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    Busby's mother was left to raise Matt and his three sisters alone until her marriage to a man called Harry Matthie in 1919.[citation needed] Busby was...
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    The Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year, previously known as the MUFC Members Player of the Year (1988–1995), is an award presented to the Manchester United...
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    youth team into the first team under the management of the eponymous Matt Busby from the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. The squad most associated...
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    Sir Matt Busby Way is a road in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is the location of Manchester United's Old Trafford football ground. Formerly...
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  • once each. Appointed as manager in 1945, Matt Busby built a team with an average age of just 22 nicknamed the Busby Babes that won successive league titles...
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    the Second World War. Before the end of the war, the club approached Matt Busby, who had just turned down the opportunity to join the coaching staff at...
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    of Matt Busby as the club's manager; he demanded an unprecedented level of control over team selection, player transfers and training sessions. Busby led...
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    Blackpool Wolverhampton Wanderers Matt Busby 1956–57 Manchester United (5) Tottenham Hotspur Preston North End Matt Busby 1957–58 Wolverhampton Wanderers...
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    September, Fernandes was named as the winner of Manchester United's Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year award, given to the club's best player from the previous...
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    Football League Cup, and FA Community Shield, along with winning the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year twice. Van Nistelrooy scored 150 goals in just 219...
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    Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019. "Sir Matt Busby". League Managers Association. Archived from the original on 26 April...
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    sixteen, in a 2–1 win over Notts County. Manchester United's manager Matt Busby shortly offered Huddersfield £10,000 for Law, a substantial amount of...
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    and Irish citizenship. He is the great-nephew of football manager Sir Matt Busby. He studied drama in Dublin in 1981 and received a scholarship to Mountview...
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    consecutive seasons from 2013–14 to 2015–16, he was elected as United's Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year, the first player in the award's history to win on...
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  • events, it stars Brian Cox as legendary Scottish football manager Sir Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to coach a team of young working-class boys...
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    won by Manchester United, managed by Matt Busby. The Football League again denied their champions entry, but Busby and his chairman, Harold Hardman, with...
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    portrayed football manager Matt Busby in the BBC TV drama United, which was centred on the Munich air disaster of 1958, in which Busby was badly injured but...
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    England national team. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s, playing 177 matches for...
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    twice for England in his short playing career. McGuinness succeeded Sir Matt Busby as manager of Manchester United in 1969. Following his tenure at the Manchester...
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    United Trinity", was unveiled across Sir Matt Busby Way from the East Stand, directly opposite the statue of Busby. The Manchester United club shop has had...
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    Order of the British Empire (CBE) Sir Matt Busby – 1958 Sir Alex Ferguson – 1995 Knight Bachelor Sir Matt Busby – 1968 Sir Alex Ferguson – 1999 BBC Sports...
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    had spotted his talent at the age of 15 sending a telegram to manager Matt Busby which read: "I think I've found you a genius". After making his debut...
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  • they then lost to Paraguay and France and went out at the first stage. Matt Busby had been due to manage the team at the World Cup, but the severe injuries...
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  • last game of the 1962–63 Football League First Division season, when Matt Busby elected to rest several first team players ahead of the 1963 FA Cup Final;...
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    clear homage to the Busby Babes, the famously youthful Manchester United team assembled by the club's former manager Sir Matt Busby and his assistant coach...
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    1890s to the 1940s, most notably putting them in contact with Matt Busby in 1945; Busby would go on to manage the club for 25 years. A family of Italian...
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    Shaw was voted Manchester United Players' Player of the Year and Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year. On 5 March 2020, Shaw scored his only goal of this...
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    the 1957–58 season, steering the club through its greatest crisis while Matt Busby recovered from his injuries, and put together a makeshift team in place...
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    He starred in Believe as the legendary Scottish football manager Sir Matt Busby who returns from retirement to coach a group of young working-class boys...
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  • 1956 as manager Matt Busby gives Charlton his first chance to play a match with Manchester United's first team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes" due to their...
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