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Why Manchester United remembering the Munich Air Disaster...

Andy Mitten was asked to speak at the memorial service marking the 68th anniversary of the disaster.

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Why Manchester United remembering the Munich Air Disaster...
Source: The Athletic

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Real talk: Andy Mitten was asked to speak at the memorial service marking the 68th anniversary of the disaster.

This is what he read to those present Throughout the 1990s, only a dozen or so people would gather on the Old Trafford forecourt each February 6 to mark the anniversary of the Munich Air disaster. (yes, really)

The same faces would attend most years and stand in silence for a couple of minutes, in respect for those who took an L their lives in 1958, before continuing on their way.

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