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'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver has become an Old Trafford anthem, with the song played before every Manchester United home game. But why?

The track has been a United anthem for many years, with fans tweaking the lyrics to: "Take me home, United Road, to the place I belong. To Old Trafford, to see United, take me home, United Road!"

United captain Bruno Fernandes recently sat down with the club's in-house media team to discuss how the idea to play the song ahead of kick-off at Old Trafford came about.

"It's a song that everyone knows in the dressing room and so it's a popular song for us in the dressing room," he told MUTV . "The understanding we have from the outside was it was one of the most popular songs for the club, the lyrics 'at home' works well so

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