Busby Babes
Busby Babes informal name given to the young football players recruited for Manchester United by Matt Busby (1909–94), the Scottish-born football manager. An air crash at Munich airport in 1958 killed most of the side, but he reconstructed the team and won the European Cup in 1968.
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