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David
Pegg |
Manchester
United FC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D
1 L 0 F 1: A 1
50% successful
1957
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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David Pegg |
Birth,%20David.jpg) |
20 September 1935
at 27 Coppice Road, Highfields, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire [registered in
Doncaster, September 1935]. To Thomas William and Jessie (née
Day) |
Death:
Thursday, 6 February 1958 in Klinikum rechts der Isar in
München, following an airplane crash at
at Flughafen
München Riem, Kirchtrudering, West Germany, aged
22 years 139 days
[not registered in England & Wales].
One of 23 fatalities of the Munich Air Disaster, one of four England
players.
Address stated as 27 Coppice Road, Highfields,
Doncaster. Left £2250 4s. to his father. |
Funeral:
at St. George's Chuch. Attended by family and Manchester United FC
players, were Albert Quixall, Alan Finney and Eric Taylor, as well
as many of the Doncaster Rovers FC team.
Buried in Red
House Cemetery, in the Woodlands area of Doncaster (left, courtesy of
Munich58). |
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Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & Ancestry.com |
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Biographies: x |
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x.
- A Football Compendium, Peter J. Seddon (1999). |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
x |
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Club honours |
x |
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Individual honours |
x |
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Distinctions |
x |
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Height/Weight |
x'
x", xst.
xlbs [x]. |
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Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
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England Career |
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Player number |
760th
player to appear for England. |
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Position(s) |
Outside-left |
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Only match |
No. 314, 19 May 1957, Republic of Ireland 1
England 1, a World Cup qualification match at Dalymount Park,
Phibsborough, Dublin, aged 21 years
241 days. |
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Major tournaments |
None |
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Team honours |
None |
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Individual honours |
England Schoolboy
(five appearances, 1950-51); England B (one appearance,
1956), England U23 (one appearance,
1956) |
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Distinctions |
At the time of his death, Pegg was the
youngest England player to day, 263 days after his final appearance. In
another fifteen days, he would become the second youngest.
Died the same day
as Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor and Frank Swift, and three days after Joe Cottle. |
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On 6th
February 1958 the airliner carrying players and backroom staff of
Manchester United, plus a number of journalists and supporters, crashed in
a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from Munich airport. United
were returning from Belgrade where they had just beaten Red Star Belgrade
in the European Cup and had stopped off at Munich for re-fuelling.
Twenty-three of the forty-four passengers on board the aircraft lost their
lives. - Munich Remembered and Never Forgotten -
Munich58.co.uk |
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The Numbers |
|
parties |
Appearances |
comp. apps |
reserve |
minutes |
 |
captain |
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1 |
1 |
1 |
two |
90 |
0 |
none |
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minutes are an approximation, due to the fact that many matches rarely stick to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time for injuries and errors. |
|
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
|
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
50 |
=0 |
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His only match was played at an away venue, it was a World Cup
preliminary match and played in a white shirt |
Tournament Record
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World Cup Preliminary Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
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WCP 1956-58 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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WCP
All |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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All Competition |
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Type |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS |
CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
|
WC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
=0 |
0 |
0 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
50.0 |
=0 |
Match History
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apps |
match |
pic |
match details |
comp |
res. |
rundown |
shirt |
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On 6th February 1958
David Pegg tragically lost his life. |
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