All three were European Footballers of the Year at various points, and together they won league titles, FA Cups, and England’s first European Cup in 1968. There is still a clock outside the stadium that is part of a memorial to that team.īusby rebuilt the team around legends Denis Law, Bobby Charlton, and George Best - the “United Trinity” whose statue faces that of Busby outside the stadium.
Twenty-three people died, including eight players. They won three league titles in the ’50s but that team, known for its youth as “the Busby Babes,” was decimated by a plane crash in Munich on February 6, 1958. They almost went bankrupt in 1931.īut in 1945 they hired a manager named Matt Busby and embarked on a great period of success. United was founded in 1878 as Newton Heath FC, changed their name to the current one in 1902, won the league twice and FA Cup once by 1909 … and then disappeared from trophy contention. We’ll start, as always, with a brief history of each club, adapted from our guidebook, The Groundhopper Guide to Soccer in England. So let’s take a look at the history, and some of the top moments, of the Manchester Derby.
Still, this local affair of Man Utd vs Man City has all the trappings of a great rivalry, from terrific games to manager spats and legendary goals. Meanwhile, the red half of Manchester doesn’t even seem to consider the blue half to be their biggest rivals Man U’s main hatred is reserved for Liverpool in the North West Derby.Ĭity’s fans point out that United’s home, Old Trafford, isn’t even technically in Manchester, while United fans mock City’s Etihad ground as the “Emptyhad.” Both accuse each other’s fanbases of being recent “plastic” additions, while the rest of the country probably sees little difference between the two anymore. The Manchester Derby, Man City vs Man United, has become one of the most high-profile derbies in English football.īut it hasn’t always been that way, and as great as Manchester City are these days, it’s only recently that they established any kind of parity with Manchester United.
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