I can remember my mother, who had no interest in football being upset when it was announced. First Cup Final I watched was the year before, Man Utd v Villa. One of the earliest memories I can recall. In my first job in 1967 someone in the office they had sent up from London to set it up was a Charlton fan told me had seen them getting beat 5-1 by them in front of nearly 70,000. It was a Monday game and virtually the whole year in his school bunked off in the afternoon to get there. I think he said it was 5-0 at half time. He never heard an away team get such a round of applause as they went off.
I do remember the day quite well (also 9 at the time) but I was much more aware of the aftermath when the news was full of updates on the badly injured survivors and the impact that Duncan Edwards' death had. My particular favourite player in the team was Jackie Blanchflower who was pressed into playing as a stand in goalkeeper in the cup final against Aston Villa that was the earliest game I can actually remember watching - he did survive but was never fit enough to play again. One odd thing that I really recall from the day was the cancellation of a TV play starring Wilfred Pickles that was due to be shown that evening - it was the first time I remember a programme being called off because it was felt that it would cause upset or offence to viewers.
WTF am I thinking. I was born a month after the accident. I am 10 years younger than I thought I was.
As we have seen recently with the death of Cyrille Regis, history is constantly being rewritten, and in terms of hate speech the 'Munich 58' stuff that was chanted for years by other clubs at Man Utd seemed much worse. To their credit, MUFC have not made much of it but presumably chose not to. Football was different then, people turned a blind eye/ear to what went on.
I was 12 at the time and remember it quite distinctly, it is probably the reason why I have always had a soft spot for them, much to the disgust of many.
Like a lot of events that shock you, I can remember exactly where I was when I heard the news on the crash. I was at cubs on at St Marks Church Anlaby Common, and someone came in an told us.
In today's 24hr news and comments historical stuff is forgotten, when was the last time the Bradford Stadium fire disaster mentioned on a national level? In fact, I am as guilty as anyone as for every year that I get older the historical events seem to come around ever faster. On a local level the 3 trawler disasters are being mentioned, but for those not directly involved its significance comes round annually, but not remembered until an anniversary of some significance, like now. And of course for those of able to remember such things as Munich, then there is some recognition of the horrendous consequences of the loss suffered by Manchester Utd, but I do not expect a 9 or 10-year-old supporter of another team outside of the Manchester area to have such sentiments as those connected with the Manchester area. England winning the World Cup in '66 was a big event in my life, but now it's being held in ridicule in some circles as the last time England, as a team were of anything of substance on the world stage. For me, I whittle down the things that are important to me, and today none are sports related, for as for the events themselves, they will happen, but I am not guaranteed to remember them.
Fairly tasteless but sadly to be expected these days. In a better world Ebay would refuse to host these sorts of things. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-42942305
Is that it? You have dug it up but does anyone actually remember reading it? And does anyone outside of Hull remember the tripple trawler tragedies? Or the Rederigo, Loretta? Flixborough? I could go on but what's the point, you can dig up almost everything on Google, but who remembers any of it, that's my point, its lost in time unless you have a personal direct connection.
I remembered the article, I remember lots of them around the same time, that’s why I posted it, I think the Bradford fire is regularly remembered. I suspect the triple trawler disaster is largely unknown outside of Hull, or at least it was ahead of this new documentary.
The accident highlighted the lack of information available to pilots when calculating take off performance from what is now termed "Contaminated Runways". There had been other accidents, but none so high profile.
