{"id":294567,"date":"2023-10-21T22:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=294567"},"modified":"2023-10-21T22:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T22:24:44","slug":"sir-bobby-charlton-remembers-the-munich-air-disaster-in-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/sir-bobby-charlton-remembers-the-munich-air-disaster-in-his-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Bobby Charlton remembers the Munich Air Disaster in his own words"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sir Bobby Charlton said a day did not go by when his mind didn&#8217;t return to the Munich Air Disaster in 1958&#8230; in his own words, spoken before his 80th birthday, his memories from a fateful day which changed his life<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manchester United and England great Sir Bobby Charlton has died aged 86\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The legendary World Cup winner survived the tragic 1958 Munich Air Disaster\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In his own words, he recalled his state of shock and feelings of guilt and regret\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Bobby Charlton always said a day did not go by when his mind didn&#8217;t go back to the Munich air disaster in 1958, a tragedy which claimed the life of eight of the then 20-year-old&#8217;s Manchester United team-mates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his own words, spoken just before his 80th birthday, are a few of Charlton&#8217;s memories of that fateful day which changed his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it still touches me every day. Sometimes it fills me with a terrible regret and sadness &#8211; and guilt that I survived, walked away and found so much. Sometimes the moment passes very quickly, a fleeting thought, a pang of sadness and I get on with my day.<\/p>\n<p>Other times it takes a greater hold. I think of the miracle of my life, the things I went on to see and do after the lads I loved so much had been taken away, and I have to believe that even miracles have a price.<\/p>\n<p>For a little while, you see, football, all of life, had seemed to lose meaning. You think to yourself &#8216;why should it be me?&#8217;. There again, I was just lucky I happened to sit in the right place. When we got to the hospital I started ranting and raving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/22\/76845641-0-image-a-79_1697923794831.jpg\" height=\"658\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In his own words, Sir Bobby Charlton reflected back on the Munich Air Disaster in 1958<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/21\/22\/76845651-0-image-a-80_1697923897223.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlton recalled being in a state of shock after the crash, with football losing its meaning<\/p>\n<p>I just didn&#8217;t understand. The medical people came around and gave me an injection in the back of my neck and I just collapsed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t wake up until the following morning.<\/p>\n<p>This German lad was there and he had a paper. He had a list of all the players and he read them out and if they were alive he would say &#8216;yes&#8217; and if they were dead he said &#8216;no&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I had to wait for a couple of days before I could get on the train to go home and when I was on my own I thought about it. I thought about it a lot and my personal friends were dead.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never stopped asking myself why I was able to run my hands over my body and find that I was still whole when Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Billy Whelan, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, Mark Jones and Geoff Bent lay dead and Duncan Edwards, who I loved and admired, faced an unavailing battle for his life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12657673\/Bobby-Charlton-Munich-Air-Disaster-death-memories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Bobby Charlton said a day did not go by when his mind didn&#8217;t return to the Munich Air Disaster in 1958&#8230; in his own words, spoken before his 80th birthday, his memories from a fateful day which changed his life Manchester United and England great Sir Bobby Charlton has died aged 86\u00a0 The legendary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sir Bobby Charlton remembers the Munich Air Disaster in his own words - Tell My Sport<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/sir-bobby-charlton-remembers-the-munich-air-disaster-in-his-own-words\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sir Bobby Charlton remembers the Munich Air Disaster in his own words - Tell My Sport\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sir Bobby Charlton said a day did not go by when his mind didn&#8217;t return to the Munich Air Disaster in 1958&#8230; 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