Absolutely devestating. He was a fantastic defender, and as far as I know, he worked part time in a local pub up until a couple of seasons ago. Theres a clip floating around of him sliding through Cork Citys midfield and taking out two of our players at ocne. I remember arguing with my Derry supporting friends that evening that it was a foul, they were adamant it wasn't (the ref gave a yellow). That tackle will be my outstanding memory of him.
He played a game the night before he died, and scored a goal just last week I believe.
I had read somewhere maybe on twitter that he got a head injury in the game the night before and never woke up.
Read something similar this afternoon. Goes to show that we don't take head collisions seriously enough. I think the autopsy was happening yesterday or today.
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This is the tackle I referred to earlier. Like a bowling ball through our midfield.
The game was on tv tonight so footage should be available tomorrow on RTE player. I'm not sure if it can be watched outside of Ireland though.
He's coming home, he's coming home
We have over 30 players in our squad and we have to move a few in order to bring in others.
He is one of the ones to go