Munich Remembrance

When you have a spare minute or two today take a moment to pause and remember those lost in Flight 609.

Manchester United players
Geoff Bent
Roger Byrne
Eddie Colman
Duncan Edwards (survived the crash, but died in hospital 15 days later)
Mark Jones
David Pegg
Tommy Taylor
Liam "Billy" Whelan

Manchester United staff
Walter Crickmer, club secretary
Tom Curry, trainer
Bert Whalley, chief coach

Journalists
Alf Clarke, Manchester Evening Chronicle
Donny Davies, Manchester Guardian
George Follows, Daily Herald
Tom Jackson, Manchester Evening News
Archie Ledbrooke, Daily Mirror
Henry Rose, Daily Express
Frank Swift, News of the World (also former England and Manchester City goalkeeper; died on his way to hospital)
Eric Thompson, Daily Mail

Other passengers
Bela Miklos, travel agent
Willie Satinoff, supporter, racecourse owner and close friend of Matt Busby

Spoiler:

Gone, but never forgotten.

R.I.P.

Rest in Peace.

R.I.P.

The team had potential to take over Real Madrid as the new European power.

R.I.P.

RIP.

RIP

May they Rest in Peace

RIP

RIP

My thoughts to the families of the victims of such a terrible disaster.

May their souls rest in peace

Rest in peace, lads.

RIP.

R.I.P to one of the greatest groups of players who were unfortunate to never be able to reach there full potential because of this tragedy.

We'll Never Die, We'll Keep the Red Flag flying high, cause Man United will never die!

God Bless

One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Eight men 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 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 too, with an injury to his brain,
And Ireland’s brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again,
The great Matt Busby lay there, the father of his team
Three long months passed by before he saw his team 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 will 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...

I am speechless. Rest in peace!

Thank you for this thread, RedOranje.

RIP

RIP

R.I.P

RIP

It's the 56th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster today.

Gone but never forgotten, RIP.

R.I.P.

I pray that such a tragedy never happens again
R.I.P.

Rest in peace. Live in peace.

RIP to those who lost there lives, they will never be forgotten