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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: Edition_30_P on November 27, 2011, 12:52:24 pm
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Sad news :sad1:
Wales manager Gary Speed has been found dead early this morning!! The police said that he was found to be hanging from a tree! R.I.P... Thoughts are out to his family at this very sad time!
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:surprised: thats terrible news.
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That's terrible news :sad1: RIP.
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R.I.P. :sad1:
He was a legend up here in Newcastle, very sad day.
Thoughts to his friends & family..
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I genuinely feel sick and stunned. He was only on Football Focus yesterday.
I never knew he was suffering from depression - something that is becoming so popular in top level football. Stan Collymore is in a pretty bad way too, though thankfully he at least seems to understand the illness.
One of Newcastle's heroes - RIP
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two Newcastle fans, but here's one from a Leeds fan:
RIP Gary Speed. totally stunned, football has lost one of it's greats.
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Mate, he was a legend for every team he played for.
I've just been in tears watching Robbie Savage break down live on the BBC.
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Really really sad news,seen him play when I used to go and see Leeds play r.i.p
Leeds fan
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Football has lost a true professional and a really nice bloke, great player and true Evertonian. RIP Gary nil satis nisi optimum!
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Cant believe it. Thought he was doing a great job with Wales. R.I.P. A great miss to football.
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A sad loss thoughts go out to his friends and family. toon fan here
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Only was watching him on Football Focus yesterday, cant believe it! RIP
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R.I.P to a true legend
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RIP......
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Total football legend extreme professional. Someone who the modern footballers could have learned a thing or two from. RIP he will be greatly missed from football and that's coming from a Sunderland fan
Andy
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Loved him playing for the toon up there with David batty and Philip Albert as legends at the toon ---- I'm in total shock RIP
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Blades fan... RIP Speedo
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Is it just me who doesnt think he deserves all of this?
ill probably get shot down in flames for this
Yes he had issues, and committed suicide, it is a great shame to his family and a loss to football, but he did it in such a way that his wife and kids got to find him swinging by a rope.
Thats selfish. Now his wife and kids have not only got to live with his loss, but also with the image of their husband/dad hanging by the neck.
BTW this is my point of view from experience as i have a family member who tried this WITH his kids many years ago, so i am a bit biased on this
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I'm astounded that people are calling Gary Speed (or indeed anyone who commits suicide) selfish. Our society has a long way to go in educating people about mental health.
I'd have thought someone with experience of the situation would be more understanding of it than most to be honest.
P.S I'm sure everyone would prefer it if this thread didn't turn into a debate on suicide.
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Is it just me who doesnt think he deserves all of this?
ill probably get shot down in flames for this
Yes he had issues, and committed suicide, it is a great shame to his family and a loss to football, but he did it in such a way that his wife and kids got to find him swinging by a rope.
Thats selfish. Now his wife and kids have not only got to live with his loss, but also with the image of their husband/dad hanging by the neck.
BTW this is my point of view from experience as i have a family member who tried this WITH his kids many years ago, so i am a bit biased on this
Well that would sound correct, but your forgetting his state of mind, if your in a place were your going to end your life, then normal comprehension and awareness of your surroundings disappears. The man was a very professional footballer, a cut above most so it's fair to assume that he would not intend to harm his family. Depression is very complex and not black and white as you would like it to be. :happy2:
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^^ Exactly.
You seem to think he was capable of making logical decisions. But depression is a disease that ravages the mind.
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^^ Exactly.
You seem to think he was capable of making logical decisions. But depression is a disease that ravages the mind.
Sure is a very very close friend of mine hung himself some years ago and to say it was out of the blue was an understatement as he was such a nice a happy guy with a girlfriend and kid but then one day something must have changed and he hung himself :sad1: was a very close family friend and and I still miss him to this day :sad1: .