Man U Monopoly!
For those board game fans out there, I am sure that you will agree that there are few games that can beat monopoly. It may be long and somewhat tedious to begin with but when you buildup your houses and hotels it is wicked! Well now you can play Manchester United monopoly and really get going!
Manchester United monopoly replaces favourites like Park Lane and Mayfair with Old Trafford landmarks and the legendary players like George Best, Duncan Edwards and Bobby Charlton.
The game is availabel from all good toy stores and several online ones like Amazon and Play.com. It reatils at between £25 and £30 and is worth every penny.
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5:07 pm | The Darkest Day In Football
February 6th, 1958 was to be the darkest day in football, but the people that boarded flight BEA Elizabethan were not to know that as the Busby Babes sang about their victory in Yugoslavia on a snow-filled winter’s day.
The Munich air disaster has gone some way to making Manchester United into the club it is today. The crash, in which 23 people died, saw the desecration of a football team. Matt Busby, the only member of the coaching staff to survive, had to build the team up from nothing and turn it into a force. Fellow survivor Bobby Charlton was integral to the team duing that spell and fought to help Busby succeed for those who perished, of which duncan Edwards, one of the true United greats, was one. As we watch the team every week, we should be proud. We should be thankful that the club survived and we should cheer on every player that wears the red.
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11:43 pm | Classic Man Utd Desktop Wallpaper
Time to bring you lads and lasses some more desktop wallpaper about United. This week, I will be focussing on ‘classic’ Man Utd. wallpapers for you lot. So without further ado, let’s start! Btw, all these walls are brought to you courtesy of 10thHussar.co.uk.
First off is a great individual wallpaper of Sir Bobby Charlton.
Next up is the great George Best.
Moving on, is the great Duncan Edwards who we sadly lost in the Munich Air disaster.
Last but not the least, are the great Busby Babes.
I don’t feel like describing them much but they’re all great wallpapers and there’s a decent collection for you lot over at 10thHussar.co.uk. You should check it out for some other great United wallpaper. Till the next time … enjoy!
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10:11 am | Manchester United Legends : Duncan Edwards
Arguably the greatest footballer to ever wear the prestigious Red shirt, Duncan Edwards’ footballing career was cruelly ended in the Munich Air Disaster. That he is rated above the likes of Charlton, Best and Law by many of the era is all the more amazing for he was just 21 years old when he died. Virtually anyone who saw him play rates him as their all-time number one. Edwards had immense physical strength coupled with superb ball control and touch.
His passing and tackling was perfect and his shooting was awe inspiring, in both power and accuracy. Not only that, in when it came to aerial battles he was fantastic at winning headers both defending and attacking. In short, Duncan Edwards was the complete player. Not only did the big Midlander possess the physical skills but his mental attitude was first class as well. Duncan had a fanatical practice regime which gave he used to maintain mastery of his technique. He had great awareness, was brave, committed and determined, yet always composed and sportsmanlike.
The great Bobby Charlton said “Duncan Edwards was the only player that made me feel inferior”. Sir Matt Busby is once to have said that he believed Edwards was “the best player in the world”, but he would never tell Edwards in case it unsettled him. He was world class when United had the ball and their best player when the opponents had it. At his favoured wing-half position Duncan lent steel to the defence and given half a chance would rampage into the attack with an unstoppable surging run.
Matt Busby heard of the “man-boy” playing for Wolves in 1949 and brought him to Old Trafford. Edwards began his United career in 1952, playing in the first team at the unheard-of age of 16 and within two years was playing for England. At 18 he was the youngest ever to play for England (until 1998) and managed to win 18 caps in a short space of time. Duncan helped United win two consecutive League titles in 1956 and 1957, a great achievement in an era were teams were evenly balanced and champions rarely regained their crown.
Edwards led United’s charge into Europe they stood on the verge of being the first British team to lift the European Cup and surely would, have had it not been for the tragedy at Munich. In his home town of Dudley he is commemorated in the stained-glass window of St Francis’s Church and in October 1999 a statue of Edwards, resplendent in his England kit, was unveiled in the town centre.
The question will always remain, what would have happened had Edwards not lost his life at only 21? He probably would have went on to be the most capped England player ever. At times a team in himself, this ultimate all-round player would have no doubt been up there with greats such as Pele, Beckenbauer, Cruyff and Best. The fact that he never did, and the world was so cruelly robbed of such a talent remains the saddest legacy of Munich. Today, in a different world to the 1950s, Giggs, Beckham, Rooney and co are the modern legends but anyone who saw Duncan Edwards play will tell you, he was better than them all, and that is saying something.
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