In August 2021, it was announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Eoin McKiernan Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute and also received a presentation on behalf of the Washington Ireland Program from the Irish Taoiseach, Leo Vradkar.

The emergence of Dutch international Dennis Bergkamp in the 1990s uncovered a story that the player's parents were fans of Law and named their son after him. Born at Hendon in 1918, Denis Charles Scott Compton the "Brylcream Boy" was an outstanding sportsman who played for Middlesex from 1936 to 1958 and during the winter months represented Arsenal (1935 to 1949) at soccer where he gained a wartime international cap, a league championship and F. Despite the lack of silverware, Law enjoyed a prolific goalscoring season and finished the campaign with 46 goals in all competitions, still a club record today.

Although he had not played much first team football in the preceding season, Law was included in the squad and played in their first match, against Zaire. Leicester were strong favourites, having finished fourth in the league, but Law scored the first goal as United won 3–1 in what turned out to be the only FA Cup final of his career. He was regularly given cortisone injections to ease the pain, but playing while the knee was still injured was causing long-term damage.

Law played two games for Manchester City in the 1974–75 season, in the pre-season Texaco Cup tournament, scoring the last goal of his career in the game against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane on 6 August 1974.

Law was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, [1] to George Law, a fisherman, and his wife, Robina; he was the youngest of seven children, four boys and three girls.

Law scored in Scotland's famous 3–2 victory over England on 15 April 1967 in the 1967 British Home Championship, less than a year after England had become world champions. He initially had trouble finding work but began to gain notice after appearing in the comedy Breaking Away (1979) and the musical drama The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981), [7] During this time he appeared in numerous films such as the drama film Our Winning Season (1978), the comedy film The Seniors (1978), the romantic comedy All Night Long (1981), and the slapstick comedy Caveman (1981). Recently he has been employed at left back but could be moved into the centre for the World Cup where he plays much of his club football in Mexico. S. President Bill Clinton, alongside Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and Hope Davis as Hillary Clinton, in the HBO film The Special Relationship (2009).

The following season, Law injured his right knee while playing for Scotland against Poland on 21 October 1965. Law moved back to Manchester, boarding with the same landlady with whom he had lived during his time as a City player.