Manchester United- Munich Air Crash :50 Years On

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

This video is a memorial 50 years after that tragic day

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• manchester
• united
• busby
• babes
• munich
• air
• crash

[TheRjb2010]

We will never forget you. The Red Flag always flies high for you.

[101DreDr]

@NIALL07ADD ur a liverpool fan and so am i have some respect see theres 3 types of liverpool fans 1.true blooded supporters who feel they should give respect 2.fans who feel bad about heysal hillsborogh and munich like me 3. you scum of the earth

[101DreDr]

@NIALL07ADD im a liverpool fan and so are you have some dignity man you're a prick i hope a bus slowly runs you over so you can feel the pain of what you've said R.I.P

[NIALL07ADD]

WHOS THAT LYING IN THE RUNWAY

WHOS THAT DYING IN THE SNOW

ITS MATT BUSBYS BOYS

MAKING ALL THE NOISE

CAUSE THE COULDNT GET THE AEROPLANE TO GO,GO,GO!

[jakeharrop779]

@gerjerry99 i hate mancs 2 :D

[gerjerry99]

@jakeharrop779 hope you go to hell asshole

[jakeharrop779]

21 MANCS IS NOT ENOUGH !!!!

[bgdfans]

so sad...

[leecox321]

in tears watchin this we will never 4get