Tirsdag er det 49 år siden, at det chatrede Elizabethan-fly med registreringsnummeret G-ALZU og navnet Lord Burghley styrtede ned i München.
Glemt er navne som Ronaldo, Rooney og O”Shea og i enhver United-supporters hoved vil mindet om det legendariske Busby Babe-hold eksistere på holdets skæbnedag den 6. februar 1958.
Følgende døde i ulykken:
Spillere
Geoff Bent
Roger Byrne
Eddie Colman
Duncan Edwards (døde 15 dage senere på hospitalet i München)
Mark Jones
David Pegg
Tommy Taylor
Liam (Billy) Whelan
Journalister
Alf Clarke
Don Davies
George Follows
Tom Jackson
Archie Ledbrooke
Henry Rose
Eric Thompson
Frank Swift
Andre
Walter Crickmer – Klubsekretær
Bert Whalley – Cheftræner
Tom Curry – Træner
Kenneth Rayment – Kaptajn
Bela Miklos – Rejseagent
Willie Satinoff – Supporter
Tom Cable – Steward
Besøg disse fremragende sider om holdet
Munich58.co.uk
TheBusbyBabes.com
United-Front.org
Wikipedia
Til minde om The Busby Babes
One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Eight men who will never play again who met destruction there,
The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester.
Matt Busby”s boys were flying, returning from Belgrade,
This great United family, all masters of their trade,
The Pilot of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain,
Three times they tried to take off and twice turned back again.
The third time down the runaway disaster followed close,
There was a slush upon that runaway and the aircraft never rose,
It ploughed into the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned.
And eight of the team were killed as the blazing wreckage burned.
Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor who were capped for England”s side.
And Ireland”s Billy Whelan and England”s Geoff Bent died,
Mark Jones and Eddie Colman, and David Pegg also,
They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.
Big Duncan he went to, with an injury to his frame,
And Ireland”s brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again,
The great Sir Matt Busby lay there, the father of his team
Three long months passed by before he walked again.
The trainer, coach and secretary, and a member of the crew,
Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,
and one of them Big Swifty, who we”ll ne”er forget,
the finest English “keeper that ever graced the net.
Oh, England”s finest football team its record truly great,
its proud successes mocked by a cruel turn of fate.
Eight men will never play again, who met destruction there,
the flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester.