Colin

[Conner Roberts @ConnerRoberts_]

Today staff and players from Manchester United Women visited Manchesterplatz to pay their respects to those who lost their lives on 6 February 1958.

Staff and players of Manchester United Women heard about the disaster and listened to the Flowers of Manchester alongside representatives from Bayern Munich and both clubs supporters.

📸Man United

[Man United Media @ManUnitedMedia]

Our deepest condolences go out to Roy Keane and his family on the passing of his beloved mother, Marie. ❤️

[The 1958 @The__1958]

🗣️Old Trafford: Stolen in Plain Sight

Supporters asked to engage with a process that offered limited transparency and no meaningful opportunity to scrutinise key assumptions, financial models, or long term impacts.

Engagement through pre selected forums without genuine challenge risked exactly what it became, a rubber stamping exercise rather than an open consultation.

The club in full PR mode wheeling out all the bollocks when we all know this is nothing more than sacrificing our home at the altar of greed.

Old Trafford is all we have left our history, our home, our identity and now even that is being chipped away, piece by piece.

The Americanisation of the game, the dilution of fan culture, the pricing out of generational supporters.

It’s not just change, it’s loss.

The 1958 🇾🇪

[Colin @Coloflepton]

@Manutd_addicts Fucking hope so fingers crossed

[The 1958 @The__1958]

🇾🇪💔

[FK Crvena zvezda @crvenazvezdafk]

We remember and honor the lives lost in the Munich Air Disaster. Forever in our hearts. Flowers of Manchester are immortal. 🌹

🔴⚪️ #fkcz

[Liam M @7kingsmanchest5]

#BusbyBabes
The flowers Manchester , the flowers of English Football.

[Mark Robinson @mark_robinson_]

#MUFC #ManUtd #munichairdisaster

[Gaynor Hammond @HammondGaynor]

Never forgotten #FlowersOfManchester ❤️💔🇾🇪

[(fan) Frank 🧠🇾🇪 @FrankEra_]

Edwin van der Sar at today’s Munich remembrance service. ❤️

[Subbuticons @subbuticons]

Never forgotten 🖤
#FlowersOfManchester #MUFC

[🔰Jack Barrett🔰 @jackbarrettmufc]

Never forgotten!

[FPL Frasier @FPLfrasier]

🌹❤️ Always remembered

[United Arts 🔴⚪️⚫️ @UtdArts1]

🌹 The Flowers of Manchester 🌹

We were the kings of England. Twice we'd won the First Division, and it felt like we were only getting started. Those lads, our lads, they weren't just footballers. They were something else entirely. A revolution in red shirts, playing with this pure joy that made people forget the ration books had barely been put away. The Busby Babes, they called them. And from our little patch of Manchester, they were about to show Europe what real football looked like.

Then Munich happened. All these years later, that word sticks in the throat of so many supporters. It tore the heart right out of our club and our city. Twenty three souls lost on that frozen runway. . Big Duncan Edwards fought like hell in that Munich hospital, just like the way he played. But even Duncan couldn't beat this one. Matt Busby was fighting for his life too, and somehow he pulled through. But the world he came back to wasn't the same.

Manchester changed overnight. This proud working city, normally alive with trams rattling and factory whistles blowing, just went quiet. Shop windows were filled with handwritten poems tied with red ribbon, newspaper clippings and drawings from school kids of the heroes they'd lost. Mancunians have always been an emotional lot, never shy about showing what they feel. But this was different. The whole city wore its grief like a black armband.

Every February, you see younger fans who only know the story through their parents or grandparents, standing side by side with those of us who've carried it with us all this time. When 'The Flowers of Manchester' starts up, even the hardest old timers get that look. You'll catch them wiping their eyes and their faces going soft with the weight of it all.

They say every football club has its defining moment. That one thing everything else pivots around. For Manchester United, it wasn't just Munich itself, it was everything that came after. How the club clawed its way back up. How Matt Busby somehow rebuilt not just a team, but a legacy.

Every trophy we've lifted since, every victory parade down Deansgate, they all carry something of those Busby Babes in them.

When you watch our academy kids now, running out in that same red shirt with that same fire burning inside them, you're seeing it. The Babes are still there. In every goal. In every roar from the Stretford End.

Forever young, forever brilliant, forever United ♥️🤍🖤

#TheFlowersOfManchester #MUFC #ManchesterUnited

[Manchester United @MUnitedFR]

Always remembered. Never forgotten. 🌹❤️

[Paul Manc Bald and Bred @MufcWonItAll2]

Sir Matt Busby from his hospital bed in Munich speaks Old Trafford over the tannoy.

[Paul64 🇬🇧 @paul1964Jam]

Always a sad day for football ⚽️ 💔💔

[United-Till-I-Die(Geoff.B) @unbelievableGB]

Gone but never forgotten.

The pride of English football,
The Flowers of Manchester, always cherished.
🌹❤️

[The United Stand @UnitedStandMUFC]

Men’s and women’s first-team captains, Bruno Fernandes and Maya Le Tissier, attended the 68th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster at Old Trafford this afternoon. [@StevenRailston]