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Roger
Byrne |
Manchester United FC
33 caps, 0 goals
P 33 W 20 D 6 L 7 F x:
A x
70% successful
1954-57
disciplined: none
captaincies: none
minutes played: 3000 |
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Profile |
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Full name |
Roger William Byrne |
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Born |
8 September 1929 in
Manchester [registered in
Manchester North, Lancashire, December 1929].
Attended Abbey Lea
Junior School and Burnage Grammar School, Gorton |
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Birth notes |
Believed to have been born on 8 February, but
this is an error. Various sources state September, which is confirmed by
his birth registration. |
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Married |
to Joy W. Cooper [registered in
Ashton, Lancashire, June 1957]. Joy and Roger's first child was
born eight months after his death. |
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Notes |
According to passenger lists, Roger Byrne left
Southampton for New York on the Queen Elizabeth, a Cunard White Star ship,
on 30 April 1952. Amongst the 1196 was the entire Manchester United FC
squad. |
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Died |
6 February 1958 in
Flughafen
München Riem,
Kirchtrudering,
West Germany, aged
28 years 151 days
[registered in the Index to Air Deaths, 1958].
One of 23 fatalities of the Munich Air Disaster, one of four England
players. Cremated in Blackley cemetery, Lancashire. |
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Height/Weight |
5'
9", 11st.
7lbs [1960]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
x |
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Club honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
x |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
xth
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
x |
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First match |
No. x, aged x years
x days. |
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Last match |
No. x, aged x years x days. |
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Major tournaments |
x |
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Team honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
Played in 33
consecutive matches from his debut in 1954. Probably would have gone
on to appear in more matches, but for his untimely death. |
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On 6th
February 1958 the airliner carrying players and backroom staff of
Manchester United, plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in
a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich airport. United
were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade
in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling.
Twenty-three of the forty-four passengers on board the aircraft lost their
lives. - Munich Remembered and Never Forgotten -
Munich58.co.uk |
England
Football Online