Accession Number

B154

Series Title

[NATIONWIDE]

Programme Title

FOOTBALL: MATT BUSBY: INTERVIEW ON NATIONWIDE

Producer

[Unknown]

Other Credits

[Unknown]

Transmission Date

01/01/73

b/w & colour, sound (sep), 06 mins 11 secs

Synopsis

Programme made fifteen years after the Munich air disaster in which seven 'Busby Babes', Manchester United football players, were killed on 6 February 1958. Includes footage of the team's last game before the crash: against Red Star Belgrade in Yugoslavia in the European Cup. A still is shown of the team boarding the plane the next day bound for Munich and there is footage of the crashed plane near Munich airport. Newspaper clippings are shown about the crash and there is footage of the seven players that died: Roger Byrne, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman, Liam Whelan, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Geoff Bent and Duncan Edwards. There are stills of the 100,000 people who lined the streets of Manchester when the bodies returned. Survivors Bobby Charlton, Billy Foulkes, Harry Gregg and manager Matt Busby are shown in hospital beds. A clock at Old Trafford recording the date of the crash and a plaque naming the dead are seen. Matt Busby and Jackie Blanchflower, a player who survived but never played football again, are interviewed today about the disaster.