The rich history of Manchester United has never thrown up a more colourful character than Wilf McGuinness. There is virtually no emotion that he hasn't experienced during a lifetime in the game. Wilf has played for his beloved United and his country at every level; won a championship medal with the Red Devils; suffered a cruel injury which cut short his career at the chronically premature age of 22; succeeded Sir Matt Busby as manager of Manchester United - and been sacked by the club to which he was so passionately devoted ...
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The rich history of Manchester United has never thrown up a more colourful character than Wilf McGuinness. There is virtually no emotion that he hasn't experienced during a lifetime in the game. Wilf has played for his beloved United and his country at every level; won a championship medal with the Red Devils; suffered a cruel injury which cut short his career at the chronically premature age of 22; succeeded Sir Matt Busby as manager of Manchester United - and been sacked by the club to which he was so passionately devoted; played a key role in England's 1966 World Cup glory under Sir Alf Ramsey. He has also served York City, Hull City and Bury, and in soccer outposts around the world...all without losing his exuberant outlook on life in general and football in particular. Sir Alex Ferguson says: "There is never a dull moment with Wilf. There is no more cheerful man in football!" One of the original Busby Babes, Wilf grew up alongside the likes of Duncan Edwards and Bobby Charlton, and but for injury would have been aboard the plane which crashed at Munich, killing 23 people including eight of his team-mates and friends. Now for the first time he tells the full story of his incident-packed lifetime in the game, revealing the joy and the injustice, the sorrow and the controversy. Man and Babe is a moving tale of excitement, anguish and redemption, with humour never very far from the surface.
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Fine in near fine jacket. First printing. INSCRIBED AND DATED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, "to Gai/ Best Wishes/ Wilf McGuinness/ 6-12-08". Hardcover. 316 pp. with statistical appendix. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear at the spine ends. Even the rich and tubulent history of Manchster United, oneof the world's premier sporting institutions, has raely thrown up a mopre colorful character than Wilf McGuinness. In this book for the ftist time McGuinness tells the full story of his incident-packed lifetime in the game. He described what it was like to work and play with Busby and Edwards, Charlton and Ramsey, Law and Best. The wing half's playing career with Manchester was a relatively short four years; he would have been on the team plane that crashed in Munich in 1958 but an injury kept him home. He played for England in 1958 and 1959; he would go on to manage six clubs including Man United in 1969-70.
Add this copy of Manchester United-Man and Babe to cart. $67.36, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Pitch Publishing.
