Everton fan in the Park End

BlueLlama · August 28, 2016

Terrible news but if my last memories are off a full Goodison there are worse ways to bow out.
RIP

matty1878 · August 28, 2016

Hope the club do something I'm sure we will were good like that.

Cork Evertonian · August 28, 2016

Life can be very cruel.A moment of happiness and joy such as watching Everton at Goodison and then just like that peoples lives are changed and altered forever in the most horrible way possible.Im just trying to say that it's awful thinking about that poor mans son.There he was enjoying the match with his dad and then something like this happens.A enjoyable outing with your dad ends up being the worst day of your life.RIP to the poor mans family and his friends.

big bobs beard · August 28, 2016

Lukaku'sLeftTesticle said:
Not to be a bit errrrmm i dunno blunt or morbid but an Everton fan dies every single day of the year. Obviously it hits home a bit harder cos it happened at the game and that but wider perspective, its just par for the course

Blimey mate you that is a bit blunt. Whole point here was yes people die but we had to witness some poor bloke who goes to the match just like we do die in front of our eyes, with his poor son who must have suffered no end witnessing it, and everyone being helpless. Seeing the paramedics performing CPR for over twenty minutes was harrowing, knowing his poor life was ebbing away while we watched football. Anyone, particularly who is a similar age, like me , or goes the match with their teenage son, like me , can't help but be affected and think there for the grace of god go I. Think it's apppropriate that people offer their condolences, there were many who were deeply affected today sat nearby, we all were in the family enclosure, the game became unimpotant tbh.

Durham Toffee · August 28, 2016

big bobs beard said:
Blimey mate you that is a bit blunt. Whole point here was yes people die but we had to witness some poor bloke who goes to the match just like we do die in front of our eyes, with his poor son who must have suffered no end witnessing it, and everyone being helpless. Seeing the paramedics performing CPR for over twenty minutes was harrowing, knowing his poor life was ebbing away while we watched football. Anyone, particularly who is a similar age, like me , or goes the match with their teenage son, like me , can't help but be affected and think there for the grace of god go I. Think it's apppropriate that people offer their condolences, there were many who were deeply affected today sat nearby, we all were in the family enclosure, the game became unimpotant tbh.

Here, here.

ToffeeDan · August 28, 2016

And I think I'm having a s**t week eh? 8/8 on the Prem today - no bet. Missed the lottery and got 3 numbers up.. About to face two serious moments later this week (see depression thread).. oh well - nothing compared to this guy and his family. And I've been where he is - thinking I'm taking my last breath.

Whistlin' Dixie · August 28, 2016

Lukaku'sLeftTesticle said:
Not to be a bit errrrmm i dunno blunt or morbid but an Everton fan dies every single day of the year. Obviously it hits home a bit harder cos it happened at the game and that but wider perspective, its just par for the course

While there's an element of truth in what you're saying, they don't all pass away in front of 40,000 people - do they?

It's his children I feel sorriest for. His/their dad dying in front of thousands and nothing could be done to help him. Having your anguish and sheer terror exposed in front of all of them must've been a total nightmare for him/them. Not something to be readily dismissed as a triviality, or put into comparison, really.

Seathestars · August 28, 2016

According to the Telegraph he was only 51, no age at all.

I hope the fact that he died at Goodison will assuage his family's grief a little, or at least offer them some small comfort knowing he died where he did.

Shine on my friend, shine on.

Lowste · August 28, 2016

Paul w · August 28, 2016

Lukaku'sLeftTesticle said:
Not to be a bit errrrmm i dunno blunt or morbid but an Everton fan dies every single day of the year. Obviously it hits home a bit harder cos it happened at the game and that but wider perspective, its just par for the course

Not the time mate.

larbert toffee · August 28, 2016

Just home from nightshift, in bits with this, just feel for the young lad so much,going to the match with your dad is so special and it's just so horrible to think what he must have gone through yesterday. Good to see supportive RAWK and Stoke comments. RIP fella,condolences to the family I hope someone directs them to this thread and they can gather some comfort from it.

TheHumbleEgg · August 28, 2016

Lukaku'sLeftTesticle said:
Not to be a bit errrrmm i dunno blunt or morbid but an Everton fan dies every single day of the year. Obviously it hits home a bit harder cos it happened at the game and that but wider perspective, its just par for the course

'Not to be blunt....'

OK.

Well, y'know, don't be then mate. If that's how you feel, that's your call, but maybe it's an opinion you shudda kept a little less public because there's gonna be and there are a LOT of people affected & genuinely upset by the absolute sadness & tragedy of what they saw yesterday.

Yes mate, it is just 'par for the course' - (how well you have trivialised that point eh) - yes, we can sail at any time and there's little rhyme nor reason to it often. But perhaps the difference here is that this tragedy happened in front of so many people, including the mans kids, people who perhaps haven't so far nor never will experience such a trauma & sadness at close hand.

And, yes, again....Everton fans do die every day mate....it just tends NOT to happen at the place that bonds us all and within a crowd of people with whom we share that bond with.

This isn't 'par for the course' is it mate.

And you cannot put a 'wider perspective' on that m'friend....x

bernie inn · August 28, 2016

Need to put his name on the seat for the season, and not sell it for cup games, that would be fitting I think

trebilcock66 · August 28, 2016

This is sad news for all blues to read.....or any football fan. We go to the match expecting to be entertained (or frustrated or whatever) but not to die.

To those who think some are over-dramatising this: That is what makes this passing more meaningful. He was (is) one of us. Could happen to any of us.

And for his son to have to witness it must be awful. I sat at both my father's and mother's bedsides as they passed away after long and fulfilling lives. I was in my late 50s and found it traumatic.....but I have broad shoulders at my age. That lad has to show the same capacity now long before he should have to. Deeply saddened for him.

Durham Toffee · August 28, 2016

TheHumbleEgg said:
'Not to be blunt....'

OK.

Well, y'know, don't be then mate. If that's how you feel, that's your call, but maybe it's an opinion you shudda kept a little less public because there's gonna be and there are a LOT of people affected & genuinely upset by the absolute sadness & tragedy of what they saw yesterday.

Yes mate, it is just 'par for the course' - (how well you have trivialised that point eh) - yes, we can sail at any time and there's little rhyme nor reason to it often. But perhaps the difference here is that this tragedy happened in front of so many people, including the mans kids, people who perhaps haven't so far nor never will experience such a trauma & sadness at close hand.

And, yes, again....Everton fans do die every day mate....it just tends NOT to happen at the place that bonds us all and within a crowd of people with whom we share that bond with.

This isn't 'par for the course' is it mate.

And you cannot put a 'wider perspective' on that m'friend....x

This.