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Its not often that British records are broken in football matches so its hats off to Dutch goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar who managed exactly that feat in Sundays encounter between Manchester United and West Ham United at Upton Park.

As the clock passed the 34 minute mark in Uniteds eventual 1 0 victory, the Dutch stopper, playing in Adidas Predator Powerswerve TRX football boots and Adidas Fingersave goalkeeping gloves, set a new mark for clean sheets.

In what turned out to be Uniteds 13th consecutive shut out, a result that also took them back to the top of the Premier League table, Van der Sar passed the existing record for not conceding a league goal which had been held at 1,115 minutes by Aberdeens Bobby Clark, set back in the 1970 / 71 season. Incidentally, Clark was still at Aberdeen when the current United boss Sir Alex Ferguson became manager in the late 70s.

By the end of the game, Van der Sar had upped the record to 1,212 minutes and is now close to the current world record which stands at 1,275 minutes by Atletico Madrids Abel Resino.

Speaking to Sky Sports, Van der Sar said:

West Ham away is a difficult match for us and has been over the years, so its a great result for us to come away with three points and leave with a clean sheet.

Its just hard work from everybody. Of course, you make a couple of saves, but the defenders are incredible with how they defend and how they clear the balls and everybody tracks back.

Its a team effort, its fantastic. Im very happy with it, but the main thing is we are back on top and lets hope we can stay there.

At 38, van der Sar is one of the old stagers in the United side, as was their match winner Ryan Giggs who ghosted past a couple of defenders in his Reebok Sprintfit Lites to slot in the winning goal on 62 minutes.