Just watching it now, brilliant stuff. I didn’t realise how quickly United declined after winning the European Cup, kinda like for Busby & Bobby Charlton it was the ending of an era and some sort of closing of the chapter that began with Munich but Best was just at the start of his career - must have been very frustrating for him.
One thing I’m noticing, they referred to him as Irish and I noted in a match he was playing against Scotland, they called Northern Ireland “Ireland” on the scoreboard. Was that normal then? How did they distinguish between NI & the Republic?
Just watching it now, brilliant stuff. I didn’t realise how quickly United declined after winning the European Cup, kinda like for Busby & Bobby Charlton it was the ending of an era and some sort of closing of the chapter that began with Munich but Best was just at the start of his career - must have been very frustrating for him.
One thing I’m noticing, they referred to him as Irish and I noted in a match he was playing against Scotland, they called Northern Ireland “Ireland” on the scoreboard. Was that normal then? How did they distinguish between NI & the Republic?
Just watching it now, brilliant stuff. I didn’t realise how quickly United declined after winning the European Cup, kinda like for Busby & Bobby Charlton it was the ending of an era and some sort of closing of the chapter that began with Munich but Best was just at the start of his career - must have been very frustrating for him.
One thing I’m noticing, they referred to him as Irish and I noted in a match he was playing against Scotland, they called Northern Ireland “Ireland” on the scoreboard. Was that normal then? How did they distinguish between NI & the Republic?
I watched the BT Sports film ‘Too Good To Go Down’ last week, which also featured Best’s problems and his repeated ‘no shows’. It covers United’s demise after their European Cup win, their eventual relegation and their subsequent revival under Tommy Docherty (until he was sacked for having it away with the club physio’s wife). Wilf McGuiness and Frank O’Failure found it impossible to follow Matt Busby, just as Moyes, Van Gaal and Solskjær have with Ferguson and, indeed, Dowie, Reed, Pardew and Parky found with Curbs.
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