It has been announced that he is suffering from dementia. Great shame. A true worldwide figure of football.
Sad news indeed. A hellishly awful condition, for both patient & especially family members. Hopefully he falls into the milder end of the severity spectrum.
Iconic... Bobby belting the ball. (And Nobby dancing). I don't envy those of you a generation (or two) before me much, but I do envy you seeing the boys of 66. I was 3. I don't remember a ****ing thing.
That as well.Amazing, the amount of 15 and 16 year olds in pubs the compared to now. Plus the music, films, fashion. Loads of money in your pocket. As we have discussed before you could make more money in the summer in a seaside town than when you left school and started work. Oh, and City had just had a great season as well.
Years ago blokes would peg out with stroke or heart attack before they reached 80, now they live longer but end up with dementia and alzheimer's. Not sure which is worse.
My mum, now sadly gone, was diagnosed with early onset dementia. On one occasion, in company, she said something which was a little off-colour in these PC times. Mum, we all cried, you can't say that these days, yes I can she replied, I've got dementia, I can say what I like. That was my mum, bless her.
In the early 60's, as a young lad I wrote to Bobby Charlton asking for his autograph. Came back within a week with accompanying letter. Class act all round. Interestingly, when I asked Fred Trueman for an autograph outside the changing rooms at Hull Circle, his verbal response was at the other end of the scale.
So was mine. She was getting worse, ringing me up 7 or 8 times a day about the same thing and not knowing she had or that I had been round to see her earlier, which I did every day.She had a stroke and never recovered, though it took a couple of months before she passed away. A blessing in disguise as her biggest fear was she would end her days spending a long time in a nursing home. She was 90, bless her.
My cousin, a keen cricketer who played for years and ran a team from an early age, and who was 11 at the time, went up to Trueman at Scarborough as they came off for tea and asked for an autograph. "**** off and don't get between me and a pint" was Trueman's response.
