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David Shepherd RIP

Addick Addict
Addick Addict Posts: 39,855
edited October 2009 in Other Football and Sports
One of the Cricket's great characters has passed away.

Shep, I hope you're making them smile wherever you are now with your tendancies as you did on earth.

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  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    Poor form.

    If he had any theatre in him he would of died on 11/11/11.

    RIP Shep.

    *lifts leg up*
  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    RIP
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,344
    RIP shep
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Gone to join Jonners and the gang......
    RIP Shep.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,882
    RIP
    (does little skippity thing)
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    RIP...one of the game's great characters and a decent player before he took up umpiring.
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,284
    That's really sad news. As others have said a true character and will be much missed.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,166
    RIP.
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,488
    RIP
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Another great cricketing character gone

    RIP

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  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,488
    Only Dickie Bird and Blowers left of the real old school.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,506
    I had the pleasure of singing a few ribald songs in the bar with Shep on tour a few years back (yes...he knew all the words to the dirty ones too). He was just how you would imagine him to be....just really friendly, very unassuming and totally devoted to his local club, North Devon CC. The first thing he did when he arrived was go round the colts asking them how they'd been getting on recently, congratulating the ones who had been doing well and offering encouragement to those who hadn't. A very special man.

    PS: Central contracts would have seemed a world away to him when he was a player at Gloucs, as the most he ever got was a one year deal at the end of the each season. Pretty sure he managed to get one 12 times before they finally let him go. Being a county cricketer was fun in those days....as long as you could put job security to the back of your mind!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,993
    David Shepherd RIP

    Nice article about him in todays Telegraph.

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