Manchester United anthem
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Most people consider this chant as Manchester United anthem. Have you ever listened to it?
The Busby Babes are mentioned in the lyrics, but perhaps you do not know who they were.
Matt Busby became manager at Old Trafford in 1945. Busby adopted a policy of bringing in players from the youth team whenever possible. The team won the league in 1956 and 1957 with an average age of only 21 and 22 respectively. The youth policy set in motion by Busby has now become a hallmark of the most successful periods in the history of the club (the mid-1950s, mid-to-late-1960s and 1990s). Busby’s original “crop” of youth players was referred to as the Busby Babes.
The Busby Babes were notable not only for being young and talented players, but for being developed by the club itself, rather than bought from other clubs, which was customary then, as now.
Eight of the Busby Babes died in 1958, when the plane carrying the team home from a European Cup match crashed on take-off at a refueling stop in Munich, Germany. The last remaining player of that group, Sir Robert (”Bobby”) Charlton, is considered to be one of the greatest English players of all time. He retired from playing in 1975, though he had left Manchester United two years earlier. He became a member of Manchester United’s board of directors in 1984.
