England’s most successful footballer, a player who won all the major honours and was admired for his gentlemanly behaviour
August 2023
English and Welsh football fans could be banned for mocking disasters
Offensive chants about tragedies such as Hillsborough can be public order offences under new guidance
March 2023
Jürgen Klopp and Erik ten Hag united in urging fans to stop ‘tragedy chanting’
On the eve of their match at Anfield, Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp and Manchester United counterpart Erik ten Hag called for an end to chants about tragedies
February 2020
Harry Gregg obituary
Harry Gregg, Manchester United and Munich hero, dies aged 87 – video report
May 2019
The first book interview
Kevin Breathnach: 'I was interested in figuring out why I was so pretentious'
Blending refined aesthetics with startling self-revelation – and a fair few lies – the Irish author’s essays offer readers a compelling puzzle
Letters: why I have changed my mind about leaving the EU
Leftwing Brexiters thought it would benefit low-paid workers, but they did not count on leaving the single market and the economic calamity this would bring
Letters: Readers respond to coverage of the 60th anniversary of the plane crash that killed eight Manchester United players, three of the team’s staff, eight journalists and four others
As long as there is football there is a good reason to remember Munich
There have been worse air crashes involving football teams before and since Munich yet the tragedy that struck Manchester United in 1958 is always perceived as the most poignant
From the Guardian archive
How the Manchester Guardian reported the Munich air disaster in 1958
News of the plane crash that all but wiped out Manchester United’s young team dominated coverage in the following day’s paper
Donny Davies, the Guardian correspondent who died in the Munich air disaster
Richard Williams
Donny Davies was the son of an orphanage boy and survived a German POW camp in the first world war. In February 1958 he was among those to lose his life in the wreckage of G-ALZU
January 2018
Sportblog
The Munich disaster’s long shadow still falls on us all, 60 years on
Daniel Taylor
Listen to Bobby Charlton and you know why the minute’s silence at Manchester United’s closest home game to the anniversary, this year against Huddersfield next Saturday, always resonates
December 2016
For one Munich survivor, Chapecoense crash brings back painful memories
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg survived the 1958 air disaster that killed eight of his teammates. He says only getting back to training stopped him from going mad
December 2013
Letter: 'Bill Foulkes and the other survivors ensured that Manchester Utd was still a force to be reckoned with'
Giles Oakley writes: I was one of the many sports fans drawn to Manchester United by the achievement of Bill Foulkes
