Book description
Manchester United are one of the biggest football clubs in the world.
Their fame has spread to the most remote corners on earth. The legend
grew out of one man's obsession with taking his club to the pinnacle
of the European game. Matt Busby was a visionary as well as an
exceptional manager, and he defied the Establishment by leading his
young English champions into Continental combat.
That crusade was cruelly savaged in 1958 when eight of his players
were killed in the Munich air crash. Busby survived and, amazingly,
rebuilt a side - including the revered trinity of Charlton, Law and
Best - which was good enough to win the League Championship twice and,
just a decade after the tragedy, realise the dream in that mesmeric
final against Benificia. England had its first champions of Europe.
This book celebrates the glory of '68 in the company of the Wembley
heroes and traces the club's decline and regeneration into a force
aspiring to relive the ultimate dream.
