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Posted by a person from Serbia on the Guardian blogs:
I had the privilege of watching the last game The Busby Babes played before the Munich air disaster. Although I was then only 12 I still rememeber evry single minute of the fantastic match played in front of 55.000 Red Star supporters, on February 5, 1958, between 1 pm and 2.45 pm. The result was 3-3. Half-time 3-0 to Man Utd. That Man Utd team was the best English side I've ever seen, with Duncan Edwards their undisputed star. He was the most complete and influental all-round English player born in the last century.
Belgrade was shaken and stunned the next day, after a horrific news from Munich spread throughout our city. With my school mate Aleksandar Ilic, now well-known philosopher and ex-Yugoslavian ambassador at Chech Republic, I collected more than 1.000 signatures (on the notebook papers) with request to UEFA (or FIFA, can't remember) to proclaim Man Utd the champions of Europe. The few pages were published on the first page of 'Vecernje novosti' (Evening News), the daily paper with the largest circulation in Serbia.
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