It was a day for remembrance; a day when old met new; and a day that those who were there will never forget. Temperatures touched 0C and snowflakes fell, but more than 4,500 people still crammed into the lower tier of the East Stand at Old Trafford to pay their respects to the victims of the Munich air disaster 60 years on. Health workers who treated the players attend a ceremony in Munich Sebastian Widmann/Getty ImagesHarry Gregg and Sir Bobby Charlton, 165 years between them, came to pay their respects to the 23 who died. Sir Alex Ferguson was there, Ed Woodward too. The entire first-team squad and their manager took their seats in front of a temporary stage from where United’s chaplain, the Rev John Bowyers, led a poignant ceremony that would moisten the eye of even…

Source: The Times February 06, 2018 17:03 UTC