The Team That Wouldn't Die
by John Roberts
THE BUSBY BABES remain unique in British football. Emerging in a post-war 1950s era of austerity and rationing, they gave a glimpse of the youthful enthusiasm and talent that would emerge a decade later in music and art, while their untimley deaths, at the end of a snowy runway in Munich, inspired a devotion to Manchester United Football Club at odds with staid 1950s behaviour. In this, his fi nal update on his classic work, John Roberts revisits the original interviews he undertook with the relatives of the deceased and the survivors. What emerges is an unsentimental work that remains the greatest account of the tragedy.
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Author Biography
John Roberts was born in Stockport and joined the staff of his local paper, the Stockport Express, shortly after leaving school, becoming sports editor of the paper at the agoe of nineteen. At twenty-one he joined the sports desk of the Daily Express in Manchester. Since then he has written for the Guardian and the Daily Mail and is the former tennis correspondent of the Independent. As Matthew Engel wrote in the British Journalism Review: I suspect posh-paper sports writing changed forever the day John Roberts left the Daily Express to join The Guardian in the late 1970s, was handed a piece of routine agency copy and picked up a telephone to start asking questions. He is married with three children.
Review
"The defi nitive account" - PAUL HAYWARD, THE GUARDIAN
"A first class reporting job" - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
"Matchless book on the tragedy and its aftermath" - PATRICK COLLINS, MAIL ON SUNDAY
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