How Manchester United recovered from one of sport’s greatest tragedies – author explains

A new novel by David Peace dramatises the Munich football tragedy of 1958 which killed 23 people – eight of them Manchester United players – after the plane carrying the team back home from a European match crashed on an icy Munich runway.

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That tragedy and how the Red Devils came back from the brink is at the heart of his book. He spoke to Jackie Long.

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