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Ed Woodward promised Manchester United would 'have a think' about restoring the words 'Football Club' to the crest two years ago but Adidas Originals have done it already.

The two words that were removed from the badge 17 years ago are back on official Originals gear released in homage to United's 1980s exploits in the Three Stripes.

Originals have released T-shirts, retro jerseys, hoodies and tracksuit tops following the launch of United's popular first-team strips in August.

In the decade of Atkinson, Robson and Whiteside, Adidas Originals designed a raft of memorable kits which United tweaked as part of their retro collection on the club website.

However, Adidas' return to the United kit has allowed Originals to strike a chord with time-served and nostalgic Reds.

Two years ago, Woodward vowed United would reinstate Football Club, first inscribed on the club crest in 1960s programmes, to the badge.

"I didn’t like that change of badge," Woodward said in July 2013. "Joel [Glazer] didn’t like that change. We will look at that and have a think about that. We are a football club, not a business.

"I described it to our staff that we are a 135-year-old club and that’s what you have to remember. We are a football club, a club with a capital C.

"Strapped to that is a commercial business that’s going to fund a lot of the player purchases going forward here and we have to be supportive of both.

"We’ve got to make sure they co-exist together but don’t impact each other and that’s where we are trying to balance it."