When his coffin took shortly before three o'clock on Tuesday adorned with white roses, Denis Law's voice resonated in Manchester's cathedral inviting his old friend served Rod Stewart to play him with his interpretation of Angel. He always had style.
Outside, among the tributes to the man known simply as the King for the Manchester United fans, Stewart had sent a crown of flowers in the form of Scottish skip with the message: “You are, and you will always be, my football hero.”
It is not alone in the Adoration Law. Sir Alex Ferguson confessed to being amazed at him during his praise on Tuesday using the delayed flight of the United of Greece to better know his hero.
Ferguson highlighted the courage and determination of his Scottish partner to explain why the law will fall into the pantheon of the greats.
'He would fight with his grandmother for a goal. He showed the courage that very, very few players show, 'he said, laughing at the image of a' skinny 'law that balanced Jack Charlton.
“That has a lot to do with why the king called him because he showed the people of Manchester United who won that at the end of the day.”
Denis Law's coffin took shortly before three o'clock on Tuesday adorned with white roses
The legendary former Manchester United striker was buried after a move ceremony in the Manchester cathedral
Sir Alex Ferguson confessed to being amazed at Denis' law in a moving praise on Tuesday
A cheerful and emotional celebration of the life of the law after his death at the age of 84 last month attracted the football stars of all generations.
There were his former United teammates who won the European Cup with Sir Matt Busby, Alex Stepney, Paddy Crerand and Brian Kidd, along with other greats of Old Trafford such as Bryan Robson, Wayne Rooney, Peter Schmeichel and Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
'He was a very reserved person, Denis. Real shy, '' Kidd recalled. 'You wouldn't have thought that when you saw him in the field, but he was.
'He was a wonderful person. Very humble. I will never forget it, The Lawman.
Mike Summerbee, a Manchester City legend, joined the international companions of Scotland Sir Kenny Dalgly and Joe Jordan.
There was a delegation from Huddersfield Town, the first Law after home in Aberdeen at the age of 15 to embark on a brilliant football race.
The head coach of United, Ruben Amorim, arrived with the club's executives shortly before the Senior Bruno Fernandes players, Harry Maguire and goalkeeper Tom Heaton.
The courtship went to the cathedral through Old Trafford, where more mourners gathered, stopping moving in front of the statue of United Trinity, where the law is immortalized in bronze standing between Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best, an assembly raised in That iconic celebration.
The former United teammate Brian Kidd described Law as a “wonderful person” whose talent passed his shy.
The head coach of United, Ruben Amorim, arrived with club executives shortly before three game staff appeared.
Major players Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire and goalkeeper Tom Heaton attended
Three winners of Ballon d'Or and the law are the only Scottish to receive the honor. Best's son, Felum, was there on Tuesday to say goodbye to his father's teammate.
“There is an English, an Irish and a Scotsman, do not worry, this will not be a joke of evil,” he smiled at Law Diana during his praise.
“Everyone is there in the sky, gathered, smiling, and I would like to think that a team has started with everyone else.”
Growing up in Aberdeen, the youngest of seven children, described how the law would always play football on the street “even sometimes without football”, and rejected the grammar school because they only played rugby there.
How an operation in Huddersfield to correct an interference of childhood had changed his life and career. “Although all the life was thrown to this young woman and with eyes of eyes, she seemed adversity in the eye and did not blink.”
The story of how he met his late wife Diana in a dance hall in Scotland and promised six weeks later.
And how, despite the taste for the Italian costumes of his brief period in Torino and the extravagant style, the son of an Aberdeen fisherman liked nothing more than returning to his roots or spending time with his five children and the grandchildren who worshiped .
“He loved to return home with the smell of the sea, sit on the beach in his favorite place with a view to the port, usually with a fish dinner and fried potatoes and a cup of tea.” When we left the cathedral under heavens properly led with the old recording of the Law duo with Sir Rod still playing in our ears, it was difficult to think of a better tribute than this.
“Trying to place Denis in the pantheon of the big players is a challenge, but Pelé makes it easier,” said Ferguson. 'He was asked if there was a British player who could play for the Brazilian team. He said without mistake, Denis Law.