Anniversary of the air disaster

[Gorton_Tubster]

RIP to everyone that lost their lives in that horrible event..
I was lucky enough to be in the City end in the 2008 , 50th anniversary game one of the proudest moments I’ve felt being a blue , the fans and the club were brilliant that day.

One thing I do find strange about the Munich anniversary is I don’t ever recall hearing or seeing much about it in the 80’s/90’s and early 2000’s ? (I might be wrong) but it feels like it’s just become a popularity event almost Liverpool style and an excuse for a load of lads to go on the smash in Munich and in and around Old Trafford.
Just my observation that , and don’t mean to offend anyone.

I said the same , it got removed. But it does appear that way even though "it is not"

 

[yerwot?]

I think it was mourned just as much with more relevance, some of the people mourning could actually remember the disaster in the 70's 80's and 90's.

My view is viewed by some as controversial, you see I believe at some point you have to get over things, the truth is that United have never really mourned this terrible day for Manchester and football, they have always remembered the 8 players who were so tragically taken.

The flowers of Manchester, the busby babes, nothing! nothing ever about the 15 other poor souls lost. For me there is something quite wrong about burdening young fans with grief that happened when their parents and sometimes their grandparents weren't even born.

There needs to be a bit more dignity shown, the age of social media, agents and commercial gain from anything is here,

In my opinion they should have opened Old Trafford on a non match day for a service of remembrance, then when the mourners numbers decreased, moved it too Manchester cathedral. The ceremony should always have been about the 23 people who died in the disaster.

My father was a red and my Mum a blue, like most we all followed mum to the City games, I know the disaster broke my Dad, just like it broke the hearts of all true Mancunians, red or blue, you would need to be at about 75 to remember the disaster, I'm 64 and have no recollection of it.

So if you didn't see it, you weren't even born, why the outpouring of grief? it almost like the commercial machine the money makers want to keep it alive for gain for the ££'s involved and this is disrespectful.

God bless them all all 23, but like I said and believe, It was a terrible day for Manchester and football but at some point you have to get over things.

RIP all 23 who died.

By "get over it", a phrase that has multiple interpretations and inferences, would "deal with it, but never mention it again" be your preference?
It highlights yet again how "official" findings" have been pre-ordained to find against the "little people", whitewash cover up and absolve the "big people".
Titanic, Aberfan, Thalidomide, tainted blood, Bradford fire, H'borough, and recently the lack of ppe and the deliberate attempt to dismiss it by denying the virus was air-borne, which cost untold deaths and harm.
Coroners were once trusted, but this is not a given nowadays, following some high-profile " controversial verdicts".
This thread is relevant even more nowadays, it helps people to ask questions, to reconsider their opinions of what "happened" and their acceptance of what they have been told.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

By "get over it", a phrase that has multiple interpretations and inferences, would "deal with it, but never mention it again" be your preference?
It highlights yet again how "official" findings" have been pre-ordained to find against the "little people", whitewash cover up and absolve the "big people".
Titanic, Aberfan, Thalidomide, tainted blood, Bradford fire, H'borough, and recently the lack of ppe and the deliberate attempt to dismiss it by denying the virus was air-borne, which cost untold deaths and harm.
Coroners were once trusted, but this is not a given nowadays, following some high-profile " controversial verdicts".
This thread is relevant even more nowadays, it helps people to ask questions, to reconsider their opinions of what "happened" and their acceptance of what they have been told.

No my friend, possibly not the best words to choose, my apologies if your offended, thank you for your feedback. Maybe move on continue with your lives, whilst remaining respectful.
I don't see how the Munich air disaster was a cover up, but never mind, or indeed how United or the players are little people.

 

[mat]

It was a tragedy that affected the whole of Manchester at the time. Just ask any Rag or blue who was old enough to experience it at the time.