Man Utd mourns 'Busby Babes' who died in plane crash

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MANCHESTER (AFP) — Manchester United held an emotional memorial Wednesday for 23 people, including eight of its players, killed when the team's plane crashed in Munich 50 years ago as they returned from a match.

The service, at the English Premier League champions' Old Trafford ground, included a minute's silence at 3:04 pm (1504 GMT) -- the exact time of the tragedy which devastated a generation of young stars.

Club captain Gary Neville lit candles in holders engraved with the names of all who died as an audience of players past and present, including Ryan Giggs and Sir Bobby Charlton, who was in the crash, looked on with bowed heads.

Outside, hundreds of fans gathered by the ground's memorial to the disaster, which features a clock frozen at the time it...