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RIP Sir Henry Cooper

Goonerhater
Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
edited May 2011 in Other Football and Sports

Never a World class boxer, but a World class man and a true son of Sarf London.

 

RIP

 

PS No chance of Bin Laden going to heaven Henry is on the gate.

Comments

  • D_F_T
    D_F_T Posts: 1,154

    R.I.P. Big man

    True gent

     

    Charlton fan too!

  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,105
    R.I.P. A great human being.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952

    RIP.

     

     

  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,275
    edited May 2011

    Henry was the hero in South London when I was a small boy growing up in Lewisham. We lived in Limes Grove just off the High Street and my Old Man always used to tell me he'd seem Enry on his training run as he waited for a bus for work in the early morning. I can remember the telly going off and the radio going on for his fights and the shock of him losing to Joe Bugner, (a fiddle to get Bugner a world title fight). The punch that put Clay down is one of the best of all-time.

    The Rocky of South London. 

  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP henry
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    RIP 'Enry. A true gent, as others have said.

    Will be 'splashing it all over' in tribute. Very sad he's gone.
  • Half Nelson
    Half Nelson Posts: 408
    If he hadn`t cut so easily i think he could have had a good crack at being World Champion.
    RIP Henry.