Interview in the Telegraph:
"Forty years next May, imagine. [ECF win]
"I didn't say anything to the old man. I didn't need to. I knew what he was thinking and how he was feeling. It was a big thing for the club, but it was a bigger thing for him personally. The lads who were killed in Munich had been his babies. It was all very, very emotional. I was physically and mentally exhausted.
"Not a day goes by - not one - when I don't think about it.
"We had all been infatuated with the European Cup ever since we watched Real Madrid beating Reims in the very first final on our old black and white televisions in 1956.
''United were just in the process of making our mark in the competition when the tragedy happened, so we weren't able to pursue the dream. The final against Benfica was the biggest game any English club had ever played in, and for those of us who had survived Munich it was a doubly emotional occasion.
''I think the old man [Sir Matt] had wanted to retire for some time, but he knew that we wouldn't let him go until we had won the European Cup in memory of his 'lovely boys', as he always called them. Whenever you think of the accident you think 'what were we doing in Munich, for God's sake?' It was a very different world back then; people didn't travel the way they do now - planes don't stop to refuel any more - so in football terms, we were pioneers. And I think that's why Sir Matt found it so difficult to cope with his feelings when he finally pulled through. He had taken us on what he had regarded as a great adventure - a great adventure from which eight of the lads never came back."