Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby was once listed as a ‘fruit boiler’ in a hilarious Census blunder.Busby guided United to the 1968 European Cup, while is also adored by the blue half of the city.He was playing at Manchester City when the 1931 Census was being filled in and was asked his occupation.Reports say that one council official had no idea who Busby was when knocking on his door to collect his Census.And it’s believed found it so difficult to understand Scotsman Busby’s thick accent, mishearing ‘footballer’.
So Busby’s occupation was instead recorded as ‘fruit boiler’.Other reports suggest that the official did not believe somebody could class ‘footballer’ as an occupation, so instead put down ‘fruit boiler’.Busby died in.
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