MANCHESTER UNITED’S DARKEST HOUR

 

Broken in he twisted wreckage

The victims of Munics winter carnage

Crashing in the snow and ice

There would have to be a fearful price

And when the bill was finally reckoned

Deaths reaper grimly beckoned

Towards the twenty three poor souls

That appeared on his fearsome rolls

Young men cut down in their prime

Older ones who thought they’d more time

Were all taken from that grissly place

To feel the breath of heaven on their face

Taking the souls who died in the snow

To where the innocents and the heroes go

JIMMY MURPHY 6TH FEBRUARY 1958

 

In those brief moments,

Jimmy was happy,

On top of the world.

He had reached the pinnacle

Wales in the World Cup Finals

United in the European semis

Life was good

Life was very good indeed

 

Then the news came

Of a crash in the snow

And suddenly

Life wasn’t so good.

Information,

Patchy at first

Trickled in,

Not all reliable

Miss information

Spread like the plague,

Then the facts emerged

From amongst the fictions

So many dead

So many lost

And for the living

Life would never be the same

 

Jimmy blamed himself

For being so smug

For being so happy

For being alive

THE BUSBY BABES

 

The young lads played the game

The Busby Babes was their name

Though they played like magic

They embraced tragedy in Munich

Their plane crashing in the snow

The wreckage burning all aglow

Eigth of  their magnificent number

Would not see another summer

THE BUSBY BABES REPLAYED

The Busby Babes were sublime

The best by far in their time

And when eight of their number

Went to their eternal slumber

They went straight to heaven

To join St Peters first XI

THE SURVING BABES OF MUNICH

 

Morgans and Blanchflower

Never played again

Some played to soon

Some could never play the same

 

Some were cast aside

Some fullfilled there destiny

But none were unscathed

After the tradgedy

 

Those who remained

Of the team Busby built

All survived the horror

But lived with the guilt

I WAS JUST SITTING IN THE STAND

 

I was just sitting in the stand

And wondered why absentmindedly

The football was getting bigger

And bigger and then it hit me

WHEN I GO AND PLAY GOLF

 

When I go and play Golf, there

Is something I’ve always done

I take a second pair of Trousers

Just in case I get a hole in one

WHY CAN'T ORPHANS PLAY BASEBALL?

 

Why can't orphans play baseball?

At the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome?

Well they say it’s nothing personal

It’s just that they can't find home

IT WAS DURING A CHESS GAME

 

It was during a Chess game

That I remember him saying

“Let’s make this more interesting”

So we agreed to stop playing

BATSMEN WEAR A PROTECTIVE BOX

 

Batsmen wear a protective box

In order to ensure

That the bowler cannot

Rearrange his furniture

THE FIRST TESTICULAR PROTECTION

 

The first testicular protection

Known as a "box" was introduced

In 1874

Whereas the first cranial protection

Known as a “helmet” was introduced

In 1974

So it only took a hundred years

For Cricketers to figure out the score

That balls shouldn’t be more

Important than brains anymore