Scanlon's Munich memories

8:00am Monday 4th February 2008

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ALBERT SCANLON, now aged 72, suffererd a fractured skull, broken right leg, kidney damage and a broken shoulder in the crash and was unconscious for five days.

The former outside left, who now lives on a small pension in Salford, played for Manchester United from 1954-1960 and went on to play for Newcastle, Lincoln and Mansfield Town.

He said: "I know many people now because of what happend. People always go out of their way to speak to you. To pick one player out would be wrong because it was a team and they were all great.

"I think everybody who survived was just glad to be alive. The hardest part for me is meeting victims realtions. I always think they will be looking at you and asking why is he still standing there and not them?"

Albert recalls little of the crash itself. "I have no memories of the air crash, I can remember the time before on the runway but other than that I rely on what people told me happened."

But recocovering in the Munich hospital he remembers: "I went to see Duncan and Johnny Berry and Duncan was talking to me. Nobody realised that people were dying, I think it was a priest who broke the news."