Brilliant post mate, hats off to you. Cant even begin to imagine how Gary must have felt, a truly sad day for football. Thoughts are with his family at this horrific time. RIP Gary Speed, a true pro.
RAMAGE: 'SPEEDO WAS THE ULTIMATE PRO' R's defender Peter Ramage has paid tribute to the late Gary Speed, who tragically died on Sunday morning. Ramage - who is currently on loan at Crystal Palace - spent plenty of time with 'Speedo' during the early part of his career at Newcastle United and told www.qpr.co.uk: "I came up through the ranks at Newcastle and Speedo was a big character there. "The young lads like me used to train with the senior pros quite often and Speedo was always the life and soul of the Club. "He was a great bloke - one of a kind - and especially good with the younger lads like me at the time. "He was always very supportive to us all. He would always encourage us. "He was an absolute gentleman - on and off the park - and I still can't quite believe it." Ramage added: "I've always said he was the ultimate professional. "He's the best professional I've ever come across in my time in the game. "The way he conducted himself in any circumstance was unbelievable. He was a credit to himself, his family and the game in general. "The world of football has lost one of the really good guys. "All my condolences go out to his family and his kids." iReader
Brilliantly put LoneRanger and wonderfully brave and honest of you. My girlfriend suffers from depression and there are times when I genuinely worry about her well-being and do even feel scared about what I'll find when I get home. That's always there despite my unconditional love, support and as much understanding as a non-sufferer can give. I hope you have a solid network of support LR but should you want a sounding board then I'm sure a post will be well received and sensitively met by the vast majority. Alternatively, you're welcome to send a PM to me and I'll be more than happy to help to the best I can. I feel so saddened that Gary Speed, in his mind, thought that there was no alternative but to take his life and simply nowhere to turn. I feel equally sorry for his family who would all have desperately wished he'd turned to them. Was a great footballer and by all reports a true gentleman. RIP
God knows what will become of his children. As Rangerw9 implies, how do you get your head around something like that? Hard enough for adults. Impossible even. Was it depression as most suspect; or was it simply a text from the wrong person threatening his integrity and the respect of his children etc. leaving him with little option? Who knows? If it was a clinical form of depression I, like Lone Ranger, have experienced its ravaging effects and have every sympathy for a man taken worse than I ever was. There's depression (losing to Norwich); Depression (bereavement or maybe getting dumped by someone you are entirely addicted to); and, as Northolt suggests DEPRESSION (an illness in which you are drawn into a mental / spiritual wilderness, a long dark empty place which has little bearing on your place in the material world and no obvious acceptable ways out). Looking back a few decades, I've since realised I was one of the lucky ones. I suffered its effects and the double (outer and inner) life it forces you to live, throughout my 20s and eventually grew strong (bored or angry) enough to have finally escaped that mental prison by the age of 30. I really feel it for people who encounter it later in life when there's maybe less to suggest the meaning and hope needed to kid yourself about the point of it all. So regardless, not knowing Gary Speed the man made little difference to my day yesterday. Whether it was a mental illness, or a perceived threat of some kind, the day was pretty glum and brought some hefty memories flooding back. Couldn't get the thoughts out of my mind: how wretched he must have felt in the starkness of those wee small hours. Ugh! Doesn't bear thinking about. RIP Gary... and best of luck kids.
post 11 was the final straw for syd http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...g-Geordie-****-whistles?p=1760970#post1760970
I went on the Bolton and Everton sites to leave my condolences. There wasn't even a post to the great man? Incredible. I left one on there for them. Unbelievable!
