That beautiful, doomed...player

James, James, James. Lawton that is. Who better, more beautiful than to capture the Munich Air Disaster just right. By focusing so touchingly, truly, on the late, great, greatest (?) Duncan Edwards. Thank Goodness for words, writing, newspapers, newspaper writers, football writers who really could be writing about "more important stuff".



Thank you Jam-o for this; this bit at the end:


"But then, when tribute is paid to Manchester United tonight, when the intervening years shrivel and so many are young again in the memory of that beautiful, doomed team, inevitably there will be one regret above all others. It was that we never got to see if it was really true that Duncan Edwards was the greatest player who, despite his epic fight, never got to live. Not in the fullness of his talent. Not in the haunting reach of all his possibilities."

And the rest:

Source > 06.02.2008

Cross-Reference > Beautiful Team