Manchester Utd fans in Cornwall and Plymouth will soon have the opportunity to see and perhaps meet one of the club's most famous post-war heroes when Norman Whiteside appears as guest speaker at a specially-arranged dinner by the Cornwall\Plymouth branch of the ManU Supporters Club.

"Big Norm" will be joined by top comedian Austin Knight for the evening which also includes a three course dinner at the Moorland Links Hotel, Yelverton on Sat Oct 2 at 7.00 pm.

Tickets are still available to non-members at 325 each and anyone interested should write to Graham Kingdom (MUSC Social Secretary) MUSC Plymouth Branch, PO Box 10, Plymouth PL4 6YH or ring Liskeard's Tim Hyslop on 01503 272661.

There are some 40 East Cornwall based members in the MUSC with 20 from the Liskeard area.

Whiteside made his debut for ManU as a 16-y-o sub at Brighton in the 1981-2 season and scored on his full debut against Stoke a couple of months before becoming, at 17, the youngest player to appear in the world cup finals.

Less than a year later in 1983 Norman became the youngest scorer in a Wembley final when he netted against Liverpool in the Milk Cup and, two months later, he inscribed his name on another page of Wembley history as the youngest scorer in a FA Cup final as he nodded home Utd's second in their 4-0 replay victory against Brighton.

In 1985 Whiteside delivered his coup-de-grace, a magnificent curler of a shot bending in at Neville Southall's far post to win the FA cup final against their Scouser rivals when the United side were down to 10 men.

Injury forced him to retire from the game at 25.