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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File photo dated 06/02/1958 Mr Walter Crickmer, Secretary of Manchester United FC, who was in the Manchester United party which went to Belgrade for the European Cup match that ended in tragedy when their BEA Elizabeth airliner crashed at Munich on the return journey to England.

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Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink