Munich air crash

Aberdeen Shrimper · Feb 4, 2008

J said:
Southend Celebrate.. something something 58?

Where did this come from?

Celebrate??

Gremlin · Feb 4, 2008

J said:
Where did this come from?

The original is from The Kop, Anfield. I won't bother typing out the correct words as it's not deserving of being repeated.

shooter mcgavin · Feb 5, 2008

cockles is back said:
yes must have been absolutley awful, I hope this and im sure it will be, will be taken as seriously as possible. I Know many of you hate United I infact admire them, and it just shows the charecter of such a huge club to bounce back from such a disater

Big club for sure Cockles, but that crash is what made United into the biggest club in the country, all over the country. Sure they were already a big football club, but the public outpouring of emotion and sympathy lead to lots of neutrals choosing to support United up and down the country.

You will hear some a minority of moronic City fans during the minutes silence - I would be very surprised if anything else happened. City fans on their away days refer to the local area as "a town full of Munichs" in a joking way, but I just can't see 100% of them behaving on Sunday.

Yorkshire Blue · Feb 5, 2008

C C Csiders said:
I hardly ever hear mention of the 1948? air crash which completely wiped out the dominant Torino team of the mid to late-40's in Italy. A side, it is oft-quoted, who were probably the best in the world at that time, and had arguably much better players than Man U had at the time of the Munich aircrash.

True, that was a truly great team. They'd won 5 straight Serie A titles and their team had provided 10 of the players for the national team. Remember, Italy were at that time World and Olympic Champions.

I hadn't really heard of them and quite how special they were, until I visited Turin last year. In Italy that team is considered possibly the greatest of all time. A tragic loss.

Its captain, the legendary Valentino Mazzola, was the father of Sandro Mazzola, the star of La Grande Inter, another of the great Italian sides, which perfected catennacio.

C C Csiders · Feb 5, 2008

Yorkshire Blue said:
Its captain, the legendary Valentino Mazzola, was the father of Sandro Mazzola, the star of La Grande Inter, another of the great Italian sides, which perfected catennacio.

Sandro, as well as a great player, was also the inventor of possibly the finest chip cooking oil known to man.