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I recently read a biography about Tommy Taylor called Tommy Taylor: The Smiling Executioner and one of the final chapters has an excerpt of an interview with a fellow passenger on the Munich flight who survived (Albert Scanlon).

Albert says he witnessed Tommy Taylor and David Pegg move hastily to the back of the plane at the third attempt of take-off due to increasing fear.

He was told quite some time after the crash that Tommy and David were in the toilets when the plane crashed into a house...

That was the area where the plane supposedly exploded those poor men. Horrific.

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The grave of Liam Whelan. So beautiful. He was a proud Irish man and deeply religious.

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Johnny Giles cracks me up in this interview, around the 2:35 mark he expresses his personal feelings that Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor and David Pegg weren't all that approachable and "wouldn't give you a second look" in the dressing room

John's a great guy, always speaks well of the Busby Babes and his young days at Man Utd leading into when the crash happened, but his honesty about feeling intimidated by the First Team's dynamic is very refreshing and much appreciated. He also speaks about Liam Whelan and Bobby Charlton. Listen on YT:

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3 days ago it was the 64th anniversary of the Munich Air disaster, and the first time since the Covid pandemic began that they opened Old Trafford to the public for the annual memorial service.

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Training day! 1957.
Tommy Taylor, Colin Webster, David Pegg, Eddie Colman and Bill Foulkes pictured.
I 100% agree with the caption that players today would never commit this hard. The Babes were out in muddy conditions, in all weathers, and were NOT getting 100 grand per week for their efforts

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The official MUFC twitter account honored the Flowers of Manchester (as the Busby Babes were commonly labelled after the tragedy) on the February 6th anniversary day with a pic of Busby training them, possibly a 1957 photo and certainly a memorable group gathering with some of their greatest players engaged in training

Pictured Left to right: Dennis Viollet, Tommy Taylor, David Pegg, Tom Curry (trainer), Wilf McGuinness, Roger Byrne, Sir Matt Busby, Ray Wood, Liam Whelan, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, Geoff Bent (I think), Johnny Berry :-

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David and Eddie practicing for the 1957 FA Cup Final -

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Extremely eerie photo: Geoff Bent is not pictured, but the seven other Munich crash victims were all sitting & standing together here (on the right hand side) -

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"This is Manchester United - anyone who doesn't meet the standards shouldn't be here."

Strong words from current player Juan Mata, which would make Busby and Ferguson proud:

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Current MUFC captain, Harry Maguire, recently visited the Munich memorial to pay his respects

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Reportedly, Cristiano Ronaldo aka our best player by a country mile, he wants out...

But our new manager won't sell him

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/ old promo still for the movie -

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Pegg and Charlton on a night out, the photo was provided by a family member of David. These two BFFs, looking smooth -

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All those 150+ games David played and then to die - for his team & with his best friends - so young...

Seems so unfair that Busby had replaced him in the first team just a month and a half before the Munich disaster.

All due to substitutes not existing back then. If they had, then Pegg and Albert Scanlon would surely have both been playing in the first team.

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Two weeks ago marked the 65th anniversary of the below first team's last ever match together against Chelsea. 7 of the 11 players were killed less than 2 months later in the Munich plane crash ~