Programme (season issue No.20) for the postponed match at Old Trafford two days after the Munich disaster between Manchester United and Wolverhampton

Programme (season issue No.20) for the postponed match at Old Trafford two days after the Munich disaster between Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers 8th February 1958 the token is still intact. No open tears, two paper fractures to the bottom of front cover that may have been professionally restored. They are visible on the lot image. On Saturday 8th February 1958 Manchester United were scheduled to play Wolverhampton Wanderers in a First Division fixture. The match was postponed after the tragic events of the Munich Air Disaster on 6th February. The programme had gone into production and even carried a brief report of United’s 3-3 draw in Belgrade and the club’s progression to the semi-final of the European Cup. After the terrible news broke the printers C. Nicholls were ordered to cease production and destroy any programmes that had come off the presses. Perhaps inevitably a very small number of the postponed programme have survived – thought to be either printer’s proofs or souvenirs kept by printing staff. The scarcity factor and the deep significance of the occasion makes Issue No.20 one of the most sought after and valuable football programmes of the post-war era...