Manchester United Remembered: Busby Babe Albert Scanlon’s Funeral
SOME THINGS transcend football club loyalty. Not many. Football fans are a dedicated lot. All of English football does not win when a club side takes the European Cup. All English football fans – besides the lucky few who back the winners – are upset. Goes the mantra: Anyone but them. But some things unite. The deaths of Manchester United footballers in the Munich air crash is one of those things. Busby Babe Albert Scanlon has been buried. A sad day. A day to remember:
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PA PHOTOS/DPA - UK USE ONLY: A view of the snow-covered front part of the crashed 'BEA-Elizabethan' charter plane in Munich, 7 February 1958. A day before, the British plane with 44 aboard had crashed short after lift off in heavy snowfall. The aircraft crashed onto a house, killing 21 people, among them the eleven members of the British soccer club Manchester United, who were on their way home from a Europe Cup match from Belgrade.
Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
