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'I was playing again 13 days after Munich... football saved my sanity': Harry Gregg opens up on life after Manchester United air disaster

On a wall of Harry Gregg's imposing house an hour or so outside Belfast is a photograph of a Manchester United team. From left to right the names read: Edwards, Coleman, Jones, Morgans, Charlton, Viollet, Taylor, Foulkes, Gregg, Scanlon, Byrne.

Standing on the field in Belgrade in February 1958, it is the United side that was to be ripped apart on Munich's snow-covered runways the very next day.

Elsewhere in the same room are photographs of the crash and images of the day — 25 years on — when Gregg was reunited with the Yugoslav mother and daughter he pulled from the wreckage.