Manchester United

[BoredBloke]

Over 85,000 at Burnden Park in 1946....

Burnden Park disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That was a cup game. This guy picks his records carefully out of big dusty books!

[eek]

#IWasn'tAliveWhenTottenhamLastWonTheLeague

I don't think many people on this forum would have been. Possibly Zeity?

[stek]

That was a cup game. This guy picks his records carefully out of big dusty books!

My dad was there, 13 years old and sat on the running track next to 33 dead men.

Anyway, carry on with the Interesting Debate...

[quackhandle]

My dad was there, 13 years old and sat on the running track next to 33 dead men.

I only read about this the other day, unbelievably shocking. Just cover the bodies up and finish the game. WTF?

Being LFC fan I have no love of ManYoo but getting rid of the back room staff was a mistake (esp Meulensteen) Giggs and P Neville can't make that jump yet.

Mata will be a quality signing, really wish LFC had gone in for him, reminds me of an Alonso type player.

qh

[Bellona]

My dad was there, 13 years old and sat on the running track next to 33 dead men.

Anyway, carry on with the Interesting Debate...

OMFG
I hadn't heard of this before, can't believe

The dead and injured were taken from the stand, with those who had perished lain along the touchline and covered in coats. A little under half an hour after leaving the pitch, the game was restarted, with a new sawdust lined touchline separating the players from the bodies. At the end of the first-half, the players immediately changed ends and started the second half. Stanley Matthews was on the Stoke team, and later said he was sickened that the game was allowed to continue

I won't be able to hear the the Bill Shankly quote

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

again without thinking of Burnden Park

[suityou01]

#IWasn'tAliveWhenTottenhamLastWonTheLeague

Well you'll be around to see it this time when they do it in May.

HTH

[stek]

I only read about this the other day, unbelievably shocking. Just cover the bodies up and finish the game. WTF?

Being LFC fan I have no love of ManYoo but getting rid of the back room staff was a mistake (esp Meulensteen) Giggs and P Neville can't make that jump yet.

Mata will be a quality signing, really wish LFC had gone in for him, reminds me of an Alonso type player.

qh

Yeah my dad used to stand on the Railway Embankment End at Burnden (where the crush was) but couldn’t get a ticket.

So he went to the YMCA in town (not a gaylord zone then!) and some guy from the the Football Club came down and asked for people to sell programs and if they where all sold, they got in the game.

So off he went, sold the programs and was sat on the running track in from the main (Manchester Road) stand along with other lads who had done the same program selling thing. No tickets no nothing.

My Dad told me he looked at the Railway Embankment End where he normally stood and all the peoples heads where in perfect lines, it was packed so tight.

He also said the Burnden Paddock and the Great Lever End were empty because the Ministry of Food were still using the stands for food storage.

The crush happened and people were all over the pitch, order was restored and my Dad said they laid the bodies along side where he was set on the floor and covered them up with their coats and the game carried on.

My Uncle was also there, on the Railway Embankment End, he was about 8, and was passed down over heads onto the pitch for safety before the crush.

Sad day.

[BoredBloke]

I only read about this the other day, unbelievably shocking. Just cover the bodies up and finish the game. WTF?

Being LFC fan I have no love of ManYoo but getting rid of the back room staff was a mistake (esp Meulensteen) Giggs and P Neville can't make that jump yet.

Mata will be a quality signing, really wish LFC had gone in for him, reminds me of an Alonso type player.

qh

Can't agree more. To remove all the backroom staff seemed very stupid and is proving to be the case. I was under the impression that Fergie was trying to emulate the Liverpool thing of the backroom staff taking over and promoting from within but that obviously wasn't the case. I do like the idea of Giggs taking on coaching duties, but not at the expense of a coach that knew what they were doing, while he is still learing the job!

The club seemed to get 110% out of the team last year. This year we are seeing it without the backroom involved.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I only read about this the other day, unbelievably shocking. Just cover the bodies up and finish the game. WTF?

Being LFC fan I have no love of ManYoo but getting rid of the back room staff was a mistake (esp Meulensteen) Giggs and P Neville can't make that jump yet.

Mata will be a quality signing, really wish LFC had gone in for him, reminds me of an Alonso type player.

qh

Nothing like Alonso unless I am missing something? Alonso is a play maker/DM - exactly what United need - another Paul Scholes/Keane or somewhere in the middle.

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Passing ability. And they are both Spanish.

qh