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RIP Socrates - only 57

cafcfan
cafcfan Posts: 11,209
edited December 2011 in Other Football and Sports

After Gary Speed another football great dies - only 57 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16017071.stm

 

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  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,693
    That sucks ... Loved that guy ....
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,034
    RIP I remeber him playing for some Yorkshire non league a couple of years ago , as others have said no age at all.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,759
    RIP I remeber him playing for some Yorkshire non league a couple of years ago , as others have said no age at all.
    Garforth Town.

  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,554
    What a player,great shame, far too young RIP Dr Socrates
  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,284
    RIP a true legend in the game!
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Amazing player, one of the smartest guys in the game, had some radical ideas about how to improve it.  Committed smoker though.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    One of those players who,like Bobby Moore and Beckenbaur, could make the difficult look so simple. RIP.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,138
    RIP
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    RIP
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    RIP

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  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,212
    A large part of my falling in love with football was the 1982 World Cup and I will always associate him with that.  Very sad.

    RIP
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    Smoked 60 fags a day and was a piss artist of note. Guess that catches up with you in the end. Great player - remember him in 82, By God that was a great Brazil side.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,083
    Real character rip
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    edited December 2011
    food poisoning was the cause apparently.
  • Amos on the wing
    Amos on the wing Posts: 1,802
    Great great player. RIP
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Will we have minutes of silence / applause all over Engand next weekend for him ?
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    food poisoning was the cause apparently.
    Riiiiiight. Just like when I used to knock around with a bloke a few years back who once drank 15 pints in a day and ate only a ham sandwich - then when he spent the next morning cuddling the bog and hurling up his stomach lining, blamed it on the sandwich...
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,450
    Will we have minutes of silence / applause all over Engand next weekend for him ?
    What a strange thing to say.
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    food poisoning was the cause apparently.
    Riiiiiight. Just like when I used to knock around with a bloke a few years back who once drank 15 pints in a day and ate only a ham sandwich - then when he spent the next morning cuddling the bog and hurling up his stomach lining, blamed it on the sandwich...

    well a ham sandwich with no mustard in it just aint right.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,918
    My love of football began with that 82 world cup. Remember as a kid watching a highlight video of the world cup over and over again. Brazil were my heroes, Falcao, Junior, Eder, Serginho, Oscar etc. Socrates and Zico were my favourites.

    RIP

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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,568
    RIP a class act

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