all will have plenty to offer.
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Pre-season tours have become eminently more professional in recent years, with the emergence of sports science and nutrition influencing every second of players' lives while social media sees to it that their every movement is pictured, filmed and Instagrammed.
That wasn't always the case, and stories of past United tours have gone down in folklore. Roy Keane's infamous fight with Peter Schmeichel during the trip to Asia in 1998 stands out, with the pair coming to blows in the early hours of the morning, following an alcohol influenced night.
Nicky Butt refereed the bout in which Keane head-butted his goalkeeper, with the noise waking up Bobby Charlton at the time. Word got out to Sir Alex Ferguson who labelled them both a 'disgrace to the club', and it seemingly wasn't the only time the no-nonsense Irishman was in trouble on tour.
"We had a good
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