Munich and all that ....

[Maksimov]

In 1949 Torino had a great team, practically made up the whole Italian national team. They too had an air crash disaster killing all but one. I was wondering whether in Italy they give the same sort of exposure as we do here.

10 out of 11 players in the Italian starting lineup were from Grande Torino.

I've no idea how much exposure they give to it these days in general, but I remember a little over a year ago some Chelsea fan visited Superga and left a Chelsea shirt with the word 'RESPECT' written on it. That made the news over there, or so I've heard.

 

[BLUENUT]

With all credit to Grand Torino and even Bradford, they don't steal the back pages or make the headline in Britain like Utd do.

As for trying to make a profit from it....I'm not so sure. They had a memorial programme on freeview last night on MUTV. I watched the end, truely moving.

Life is more precious than football, it may not seem like it sometimes but it is. This was a tragic event that effected the whole of English football, people started supporting Utd after the accident both side of the Irish channel and due to some of the victims being Irish, they found affilliation with Utd.

Football is not life or death and a bit of respect is due. This was an accident and not caused by their drunken ticktless supporters, I think there is room for distinction. All clubs have their own personal tragedies, Utd are one of the biggest clubs (ironically due to this incident) in the world so they make bigger headlines, also people in the media/press lost loved ones so they also remind us in the news they report.