The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

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Jeff Connor. The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

THE. LOST BABES. Manchester United and the. Forgotten Victims of Munich. JEFF CONNOR

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1 THE FLOWERS OF MANCHESTER

2 BLOODY KIDS

3 NEAREST AND DEAREST

4 A SMALL FIELD IN GERMANY

5 DUBLIN’S FAIR LIAM

6 DUNCANVILLE

7 WHITE ROSES, RED CARNATIONS

8 THE KNIGHTS’ TALE

9 OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

10 FORTY YEARS ON

11 ERIC THE READIES

12 THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Praise

INDEX

Copyright

About the Publisher

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To the first Manchester United fan I ever met,

Arthur Clive Connor. And to my mother Nancy,

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Not surprisingly, the ruthless weeding out employed by Busby produced far more failures than successes. It was only the most gifted who survived the pruning.

The recruitment process seldom varied and was typified by United’s wooing of David Pegg, a teenage left-winger from Highfields in Doncaster. In South Yorkshire, if a schoolboy was asked what he wanted to do when he grew up the invariable answer was either ‘open the batting or bowling for Yorkshire’ or ‘become a professional footballer’. Most of them finished up following their fathers down the pits. Pegg, who had been spotted as a schoolboy, was one of the few to get away.

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