Looking back now, from a world saturated by instantaneous digital media, it seems inevitable that the immediacy and intimacy of radio http://www.authenticangelsshop.com/authentic-56-kole-calhoun-jersey... and TV would kickstart the http://www.officialtigersproshop.com/WOMENS-MICHAEL-FULMER-JERSEY.html long, slow decline in newspaper sales. However, that would have seemed a fanciful prediction in the 1950s, when few people had televisions and the News of the World could shift Derek Watt Authentic Jersey more than eight million copies each Sunday.

Other than going to a game, newspapers were emphatically still the place for fans to get their football fix, something demonstrated by the fact there were 11 press men on Manchester United’s fateful flight home from Belgrade in February 1958. That might not sound many by today’s standards but there was no one from TV or radio on board and the journalists accounted for a quarter of the 44 passengers and crew when the plane crashed in Munich.

Writing about his time working at the Manchester Evening Chronicle Authentic Rob Havenstein Jersey in the 1950s, Keith Dewhurst paints a picture of a world unrecognisable today. Northern reporters barely read the London papers, saw few reports of matches between southern teams and, as for foreign teams, forget it. But Manchester was the Other Fleet Street, the national press’s gateway to the north of England, Scotland and Ireland.

With the league champions on their doorstep, journalists in the city were eager to travel with Manchester United as they tried to improve on their run to the European Cup semi-finals the previous season. Travel was a lot more difficult then; the only reason the plane was in Munich was because few aircraft could make the flight from Belgrade to Manchester without a refuelling stop. The BEA Elizabethan aircraft was not one of them. So, if you were a journalist you either travelled with the team or you didn’t travel at all.

Just as Manchester http://www.49ersofficialauthenticshop.com/58-elvis-dumervil-super-b... United lost eight players in the crash, the Manchester press corps lost eight journalists. They were Alf Clarke of the Manchester Evening Chronicle, Donny Davies of the Manchester Guardian, George Follows of the Daily Herald, Tom Jackson of the Manchester Evening News, Archie Ledbrooke of the Daily Mirror, Henry Rose of the Daily Express, Eric Thompson of the Daily Mail and Frank Swift of Authentic Michael Matheson Jersey the News of the World.

The three surviving newspaper men were Ted Ellyard, a telegraphist at the Mail; Peter Howard, a Mail photographer; and Frank Taylor, who was severely injured but eventually went back to work at the News Chronicle. In his book The Day a Team Died, Taylor recalled how before takeoff he turned to the other writers to tell them there were plenty of seats at the front where he was sitting but, already settled, they stayed at the back, where most of the fatalities occurred.

The Busby Babes had achieved much before they were decimated and it’s likely they would have achieved considerably more. Their best years were still ahead of them. The journalists who died were cut down in their prime, giants of a competitive but ultimately close-knit profession with decades of experience between them. Contemporaries talk of Davies in the same breath as the legendary cricket writer Neville Cardus, who also wrote for the Manchester Guardian. But the doyen was Henry Rose, the most-read football writer the Authentic Rick Martin Jersey Daily Express ever had.

When he attended a game, the paper would put up placards around the ground saying: “Henry Rose is here today.” His presence meant it was the biggest match of the day and in Manchester the crowd would chant those words and greet Rose’s arrival in the press box with cheers. Liverpool fans had other ideas and The Kop would ritually greet Rose with a chorus of boos to which he would, cigar in one hand, salute them by raising his brown trilby with the other. Frank Taylor acknowledged that Rose was not the greatest of writers but “he knew what the man in the four-ale bar was angry about and that’s what he gave them.” Rose picked up on a mood and wrote it through football, an approach that would serve those who followed him well.

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