Manchester United on your Twitter profile, with the words "On this day", hung a ticket for the match against Red Star in Hum, back in 1958. The battle was preceded by the Munich tragedy.
Big games never lose their significance.
Two of these, back in 1958. year, they played Red Star Belgrade and Manchester United.
On this occasion, the 5th February, the whole 56 years later, the famous English club recalled the trip to Belgrade and played the JNA stadium. The official Twitter profile United, with the words "On this day", was published ticket with the return leg Champions League quarter-finals.
Then, after a quick 0-3, for half an hour, Red Star managed to get to 3-3 and be honest eliminated. In the first match, 14 January at Old Trafford, it was 2-1 for the "devil", although the red and white lead scores Lazarus Tasic.
This assistance, as well as the game itself at the Partizan stadium (construction "Maracana" began only two years later and was completed in 1963), has a large, mythical significance for Manchester United as a club and its many fans.
In fact, after the game, the return of "Bazbys baby" to England, there was a disaster in which eight United players lost their lives. Flights with the players, fans and journalists from Manchester, crashed in Munich at the third attempt to take off from the airport, and claimed the lives of 23 people.
The accident took place a day later, 6 February.
For Red Star, in the second leg, played Vladimir Beara - Ranko Borozan, Novak Tomic, Miljan Zeković - John Cokić, Bora Kostic, Rajko Mitic, Vladimir Popovic, Vladimir Šekularac, Ljubisa Spajić and Lazar Tasic.
For Manchester United, performed Hari Greg - Roger Byrne, Bill Folkes, Mark Jones - Sir Bobby Charlton, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards - Kenny Morgans, Albert Scanlon, Tomy Tylor and Denis Violet.
A day later, in an accident lost their lives Byrne, Colman, Edwards, Jones, Taylor, and reservists Geoff Bent, David Peg and Liam "Billy" Whelan.
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