Mark Jones (football player)

Mark Jones was one of the eight Manchester United players that lost their lives in the Munich air disaster on February 6, 1958. Born near Barnsley in 1933, he was the club's first-choice centre-half for much of the 1950's and collected two league championship winner's medals. He missed the 1957 FA Cup final defeat because of an eye injury, and was looking set for an international call-up which would surely have come his way had he not perished at Munich. Mark was survived by his wife June and two-year-old son Gary. His daughter Lynne was born four months after the Munich Air Disaster, and June has since re-married.

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Manchester United - Munich air disaster - February 6 - 1958 - League championship - FA Cup

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