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Spurs Odyssey Remembers - 50 years ago.

I think it is appropriate for this web site to mark the 50th anniversary of the Munich Crash, where too many young footballers, staff, journalists and crew lost their lives or had their lives changed so radically by one incident.

50 years later there are people who do scoff a little at the way that United remember this incident, but the whole of football was touched and affected by what happened and the remembrance is appropriate.

I really hope that Man City fans behave on Sunday because silence and not applause is also the right way to mark the occasion

Spurs and Manchester City Players mourn those who died in the Munich air crash two days after the incident

Spurs played Man City at White Hart Lane days after that fateful day and Danny Blanchflower and his team (remember Jackie Blanchflower - Danny's brother was injured and lost his career) wore black shirts to mark the mourning.

So when you read the stories in the papers and perhaps watch the United game on Sunday, just think how we would feel if the lifeblood of our club had been decimated at a stroke as happened at Munich.

Spurs Odyssey remembers those who passed away, who mourned and still mourn, and those who have borne the mental and physical scars since February 6th, 1958.

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