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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Notable for a harrowing eye-witness tale of remarkable courage, Taylor also examines the events leading up to the disaster and its aftermath. -- Four Four Two * Four Four Two * People also have to understand what a great team it was and what English football lost that night. -- Sir Bobby Charlton Much has been written about February 6, 1958... Frank Taylor was the only journalist to survive, and here is his eye-witness account of the crash and its appalling aftermath... a fitting memorial to perhaps the finest United team ever -- Scotland on Sunday
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978-0-285-63993-5 (9780285639935)
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Frank Taylor, OBE, was a legendary British sports journalist who wrote for the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, and the Sun. He was the first Briton to serve as president of the International Sports Press Association in 1973 and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his services to sport and journalism.
