Manchester — Not a day goes by that Wilf McGuinness does not think of the friends and teammates he lost when the Munich air crash ripped the heart out of Manchester United’s Busby Babes. The disaster, 60 years ago today, killed eight of the young, vibrant side who had won successive league titles. It left manager Matt Busby fighting for his life. The events of February 6, 1958 are woven into the fabric of the club, who recovered to become the first English team to lift the European Cup 10 years later on a deeply emotional night at Wembley. McGuinness, now 80, was not on the plane — which crashed on the third take-off attempt in terrible weather conditions — because he was injured. The ill-fated aircraft was bringing the team back via Munich from Belgrade after they had reached the European Cup semifinals. Twenty-three people died in total. "You think of the ones who went, you don’t think of yourself escaping or not going on the trip," says McGuinness, who was in hospital following a...
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