English football is in mourning following the death of Jeff Whitefoot, former Busby Babe, who was a great figure of the Manchester United and died at the age of 90.
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People talk about his great elegance in playing and highlight his genius when it came to the passes he made.
Sadness
“The Cheshire-born full-back, who became United’s youngest league debutant in April 1950 when he faced Portsmouth at Old Trafford At the age of 16 years and 105 days, he played with a cool, seemingly carefree grace that masked a keen competitive spirit,” Manchester United said.
He added: “Jeff, one of the original Busby Babes, had joined the Reds straight from school in the summer of 1949 as a clerk and playmaker, and soon showed himself competent at the first task and exquisitely promising at the second.”
Great player
United said: “A wonderfully balanced athlete whose ball control was delightfully secure with both feet, Jeff had an almost serene style, a rare quality in a young player. He read the action intelligently and specialised in astute interceptions; he tackled with verve and was extremely competitive in the air for a player of small stature.”
The club noted that after making a splash on his senior debut, Whitefoot spent the better part of the next three seasons consolidating his craft before earning a regular place in a classy midfield alongside the veteran Allenby Chilton and the teenage prodigy Duncan Edwards in 1953/54.
“He continued to make progress during the following campaign, as Busby’s incredibly exciting team, made up largely of exceptionally talented rookies, approached greatness, and then played enough games in the No. 4 shirt in the early months of the 1955/56 season to win a League Championship medal,” the team said.
And he concluded: “The England under-23 international seemed to have a stellar future at United assured, but suddenly a problem arose. That autumn, another promising youngster, Eddie Colman, took over the right-back position and Whitefoot, who had hardly made a mistake, unexpectedly found himself on the bench.”
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