Sir Bobby Charlton died on Saturday. His was a football life, but it was profound for reasons that Charlton never sought.
They gathered, as one day they knew they would, on the forecourt at Old Trafford, the flowers of Manchester in their hands. They came to stand at the Holy Trinity statue of Denis Law, George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton with tears in their eyes, sadness in the soul and tight fistfuls of memories.
This is why they were in Munich in February 1958. Advertisement United had just played Red Star in Belgrade in the second leg of the quarter-final of the European Cup. They drew but went through. The plane home stopped in Munich for refuelling. The crash and desolating loss of life that followed altered Charlton forever. He was 20. Some fifty years later, he began his autobiography with: “First I had to go back to Munich.
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