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Sir Matt Busby

Sir Matt Busby was the man­ager at Manchester United from 1945 to 1969, tak­ing The Reds to both League and Cup hon­ours. When he died on 20 Janu­ary 1994, a vast amount of fans turned out to pay their last respects and two years later a bronze statue was unveiled in hon­our of the man who was known as Mr. Manchester United.

In Septem­ber 1956, Manchester United were the first Eng­lish club in his­tory to enter the European Cup and drawn against Ander­lecht The Reds star­ted the Pre­lim­in­ary Round in style with an impress­ive 2–0 away vic­tory. The Bel­gian Cham­pi­ons were not expec­ted to be a hard task in the Second Leg in Manchester, but the ease which Busby’s young­sters dis­posed of their oppon­ents was quite enough to set up a new record score. Relentless pres­sure broke down Bel­gian res­ist­ance as jet heeled left winger David Pegg tor­men­ted the Ander­lecht defence through­out the match, while inside for­ward Den­nis Viol­ett showed his great­ness scor­ing four goals. After going into a com­fort­able 6–0 lead at half time, the con­fid­ent Manchester United play­ers began the second half as they had left the first and shortly after the resump­tion the irre­press­ible Den­nis Viol­ett net­ted his fourth goal of the encounter. The Busby Babes went on to cre­ate a piece of Manchester United his­tory as they hit three more goals before the last whistle, making the final score read 10–0.

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