The Day a Team Died

Author:

By Frank Taylor

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Paperback

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Football, Football Teams, Munich Disaster, Busby Babes, Manchester United FC

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Feb 2008
• ISBN: 0285632620
• Pages: 192
• Photos: 16
• Size: 216mm x 135mm

From Word of Sport:

Fifty years after the Munich air disaster, the tragic events of February 1958 remain seared into the memories of football fans worldwide. This celebrated account, reissued to commemorate the 50th anniversary, written by the only survivor among the British journalists aboard, recalls the crash and its aftermath and pays tribute to the heroes who died.

From the Publisher:

The Munich air crash of February 6th 1958 killed 8 members of Manchester United's Busby Baes and seemed to be the end of the brilliant team Busby had built.

Frank Taylor nearly died in the crash and during his hospitalisation he wrote the this book, and revised it extensively 25 years later to include all the subsequent knowledge about the crash, as well as to pay tribute to the United team that eventually won the European Cup in 1968 from the ashes of Busby's team. Even today Duncan Edwards is remembered as the greatest player England could have produced. Nothing like the Busby Babes had been seen before and this revised edition also pays tribute to Sir Matt Busby, who dies in 1993.

Frank Taylor was the only journalist to survive the Munich air crash and went on to become the leading sports journalist of his journalist of his generation. He created the concept of putting sports news on the back page of the newspaper.