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  1. steverico

    steverico Well-Known Member

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    Cant have been that old can he, shame that, coincidentally there was a great BBC4 doc on Two Tone last night
     
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  2. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    If they don't then that is really is a bad show, he was a fine servant to the club and should be marked by a tribute to him before the game.
     
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  3. City Man

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    Sadly the club has become a bit hit and miss with these things.

    They did an excellent job after Skip's passing but failed completely with Jimmy McGill.

    Looks like Doug Clarke will fall into the latter category.

    I can only presume that there are so few people at the club who have any real connection to the former players or even the football tradition of honouring rhe deaths of former players, that these things escape them.

    Very sad as it degrades the standing of the club in the local community: if the club themselves don't value ex players who have played hundreds of games, it sends the message no one is really interested in them and they weren't that important anyway.

    Summary: as well as being slightly ignorant, it's the hallmark of a tinpot club.
     
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  4. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Maybe they just celebrate players or family that live locally, Doug Clarke lived on the south coast so out of sight out of mind so to speak. It still shows poor thinking, it doesn't matter where they live now, we should always honour former players and staff.
     
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  5. Barchullona

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  6. City Man

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    Wearside Jack aka John Humble, Yorkshire Ripper hoax merchant died last week apparently.

    No great loss it must be said..
     
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    bury fc, 1885-?, fa cup winners 1900 & 1903, the only team to win the final by 4 or more goals twice without needing a replay. the only club to score 1000 goals at all four levels of the league.
     
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  8. cheshireles

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    I went to Jimmy McGills funeral, at the time he was living just along the M62 in Huddersfield!
     
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  9. Barchullona

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    So good that Martha Reeves and the Vandellas did a song about him.
     
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  10. Barchullona

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  11. City Man

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    Was it well-attended?
     
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  12. originallambrettaman

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    Jessi Combs has died in a crash, while trying to set a new a Women's land speed record, she was 39.

    I always liked her as a presenter on Overhaulin'.

    please log in to view this image
     
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  13. Ron Burguvdy

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    Xana Enrique, aged 9.

    Daughter of Barcelona legend Luis Enrique.

    Cancer.

    You struggle for words don’t you?
     
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  16. Plum

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    Life is seriously unfair sometimes, heartbreaking.
     
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  17. Kempton

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    At eleven years, he was in what I'd call the prime of his life. So sorry for his parents. Strength to them. RIP Jake x
     
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  18. Ric Glasgow

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    I suppose we're all quite similar on here? We get up most days bemoaning the day ahead ....Work,making ends meet,the weather and the cost of living!!! Then you read something like this,look in the mirror and tell yourself how lucky you are to have the gift of life.......God bless all families who have ever went through this kind of thing or are in the process of doing so,it's heart breaking.
     
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  19. GLP

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    Horrendous my Sisters friend lost he little boy earlier in the week to cancer - he was 6. Horrible disease.
     
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