Matt Busby — The Wisdom of the Crowd (Art Print)

Football was about more than players. It was about people.

For Matt Busby, building a football team meant building something together.

At Manchester United, young players were trusted. Individual talent was encouraged. But everyone played for something bigger than themselves.

That philosophy created the Busby Babes — and after the tragedy of the Munich air disaster in 1958, helped Busby build again.

A team became a club.
A club became a community.

THE GOALSOUL INTERPRETATION

The Wisdom of the Crowd is the idea that together, a group can achieve something greater than any one individual.

Few football managers embodied that more powerfully than Busby.

His football was built on trust, youth and collective belief. Beneath all of it was something simpler:

A feeling for people.

As Busby explained:

“Call it confidence, conceit, arrogance, or ignorance, but I was unequivocal about it. At the advanced age of thirty-five I would accept the managership of Manchester United only if they would let me have all my own way. As the manager I would want to manage. I would be the boss. This being so I would not have any excuse if I failed. Nor would I offer any. They could kick me out... But I did think I knew about football and footballers. Technical knowledge alone will not make a manager in any organization.

It is incomplete without a feeling for people. Whether the loss of my father had subconsciously given me a feeling of being unprotected, I do not know. Certainly there is some gap for a boy without a father when all other boys around him could talk about theirs incessantly and did.”

Players.
Supporters.
People.

THE PRINT

Originally created by Goalsoul in partnership with the Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF), The Wisdom of the Crowd is an original Matt Busby football art print celebrating Manchester United, collective belief and the people who make a football club more than a team.

Produced as a premium Giclée art print for exceptional colour, detail and longevity.

30 × 40 cm · 40 × 50 cm · 60 × 80 cm

Matt Busby — The Wisdom of the Crowd.

Goalsoul — Keeping the Game Beautiful.

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