Editing Alex Stepney (section)

==Later career==
The following year, Stepney was again not an automatic choice, playing 23 of United's 42 games in the league. He played the last of his 546 games for Manchester United in April 1978, prior to leaving for [[Dallas Tornado]] in the [[North American Soccer League (1968–1984)|North American Soccer League]] in the United States, where he remained until he retired from professional football in 1980.

He kept 175 [[clean sheet]]s, made a club record 92 consecutive appearances (later broken by [[Steve Coppell]]) and, with those two goals, remains United's top scoring goalkeeper. Aside from [[Peter Schmeichel]] (who scored in a [[1995–96 UEFA Cup]] game), no other Manchester United goalkeeper has scored in a competitive game for the club after [[World War II]].

Towards the end of his career, he turned out for non-league side [[Altrincham F.C.|Altrincham]] in the early 1980s, when they were competing in the [[National League (English football)|Alliance Premier League]]. He helped them win the Alliance Premier League title in [[1980–81 in English football|1980–81]] (they had won it the [[1979–80 in English football|1979–80 season]] as well), but they did not win promotion to the [[English Football League|Football League]] as the re-election system was still in place and the majority of the league's members voted against them joining the Football League, ending Stepney's hopes of a professional comeback.

Stepney became a goalkeeping coach after he stopped playing, including a spell at Manchester City in 2000–01. He also works as an [[public speaking|after-dinner speaker]] and currently hosts The Legends Football Phone in on [[105.4 Century Radio]] in Manchester, replacing [[Mickey Thomas (footballer)|Mickey Thomas]] – another former Manchester United player.