Kenny Morgans's Manchester United player's blazer circa 1960, navy blue, Manchester United wirework club badge to breast pocket; sold with a letter of

Kenny Morgans's Manchester United player's blazer circa 1960, navy blue, Manchester United wirework club badge to breast pocket; sold with a letter of provenance supplied by the consignor (2) Kenneth Godfrey Morgans was born in Swansea 16th March 1939. He signed for Manchester United on leaving school in the summer of 1955 and played on the youth team's outside-right position, turning professional in 1956 albeit continuing to play for the youth team until the following year, and was captain of the Busby Babes F.A. Youth Cup winning team of 1957. Morgans made his first team debut on 21 December 1957, aged 18, against Leicester City in a league match at Old Trafford and was soon the club's first-choice outside-right, at the expense of the older and more experienced Johnny Berry. Miraculously he suffered only minor injuries in the Munich Air Disaster on 6 February 1958, when still only 18 years old, the youngest player involved in the crash and the last survivor to be rescued from the mangled wreckage of the BEA Elizabethan airliner after he was found unconscious amongst the debris by two journalists five hours after the official search was called off. He had played in the last match before the disaster, the European Cup quarter-final second leg against Red Star Belgrade, and had so far made 10 senior career appearances for United. Although he made a full physical recovery following the crash and was back in the side before the end of the season, playing in further nine games, he appeared to be a shadow of his former self on the pitch and made just four appearances for the first team over the next three seasons. He then returned to Wales and had spells with Swansea Town, Newport County & Barry Town before becoming player/manager at non-League Cwmbran Town in 1968. After football he was a pub landlord and finished his working days as a ship's chandler, although he made various media contributions in the final years of his life Ken Morgans died in Swansea 18 November 2012.