The story of the Munich Air Catastrophe in 1958 is well known worldwide, a tragedy that resulted in the death of 23 of 44 people on board from Belgrade to Manchester, which stopped in southern Germany on a scheduled addition.
This plane was worn by Manchester United, ruling returnees in England and one of the best teams in Europe in the early days of formal international club football.
Eight of 17 players died in a traveling team. The two never played football again as a result of the injuries they sustained. It was a team more than cut in half in a cruel moment.
Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor and Liam Whes were immediately killed. So is Geoff Bent, who has recently returned from an injury and traveled only as an additional blanket. Duncan Edwards, a big star on the side, died of injuries 15 days later.
Edwards, Colman, Pegg and Whelan were all 22 or younger, but the stars were established. Edwards has already played close to 200 games for United since debut at the age of 16, while becoming a star for England as well. Peg was also limited. Colman, in all likelihood, was expected to be called before and later, while where he limited Ireland.
Jones was 24 years old, Taylor was 26 years old, Bent was 25, and Byrne, captain and among the oldest teams, was only 28 years old. These were players who were already the best in the English league were the best in Europe, and most were still well achieved. With the exception of Taylor, purchased from Barnsley at the age of 21 for £ 29,999 in 1953, all those who died were grown at home.
Johnny Berry suffered a broken skull, a broken jaw, a broken elbow, a broken pelvis and a broken leg and never played again. Doctors at Rechts Der Isar Hospital in Munich feared that he was not good enough to be told about his teammates and remains a story of a great sad that during his recovery Berry complained that Taylor had not visited him, unaware that his friend was dead.
Multiple serious injuries also ended Jackie Blanchflower’s career – he was close to death at first.
Three United staff, Berta Whaley and Tom Curry and the club secretary Walter Crickmer also died. Busby himself was seriously injured in the collision and twice read the last rites of what seemed to be his deathbed at that hospital in Munich.
Fortunately, he retired, eventually returned home to Manchester in April. Although, with the guilty of so many of his players, it paid for the top price, chasing his ambition, he was thinking the complete abandonment of football until he persuaded him to continue in search of that European glory, so those who lost their lives did not do so in vain.
The legendary assistant coach Jimmy Murphy, a man who renewed the club in the absence of his boss, was not on the plane. He remained behind him to fulfill his obligation as a manager of Wales in the qualifying playoffs of the World Cup against Israel in Cardiff. As the history and recovery of United could have been so different that they lost Murphy and Munich – his extraordinary story was told in the excellent biography of the author Wayne Barton The man who kept the red flag.
Busby won his first league title with United in 1951/52, but it was an old established team in which there were numerous players who had been with the club since he continued his football after World War II, or in some cases, before before before before The conflict began in the late 1930s.
At the end of the 1940s and early 1950s, United They started seeing the fruits of Manchester United Junior Athletic Club, which was created in 1937, so that the club, which twice approached leaving work in the first half of the 20th century, could instead develop their own talent to relying on the purchase of players – it is The legacy that still exists today, almost 90 years.
It was unusual then that the clubs focused on young people’s development when the first-team professionals were usually much older, but Busby bought philosophy when he arrived at United after the war and in the mid-1950s he created a large side that became famous as ‘Busby Babes’.
The new-view United won the 1955/56 league title, only the fourth in the history of the club at the time, with Edwards, Pegg and Dennis Viollet, who was 22 years old, all played more than 30 games. Colman has played 25 times, despite being only 19 years old when the season began. The slightly older Byrne missed only three games, while in the central part of Jones, also only 22 years, he was all present in his back.
This pattern became even more pronounced next season in 1956/57, when United retained the title and there was more time to play for wheels and Bobby Charlton’s appearance.
Busby Babes were not just good, they were heads and shoulders above the other clubs that English had to offer. United won the league for 11 points in 1956, which is an equivalent of 16 days when victories are worth more. In 1957, it was a win of eight points, which would be 14 today. In both seasons they won at least five games more than their closest challenger.
Babes are also a new flag for English football in Europe.
When the European Cup was created in 1955, Chelsea was invited to compete as the ruling champions of England, only to be strongly “advised” against joining the football league. They duly fell in line under the pressure of the President of the Football League Alan Hardaker.
Brian Glanville of Times Once, Hardaker described it as a “unwavering autocrat”, a man whose “attitude was extremely negative and complacent, probably influenced by the fear that his own competition would overshadow a new one.”
United met a similar resistance to Hardaker next season, but Busby was persistent that his team should enter the European sphere and pushed it forward anyway.
Immediately the young team reached the semifinals in his first step in international competitions. In their first European ‘House’, which actually played in Manchester on Maine Road, because Old Trafford did not have a spotlight, they beat Anderlecht 10-0, which remains all the time of the club records to this day.
Winnings against Borussia Dortmund and athletic club champions followed, and only the semi-finals of the United 5-3 on the Owners of the Real Madrid European Cup owners, who sought another consecutive title, succumbed to the champions of Germany and Spain.
From a quarterfinals against the Athletic Club, Charlton recalled in his 2007 autobiography, “Matt Busby stated that [European football] Whether the future of the game here, in this match, was the most difficult proof that he was right.
“United Versus Bilbao produced the best football, some great skill and razor competition. The accusations that United crossed above him were immediately withdrawn.”
A year later, United returned to the semi -finals of the European Cup. The trip to Belgrade, which ended with such a tragedy on half the house, saw that in the last eight, in the last eight, as he was drawing 3-3 against the Red Star Belgrade, holding on to the first leg aggregate and progressed in the last four times.
The semi-finals against AC Milan were played until May, about a month after the second equalization between Real Madrid and VASAS from Hungary. Resetting from a disaster in Munich, United, continued his domestic action within a few weeks, playing with a much different side. Exceptionally, they won the first leg 2-1 at Old Trafford, but they collapsed to a score of 4-0 on their return.
Dominant at home and seemingly at the height of something even more special abroad until the disaster hit. And so goes the final verse of an iconic Manchester flowers::
“Oh, the best football team of England, his record truly great,
His proud successes ridiculed the cruel turn of fate.
Eight men will no longer play, who met the destruction there,
Flowers of English football, Manchester Flowers. “– Manchester flowers
Ultimately, Manchester United was restored. Survivors like Charlton, Bill Foulkes and Harry Gregg’s heroic goalkeeper supported the nucleus of a new side added over the coming years. Posted by the guilt of Survivor for many years, Charlton became one of the best players in the world and was consistently nominated for Ballon D’Or during the 1960s.
United paid a big money to sign a Denis law, but they are the same young men who produced like Edwards, Colman, whelan, Byrne and other decades or more earlier, also created new individuals like George Best Best, Nobby Stiles, John Aston Jr. Brian Kidd, who were part of the European Cup’s historic club for ten years from the tragedy at the time.
United Way, born in the 1930s and perfected in the 1950s, brought the top prize in 1968 and continues to live on, still bright burning. Those pioneers whose lives took over from them that awful day at 15.04 hours on February 6, 1958. In search of that glory, they will never be forgotten.
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