Hard to put how sad that crash is into words. So many victims when you bear in mind the lives lost themselves, those who didn’t travel, the loved ones of everyone involved, the supporters.
It seems to happen a disproportionately often doesn’t it - entire sporting teams or large parts of them being wiped out by air crashes. It famously happened to United, Torino a few years before, Alianza Lima in the 80s, Zambia in the 90s, Suriname, Danish and Ukranian sides, and outside of football there have been instances of hockey and rugby teams meeting the same fate.
I hope they go ahead with post-humously awarding them the title. For me that’s the most obvious way of paying tribute, but less important than the support people will need emotionally and financially. Hopefully FIFA intervene and do whatever they can. If something like that happened here i don’t think anyone would begrudge them something like that.
This photo sums it up for me better than any words could…