Standing in the stadium’s east stand in gently falling snow, a 4,500-strong crowd sang hymns in J.J. Hardy Womens Jerseyremembrance of the 23 people killed when a plane carrying the United team crashed during takeoff from Munich-Riem airport on 6 February 1958. 
The players – nicknamed the “Busby Babes” after the team’s manager, Matt Busby – had been returning from a European Cup match in Yugoslavia in which they had drawn with Red Star Belgrade, taking them to the quarter-finals of the competition. After stopping to http://www.mapleleafsofficialauthenticshop.com/Hoodierefuel, the plane skidded in slush on the runway during takeoff, crashed through a fence and hit a cottage. Eight players were killed along with three members of Dan Majerle Jersey the team’s staff, http://www.dolphinsshopfootballonline.com/William-Hayes-Jersey eight journalists, two members of the cabin crew, a travel agent and a United supporter. Opening the ceremony on Tuesday, the club’s chaplain, the Rev John Boyers, said: “Some of us will have very vivid memories 60 years ago this afternoon, when news began to filter through via teleprinter, the BBC newsflash, the local papers, of that dreadful accident in Munich. Family, friends, Darcy Kuemper Authentic Jerseycolleagues, teammates and heroes were dead or injured near to that smashed BEA aircraft that should have flown to Manchester.” He later added: “When Munich happened a wave of grief and anguish swept this nation and in Manchester it impacted all. Here grief and anguish hit both United and City supporters alike. It mattered not whether you were red or blue; Andrew Hammond Jersey both sets of supporters stood together, wept together, mourned together. They all knew, together, that a remarkable team was no more.” Among the survivors were Bobby Charlton, who would win the World Cup eight years later, and Harry Gregg, who went on to become Northern Ireland manager, both of whom attended the ceremony. The current Manchester United manager, José Mourinho, and the club captain, Michael http://www.officialcelticsproshop.com/Walter_Brown_JerseyCarrick, laid wreaths on behalf of the club and players. Michael Edelson, a non-executive director at the club, read from Ecclesiastes 9 and 12: “No man knows when their hour will come: as fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare.” The club’s former manager Sir Alex Ferguson read from Psalm 103: “The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone.” The crowd sang the Flowers of Manchester, a song written in http://www.footballbengalsofficialshop.com/Nike-Randy-Bullock-Jersey.html tribute to those who died in the crash, containing the lines: “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.” Parallel ceremonies marking the tragedy were held in both Belgrade and Munich. United’s under-19 academy side, who were in Serbia for a match, visited Partizan stadium where the 1958 team played before the crash. basketball jerseys custom nike nfl jerseys china nhl jerseys wholesale baseball jerseys for sale wholesale nfl jerseys supplycheap jerseys paypal cheap jerseys elite nike nfl jerseys china