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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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  • successes, while Sir Matt Busby was the club's first generational manager. Busby built a team with an average age of 22 nicknamed the Busby Babes that won successive...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Wolverhampton Wanderers (5) Matt Busby 1956–57 Manchester United (5) Tottenham Hotspur (3) Preston North End (2) Matt Busby 1957–58 Wolverhampton Wanderers...
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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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    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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  • fourth place in 1948 at the second Games hosted in London, under manager Matt Busby. After the FA abolished the distinction between amateur and professional...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Sir Matt Busby Sports Complex is a public leisure centre located in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is named in honour of Sir Matt Busby, the...
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    the 1957–58 season, steering the club through its greatest crisis while Matt Busby recovered from his injuries, and Murphy put together a makeshift team...
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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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    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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  • United from 1948 until 1958. He was one of the Busby Babes, the young team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s. Bent only made twelve first-team...
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  • Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020. Bullin, Matt (18 May 2019). "Man City win treble – how impressive is that achievement...
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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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    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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    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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    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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