Grassland Blue
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I think that Sir Matt Busby was utds' greatest manager ever.Hi, Shirley. My dad had a spell going one week to City, next to the rags with his mate. Both Blues. When I asked him about it many years later, he explained they went because of the City link with Busby and the ‘babes’ were a good team to watch. But he also noted it was a different atmosphere at OT, less humour, a little more ‘intense’. I don’t recall him ever saying anything about actual violence.
When the Munich air crash happened, he said attendances went through the roof and it was a lot more difficult getting in. Think they went twice more and sacked it off; just City from then on.
Not a 'myth', but pre-60's though so maybe different...
Not in terms of trophies won of course, but the way he acted in the immediate aftermath of the plane crash and the way he rebuilt the team and got them to win the European Cup 10 years later.