MY UNCLE BY marriage, Eric Gibson, was as distraught as I was at the accident at Munich airport which took 21 lives, including seven Manchester United players, Busby Babes, and left an eighth, the marvellous Duncan Edwards, in an iron lung for two weeks until he, too, succumbed.
Eric was a Mancunian who had lived all his adult life in Southampton. A treat that he had promised for later in the season was brought forward as a sort of consolation. He took me to The Dell