Remembered and Never Forgotten

We shall never forget them

Absolutely.Their memory will always be cherished on this day.

Grief made us more United to the cause. Still in our memories

RIP, Legends.

we’ll keep the red flag flying high

legends

Rest in peace guys. Unforgettable Legends.

Being from Barnsley and losing two of our local lads makes it doubley poignant. LEGENDS ALL

Forever and ever…

The Flowers of Manchester

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

The third time down the runaway disaster followed close,
There was slush upon that runaway 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 his 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 Big Swifty, who we will ne’er forget,
the finest English ‘keeper that ever graced the net.

Oh, England’s finest football team its record truly great,
its proud successes mocked 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

the flowers of english football
the flowers of manchester

United’s flag is deepest red,
It shrouded all our Munich dead,
Before their limbs grew stiff and cold,
Their heart’s blood dyed it’s ev’ry fold.

Then raise United’s banner high,
Beneath it’s shade we’ll live and die,
So keep the faith and never fear,
We’ll keep the Red Flag flying here.

We’ll never die, we’ll never die,
We’ll never die, we’ll never die,
We’ll keep the Red flag flying high,
Because Man United will never die.

Its a huge, if tragic part of our history, it helped make us into what we are. There’s not much else to say really. RIP.

We’ll keep the Red flag flying high,
Because Man United will never die.

Fifty-one years on
Those who weren’t born
Still remember

They deserve to be knighted.

Never forgotten.

in a world where the word “great” gets thrown around like trash, we look back to the Busby Babes, and remember, what the word really means.
They will live on forever in our hearts. Never forgotten, not as long as the Red Flag keeps flying high.

United will never die, because of these men who will always be in our hearts.

Keep the red flag flying high…

May they rest, and never forgotten.