Matt Busby – Soccer at the top

Matt Busby Soccer at the top – My life in football

Sir Alexander Matthew Busby, CBE, KCSG was a Scottish football player and manager, who managed Manchester United between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time

Manager of Manchester United for twenty-three years, Sir Matt Busby was and remains one of soccer’s most respected and influential figures. The phenomenal success of the team he created brought both club and manager international fame at the top of the world’s most competitive professional game. This is Matt Busby’s own story of his life in football and what it has meant to be manager of the best-known football club in the world. His involvement with United began just after the Second World War. He describes vividly the ups and downs of those early years, followed by the triumphs of the `Busby babes’. Then came tragedy when eight of the players were killed in an air crash at Munich. Busby himself was injured almost fatally and his team virtually destroyed. Miraculously, through the sixties Manchester United was rebuilt until, in 1968, Sir Matt achieved his greatest triumph when United became the first, and as yet the only, English club to win the European Cup.

Matt Busby speaks frankly about his career the players he has handled over the years. He voices outspoken opinions on what is happening in football today his hopes for the future of Manchester United.

No one knows more than Matt Busby about the game to which he has devoted his life. His book is a must for everyone who has ever played or watched our national game.