Personal information Full name David Pegg Date of birth 20 September 1935 Place of birth Highfields, Doncaster, England Date of death 6 February 1958 (aged 22) Place of death Munich, Germany Playing position Outside left Youth career Manchester United Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1952–1958 Manchester United 127 (24) National team England U23 3 (?) 1957 England 1 (0) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). David Pegg (20 September 1935 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer and one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster on 6 February 1958. He was born in Highfield, near Doncaster, in September 1935, one of three children born to miner William Pegg and his wife Jessie. His father also played amateur football to a high standard during the 1930s, winning a number of trophies with local football teams. He signed for United on leaving school in 1950 and made his first team debut in the Football League First Division against Middlesbrough on 6 December 1952, aged 17. He was the clubs first-choice outside left until the final few months before the disaster (when he was displaced by Albert Scanlon) and had collected two League Championship winners medals in the two seasons leading up to the Munich air disaster. He was capped once for the England national football team, his solitary appearance coming in 1957. He was tipped by many to succeed the ageing Tom Finney in the England team. Still only 22 years old when he died, he was one of the youngest people to die out of the 23 who lost their lives at Munich. He was born in the village of Highfields, north of Doncaster and he was buried in the nearby Redhouse Cemetery. A memorial chair was dedicated in his memory at St. Georges Church in Highfields and when that church was closed the chair was moved to All Saints Church in Woodlands which now serves both villages. Peggs sister, Mrs Irene Beevors, contributed to a 1998 ITV documentary, Munich: End of a Dream, which commemorated the 40th anniversary of the tragedy. She, Peggs brother and Peggs other sister, Mrs Doreen Robinson (who now lives in Australia) visited the scene of the Munich air crash in September 2005, on what would have been his 70th birthday, to pay tribute to their brother.[1] He was also outlived by both of his parents, though they have both since died; his father in May 1980 and his mother in August 2006. They are both buried alongside him.[2] More than 50 years after his death, Pegg was portrayed by actor Brogan West in a BBC film, United, which was centred on the Munich
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