{"id":2099,"date":"2018-02-06T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2018\/02\/06\/manchester-united-remember-munich-60-years\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:05:31","slug":"manchester-united-remember-munich-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/manchester-united-remember-munich-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United remember Munich 60 years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/254519154\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"550\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flowers, letters and candles are being brought to Old Trafford today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On 6 February,1958, a plane carrying the Manchester United players and staff, sports journalists and civilians<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/from-the-archive-blog\/2011\/may\/28\/munich-manchester-united-busby-1958\">&nbsp;crashed in Munich<\/a> following the Busby Babes\u2019&nbsp;European Cup semi-final win in Belgrade. 23 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joan Kane, from Burnage, was just five years old when disaster struck, not much younger than her grandson George, who is with her today.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She said: \u201cOn the day, my dad walked out of his workplace and came home. We got sent home from school early.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My dad came home and took us to church, and he never took us to church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\" style=\"float:left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kane Family - Cass Hyde\" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"2517\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/kane_family.png\" title=\"Kane Family - Cass Hyde\" width=\"540\"><figcaption>(Left to Right) George Kane, Joan Kane, Frances Farley, Wilf Oates, Marlene Bretherton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Busby Babes remain a uniting factor in the Kane family across three generations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Joan said: \u201cWe\u2019re here today, me and George, and my son\u2019s in Munich today because of what my dad taught us.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019ll never forget the emotion my dad showed and we grew to love United through that, and still do. I passed it to my children and they will pass it onto their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marlene Bretherton was outside the stadium with Mrs Kane. She was 17 when the airplane crashed and shared a similar experience with her father:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI went to my mum and dad\u2019s&nbsp;and my dad was crying,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe just spent the whole day crying. I remember my mother saying \u2018bloody hell, it\u2019s like a morgue in here\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Among those killed was&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/munich-air-disaster-the-day-sports-reporting-lost-its-old-guard-777639.html\">Alf Clarke<\/a> from the Manchester Evening Chronicle. His granddaughter, Sarah Clarke, was at Old Trafford commemorating those who lost their lives in 1958.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She said: \u201cIt\u2019s great that they continue to have this memorial because it has such an enormous impact on this city.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s important for us to come and commemorate what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\" style=\"float:left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clarke Family - Cass Hyde\" data-delta=\"2\" data-fid=\"2518\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/clarke_family.png\" title=\"Clarke Family - Cass Hyde\" width=\"540\"><figcaption>(Left to Right) Simon Clarke, Sarah Clarke, Karen Clarke, Will Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The impact of the Busby Babes\u2019 story reaches far beyond the city of Manchester. Supporters of the Red Devils from all over Europe have travelled to Munich in their thousands for this year\u2019s anniversary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Norwegian fan&nbsp;Hans Georg Hansen&nbsp;made the trek to Munich yesterday. He said: \u201cI decided to come to Munich because it was such an important day in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\" style=\"float:left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hans Dorg Hansen\" data-delta=\"3\" data-fid=\"2519\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/sites\/default\/files\/img-20180206-wa0015.jpg\" title=\"Hans Dorg Hansen\" width=\"540\"><figcaption>Hans Georg Hansen in Munich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThere are so many fans here. It shows we\u2019re one big united family.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou learn so much from talking to people, some people I spoke to still remember when the plane crashed. It was very emotional during the service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Events to comemorate the anniversary continue throughout the week including an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/munich-60-years-on-how-british-sport-changed-tickets-41333075341\">evening of talks and films<\/a> hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flowers, letters and candles are being brought to Old Trafford today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster. &nbsp; On 6 February,1958,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1216,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[1615,567,1579,1580,74,1581,1578,1617,568,1616],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-alf-clarke","tag-bobby-charlton","tag-busby-babes","tag-duncan-edwards","tag-manchester-united","tag-matt-busby","tag-munich","tag-munich-air-disaster","tag-old-trafford","tag-red-devils"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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