Published in 1978 as The Official Centenary of Manchester United, Green’s prose brings warmth to tell the club’s story. There should be no conceit in victory, and no despair in defeat.” He was a grand, great, man, but he wasn’t infallible. His conclusion that Busby is the “last great football man” hasn’t stood the test of time, but his book is as fascinating as it is absorbing.īusby once said that “winning isn’t everything. Dunphy draws from a terrific cast of characters, many of whom he knew. Released in 1991, it was a No 1 warts-and-all bestseller where Dunphy, a former member of United’s youth team, who’d written a superb diary on his life as a Millwall player, pulled no punches and exposed double standards all over the place. The Busby family didn’t appreciate it, but that shouldn’t detract from one of the greatest books written about United and legendary manager Busby. A Strange Kind of Glory: Sir Matt Busby and Manchester United – Eamon Dunphy There was a second version, 2014’s The Second Half written with novelist Roddy Doyle, which was equally compelling. The United captain paid the price for his lucrative and headline-attracting autobiography when he was banned for five games and fined a record £150,000 after being found guilty of two misconduct charges for his comments about Alf Inge Haaland.
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