Lost Babes

Name: Lost Babes
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ISBN: 9780007208081

ISBN-10: 0007208081

ISBN-13: 9780007208081

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jeff Connor

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A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy ' and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world. The Manchester United team Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the power of the 'Busby Babes' that they seemed invincible. The average age of the side which won the Championship in 1955-56 was just 22, the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. A year later, when they were Champions again, nothing, it seemed, would prevent this gifted young team from…

Book details

List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 2/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.76" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Jeff Connor is rugby correspondent for the Mail on Sunday. He is the author of eleven books, including an entertaining account of the Tour De France, 'Wide-Eyed and Legless', and 'Up Down and Under', a diary of the 2001 Lions Rugby Tour to Australia. 'Pointless, A Season with Britain's Worst Football Team', will be published by Headline in 2005.