European football was a novelty. The manager, Matt Busby, had to petition the FA to allow United to play and so this was the first season that an English club had taken part.
My pal Kenny Watson got two tickets. This game wasn’t played at Old Trafford: it had been bombed during the war and didn’t have floodlights yet. Manchester City’s Maine Road did so that’s where it took place. It was a bit of an adventure because we didn’t know where the hell it was. It was packed when we got there; 70,000 people, all standing. We were passed down to the front because, aged 13, we couldn’t see a thing from the back of the terraces.
United were 5-3 down from the first leg but there was an excitement in the air. I’d never seen foreign players before; they had a superb centre-half called Jesús Garay, who was incredible with his head. I can’t remember the first two goals going in. I remember Johnny Berry getting the winner though and wow, you’ve never heard anything like it. The whole place erupted. It was an amazing night.
There were some excellent players in that team. You had Roger Byrne marshalling the back and we also had some very slight players, like Eddie Colman; he’d swivel his hips and leave someone on his backside. Then you had Duncan Edwards. He hit the ball so hard. He was tremendous, he really was. It was a tragedy that he died, along with so many other players, as a result of the Munich air disaster. That happened a year to the day later.
European football was a novelty. The manager, Matt Busby, had to petition the FA to allow United to play and so this was the first season that an English club had taken part.
My pal Kenny Watson got two tickets. This game wasn’t played at Old Trafford: it had been bombed during the war and didn’t have floodlights yet. Manchester City’s Maine Road did so that’s where it took place. It was a bit of an adventure because we didn’t know where the hell it was. It was packed when we got there; 70,000 people, all standing. We were passed down to the front because, aged 13, we couldn’t see a thing from the back of the terraces.
United were 5-3 down from the first leg but there was an excitement in the air. I’d never seen foreign players before; they had a superb centre-half called Jesús Garay, who was incredible with his head. I can’t remember the first two goals going in. I remember Johnny Berry getting the winner though and wow, you’ve never heard anything like it. The whole place erupted. It was an amazing night.
There were some excellent players in that team. You had Roger Byrne marshalling the back and we also had some very slight players, like Eddie Colman; he’d swivel his hips and leave someone on his backside. Then you had Duncan Edwards. He hit the ball so hard. He was tremendous, he really was. It was a tragedy that he died, along with so many other players, as a result of the Munich air disaster. That happened a year to the day later.
European football was a novelty. The manager, Matt Busby, had to petition the FA to allow United to play and so this was the first season that an English club had taken part.
My pal Kenny Watson got two tickets. This game wasn’t played at Old Trafford: it had been bombed during the war and didn’t have floodlights yet. Manchester City’s Maine Road did so that’s where it took place. It was a bit of an adventure because we didn’t know where the hell it was. It was packed when we got there; 70,000 people, all standing. We were passed down to the front because, aged 13, we couldn’t see a thing from the back of the terraces.
United were 5-3 down from the first leg but there was an excitement in the air. I’d never seen foreign players before; they had a superb centre-half called Jesús Garay, who was incredible with his head. I can’t remember the first two goals going in. I remember Johnny Berry getting the winner though and wow, you’ve never heard anything like it. The whole place erupted. It was an amazing night.
There were some excellent players in that team. You had Roger Byrne marshalling the back and we also had some very slight players, like Eddie Colman; he’d swivel his hips and leave someone on his backside. Then you had Duncan Edwards. He hit the ball so hard. He was tremendous, he really was. It was a tragedy that he died, along with so many other players, as a result of the Munich air disaster. That happened a year to the day later.
European football was a novelty. The manager, Matt Busby, had to petition the FA to allow United to play and so this was the first season that an English club had taken part.
My pal Kenny Watson got two tickets. This game wasn’t played at Old Trafford: it had been bombed during the war and didn’t have floodlights yet. Manchester City’s Maine Road did so that’s where it took place. It was a bit of an adventure because we didn’t know where the hell it was. It was packed when we got there; 70,000 people, all standing. We were passed down to the front because, aged 13, we couldn’t see a thing from the back of the terraces.
United were 5-3 down from the first leg but there was an excitement in the air. I’d never seen foreign players before; they had a superb centre-half called Jesús Garay, who was incredible with his head. I can’t remember the first two goals going in. I remember Johnny Berry getting the winner though and wow, you’ve never heard anything like it. The whole place erupted. It was an amazing night.
There were some excellent players in that team. You had Roger Byrne marshalling the back and we also had some very slight players, like Eddie Colman; he’d swivel his hips and leave someone on his backside. Then you had Duncan Edwards. He hit the ball so hard. He was tremendous, he really was. It was a tragedy that he died, along with so many other players, as a result of the Munich air disaster. That happened a year to the day later.
European football was a novelty. The manager, Matt Busby, had to petition the FA to allow United to play and so this was the first season that an English club had taken part.
My pal Kenny Watson got two tickets. This game wasn’t played at Old Trafford: it had been bombed during the war and didn’t have floodlights yet. Manchester City’s Maine Road did so that’s where it took place. It was a bit of an adventure because we didn’t know where the hell it was. It was packed when we got there; 70,000 people, all standing. We were passed down to the front because, aged 13, we couldn’t see a thing from the back of the terraces.
United were 5-3 down from the first leg but there was an excitement in the air. I’d never seen foreign players before; they had a superb centre-half called Jesús Garay, who was incredible with his head. I can’t remember the first two goals going in. I remember Johnny Berry getting the winner though and wow, you’ve never heard anything like it. The whole place erupted. It was an amazing night.
There were some excellent players in that team. You had Roger Byrne marshalling the back and we also had some very slight players, like Eddie Colman; he’d swivel his hips and leave someone on his backside. Then you had Duncan Edwards. He hit the ball so hard. He was tremendous, he really was. It was a tragedy that he died, along with so many other players, as a result of the Munich air disaster. That happened a year to the day later.
European football was a novelty. The manager, Matt Busby, had to petition the FA to allow United to play and so this was the first season that an English club had taken part.
My pal Kenny Watson got two tickets. This game wasn’t played at Old Trafford: it had been bombed during the war and didn’t have floodlights yet. Manchester City’s Maine Road did so that’s where it took place. It was a bit of an adventure because we didn’t know where the hell it was. It was packed when we got there; 70,000 people, all standing. We were passed down to the front because, aged 13, we couldn’t see a thing from the back of the terraces.
United were 5-3 down from the first leg but there was an excitement in the air. I’d never seen foreign players before; they had a superb centre-half called Jesús Garay, who was incredible with his head. I can’t remember the first two goals going in. I remember Johnny Berry getting the winner though and wow, you’ve never heard anything like it. The whole place erupted. It was an amazing night.
There were some excellent players in that team. You had Roger Byrne marshalling the back and we also had some very slight players, like Eddie Colman; he’d swivel his hips and leave someone on his backside. Then you had Duncan Edwards. He hit the ball so hard. He was tremendous, he really was. It was a tragedy that he died, along with so many other players, as a result of the Munich air disaster. That happened a year to the day later.
