It is well known that 60 years ago today a plane carrying the entire Manchester United first team, most of the management and a high number of national and local journalists crashed at Munich. At that time the manager at Argyle was former Manchester United player Jack Rowley, who had arrived from Old Trafford three years earlier. In the summer of 1957 he returned to United to recruit fringe players Bryce Fulton and Tommy Barrett. In any other era they would have been part of United's first team but at this time the exceptional number of high quality young players, known as the Busby Babes, held them back. As the details of the severity of the crash became known, all three Argyle men found it hard to comprehend. Rowley had only been released from United as a thank you for his work with the famed Busby Babes. Fulton for his part had been part of the hugely successful United youth team that won the first FA Youth Cup in 1953. The two wing-halves in that side were Eddie Colman and Duncan Edwards. The inside forwards were Billy Whelan and David Pegg. Now, at 5 o'clock on 6 February 1958, Colman, Pegg and Whelan were known to be victims of the crash and Edwards was fighting for his life in a German hospital. In 2008 Rowley's daughter Susan remembered her Dad being absolutely grief-stricken. In 2012 Bryce Fulton's widow explained to me that Duncan Edwards and David Pegg were particularly close friends with Bryce and were regular visitors to his home. During a visit to Home Park fin 2009 Tommy Barrett remembered being in a daze. "I saw it on a billboard on Royal Parade but it was a few hours before the enormity of it became apparent. There wasn't the TV and radio then. Argyle immediately offered us back to United and gave us time off to go to the funerals. Jack was distraught - he had known these lads from their first day at Old Trafford. Bryce was close mates with several of them and took it very badly. It was very upsetting for all of us and it is something you never forget. I knew them all. Believe you me, they were definitely as good as everyone says and they were getting better every year. And no airs and graces either, just ordinary lads who were extraordinary footballers."