Matt Busby

Alex Ferguson: ‘The operation was a success but you’re in that loneliness. It can be frightening’

Documentary looks at playing and managerial career and recovery from a life-threatening stroke

Glory days: How Eamon Dunphy brought Matt Busby to book

It’s the book he’s most proud of, published just before Manchester United went mega

Former Ireland assistant manager Maurice Setters has died aged 83

Jack Charlton’s assistant also played under Matt Busby for Manchester United

Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives on

He was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinity

Sporting Upsets: England beaten by American rank amateurs

1950 Soccer World Cup: USA 1 England 0 - shock victory for team of minnows

Michael Walker: Gareth Bale’s place in Real’s history a strange type of glory

As the great Matt Busby wrote, you can win without affection but you will gain nothing

Sporting upsets: ‘Boring’ Arsenal snatch the league from under Liverpool’s noses in 1989

The title was destined for a city haunted by tragedy - Michael Thomas didn’t read the script

Johnny Watterson: Jack Charlton was forged from rough, tough raw material

He was a chip off the same granite block as Matt Busby, Bill Shankly and Brian Clough

Tony Dunne’s lifelong struggle to articulate his special place in Man United’s history

The Dubliner’s acrimonious departure in 1973 left a mark he carried with him

Manchester United great Tony Dunne dies aged 78

Irishman won the European Cup in 1968 and made over 500 appearances for the club

Ghosts and goalposts: The soul of street football in Dublin’s Gloucester Diamond

Eamon Dunphy among those to hone their trade beneath creaking inner-city tenements

Harry Gregg: a reluctant hero and a revered shot stopper

Goalkeeper was an incredible embodiment of human spirit in adversity - a hero

Hero of the Munich air disaster Harry Gregg dies aged 87

Former Manchester United goalkeeper twice returned to the burning fuselage

Manchester United’s celebrated academy set for new landmark

Academy with an eventful history is about to reach a 4,000th-match milestone against Everton

Michael Parkinson on George Best: ‘We became friends and that was it’

The broadcaster on his friendship with the footballer, the 'skinny kid' from Belfast

City prove they are definitively the dominant force in Manchester

It is a derby, it is United; how could it not have been a night of furious passions and tension?

Will Solskjær be just another on growing list of failures?

United had a grim and turbulent procession of managers between Busby and Fergie

Solskjær salutes ‘fearless’ Rashford on United’s glory night

Manager backs side to go on and win Champions League after Paris triumph

Solskjær believes Houdini act is always possible against PSG

Manchester United boss hoping spirit of 1999 comeback against Juventus returns in Paris

Solskjær’s magnificent seven breaks Busby’s old Man United mark

Paul Pogba and Marcus Rasford on target in victory over Brighton

Gareth Southgate in the running for Man United job – reports

England manager is apparently on a list of candidates along with Mauricio Pochettino

Solskjaer says United were flattered by 2-0 win over Reading

‘I made it hard for the players to be fair on them because it’s a team that’s never played together’

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