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The Day a Team Died - The Classic Eye-Witness Account of Munich 1958 (Paperback, Main)
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The Day a Team Died - The Classic Eye-Witness Account of Munich 1958 (Paperback, Main)
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Returning from a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade, the
plane carrying Manchester United's 'Busby Babes' stopped at Munich
airport to refuel. On its third attempt to take-off in atrocious
weather conditions the plane veered off the runway, crashed and
burst into flames. 21 people died, 7 members of the legendary team
among them (including Duncan Edwards), and Sir Matt Busby was
rushed to hospital in critical condition. The greatest British
football team of their generation was destroyed. Frank Taylor was
the only journalist on the plane that night to survive and during
his hospitalisation wrote this book, revising it extensively 25
years later to include all the subsequent knowledge about the
crash. Two surviving members of the Manchester United players on
the flight, Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes, would recover to play
in Manchester United's European Cup victory in 1968. Fifty years
afterwards Duncan Edwards is still remembered as having the
potential to have been England's greatest player. This is is the
definitive, firsthand account of the crash that killed eight
members of one of the greatest Manchester United teams in history.
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