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Belgrade: 6th February 1958

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Every sympathy went out from hearts around the world.
As young men died as young men had
not many years before.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Young and old cried their tears In haunting mixed emotions
As the radio reported the names
of dying footballers

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Some played for England, Ireland also Wales
All for Manchester United
The Belgrade snow froze the lives that had barely started.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 They had raised our hopes in football terms
By winning games in Europe,
As Real Madrid had done with Puskas and Di Stefano.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 ‘The Busby Babes’ they called his team, some only in their teens
He defied the English authorties
To glories only read about but never seen.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Their names are; Eddie Coleman, the youngest at nineteen.
Liam ( Bill ) Whelan, David Pegg and Tommy Taylor.
Geoff Bent, Mark Jones and Mr Duncan Edwards,
Perhaps England’s greatest prodigy ever seen.
Team captain, Roger Byrne; the oldest, aged twenty four.

Notes

Also remembering the others who died and those who along with Harry Gregg, the goalkeeper, who braved the debris to rescue and help others.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/belgrade-6th-february-1958/