" United - the Manchester United Opus - was launched for pre-orders yesterday at Old Trafford by Sir Bobby Charlton and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but anyone rushing to buy it may be well advised to pause and consider a few pertinent statistics. Weighing 5st 7lb - 35kg - and measuring half-a-metre square, this is not so much a coffee-table book as a coffee table."

"And the cost? Well, let's look at the cheaper end of things first. There is a print run of 9,000 containing the signatures of both Charlton and his fellow knight Alex Ferguson which would only set you back $5,300 (£3,000). You could spend more - $7,100 (£4,050) - for one of the 1,000 versions which also include signatures from Eric Cantona and Bryan Robson."

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