1. An ancient team that continues to be passed down
Manchester United, undoubtedly one of the greatest clubs in the history of English football, was born before the National Football League of England, has a very long history, although old, but her life is also alive - in the past 150 years, she has won a variety of championship trophies, and under the leadership of Mangonore, Matt Busby and Ferguson, three times into the peak.
In such a long history, Manchester United has entered countless troughs, but whether it is the financial crisis in the early days of its creation or the many years without a crown in the "post-Ferguson era", the difficulties encountered by Manchester United are far from the darkest moments in the history of the team.
Manchester United are one of the greatest teams of all time
The real dark moment in United's history took place in Munich on 6 February 1958, a major disaster that nearly destroyed Manchester United, who was just 80 years old at the time. At that time, Manchester United had just reached the peak of team history, and this disaster was like a blow to the head, crushing the hopes of countless Manchester United fans – not only Manchester, but the world's football world was thus shrouded in clouds.
However, strong Manchester United people will never be repulsed by difficulties, and after that disaster, all the footballers who belong to Manchester United continue to work tenaciously and achieve excellent results, laying the foundation for Manchester United's great Red Devils...
2. A youthful dream-chasing team
In 1878, a group of railroad workers formed an amateur team (Newton Heath LYR) at Manchester's North Road Stadium, and when these workers spent their spare time happily galloping on the football field and cricket pitch every day, they did not expect that their team would become the greatest football club in British history in the future, from a corner of the city of Manchester to the center of the world.
Manchester United predecessor - Newton Heath LYR
After 24 years of professionalism and financial crisis, in 1902, Newton Heath LYR announced the change of jersey from white blue pants to red and white pants, and changed the name of the club to "Manchester United", thus officially opening the glorious history of "Red Devils". In the years that followed, United progressed and finally, in 1908, won the first top league title in the history of the team, scoring a record 82 goals. Two years later, on 19 February 1910, United officially moved to Old Trafford and won the league title once again in the 10/11 season – under the leadership of Manchester United's first manager, Mangue noir, United moved towards the first brief peak of the team.
Old Trafford – Manchester United moved in from 1910
However, in 1911, when it was at its peak, unfortunate accidents reached the team - the meritorious manager Mangenole would switch to Manchester City - and the news was like a thunderbolt that cut Manchester United from the top of the mountain, and Manchester United fell into silence ever since.
In 1945, when the haze of air raids cleared and the light of victory once again shone on Manchester, the industrial heart of the "Empire where the sun never sets", the arrival of the new manager, Matt Busby, only 34 years old, would change everything. The young manager, who has come to this team with almost 70 years of history, is full of confidence in his future coaching career on the sidelines of Old Trafford.
United's second honourable manager – Matt Busby
In 1946, the Football League reopened with the end of World War II, and Manchester United was rebuilt under Busby's leadership with the restart of football.
Along with Matt Busby to Manchester United, along with his good friend Jimmy Murphy, who worked as assistant coach under Matt Busby, the two of them worked together to develop Manchester United's youth training plan. Matt Busby blew a storm of youth at Old Trafford – at his behest, a large number of fledgling young players in their early 20s made it into United's first team. The bold choice yielded an unexpected result – United returned from a mediocre team to the sequence of league titles and soon conquered England and achieved football supremacy. Busby's thought was also written into the DNA of Manchester United, which became the guiding ideology of Manchester United's decades of ups and downs, which was also the original source of Manchester United's DNA.
These youngsters sparked a passion for football on the land of England, and these young people who dominated English football in the 50s in manchester United jerseys were affectionately known by fans as "The Busby's Babes". However, within Manchester United, they also have another name: "Murphy's Golden Apple".
Busby Baby
As early as the 1951/1952 season, Busby led the fledgling Manchester United to win the League One title, at this time, roger Byrne, who was only 21 years old as the representative of "Busby Baby", was already the main player, and after that, he also became the captain of the "Busby Baby".
After winning the League One, Manchester United continued to push forward the pace of rejuvenation: Jackie BroncheFleur, Tommy Taylor, Ray Wood, Dennis Violler became the main force of the first team in this year, and Duncan Edwards, Bill Fox and others also began to enter the first team - the framework of The Barby Baby gradually took shape. From 1956 onwards, the young team, with an average age of only 22, dominated English football. The pain also crept in after a while.
Duncan Edwards will always be a Legend of Manchester United
3. An immortal team that never says a word
When Buzzby Baby's powerful style of football rises from Manchester to gradually conquer all of Europe, Manchester United fans may also be dreaming of the moment when Manchester United ascended from the throne of English football to the top of European football. They wouldn't have imagined that this rising dream-chasing team would fold its wings on the thick land of Munich.
On 6 February 1958, The Airspeed Ambassador, airspeed Ambassador, a 44-man British European Airways flight carrying 44 people, including Professionals, fans and journalists from English Football League side Manchester United, failed to crash during a third attempt to take off on the snowy runway at Munich Airport in West Germany. Twenty-one people were killed on the spot, and two others, although initially rescued, died in hospital due to their serious injuries.
The Munich air disaster was tragic
Babe Busby was badly injured in the crash, with eight players leaving the game forever:
1. Captain Roger Byrne, who was the original representative of Busby Baby, the great left-back who used his unparalleled football talent and leadership skills to lead his friends to three league titles. He was only 29 years old at the time of his death.
2. Jeff Bent, who is a substitute for captain Roger Byrne, also played well on the right. Out of loyalty to the team, he rejected offers from other teams, and he was willing to stay at Manchester United as a substitute, saying goodbye to the fans he loved at the age of only 26.
3. Eddie Coleman, at just 21 years old, is the youngest soul among the air crash victims, and in his honor, salford University in his hometown named an on-campus apartment building after him.
4. The main centre-back Mark Jones is famous in English football for his strong air-holding ability and ability to organize counterattacks, he could have achieved more, but at the age of 24, he suffered such a tragic change. His wife, Joan, made a will — burying her dead next to him on the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster in 2008 — and Jones left without being alone.
5. The technically skilled and extremely fast David Pegg has already made a name for himself at the age of 17, and the young man has long been in the position of Manchester United's main winger, scoring 24 goals in 127 appearances, and before the age of 23, he has fixed his career statistics.
6. Tommy Taylor, who had just passed his 26th birthday at the time of his death, was the king of England, and his transfer fee of 29,999 pounds broke the record for the highest transfer fee, which would have been higher if it were not for the fact that he did not want to be the first player in history to be worth more than 30,000 pounds. He scored 128 goals in 189 games for United and is one of the greatest goalscorers in the team's history.
7. Liam Whelan was not only an important striker for Manchester United at the time, but also a star of hope for Ireland, who was only 22 years old at the time of his death, and in 2006, in his hometown of Dublin City Council, approved the naming of a railway bridge near Whelan's birthplace after him.
8. Duncan Edwards, who played for Manchester United in League One before he was 17 years old, was soon selected for the England national team and, like Looney, was a household star of hope, Matt Busby publicly praised him more than once, even saying that he was "probably the best player in England and the world". After the air crash, he was rescued and taken to the hospital, but unfortunately, due to his serious injuries, he still died after 15 days of rescue, before the age of 22.
Busby Baby became history in 1958
The air crash dealt a major blow to the Busby Baby Group, killing not only eight members, but also two of the survivors who had to say goodbye to their football careers due to their injuries. The Munich air disaster, such a "football disaster", has become an indelible scar in the heart of every Manchester United person.
Head coach Matt Busby was also seriously injured in the air crash and was on the verge of death at one point, having to say goodbye to football work for a while.
At this time, Manchester United was in danger, which was the darkest moment in the history of Manchester United - public opinion once thought that Manchester United would be completely disbanded, and even the top management of Manchester United had such an idea, when a manchester United nobleman appeared - he was a good friend of Busby, who had worked with Busby to develop the Manchester United youth training plan with Jimmy Murphy. The Murphy coach, although he is the manager of the Welsh national team at this time, but the years of friendship and love for manchester United clubs make it impossible for him to watch this team that also has his hard work disappear from football world completely due to the air crash. Although Jimmy Murphy has only led the team for a short time and has not achieved any championships, Jimmy Murphy can still be respected and remembered by generations of Manchester United fans like Matt Busby and Ferguson.
In memory of Jimmy Murphy, United began in 1989 named the annual Best Player Award for U-18 Young Players as Jimmy Murphy's Player of the Year Award.
In the absence of players, Jimmy Murphy tried his best to lead the team through the difficulties and brought the team to the FA Cup final, although the final 0:2 lost to Bolton, but in this game, although Manchester United lost, all the members of Manchester United, although under the podium, but their souls are higher than the podium.
Jimmy Murphy
4. The Spirit of the Red Devils
Even the tragic Munich air disaster did not stop United from advancing, and it can even be said that it is precisely because of this disaster that the DNA of Manchester United's constant pursuit of victory has been forged.
Matt Busby is the epitome of United's ethos – despite being seriously injured and dying at one point, he was not overwhelmed by the pressure of the disaster and he quickly recovered from injury and returned to his managerial position. Still as confident as he was when he first arrived at the team a decade ago, he put forward the "five-year rebuilding of the team" – five years later, in 1963, he delivered on his promise to win the FA Cup – United's first trophy after the Munich crash.
Bobby Charlton is a Legend and One of the "Holy Three" of Manchester United
Although The Busby Baby has become history, after the disaster, Busby still did not give up the plan to pay attention to youth training, under his hands, the football talent from the youth team to the Manchester United first team, the still young Manchester United soon renewed, exuded a new life - in 1966, as part of the Busby Baby, Bobby Charlton, helped the England national team win the World Cup, and at the same time won the European Footballer of the Year - he is also a survivor of the air crash.
On 29 May 1968, exactly 10 years after the Munich air disaster, Busby led his new children to finally lift the European Champions Cup, which was commemorated by air crash survivors Bobby Charlton and Bill Fox, who also scored two goals, the first European Champions Cup in United's history.
Busby held aloft the Champions Cup, which had cost him with his life and blood, eight times, and each time he recited the name of a player who died 10 years ago, and the audience applauded. Bobby. Charlton and other players cut their middle fingers, dripped blood into the Champions Cup, and then poured it on the green field to comfort the heroic spirits of those who died. [Yan Qiang, Geography of English Football]
One of the "Holy Three Masters", George Best, won the European Footballer of the Year in 1968
Even if it is a life and death, it has not shattered the hopes of Manchester United; even if it is facing dissolution, it has not stopped Manchester United from going to glory. It was the darkest hours that tested Manchester United's most indomitable soul – this is Manchester United as the Red Devils, and this is the football we love.
So, whenever we mention the DNA of this team, what do we say? We are talking about the Red Devil spirit of Manchester United, which is every subtitle of this article: continuous inheritance, youth and never give up!
That's the spirit of the Red Devils, that's the DNA of Manchester United.
Manchester United have a great spirit
On 26 May 1999, sir Matt Busby's 90th birthday, Manchester United miraculously reversed, defeated Bayern from Munich, created the "Camp Nou Miracle", and completed the treble.
In 2008, the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster, Manchester United defeated Chelsea to win the Champions League for the third time in their history, and Bobby Charlton led Manchester United to the podium to receive the award.
After 50 years of the crash, United are still brilliant
Hemingway once said, "Man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated." In fact, this is also a portrayal of Manchester United's century-old giants - continuous inheritance, youth and never say defeat, which is the meaning that football teaches us.
I hope that in the new year, you can harvest the happiness genes that can be continuously inherited, the spirit of youthful blood, and the strong soul that never gives up!
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