Manchester United FC

MANCHESTER UNITED FC. Professional football club based at Old Trafford Manchester. They have won more trophies than any other club in English football with a record 20 League Titles / 12 FA Cups / 5 League Cups and 21 Community Shields. They have also won the UEFA Champions League three times. The 1958 the Munich Air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, they became the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies as manager including ; 13 Premier League titles / 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues between 1986 and 2013. Manchester United was the highest earning football club in the world for 2016–17 with an annual revenue of €676.3 million and the world's most valuable football club in 2018 valued at £3.1 billion 

THE BUSBY BABES. Manchester United footballers recruited and trained by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy who progressed from the club's youth team into the first team under the management of the eponymous Matt Busby from the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. The squad most associated with the name "babes" was that of the 1957–58 season many of whom died in the 1958 Munich air disaster. This occurred on 6th February 1958 when British European Airways (Flight 609) crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany. There were 44 people on board, 20 of whom died at the scene. The injured were taken to Munich's Rechts der Isar Hospital (where three more died) resulting in 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.