blonde poker forum
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
July 23, 2025, 04:33:59 AM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
Order through Amazon and help blonde Poker
2262379 Posts in 66606 Topics by 16991 Members
Latest Member: nolankerwin
* Home Help Arcade Search Calendar Guidelines Login Register
+  blonde poker forum
|-+  Community Forums
| |-+  Betting Tips and Sport Discussion
| | |-+  Alan Ball - RIP		 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: Alan Ball - RIP  (Read 2009 times)
kinboshi
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
Administrator
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 44239


We go again.


View Profile WWW
« on: April 25, 2007, 10:00:03 AM »
World Cup winner Alan Ball has died of a heart attack at the age of 61.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6590715.stm

RIP. 

 Sad
Logged
'The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.'
Graham C
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 20663


Moo


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2007, 10:03:31 AM »
Been listening to some tributes on the radio this morning,

Sad news indeed
Logged
@silobass   My Photos
Colchester Kev
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 34178



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2007, 10:55:42 AM »
Shocking news .... very sad.
Logged
Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun
And the days blur into one
And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done

http://colchesterkev.wordpress.com/


kevshep2010@hotmail.co.uk
boldie
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 22392


Don't make me mad


View Profile WWW
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2007, 11:35:31 AM »
Great player and seemed all round nice bloke RIP.
Logged
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.
Geo the Sarge
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 5545



View Profile
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2007, 01:30:13 PM »
Quote from: boldie on April 25, 2007, 11:35:31 AM
Great player and seemed all round nice bloke RIP.

Agreed, a sad day. Whilst everyone else chose to be Georgie Best when playing football as a youngster, I always chose to be Alan Ball. Loved the way he played the game, no nonsense and with some skill.

Geo
Logged
When you get..........give. When you learn.......teach
BigTomatoes
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 1146


play your part


View Profile
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2007, 03:34:46 PM »

 I remember years ago meeting Alan Ball in a pub in Ireland after a Pro-Am golf tournament.

 he was standing by our table talking to someone and my aunt said to him '' i know who you are! your that famous footballer.''

 and just as his pigeon chest expanded , she said '' your Jimmy Nicholl arent you ! '' he wasnt best pleased but he was good company and in good humour after that initial introduction 

 rest in peace wee fella

 
Logged
is it cold in his shadow ?
The Baron
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 9558


View Profile
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2007, 05:27:02 PM »
Saw him give Gerrard the Player of the Year award last season and he looked very good for 60.

A terrible shock.

Great player, nice guy.
Logged
Indestructable
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 6482



View Profile
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2007, 08:19:37 PM »
Sad news. Have to be honest in that as a City fan I had mixed views on his time with us, but he genuinely used this story in his after dinner speeches:

"I was walking along a street near Maine Road and I saw an old lady carrying loads of shopping bags and she was struggling a bit. I went up and asked her if she could manage? She replied better than you my love!"
You have to admire someone that can have a joke like this about himself. 

Sad loss at only 61.
Logged
Delboy
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 2484


If you never let me go, I will never let you down.


View Profile WWW
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2007, 09:41:41 PM »
very sad news indeed
Logged
'Still we sing with our heroes thirty three rounds a minute'
amcgrath1uk
Hero Member
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 5424


View Profile
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2007, 10:34:23 PM »
Quote from: Indestructable on April 25, 2007, 08:19:37 PM
Sad news. Have to be honest in that as a City fan I had mixed views on his time with us, but he genuinely used this story in his after dinner speeches:

"I was walking along a street near Maine Road and I saw an old lady carrying loads of shopping bags and she was struggling a bit. I went up and asked her if she could manage? She replied better than you my love!"
You have to admire someone that can have a joke like this about himself. 

Sad loss at only 61.





I'm in a pretty similar area to your good self about this

Who's other set of fans could take one of the better songs of the 90s and insert into it a manager they didnt particularly like!!
Or in fact sing Alan Ball's a football genius when 6-0 down

Classic

He will be sadly missed
Logged
http://amcgrath1ukpoker.blogspot.com/
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.165 seconds with 20 queries.