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6th February 1958

  • 06-02-2004 5:08pm
    #1
    The Muppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,003 ✭✭✭✭


    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 form Belgrade
    This great United family, all masters of their trade
    The pilots of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain
    Three times they tried to take off and twice turned back again

    The third time down the runway disaster followed close
    There was slush upon that runway 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 this 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 was Big Swifty who we shall ne'er forget
    The finest English keeper that ever graced a net

    Oh England's finest football team, its record truly great
    Its proud successes mocked at 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''


    FAO Manchester United Supporters


    R.I.P.


Comments

  • #2
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,172 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    R.I.P.


  • #3
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Top post.

    R.I.P.

    Think there's a minute silence at the next home game.


  • #4
    bucks73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭bucks73


    Theres a minutes silence every year.

    Excellent post.


  • #5
    elbow316
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭elbow316


    R.I.P


  • #6
    Ronaldo7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭Ronaldo7


    R.I.P

    Nice Post.


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  • #7
    [DF]Lenny
    Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭[DF]Lenny


    I agree with paying tribute to former greats/tragedy but is this the right forum for that type of post? Obituaries perhaps?


  • #8
    vorbis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭vorbis


    R.I.P.
    Good Post


  • #9
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    Respect.


  • #10
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,739 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    R.I.P.

    "The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester"


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