“Honouring the dead isn’t a job for empiricists or mathematicians. No member of the football community is worth more, or less, respect than any other. But, equally, no one is more worthy of football’s respect than those who lost their lives in Munich on that terrible night 50 years ago; 23 people dead, eight of them members of the most captivating team of a generation. If a section of English football fans can’t be trusted to stand in silent homage to such men, what does that say about their mentality and about a society that has led them to believe they can behave in such a despicable way without fear of rebuke?”
