MANCHESTER UNITED are set to hand a title winners’ medal to a Hollywood superstar.
That’s after his dad won the league with United 71 years ago.
Harry McShane is set to be awarded a posthumous league winners’ medal by Man Utd
Hollywood star son Ian McShane will collect the award after Harry passed away 11 years ago
Harry McShane, who passed away at the age of 92 in 2012, scored eight goals in 57 games for United between 1950 and 1954.
The Scot also played for Blackburn, Huddersfield, Bolton and Oldham.
But McShane’s greatest career moment came when United won the Football League First Division title in 1952.
He played 12 times that term and even scored the winner in the Manchester derby.
However, McShane was cruelly denied a winners’ medal as he fell short of appearance regulations by just two matches.
Yet there is now good news for his family, with Man Utd successfully appealing to the EFL to grant McShane his medal.
Current regulations mean former stars can be recognised if they played just five times.
And McShane’s Hollywood superstar son Ian has been invited to Old Trafford for a special ceremony.
McShane is best known for his award-winning role on hit show Deadwood
The 80-year-old won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 2005 after playing Al Swearengen in HBO’s smash hit Western TV show Deadwood.
Ian has also featured in Tinseltown box-office successes like Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean and John Wick.
And he will now collect a winners’ medal on dad Harry’s behalf in front of 75,000 fans at a Premier League game next season.
But McShane isn’t the only ex-United star to be honoured.
A lengthy research process revealed that 20 former players are owed a total of 23 medals.
Just eight of them are still alive, with the likes of David Gaskell and Steve Coppell set to attend the event.
