Manchester United have reportedly been given the green light to build a statue of Welsh icon Jimmy Murphy at Old Trafford.
Murphy is best known for being Sir Matt Busby's assistant manager at United between 1946 and 1971, during which the club had to endure and then rebuild from the horrors of the Munich Air Disaster in 1958.
Murphy, who was born in and raised in Pentre in the Rhondda, was instrumental in bringing through the famous Busby Babes, a team led by the indomitable Sir Bobby Charlton, who won the European Cup in 1968, the first of United's three triumphs in that tournament.
