Duncan Edwards was the youngest player to represent England. Stanley Matthews, the oldest man to win a cap, would later describe the ‘Busby Babe' as the most complete footballer of the immediate post-war era.
‘You can play him anywhere and he would slot into that position as if he'd been playing there season after season,' Matthews wrote. ‘When the going gets rough, Duncan is like a rock in a raging sea.' Bobby Charlton described him ‘as simply the greatest footballer of all time'.
Tragically, the Manchester United left-half would never be able to fulfil his full potential. At the age of 21, Edwards died from injuries sustained in the Munich air crash of February 1958. For 15 days he had fought tenaciously for life. Only a month before the tragedy, Matt Busby had described him as ‘the best all-round player in Britain, if not the world'.
At the time of his death, Edward had already won nine England schoolboy caps, three FA Youth Cup medals, two First Division championship medals, an FA Cup loser's medal, and 19 full caps.
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