While the infamous blank teamsheet in United Review has always symbolised the horror of Munich, it also marked the night Jimmy Murphy’s Marvels set into motion a new club ethos. This long read tells the story of how the team sheet transformed from blank to filled in four emotion-heavy days...
Nineteenth of February 1958. United Review, clutched behind backs by gloved hands. The snowflakes had stopped falling. The hysterical hum of 60,000 mourners had subsided into the deepest silence. The grieving masses huddled together in the bitter cold. Some must have hoped they’d wake up soon: that there was no crash, that the Busby Babes carried on.