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My dad, Munich and the Busby Babes: United in grief

Players and staff members of the Manchester United football team and sport journalists prepare to board the BEA Elizabethan plane, which went on to crash in a blizzard on Munich airport on 6 February 1958.

2024-08-27  1110  困难

Busby, formerly of Manchester City and Liverpool, had been poised to accept a coaching position at Anfield, when he signed a three-year contract to manage United in February 1945. He was still a sergeant-major in the Physical Training Corps and could not start work until he had been demobbed, but once he did, he very much went about things his own way. He was the first “tracksuit manager”, training and coaching the players himself. In this task, though, he was assisted by Jimmy Murphy, perhaps the shrewdest signing Busby ever made.

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