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Featured Categories : Sports, Hobbies & Games : Football : Clubs : Manchester United
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Manchester United Slim Diary 2009
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The Lost Babes (subtitled Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich) is Jeff Connor's compellingly readable account of one of the great tragedies in sporting history and its aftermath. The great manager Matt Busby had forged Manchester United into an invincible team in the 1950s. No one seemed able to halt the progress of these young and immensely talented players as they added the 1955-6 Championship Trophy to their accomplishments, repeating the feat next year. But all this was to change in the most tragic fashion when on the sixth of February, 1958, the plane bringing the team home from Munich crashed, ending the lives of eight of the Manchester United players along with other passengers on the plane. Britain (not just fans of the team) was devastated, as the careers of such talents as Roger Byrne (England's Captain), Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor and Eddie Coleman were ended at a stroke. Connor describes this devastating incident with both vividness and sympathy, but he is equally to be praised for his handling of subsequent events, notably the lives of the players who survived the crash and the families of those who didn't. The Lost Babes describes the inauguration of one of the great football teams in sporting history, and does so against a richly drawn panoply of the Britain of the day. He is unsparing and when describing the aftermath of the plane crash, with the club making the Munich tragedy emblematic while not looking after the survivors or the families and relatives of those who died. Of the surviving members of the team, some were unable to play ever again, and the case of the celebrated Jackie Blanchflower, severely injured in the crash, became a cause célèbre, as he became homeless when he was abruptly removed from the club house very shortly after the accident, with virtually no compensation.Connor has spoken at length to the victims of the Munich crash, along with many other players (and important figures) of the era, and he makes the case that the resonances of the tragedy have echoed down to the very present, with current surreal and stratospheric payments to modern stars (such as Eric Cantona) throwing into relief the injustices of the past. When so many sports books are anodyne celebrations, Jeff Connor is to be applauded for making such an uncompromising and trenchant book so immensely readable. --Barry Forshaw
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Manchester United Desk Block 2009
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Ron Atkinson lives up to his irreverent, opinionated and flash image in this hugely entertaining journey down memory lane. His career from thuggish central defender to 'the last fancy Dan' manager in town is a wonderfully picaresque tale full of evil club chairmen, dodgy footballers and, of course, Big Ron's very own philosophy on life, football, and everything. Most controversially he makes allegations - admittedly rather vague allegations - about drug use in professional football, but the real interest in this story is the behind the scenes shenanigans at football clubs; negotiating transfers with Brian Clough ("old barmpot himself"), his description of 'Deadly' Doug Ellis, the Aston Villa chairman who sacked him ("it doesn't take long and you need a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon") and the list of people from the game '"he wouldn't go on holiday with" (not many surprises here with Tommy Docherty and Malcolm Allison heading the list). Anyone who has heard Atkinson in his latest incarnation as a television summarizer will be aware of his imaginative use of the English language. It is to the huge credit of his ghost writer that these idiosyncrasies have survived to magnificently bounce off these pages. So is this Ron's last hurrah? Maybe. But as he would be quick to note, "it's still early doors yet". --Nick Wroe
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