Albert Scanlon
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Albert Joseph Scanlon | ||
| Date of birth | 10 October 1935 | ||
| Place of birth | Hulme, Lancashire, England | ||
| Date of death | 22 December 2009 (aged 74) | ||
| Place of death | Salford, England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Playing position | Outside left | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Manchester United | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1954–1960 | Manchester United | 115 | (34) |
| 1960–1962 | Newcastle United | 22 | (5) |
| 1962–1963 | Lincoln City | 47 | (11) |
| 1963–1966 | Mansfield Town | 108 | (21) |
| 1966 | Belper Town | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Albert Joseph Scanlon (10 October 1935 – 22 December 2009) was an English football player. He began his career with Manchester United and was one of the "Busby Babes" who survived the Munich air disaster of 1958. Although he sustained severe injuries, he recovered and continued to play league football for Newcastle United, Lincoln City and Mansfield Town. He then went on to play non-league football until his retirement.
Born in Hulme, Manchester, Scanlon was a nephew of former Manchester United winger Charlie Mitten. He attended St Wilfred's School in Hulme. His talent for football was noticed early on, and he was selected to play for the Manchester Boys side. He joined the Manchester United groundstaff in 1950, before signing a professional contract in December 1952.
Scanlon made his way through the Manchester United youth system, winning two FA Youth Cups in 1953 and 1954 before making his first-team debut against Arsenal on 20 November 1954. Scanlon was involved in two league title wins – in 1956 and 1957 – but he failed to make enough appearances to earn a winners' medal on either occasion.
On 5 February 1958, Scanlon started on the left wing in United's European Cup quarter-final second leg away to Red Star Belgrade; for five of the players who started the game, it was to be their last ever match for the club. The next day, on the return journey to Manchester, the team's plane crashed while attempting to take off from Munich airport, in an incident that later became known as the Munich air disaster. The crash claimed the lives of 23 of the 44 passengers on board the plane, so Scanlon was relatively fortunate to escape with just a fractured skull, a broken leg and kidney damage. He made a full recovery and was back in action at the start of the following season, going on to appear in every game that season, scoring 16 goals in the process.
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