Manchester United Books, DVDs, Videos

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Manchester United DVDs

Release Date: October 11, 1999

All the action: every game and every goal from the 1999 treble season plus an Alex Ferguson interview.

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The 2008-2009 season in review. Champions again!

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The 2007-2008 season in review. Double Champions!

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The 2006-2007 season in review. Champions again.

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The 2005-2006 season in review. Carling Cup success.

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The 2004-2005 season in review. New arrival Wayne Rooney's first season.

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The 2003-2004 FA Cup winning season in review. New arrivals Christiano Rivaldo and Louis Saha and the win against Millwall in the FA Cup Final helped brighten this otherwise mediocre season for United.

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Football coaching sessions featuring Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes - Free Kicks, the Scissors, the Step Over and the Cruyff Turn. Interviews with players & Manchester United staff, photo gallery, history of Manchester United and key facts about the club.

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The 2002/2003 season Premiership winning season in review: extended title celebrations, extended Alex Ferguson interview, highlights of The FA Youth Cup Final, Ruud Van Nistlerooy goals access and statistical record of the season.

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Release Date: March 1, 2004

Manchester United in the FA Cup. Man Utd have so far won the FA Cup in 1999, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1985, 1983, 1977, 1963, 1948, 1909.

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Release Date: April 21, 2003

Manchester United in Europe. The complete story of Manchester United's successes in European Football from the Busby Babes right up to the present day.

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Release Date: November 27, 2000

Account of the 1999/2000 championship season. Scenes from the United backroom are interspersed with various supporters providing a more passionate perspective on following the team for whom success has become almost a given in recent years.

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Release Date: October 1, 2001

A look at Manchester United Football Club during the 1990s, features footage from the FA Cup, European competition action and highlights from the key players of the time including United legend Eric Cantona.

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Release Date: October 1, 2001

A look at Manchester United Football Club during the 1980s, features footage from the FA Cup, European competition action and highlights from the key players of the time.

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Release Date: April 19, 2004

Featuring football action from the 80s as Manchester United take their sixth FA Cup title win.

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Release Date: April 5, 2004

Featuring football action from the 1977 FA Cup Final as Manchester United take on Liverpool and win.

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Release Date: October 1, 2001

A retrospective look at Manchester United Football Club during the 1970s, features footage from the FA Cup, European competition action and highlights from the key players of the time.

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Release Date: June 24, 2002

Account of the 2001/2002 championship season. Manchester United's biggest signing was to retain the services of Sir Alex Ferguson as the season finished trophy-less. Exclusive interviews with the PFA Player of the Year 2001/2002 Ruud van Nistelrooy, Juan Sebastian Veron, Gary Neville, Laurent Blanc, Roy Keane, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs and Sir Alex Ferguson.

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Manchester United: General

The official illustrated history of Manchester United - with over 200 photographs. Manchester United - from their humble beginnings as Newton Heath in 1878 to their current position as a football superpower and a multi-million pound business empire.

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The official illustrated encyclopedia of Manchester United. From the early days of Newton Heath, through years of near-bankruptcy, the eras of Mangnall and Busby, tragedy at Munich, to triumph in Europe and the victorious double Double.

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Release Date: July 15, 2003

The official history of Manchester United 1878-2002 on DVD.

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by Ned Kelly

Manchester United - the untold story.

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by Mihir Bose

A look at the financial goings-on at Manchester United post-Munich: Louis Edwards, Michael Knighton, Maxwell, Sky TV and the Glazer takeover come under the lens of Daily Telegraph journalist Mihir Bose.

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The treasures of Manchester United. Hidden gems: the fixture list for Newton Heath in the 1800's, team lists (99 European Cup team list), contracts (Duncan Edwards) and even George Best's clothes label, when he owned a shop in Manchester city centre.

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The Rough Guide to Manchester United 2003-2004.

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The Official Manchester United Annual 2010.

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The Official Manchester United Annual 2009.

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The Official Manchester United Annual 2005.

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The Official Manchester United Annual. Hidden gems: the fixture list for Newton Heath in the 1800's, team lists (99 European Cup team list), contracts (Duncan Edwards) and even George Best's clothes label, when he owned a shop in Manchester city centre.

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Author: Ken Ferris; Published by Mainstream Sport

Manchester United in Europe: Tragedy, Destiny, History.

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Manchester United champions again.

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Manchester United: all the facts and figures on Manchester United.

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OK! So you're a United fan - but how much do you really know about your club? Now with this book you can test your knowledge of all things Red with the ultimate United crossword puzzle book. The book asks you to pit your wits (crossword style) against over 1,200 clues.

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Manchester United Supporters pack. The pack contains an impressive array of officially endorsed Man Utd paraphernalia.

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Manchester United Players & Ex-Players

Ryan Giggs, a United legend, holds the record for the highest number of appearances for Manchester United.

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3-DVD box set of Eric Cantona's years at Old Trafford.

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A rediscovery of two of Manchester United's greatest ever players - Duncan Edwards, killed in the Munich crash and George Best, who killed himself through drink. "A remarkable piece of work that aims to mix biography with the modern novel and pulls it off...Best and Edwards is an unusually lucid journey through the past." Taylor Parkes, When Saturday Comes

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Sir Bobby Charlton writes as he played with dignity, flair and no little skill. This long-awaited book covers the Munich disaster in a sensitive retelling of a survivor who would never forget those who died around him and the highs-and-lows of a 17-year career with Manchester United, as one of the club's greatest-ever players.

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Candid recollections of Manchester United players from the 90s. Andy Mitten has tracked down ten of the stars from that team - including Eric Cantona, Andrew Cole, Lee Sharpe, and Nicky Butt as well as controversial chairman Martin Edwards.

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Candid recollections of Manchester United players from the 80s. "What nostalgia is all about." Jim White The Daily Telegraph

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Denis Law, Bobby Charlton, George Best, Eric Cantona, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Andrew Cole, Dwight Yorke, Mark Hughes.....
The definitive guide to the best Manchester United strikers of the last five decades.

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In 2000, the Manchester United magazine invited its readers to vote on their top Reds player of all time and Manchester United 100 Greatest Players was published the following year to celebrate the club's centenary as Manchester United. This all-new edition will contain the result of a new poll, carried out by United, the Official Manchester United Magazine, during summer 2003.

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The best-selling autobiography of Manchester United's controversial captain: early days, Forest, United and Alf Inge Haaland. One of the best books on football to be published in recent years.

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by Conor O'Callaghan

Roy Keane and the football civil war in Ireland between Keanites and McCarthyites - a fan's notes by prize-winning poet Conor O'Callaghan.

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60 pages on Manchester United's Irish hard man.

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Roy Keane: The biography. The on-field driving force behind United's continuing domination of English football.

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The autobiography of Manchester United's Eric Cantona: karate kicks, seagulls and great goals in the life of Cantona.

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The autobiography of a goal-scoring legend - Denis Law, European Footballer of the Year in 1964 and idol of the Stretford End.

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Wayne Rooney

The autobiography (with a little help from Hunter Davies) of England's and United's greatest player.

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Mike Parry

TalkSports Mike Parry, an Evertonian, recalls Rooney's acrimonious move to Old Trafford from Goodison Park and his explosive start to his Manchester United career.

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George Best, flawed genius, in his own words. More George Best stories and apocrypha: Ms World, a hotel room and champagne, George Carman QC's wife, Lyndsey De Paul, sex at half-time. Have we had enough of this?

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George Best: the autobiography co-authored with Roy Collins.

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The book recalls the moments in George Best's life that gave him the greatest pleasure, the loudest laughs, the banter, pranks and anecdotes that make up a life in football.

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George Best on DVD. Depending on your point of view, George Best is either the carefree hedonist who played football for the love of it, and gleefully enjoyed the fringe benefits (booze 'n' birds) which came with the territory, or he is the sad, shambolic, wife-beating alcoholic who frittered away his God-given gifts.

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The book follows the 1966 World Cup winning Charlton brothers from childhood through their respective playing careers with Manchester United, and Leeds, their England glory, managerial successes and failures to their current state of semi-retirement, and digs out some illuminating stuff along the way.

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This fully illustrated hardback publication relives Norman Whiteside's outstanding but tragically short career with Manchester United FC.

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Foreword by George Best. This book tells the inside story of one of the most important years of the world's biggest club. Gregg was an important political figure at Manchester United, a leader of the old guard and one of Matt Busby's closest "boys". He tells of the triumphs of the Babes, the 1958 Cup run, and the continent-conquering Sixties rebirth. He also looks at the darker days, misdeeds and boardroom moves as the Edwards dynasty tightened its grip.

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The autobiography. The euphoria of a small, balding character is the image people recall most happily of England's 1966 World Cup triumph. But, as After The Ball proves, far from being the genial uncle of our collective memory, Nobby Stiles was just 24 on that historic day at Wembley.

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The autobiography. A United legend for over a decade, the flying Welsh winger in his own words and the man behind the famous number 11 red shirt.

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Lee Sharpe burst on to the United scene as a 17-year old winger before falling out with Fergie and moving on. An honest account of his rise and fall in football.

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The cornerstone of Man Utd's success in the 90s, the "Great Dane" has never been replaced in goal and remains an Old Trafford legend.

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Manchester United Managers & Ex-Managers

Alex Ferguson, Manchester United's most successful manager, in his own words. From son of a ship builder on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow to boss of one of Europe's top clubs.

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The many sides of Alex Ferguson by Michael Crick. The Boss is essential reading not just for Manchester United fans and football followers in general, but for anyone interested in the skills of successful management.

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ISBN: 0750936754
192 pp

Interesting read on the Beckham - Ferguson relationship and their subsequent well-publicized bust-up.

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The autobiography of Ron Atkinson - all flash suits and fresh sun-tan. Ron Atkinson lives up to his irreverent, opinionated and flash image in this entertaining journey down memory lane.

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The Busby Years. When Manchester United’s directors appointed Matt Busby as manager in 1945 they made the most significant decision in the club’s history. In his first six years in charge, United never finished lower than fourth in the top flight and in 1952 they secured their first League title for 41 years.

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Busby Babes

by Roy Cavanagh, Brian Hughes

The Times Book of the Month, January 2002; the co-authors deserve considerable praise for the depth of their research, especially of their subject's all-conquering exploits in schools football.

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by Brian Hughes

Tommy Taylor - the smiling executioner. When Tommy Taylor signed for Manchester United from Barnsley in 1953 he was generally regarded as the finishing touch to Sir Matt Busby’s famous Babes.

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by Jeff Connor

The author looks at the struggle of the Busby Babes who did not go on to resurrect their careers after the fatal air crash in Munich in 1958. In 1997, Uefa invited the surviving members of the disaster to Manchester United's Champions League match with Bayern and from this meeting the players - with the exception of Bobby Charlton - decided to petition Manchester United for compensation for relatives and themselves for what occured nearly 40 years previously. Finally a benefit game was organized for the survivors, men such as Albert Scanlon and Johnny Berry, who unlike Charlton, were never the same dominant players again.

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by Iain McCartney

Roger Byrne: captain of the 'Busby Babes'. A great captain of a great team. Manchester United have enjoyed more than their fair share of great players down the years, but none has been more committed to the cause than the subject of this biography, Roger Byrne.

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Release Date: April 26, 1999

Duncan Edwards. A tribute to the man who was destined to become one of the greatest footballers of all time until his life was cut tragically short by the Munich air disaster in 1958.

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by Brian Hughes

When Jimmy Murphy arrived at Old Trafford in 1946 he was greeted by the ruins of what had once been one of the wonders of pre-war Manchester. The stadium was a bombed-out wreck while the players trained on a patch of dangerous gravel not fit for a modern day car park and the club reeled from the embarassment of playing their ‘home’ games at Maine Road.

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by Jeff Connor

The Lost Babes. Eight Manchester United players died at Munich airport on February 6, 1958. A catastrophe with repercussions which linger to this day. Jeff Connor draws a dark portrait of a club that grew rich on the myth of Munich, while detailing the human tragedy in conversations and interviews with survivors.

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by Bill Foulkes & Ivan Ponting

Bill Foulkes is one of the key figures in the history of Manchester United.
Foulkes sheds new and candid light on the Old Trafford scene, as well as reflecting on his double life as a coal-mining England international and recounting cloak-and-dagger yarns from his Army days.

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Manchester United Related

by Iain McCartney

Manchester United are one of the world's most successful football clubs. In this book, Iain McCartney looks at the part Scotland has played in shaping United, including managers and players who have travelled to Old Trafford.

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Kevin Leyland

World Audience, Inc.
ISBN: 9781935444824; 186pp

The internet has spawned a new type of fan, one who never goes to matches but still calls themself a die-hard, and here is the evidence.
'Devil Worship', a recounting of Manchester United's 2008-'09 season, is subtitled 'A Fan's Voyage', but the only travelling Kevin Leyland does is to the nearest sports bar or his laptop. He lives in Georgia, USA you see, and chose to support Man U having watched them in the Champions League on ESPN - they're not so much in his blood as on his iPhone.
His devotion to their televised games is impressive, as his vivid descriptions of the action confirm, but you do start wondering why he does not just emigrate to England if he goes to such lengths never to miss a minute in the soccer-illiterate surroundings of the Deep South.
Leyland's crazy love sadly does not extend beyond an online relationship. There is no mention of Malcolm Glazer, FC United and the ownership saga, but then why should that affect a TV viewer thousands of miles away? Nor is there any reflection on the inequality of the Premier League, the glory-hunter accusation levelled at Man U fans worldwide, or why teams like Stoke and Wigan still have followers. It is just too easy to pick the richest and most successful team to cheer for isn't it, or has the underdog had its day?
Perhaps this is just a read for fellow US Man U fans rather than a 'Fever Pitch' for the digital generation. Only when Leyland leaves the TV soccer routine did I find myself hooked, as I am saturated with the Red Devils at the best of times.
You feel some warmth in 'Devil Worship' for a man's naive love for a faraway football team, but we still learn little of his innermost thoughts , which means that when it concludes with an unapologetically teenage outburst of 'Glory, glory..', it sadly wears its arriviste badge with pride.

Sean O'Conor

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by Andy Walsh & Adam Brown

Published by Mainstream

Describing in detail how the attempt by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB television company to buy Manchester United was halted, this book draws on a variety of sources to track the events following the announcement of the bid. It examines the reaction of both the media and the football world to the final outcome. After seven months of hard campaigning and a coalition of forces centred around the independent Manchester United Supporters Association, the British Government was forced to block the bid and save the club from becoming another of Murdoch's conquests. With American tycoon Malcolm Glazer now eyeing a takeover bid of Old Trafford this book is a pertinent read.

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by David Blatt

Author's wife: "I’ve just read it. I’ll kill him when he gets home."

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by Adrian Sherling

An ironic look at Manchester United under the Malcolm Glazer regime as seen through the eyes of a 12-year-old fictional United fan from the USA - Roswell P Shambling.

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by Colin Shindler

As a young Jewish boy growing up in Manchester, Colin Shindler learned early what it meant to be part of a minority. When a cruel twist of fate determined he support Manchester City, rather than their more consistently successful neighbours Manchester United, the youngster was doomed forever to live on the margins.

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by Colin Shindler

Colin Shindler traces the careers of the 21 players who along with George Best were part of the Manchester United and Manchester City teams that met in the 1964 FA Youth Cup semi-final. John Aston, David Sadler and George Best, of course, went on to play for United in the 1968 European Cup final and Dave Connor, Mike Doyle and Glyn Pardoe were all part of City's successful teams of the late 1960s. Schindler's book, though, is as much about the footballers who didn't make it to the top level as those that did.

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by Chris Moore

Theatre of Dreams: A Lifetime of Devotion to Manchester United - a fan's story

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From the creators of "They Think It's All Over", this is a twisted and amusing history of Manchester United Football Club. It relives the comical moments from the last 30 years, including the thrashings, the humiliating Cup defeats, and the shameful exits from Europe. It contains the fictional diaries of Manchester United fans, from Truro to Trondheim and a "Pin Manchester on the Map" game to play with your friends.

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Manchester United Toys & Games

"Monopoly" - the Manchester United edition. Gameboard:8 playing tokens:2 dice:32 stands:12 stadiums:1 property pouch:28 title deed cards:16 home cards:16 away cards:1 pack of Monopoly money:1 money box:1 removable money tray: instructions.

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Fred The Red Beanie available in 8 and 10 inch versions: Born To Play

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Manchester United Chanting Bear.

* Complete with Man Utd t-shirt
* Battery requirements: 3 x AA
* Manufacturers Recommended Age: 3 years plus

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