
The Flowers of Manchester
Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Billy Whelan.
Numquam Moribimur

Legends
Absolutely.Their memory will always be cherished on this day.
Remembered forever.
MUFC will never die
Grief made us more United to the cause. Still in our memories
RIP, Legends.
We cant forget them,all i can say we r gona see u again!
we’ll keep the red flag flying high
legends
a team never to be forgotten,
keep the red flag flying high
Rest in peace guys. Unforgettable Legends.
Their spirit lives on through are club, never forgotten.
Being from Barnsley and losing two of our local lads makes it doubley poignant. LEGENDS ALL
Gone but not forgotten. Legends. R.I.P. MUFC forever.
Forever and ever…
MUFC will never die !!!
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 Manchester, Play on in heaven
RIP The Busby Babes
Gone but never forgotten
the flowers of english football
the flowers of manchester
LEGENDS who’ll always remain alive in our hearts
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.
Reading all this emotional opinions brings a tear to my eye trust me! They’re all really touching comments. Busby Babes gone but never forgotten. LEGENDS forever. Est – 1878 – We’ll Never Die – MUFC
We’ll keep the Red flag flying high,
Because Man United will never die.
RIP The Busby Babes gone but never forgotten.
United we stand.
“For 15 days, his massive frame cruelly battered, he had fought for his life with unforgettable determination.
A soccer colossus had gone and in the early hours of the morning I sobbed.
I had lost a very dear friend.
There was only one Duncan Edwards, he was the greatest.”
Jimmy Murphy
Fifty-one years on
Those who weren’t born
Still remember
I write this with tears in my eyes…The BABES..forever we will remember and cherish you, Forever you will live on in our hearts, forever indebted to you. Forever Manchester United.
The Red flag will keep flying for you.
RIP each one of you
The Busby Babes the greatest team that ever was
They deserve to be knighted.
Never forgotten.
Forever in our hearts and minds!!!
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.
MUFC FOREVER
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.
Busby Babes the greatest
We shall never forget them