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« Reply #1305 on: Thursday, March 17, 2016, 09:41:26 »

My wife passed away last night after losing her battle with MND.

A truly awful illness that within 18 months took her from someone who was able to watch games from the DRS to someone who lost the use of all her limbs, couldn't talk or eat and eventually took away her ability to breathe.

At 54 it's far too young for her to have left us, bye bye sweetheart Crying

Sad new.  My thoughts are with you and your family. May she rest in peace.
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« Reply #1306 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:40:16 »

Johan Cruyff has passed away at 68.
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« Reply #1307 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:42:54 »

Johan Cruyff has passed away at 68.

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« Reply #1308 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:43:23 »

Johan Cruyff has passed away at 68.

That shocked me as I didn't know he was ill.

He must have been good to have had a move named after him. RIP.
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« Reply #1309 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:49:10 »

That shocked me as I didn't know he was ill.

He must have been good to have had a move named after him. RIP.
Brilliant player, one of the best I ever saw play in his prime as I was a bit too young to see Best, Pele and Beckenbaur.

He was a very heavy smoker and only had lung cancer since October, but he has a heart bypass back in about 91/92 so the warnings were there then.

RIP.
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« Reply #1310 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:52:32 »

That shocked me as I didn't know he was ill.

He must have been good to have had a move named after him. RIP.

I hadn't seen that he was ill, will hit both Holland and Barcelona hard as he was like a god there.

We have had players good enough to have moves named after then, the Flint Hoof and the Keith Scott mis-control to name but two.
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« Reply #1311 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 12:58:41 »

That shocked me as I didn't know he was ill.

He must have been good to have had a move named after him. RIP.

Cruyff, with Rinus Michels, and the Dutch teams of the 70's revolutionised football.

Cruyff then took the philosophy to Barca, and set up the dynasty, which we see today.

It's very difficult to convey just how sexy those Dutch teams were, kind of capturing the zeitgeist of a new generation of Europeans emerging from the very long shadow of post war reconstruction.

Sadly the Dutch squandered that legacy when Bert van Marwjik's lot tried to kick the Spanish off the park in the 2010 WC final.
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« Reply #1312 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 13:15:55 »

Used to practice doing the cruyff turn for hours when I was a kid.
Only time I saw him play in the flesh was at Dennis bergkamp's testimonial though. A proper football legend.
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« Reply #1313 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 13:20:43 »

The first foreign player I ever became aware of. I used to either be him or Leopoldo Luque, after the 74 world cup final.
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« Reply #1314 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 17:24:48 »

Cruyff, with Rinus Michels, and the Dutch teams of the 70's revolutionised football.

Cruyff then took the philosophy to Barca, and set up the dynasty, which we see today.

It's very difficult to convey just how sexy those Dutch teams were, kind of capturing the zeitgeist of a new generation of Europeans emerging from the very long shadow of post war reconstruction.

Sadly the Dutch squandered that legacy when Bert van Marwjik's lot tried to kick the Spanish off the park in the 2010 WC final.

Very sad news. The 74 WCF is the first one I properly remember. I was annoyed at the result, Cruyff was a real icon at that time, like Pele and Best of years before.
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« Reply #1315 on: Thursday, March 24, 2016, 21:09:57 »

Gary Shandling.  Aged 66.  Another one.
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« Reply #1316 on: Friday, March 25, 2016, 10:48:28 »

Jesus.

Not sure we've heard the last of him.
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« Reply #1317 on: Friday, March 25, 2016, 11:46:17 »

Jesus.

Not sure we've heard the last of him.
He'll be back, mark my words.
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« Reply #1318 on: Friday, March 25, 2016, 12:20:02 »

He's only about 2,000 years or so late.
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« Reply #1319 on: Thursday, March 31, 2016, 10:48:35 »

Ronnie Corbett. RIP
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