Author: The Duncan Edwards Tribute Team

You don’t have to sound like an embittered grandad with a vengeance against the modern world to be more than miffed about vast trappings earned by today’s highly paid footballers in comparison to the stars of yesteryear. Many Premier League players cart home £100,000 a week – often for doing little more than warming the bench, running down the clock or making cameo appearances. They live in a collection of homes – the archetype being a leafy Cheshire or Home Counties mansion, from where they drive their 4x4s to state-of-the-art…

Here’s one for a good pub conversation – who is Man Utd’s great ever player? Charlton, Best, Law, Beckham, Cantona, Rooney, Ronaldo, Robson, Giggs, Scholes… from Billy Meredith to Paul McGrath everyone has a favourite and the list of candidates is seemingly endless. Most we saw in their prime and with the benefit of hindsight having viewed a full career. But sometimes the good die young – as Marvin Gaye once sang – we just looked around and they were gone. Eight Busby Babes lost their lives at Munich –…

The Duncan Edwards Tribute was launched this week at Priory Primary School in Dudley where Duncan was a pupil between 1941 and 1947. The children at the school put on a display of work they had created personally in honour of the Duncan Edwards Tribute before Jim Cadman gave a talk based on the special print that has been commissioned to celebrate the life of Duncan Edwards and his dreams of playing at Wembley. Each of the children were later presented with a special print and biography photo card of…

We are delighted to announce that we have secured the services of Manchester United historian and writer Iain McCartney to collaborate with Jim Cadman to produce the book that will be an integral part of the Duncan Edwards 60th Anniversary Tribute. In our view Iain McCartney is the best writer on the subject of Manchester United in the country and he possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge of Duncan Edwards – that will be put to good use in every aspect of this tribute. Iain is first and foremost a Manchester United…