Harry Gregg

[blue to the bone]

Just watched documentary about him there.
Passed away on Sunday.
United goalie the time of Munich and saved the lives of people pulling them from the wreckage.
Came across as a really great and humble man.
RIP

 

[Paris]

On the face of it he lived a tragic life (in the true sense of the word) lost his wife to cancer and then lost his daughter to cancer as well. Yet still faced life with dignity and class. A proper bloke.

 

[Walham Green Blue]

Yes, whenever I’ve seen footage of him he always came across as a proper good bloke/would like to have next to one in the trenches etc. Of course he died just as Utd were about to play us so I knew that game was a write off for us before the start.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

An even bigger hero in life than in his great football career.RIP.

 

[bluelord49]

RIP Harry
Always had a hand clap back to us fans in the Street End..

 

[degsy]

Bobby Charlton...pulled out of the wreckage by Harry Gregg...is now the last surviving survivor.

Much later in a Parkinson interview he was asked did he ever wonder why about why he survived and others didn't, said...
I was lucky, I was sat in the right seat.
How do you mean, asked Parky, luck of the draw?
Charlton explained...gist - Simple, the plane (an 'Elizabethan') was one of, if not the last one to have both forward and rear facing seats...Me and most of the survivors were in the rear facing seats.

note; many flight attendants still sit facing the passengers during landings, its not so they can smile in a reassuring manner if its a bit bumpy and (some / all?) military transports have rear facing seats.