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Список погибших:
Джеофф Бент
(Geoff Bent)
Роджер Берн
(Roger Byrne)
Эдди Колман
(Eddie Colman)
Дункан Эдвардс
(Duncan Edwards)
Марк Джонс
(Mark Jones)
Дэвид Пегг
(David Pegg)
Томми Тейлор
(Tommy Taylor)
Лайэм Уилан
(Liam Whelan)
Уолтер Крикмер
(Walter Crickmer)
Берт Уэйли
(Bert Whalley)
Том Карри
(Tom Curry)
Альф Кларк
(Alf Clarke)
Дон Дэвис
(Don Davies)
Джордж Фолоуз
(George Follows)
Том Джексон
(Tom Jackson)
Арчи Лидброк
(Archie Ledbrooke)
Хенри Роуз
(Henry Rose)
Эрик Томпсон
(Eric Thompson)
Фрэнк Свифт
(Frank Swift)
Кенет Рэймент
(Kenneth Rayment)
Бела Миклос
(Bela Miklos)
Вилли Сатинофф
(Willie Satinoff )
Том Кейбл
(Tom Cable)
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Flowers of Manchester
Каждый год, начиная с 2001 года, болельщики Манчестер Юнайтед собираются под мемориалом на Олд Траффорд, чтобы спеть одну единственную песню: «Flowers of Manchester».
Эту песню записали The Spinners для их альбома «Black and White» в память о погибших в этой авиакатастрофе. Впоследствии, эта песня была выпущена еще в нескольких аранжировках, которые вы можете скачать на этой странице: http://www.munich58.co.uk/flowers/index.asp
Текст песни «Flowers of Manchester»:
On one cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory,
Eight men who will never play again who met destruction there,
The flowers of British 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 returned back again.
The third time down the runaway disaster followed close,
There was a slush upon that runaway and the aircraft never rose,
It ploughed into the marshy, it broke, it overturned.
And eight of the team were killed when 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 lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.
Big Duncan he went to, with an injury to his frame,
And Ireland's brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again,
The great Sir Matt Busby lay there, the father of his team
Three long months passed by before he walked 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'll 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
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