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Matt Busby is number 12 in the Top 50 series of the best managers of all time 90 minutes. Follow the rest of the series over the next three weeks.
A flawless stay
These days, United is one of the biggest clubs in the world, a truly iconic football institution and one of only five to have completed the series of three major European trophies.
When Busby, a former Manchester City player and captain of Liverpool, was named at the end of the Second World War in 1945, the club was 14 years away from bankruptcy for the second time and spent much of the 1930s in the second division.
After being rescued from bankruptcy in 1902 by four local businessmen each investing £ 500 (Newton Heath's decision in Manchester United), the club was rescued again in 1931 when James W. Gibson invested £ 2,000 and more. take over.
The end of the 1930s also saw the birth of something that would soon define the Busby era in the decades to come, but also every chapter in the history of the club, as well as those to come: the launch of Manchester United Junior. Athletic Club.
Arriving at the end of the global conflict that put football clubs in England in abeyance for several years, Busby has fully embraced the new approach of spotting young talent from across the UK and Ireland, United. engaging to develop his own players. at a time when buying and selling older and more established players was the norm for most.
Busby immediately benefited. His first club captain, Johnny Carey, had been recruited in Ireland and joined United at age 17 in 1936, while strikers Stan Pearson and Jack Rowley, the latter still the club's fourth all-time scorers, respectively joined 16 and 19 years old.
Charlie Mitten and Johnny Morris, who along with Pearson, Rowley and Scottish winger Jimmy Delaney, were part of Busby's "Famous Five", were also discovered in adolescence in the late 1930s. Defenders John Aston Sr. and Allenby Chilton had similar stories and were all part of the 1948 FA Cup winning team, the first Busby Trophy as manager and the first major United treasurer since 1911.
In four of the first five seasons of post-war football, United finishes second in division 1 and has never pbaded ninth place since 1913. In the sixth season, Busby United is crowned champion of 39; England. It was the first of his three big teams at Old Trafford.
Career Honors
| England Cup (1947/48, 1962/63) |
| First division (1951/52, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1964/65, 1966/67) |
| European Cup (1968) |
| PFA Award of Merit (1980) |
| English Football Hall of Fame (2002) |
When Busby was appointed in 1945, he insisted on getting a longer contract than the one originally proposed by the club, knowing that success required time and patience. He also asked the authority to appoint his own staff, to act on his own judgment and to handle in general all aspects of football operations on an unprecedented scale – the birth of the 'director's model'. almighty "that Sir Alex Ferguson would also follow a half-year. century later.
Busby knew how to lead and manage. He knew what made each of his players vibrate and would protect them from bad reviews after a bad performance, feeling a waste of time reading the newspapers in such circumstances.
"He knew the names of everyone's wife, their children, and their parents, and he often asked them for news," said Denis Law in his 2003 book, "The King." It is a quality that Ferguson also alluded to in his own 1999 autobiography, "Managing My Life," which he later became famous for. By taking such an interest, making it personal and gaining the confidence of his players, Busby was able to mold individuals who simply worshiped him, adhered to his teachings and gave everything for him and the United jersey they wore. .
In 1991, Eamon Dunphy wrote that even the greatest players needed Busby's "attention and affection" and that his mere presence would make high performance athletes "unsatisfactory". His players wanted nothing more than to please him and that is what made the success of his teams.
In addition, in his second autobiography in 2013, Ferguson called United a "club that bases all its history and tradition on loyalty and trust between leaders and players and the club," he said. "goes back to the era of Mr. Matt Busby.
It was one of Busby's many legacies at Old Trafford, one that continued to define the club. It was the same with his vision of a dynamic, offensive and entertaining football – "the united way", as it is now called, and which was sadly missing at the club in recent years.
In his autobiography 2007, "My Manchester United Years", Sir Bobby Charlton recalled that Busby had preached that the "duty" of the footballer was to "entertain", to give a little spark, a little color to men and women who come to Old Trafford at the end of a week of work.
After his first victories at United and the growing success of the club's monitoring and youth team activities, so wonderfully supervised by the great friend and badistant Jimmy Murphy, Busby was able to move up to the mid-fifties.
Players like Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, Liam Whelan, David Pegg, Eddie Colman, Dennis Viollet, Bill Foulkes and Bobby Charlton have emerged from the ranks of youth, players found on the grounds of Manchester and beyond. New captain Roger Byrne is another, who made his debut in the first team in the 1951/52 title season and has become almost always present.
Despite his commitment to player development, Busby was never afraid to spend money when it was justified. Tommy Taylor, 21, was bought for a hefty £ 29,999 in 1953 and quickly became a prolific scorer. Busby also spent record fees on the goalkeeper on Harry Gregg in 1957 and, a few years later, a British record of £ 115,000 on Denis Law in 1962.
The & # 39; Busby Babes & # 39; were the core of the winning teams in 1955/56 and 1956/57 and were one of the most exciting teams, not only in England but throughout Europe. Continental competition was obviously the next step and when Chelsea declined to participate in the first European Cup in 1955 after the AF and Football League objections, Busby defied similar orders and took his second big squad of United on a whole new territory abroad.
As England's champion, United has qualified for the semi-finals of the 1956/57 European Cup. The young team lost only against Real Madrid, title holder. They had to join the last four clubs the following season after defeating Red Star Belgrade in the quarterfinals, but an unthinkable tragedy occurred during the return trip at a refueling stop in Munich. .
Although close to death and spending many weeks at the Munich Rechts der Isar hospital, Busby survived the Munich air disaster in February 1958. But it broke his heart to see eight of his players, three of its staff, eight traveling journalists and two other pbadengers do not.
Jones, Whelan, Pegg, Colman, Byrne and Taylor, as well as Geoff Bent, were killed instantly. Edwards, a player who has every chance of becoming one of the greatest players of all time without his life, survived the crash but died 15 days later at the hospital.
Like the one who insisted on venturing into Europe, Busby was devastated. He wanted to retire, but was persuaded to continue so that those who had lost their lives did not do so in vain.
Managed teams
| Manchester United | [1945-1969[1945-1969 |
| Great Britain | 1948 |
| Scotland | 1958 |
| Manchester United | 1970 – 1971 |
Faithful to his loyal services, including the Charlton and Foulkes survivors, Busby began rebuilding, staying true to the principles that had served him so well. George Best was discovered in Northern Ireland at the age of 15 in 1961. Law was a big buy for Torino, and Charlton became more and more powerful. All three will win the Golden Ball in the 1960s, as the club is reborn from its ashes in Munich.
In 1968, ten years had pbaded since the tragedy. United was twice crowned First Division Champion and participated in a first European Cup final. This was the third big Busby team. Like the others, it was filled with home-grown players developed at Old Trafford.
Alongside Charlton, Best and Foulkes; Nobby Stiles, Shay Brennan, Tony Dunne, Brian Kidd, David Sadler and John Aston Jr. were found by all teenagers when United found them. Together they and Busby have raised the European Cup, the first English club to be crowned champion of Europe.
Knighted in 1968, Busby announced his first retirement a year later, returning briefly in 1970. He had built three exceptional teams at Manchester United, each of which achieved a little more than the previous one. He had taken the club from abject mediocrity to the apogee of national and international football, defining in the stones an indisputable identity and a legacy that has served the club since and will remain so for many more years.
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