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Manchester, England Katılım Şubat 2014
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Back in the frame 🫡
Harry and Kobbie have both earned call-ups to the latest @England squad! 💪🏴
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🇾🇪 A Tribute to Jimmy Murphy, the Man Who Kept the Red Flag Flying 🧵
Jimmy Murphy was born in 1910 in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, the son of an Irish emigrant. He played the organ and piano as a boy before football took hold. He went on to play over 200 games for West Bromwich Albion, appeared in the 1935 FA Cup Final, and earned 15 caps for Wales. He was a proper footballer, but it was what he did after his playing days that made him irreplaceable.
The story of how he ended up at United is one most fans don't know. During the Second World War, Murphy was giving a speech about football to a group of troops in Bari, Italy. Matt Busby happened to be in the audience and was so impressed that, upon his appointment as Manchester United manager, he made Murphy the first signing of his tenure. Not a player. A coach. A man Busby had spotted giving a talk to soldiers and knew immediately was different.
From 1946, Murphy worked with every young player who arrived at the club, nurturing them, harnessing their talent, and preparing them for life as a footballer at Old Trafford. He set up the youth team structure in 1952, and for the first five consecutive years of the FA Youth Cup, United were unbeatable, a record that has never been equalled.
Bobby Charlton is the clearest example of what Jimmy could see in a player that nobody else could. He had Bobby repeat again and again the instruction "Just hit the ball. Don't look up for goal. Just hit it." He would roll balls from different angles for Bobby to hit, again and again, until it became instinct, turning him into the most spectacular striker of a ball in his generation.
Nobby Stiles, despite failing health, turned up for an interview just to talk about Murphy and said: "I'd walk a hundred miles to talk about Jimmy Murphy. England would never have won the World Cup without him. Bobby Charlton was the best player in that entire tournament and he would never have been that good without Jimmy's coaching."
Then came the 6th of February, 1958.
Murphy had pleaded to travel with the Babes to Yugoslavia for the European Cup quarter-final against Red Star Belgrade. It was Busby who insisted Murphy go to Cardiff to manage Wales in their World Cup qualifier against Israel instead. That decision saved his life. The man who took his seat next to Busby on the plane, chief coach Bert Whalley, was among the 23 who perished.
Murphy heard the news when he arrived back at Old Trafford. A usually hard-nosed man, he broke down in tears when told by his secretary, Alma George. When he visited Busby in his hospital bed, the United manager could only whisper a few words to his trusted deputy: "Keep the flag flying, Jimmy."
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🚨BREAKING:
Jim Ratcliffe has avoided an FA charge over his recent comments about immigrants “colonising” the UK.
The Football Association instead issued a reminder about his responsibilities as a senior figure in English football when speaking in media interviews.
#MUFC [@MrDomSmith]

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🚨🗣️ Senne Lammens: “It is a good feeling to have a few good performances in a row. We want to keep it going, that is the most important thing.
We don’t have another game for a while after this one so it would be nice to be able to continue the good feeling.”
#MUFC

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🚨🇵🇹 Manchester United staff at Carrington today were SHOCKED after seeing Ruben Amorim and his coaching staff leaving the training ground laughing and joking.
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