Tomorrow night we will have a flag on the kop in tribute to young Owen Mcveigh who used to help us out with the flags. Sadly Owen passed away in December. We was informed at the United game by his dad. His dad has sent us this message. "Owen was diagnosed with leukemia in early December and unfortunately passed away shortly afterwards, it was all very sudden , he was our only child and was 11 years old he would of been 12 on the 31st of january. The one big passion Owen had in life was Liverpool football club he was a regular at Anfield and had a ticket for every home game since he was 5 years old, and he would get to quite a lot of away games also . Owen attended Cardinal Heenan high school in West Derby Liverpool were is hero Steven Gerrard also attended I brought Owen up to understand the traditions and values of our great club and he was so proud to call himself a Liverpudlian the best times we shared together were at the match , and especially at the away games i enjoyed every minute of them with my best mate , regardless of the result we had fantastic times together and they are memories that i will cherish forever . On valentines day last year me and Owen travelled to selhurst park for the fa cup tie with Crystal Palace and at the end of the game Martin Skrtel gave owen his shirt of his back , Owen was so happy and his picture was all over twitter and Facebook and the Liverpool echo also got hold of the story, he loved it, he was like a mini celeb at all the games , he was so proud , when Owen passed away Martin sent us a lovely letter . On Sunday at the Man utd game i approached the Spion Kop 1906 group , and told them i would like to do something on behalf of Owen regarding a flag, and the response i got was fantastic, i was completely blown away with what they came up with, these are young men that give up there time at every game to make Anfield a sea of flags and banners, and they do this with donations , and all money raised goes into there flag fund. I can never thank them enough for what they are doing in Owens name and the family are so happy and proud,on a personal note i will take great pride in seeing owen there at every game. We are setting up a foundation in Owens name and will be raising money for local children in liverpool ,one of the charitys we will be helping is CHICS which is a children’s cancer support group based in liverpool.www.chicsonline.org.. many thanks mark mcveigh owens dad ." All the lads behind spion kop 1906 pass our deepest condolences on to Owens family and friends. Rest in peace little man. Watch over us towards another final. You'll never walk alone. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Born a red and died a red, such a pity the years in between were so few little feller. Rest in peace Owen. please log in to view this image
Must have been one hell of a shock for the kid's parents. Diagnosed in December and dead mid January, they probably had not even come to terms with him being diagnosed and then they lose him.
Was there GK and thought(we)gave young Owen and his family the send off the lad would have enjoyed and been proud of. We look after our own when it matters.
