COMPETITION: “United” Busby Babes DVD
July 15, 2011 64 Comments
In April, the BBC showed a drama called “United” which was based on the Busby Babes leading up to the Munich Air Disaster. This will be released on DVD on August 8th and RoM has got two copies of it to give away. Question: How many league titles did the Busby Babes win before Munich? [...]
Eddie Lewis – Farewell to a Busby Babe
May 2, 2011 43 Comments
Eddie Lewis, one of the original Busby Babes, has sadly lost his battle with cancer today. He was born in Manchester in 1935 and played for Goslings before joining the Manchester United Junior Athletic Club. Lewis joined United in 1947 and made a total of 24 appearances, scoring 11 goals. He left United for Preston [...]
VIDEO: Sir Matt Interview On His Best Side
April 25, 2011 102 Comments
This is an interview with Sir Matt Busby taken form 1973, two years after he had stopped being our manager after filling in after Wilf McGuinness was sacked.
Nat Lofthouse, United and the Bolton 1958 FA Cup Final
January 21, 2011 26 Comments
Nat Lofthouse, United and the 1958 FA Cup Final My oldest friend is a life-long Bolton Wanderers supporter. That’s why for more than fifty of the sixty-odd years I have known him we have argued about whether Nat Lofthouse, who sadly died earlier this month at the age of 85, fouled Manchester United’s goalkeeper Harry Gregg in the 1958 FA Cup [...]
Blackpool, Stanley Matthews and United’s ‘dwarf of football magic’
December 3, 2010 34 Comments
In some ways the enjoyment of football is like seeking a perpetual return to the freedoms of childhood, with all its agonies and ecstasies. Perhaps that’s why I’m so pleased to see Blackpool FC back where they belong, in the top division, trying to play progressive, attractive football in the best traditions of the club, [...]
Harry Gregg’s ‘punch-up’ at Luton in April 1960: New witnesses, 50 years on
April 7, 2010 10 Comments
Fifty years ago this week, some two years after the Munich Air Disaster, Harry Gregg, hero of the crash and Manchester United goalkeeper, knocked out a spectator who had rushed onto the pitch at the end of a match against Luton Town. The man suffered severe facial bruising and had to go to hospital for [...]
Who put the ball in the Germans’ net? Albert Quixall!
March 30, 2010 29 Comments
Everyone who’s ever seen a Manchester United ‘golden moments’ showreel from the 1990s will know all about David Beckham’s astonishing strike from the halfway line against Wimbledon in ’96, summed up in Eric Cantona’s immortal words: ‘Good goal, David.’ Well, a similar goal has been scored once before in United’s history. Against Bayern Munich.
Watching United 50 Years Ago: Fulham v Man United, March 26th 1960
March 14, 2010 70 Comments
Ahead of our game against Fulham, Giles Oakley has reflected on United vs Fulham over the years.
Remembering Albert Scanlon: A Fan’s Tribute
January 11, 2010 20 Comments
He hurtles down the muddy left touchline, shoulders square on, head down, shorts hitched up, plain white socks a blur, heavy brown lace-up football at his feet as he bursts past floundering defenders to the by-line before launching a cross into the path of an on-rushing team-mate. It could be to Bobby Charlton for a [...]
Hitting the Fan with United (Part One): Homage to Harry Gregg
August 15, 2009 20 Comments
Giles Oakley has offered us some more insight to United of days gone by, looking at the best ‘street-fighters’ at United, in two parts.
Scouse Media Responds To SOS Munich Chant
June 10, 2009 31 Comments
The Liverpool Echo has brought attention to the ‘Spirit of Shankly’ end of season party, which saw a performer on stage chanting Munich and the crowd around him doing the same. The SOS issued an appology two weeks after the incident, following video recordings from a guest’s mobile phone finding it’s way on to the [...]
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