This bronze statue of the great Sir Matt Busby, looks down on passers by from outside the East Stand of the Old Trafford stadium.  It was produced by the sculptor Philip Jackson in 1995 and was erected in 1996.

Sir Alexander Matthew “Matt” Busby (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994), the Scottish football player and manager, is most famous for his  management of Manchester United.  His achievements and longevity in charge of Manchester United are surpassed only by Sir Alex Ferguson, another Scot.  He managed the team between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season.

Busby was awarded the CBE in 1958 and was knighted following the European Cup victory in 1968, before being made a Knight Commander of St Gregory by the Pope in 1972. Busby was made an inaugural inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game. He was mentioned, along with B.B. King and Doris Day, in the Beatles song, Dig It, on the album Let It Be, released in 1970.

He died of cancer, aged 84, in January 1994 and is buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, alongside his wife Jean. His friend Willie Satinoff, who died in the Munich air crash is buried in the same cemetery.

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