The Tommy Taylor Story

Centre-forwards live or die by the number of goals they score. To acheive this courage has to be paramount in their array of talents. Tommy Taylor had courage aplenty! Like Denis Law, the man who suceeded to his position many years later, Tommy was prepared to stick his head in among the flying boots in the peanlty area and take all the defenders threw against him. As the spearhead of the great Busby Babes side, Tommy was deadly in the air but also able to drift wide and pull defenders out of position. He went onto make 189 appearances for United and won 19 England caps. But it is as a 'big feller with a big heart' that supporters remember him 40 years after his death in the Munich air disaster.