Forever remembering Munich victims

William Doody never stops remembering the victims of the Munich air disaster.

The 70-year-old Manchester United fan travelled to Munich to see the crash site, visited the graves of players who died and met wives, sons and daughters of some of those who died.

He also went to Sir Matt Busby's funeral. On Wednesday he travelled from his home in Tipton to Manchester to join United legend Sir Bobby Charlton and fellow survivors Bill Foulkes, Harry Gregg, Kenny Morgans and Albert Scanlon for a memorial service at Old Trafford.

He has dedicated a room in his house to the Busby Babes, named son Duncan after Dudley hero and Manchester United and England star Duncan Edwards.

"All my ornaments get taken down to make way for his Man United things," said Doreen, his wife of 48 years. "But he's too cute to say no to."

Mr Doody, a former foundry worker, was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1993 which left him unable to speak.

At the time of the crash he was in Germany with the Royal Horse Artillery. Despite being so close to the site he was not allowed to leave the army base to pay his respects.

"He was absolutely devastated," said his daughter Shirley Hipkins. "Since then he's had this wish list which we've been helping him with. We drove 300 miles in a day and visited all the graves, we left at 5am and got to the last one just as the cemetery gates were closing.

"There's just Liam Whelan's left which is over in Dublin and we're going to see that one in May."