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Don Davies, an old international

How many of you today still remember H D “Donny” Davies – “An Old International” – the football reporter for The Guardian or the Manchester Guardian” as it was then and BBC Sports Report, who lost his life in the Munich air disaster of 1958?

He was small in stature – a little over five foot-two – but with a huge appetite for life and for his fellow man. This joie de vivre shone through his work, which was in truth merely another hobby alongside his passion for classical music and ... Read More