Munich

[scawsby steve]

67 years ago today. As a kid, I heard it all unfold on the news. It was especially sad for me, with David Pegg being from Highfields, whose open grave we all attended after school on the day of his funeral; and Tommy Taylor from Barnsley, who was a distant relative of my late Grandad.

There wasn't the hatred amongst football fans in those days that there is nowadays. Everyone throughout the country was devastated.

[BobG]

My Dad, a lifelong Rovers supporter, kept every single newspaper the day the crash was reported. He treasured them - and I was guided through every single report when I was old enough to understand.

You're right SS. The whole country was indeed devastated. Makes you realise the impact this sort of thing has: Torino, Chapocoense, two other good clubs and good teams wiped out in plane crashes that left huge devastation and desolation behind...
BobG

[Ian Nimmo]

Yeah for sure was event which effect majority of football world.
Just viewed a clip on the ex-players thread of harry gregg visiting the mum and daughter who he helped save from the crashed.
You can see in this just how much the players who did survive, were effected for the rest of their lives, by the crash

[Usher wide.]

Imagine losing Mills, Sullivan, Copps, Stock, Wellens, O’Connor, Hayter from SOD’s side in a tragic accident.

You can’t because thank gawd we didn’t.

But IF we had they’d be always in our hearts & thoughts for generations to come.

That’s why that much younger group of Manchester United players lost in Munich are still remembered & revered & rightly so.

I know graingrover made & kept a scrap book of newspaper cuttings at the time when he was a young teenager & ‘loved’ Man Utd as his ‘second team’.

[graingrover]

I was a young kid and still have a treasured scrapbook with that story and all the photos of Gregg , Byrne , Foulkes , Coleman , Edwards , Taylor , Pegg , Scanlon , Charlton .