Man City officials pay their respects at site of Munich Air Disaster before Champions League match

Manchester City fans and officials paid their respects at the site of the Munich Air Disaster before the Blues Champions League clash in the city.

The Blues took on Bayern Munich in the second leg of their quarter-final tie last night (Wednesday).

And prior to the match, a delegation of club executives joined a group of supporters in paying a visit to Manchesterplatz, where there is a memorial to the 23 people who perished in the plane crash on February 6, 1958

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Eight Manchester United players lost their lives as the plane bringing them home from a European Cup tie in Belgrade crashed.. Also among the victims was former Manchester City goalkeeper Frank Swift, then working as a journalist for the News of the World.

City's Chief Operations Officer Omar Berrada, Chief Communications Officer Simon Heggie and Managing Director Danny Wilson all attended the memorial along with a number of City supporters.

They laid a blue and white City scarf next to a United scarf at the foot of a memorial as a mark of respect. The memorial inscribed with the names of the victims was erected at the site of the tragedy by United in 2004 and in 2008, on the 50th anniversary, the Munich City Council renamed the site Manchesterplatz.

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