On 6th February 1958 the airliner carrying players and backroom staff of Manchester United, plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich airport. United were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling.

Twenty-three of the forty-four passengers on board the aircraft lost their lives.

The Flowers Of Manchester is dedicated to those who died in the Munich Air Crash. For more information about the crash please visit another website built by me – Munich58.co.uk