United wait to break 70,000 mark

Manchester United are set to fall just short of recording the Premiership’s first 70,000 gate.

The Red Devils had hoped enough seats would be opened in the new quadrants for the Old Trafford clash with Birmingham to allow them to set a new league record and possibly even eclipse 70,504 – the highest attendance to watch at United game at the Theatre of Dreams, against Aston Villa in 1920.