Sir Bobby Charlton has unveiled a blue plaque dedicated to his former Manchester United team-mate Duncan Edwards in Dudley, the West Midlands town where his friend and fellow Reds legend was born and raised.
The Busby Babe was honoured on Saturday, which would have been his 80th birthday, as Sir Bobby unveiled the plaque in the pavilion at Priory Park, close to Edwards’s childhood home and where he played football as a boy.
The tribute features the words ‘Duncan Edwards – Footballer of genius’ and the famous quote from Edwards’ primary schoolmaster in Dudley, Geoff Groves: “I have just seen a boy of eleven who will play for England one day.