Mark Jones (footballer)
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| Mark Jones | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Mark Jones | |
| Date of birth | 15 June 1933 | |
| Place of birth | Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England | |
| Date of death | 6 February 1958 (aged 24) | |
| Place of death | Munich, Germany | |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |
| Playing position | Centre half | |
| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1950-1958 | Manchester United | 103 (1) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Mark Jones (15 June 1933 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer and one of eight Manchester United players to lose their lives in the Munich air disaster. Born in Wombwell, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire in 1933, he was the club's first-choice centre half for much of the 1950s and collected two League Championship winner's medals.
He missed the 1957 FA Cup Final defeat to Aston Villa because of an eye injury, and looked set for an international call-up which many sources believe would surely have come his way had he not perished at Munich.
Jones is buried in Wombwell near Barnsley, his birthplace. He was survived by his wife, June, and their two-year-old son, Gary. His daughter, Lynne, was born four months after the Munich air disaster, and June later re-married to a man called Herbert Barker. She died in December 2007. [1]
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