Sad to hear of the passing of Howard Kendall today aged 69. The most successful manager in Everton's history but I remember him well as a great midfield player in one of the best footballing sides I've seen, the Everton side that won the title in 1969-70, ahead of a Leeds team who were at their peak and the Chelsea team that won the FA Cup that year. Amazingly, he was never capped for England...
Well said Sooper. When i was a lad Kendall was a bit of a legend. Only 69 too. Too young to be checking out
Excellent player,great manager and from all accounts a top bloke!RIP Howard,the worlds a poorer place today.
Very sad news. Always remember (back in the day) HK being Everton manager and was always well respected. RIP
69 no age at all. Great player and equally great Manager, taken far too soon. RIP Howard, a proper football man.
The retirement age needs lowering. If he had retired at the usual 65 then that's 4 years of non work life. Too many people now dying in their 60's or 70's.
there was a minutes applause for him at brum yesterday before ko....forgot he played there after Everton. Great player.
Really sad news about Howard Kendall. As a travelling QPR fan in my younger years, I used to love going up to Goodison to see EFC under HK. Great side to watch, great fans too. I remember getting back to our car after one match and about 10 Everton fans came out of a pub and me and my mates thought we were in for a kicking! Couldn't have been more wrong, we ended up having a load of beers and staying over at their houses. Carisbrooke Arms I seem to remember. Anyway, I digress. RIP Howard Kendall.
A work colleague of mine of the past 25 years, who is also my neighbour, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in early September. The tumour was successfully removed, but biopsy came back as malignant, stage 4 (advanced). In early October after having returned home, awaiting radiation and chemotherapy treatments, he developed severe headaches and returned to the neurosurgery unit for further surgery to remove additional peripheral tumour, the operation appeared successful but the next day he lapsed into a coma and 2 days later was taken off life support by his family He was a super fit guy, just turned 53, who regularly cycled 10 Km to work and back, plus competing in bike races. He told me that the only warning signs in late August were headaches, dizziness at times and occasional lack of balance. When he told me of his diagnosis, he still maintained a sense of humour and indicated that it was a good job he had a big head as it allowed room for the tumour to grow. He leaves his wife and two daughters aged 12 and 14.
I think when you reach the age we are now Kilburn, both of us 61, you hear more and more of people we've known for so many years who are taken early and it gives you a sense of your own impending mortality. I heard on Friday a lovely lady I'd worked with for many years had died from bowel cancer, she was in her late 40s. It seems these horrible diseases are ever more prevalent these days...
“It was never a secret that Howard liked a drink,” said the journalist James Mossop, then of the Sunday Express, “so one interview started at the Everton training ground, moved to a nearby pub/steak house where the ale and wine came by the flagon, the world was put to rights and we concluded the interview back in the training ground sauna because Everton had a match that night. “On another occasion, after a run of poor results, Howard decided the squad should meet for a bonding session in Chinatown on the next Tuesday. It went so well that some of the players were there until it was almost dinner time. The team won the next match and the next and the next and everyone agreed that the Tuesday gatherings had been crucial and the same wild lunches should happen every week. Then they lost and Howard gathered the players together and said: ‘Right, lads, this Tuesday routine is clearly not working any more. How do you feel about Wednesdays?’' http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/18/howard-kendall RIP Howard
