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Matt Busby Manchester United League Champions 1967 Display Gift Set
Come On You Reds
From the 'Sporting Events' range: visit our ebay store to view the full range (multiple buy to compound carriage) at: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/historiccoinandstampsetgifts All of the coins are in Fine (or better) condition and the item is housed in a display protection case. This would make a great Christmas or Birthday present for a Man Utd fan.
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Matt Busby was appointed manager in 1945 and took a then-unheard of approach to his job, joining the players for training as well as performing administrative tasks. He was immediately successful, with the club finishing second in the league in 1947 and winning the FA Cup in 1948. He adopted a policy of bringing in players from the youth team whenever possible, and the team won the league in 1956 with an average age of only 22.
This youth policy has now become instrumental in the clubs success. The following season, they won the league again and reached the FA Cup final, losing to Aston Villa. They also became the first English team to compete in the European Cup, and reached the semi-final. Tragedy struck the following season, when the plane carrying the team home from a European Cup match crashed on take off at a refuelling stop in Munich. The Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958 claimed the lives of eight players and another fifteen passengers.
There was talk of the club folding but, with Jimmy Murphy taking over as manager while Matt Busby recovered from his injuries, the club continued playing with a makeshift side. Despite this, they reached the FA Cup final again, where they lost to Bolton. Busby rebuilt the team throughout the early 1960s, signing players such as Denis Law and Pat Crerand. The team won the FA Cup in 1963, then won the league in 1965 and again in 1967.
The 1967 success qualified United to compete in the European Cup in 1968: they won this competition and became the first English Club to do so. This team was notable for containing three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best. The Year That Was 1967… • On 21 April, a military coup in Athens establishes the regime of the 'Greek colonels' (ends July 1974) • On 28 May, civil war begins in Nigeria as Colonel Odumegwu-Ojukwu declares an independent republic, called Biafra, in Iboland (ends 1970) • From 5 to 10 June, Israel defeats Egypt, Jordan and Syria in the Six-Day War, afterwards occupying Arab land • The race riots in approximately 70 American cities in July accelerates the 'flight to the suburbs' by middle-class whites and blacks • On 27 July in Britain, the Sexual Offences Act decriminalises homosexual acts between consenting males over 21 • On 9 October, Argentinean/Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia • On 3 December, Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the first heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. The patient, Louis Washkansky, dies after 18 days • S Manabe and R T Wetherald warn that the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, caused by human activity, is resulting in a 'greenhouse effect' • French academic philosopher Jacques Derrida publishes De la grammatologie (On Grammatology) and L'écriture et la differènce (Writing and Difference), early examples of postmodernist literary deconstruction • Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez publishes Cien anos de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), an example of the emerging genre of magic realism • British playwright Tom Stoppard's first play, the absurdist Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is first performed • Films include Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up and Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night • Sporting 1967... Football League Champions were Manchester United, leaving Nottingham Forest in the runners up spot • Tottenham Hotspurs defeated Chelsea 2-1 in the FA Cup Final • The Grand National winning horse was ‘Foinavon’ • The Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse was ‘Woodland Venture’ • The Epsom Derby winning horse was ‘Royal Palace’ • Golf's British Open was won by Robert de Vicenzo • Oxford won the Boat Race by three ¼ lengths over Cambridge • F1 Champion was Denny Hulme driving for Brabham • Snooker’s World Championship was decided on a challenge match basis from 1964-68: John Pulman (England) did not defend his title during 1967 • The Wimbledon tennis singles tournament saw victories for John Newcombe of Australia (mens) and Billie Jean King of USA (ladies) • American Sport - Super Bowl I from Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California: Green Bay Packers 35-10 Kansas City Chiefs – NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers 4-2 San Francisco Warriors – Major League Baseball World Series: St. Louis 4-3 Boston (MVP Bob Gibson) •
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