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RIP Gary Ablett

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harry said:
RIP Gary.

I remember his first match for us at goodison, he nearly caused a fight in the paddock. two fella's arguing because one was ****ging him off. one fella started making his way down the seats to the other. lucky enough the stewards acted quickly.
This was in the warm up, we hadn't even kicked off.
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I have to say that when I heard we signed him I was fuming at the time. I thought he was a pretty limited player and HKII could do better. He came in and served us well though.
 

I have a lovely picture of Gary with my son, aged about 10, when the lad was mascot for the home game with Norwich which we lost 5-1 all those years ago. Very sad news today
 
Bedfordshiretoffee said:
I have a lovely picture of Gary with my son, aged about 10, when the lad was mascot for the home game with Norwich which we lost 5-1 all those years ago. Very sad news today
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He was a gent mate, i have one with me and him outside Villa park he always gave up a lot of time to take pics with the fans and sign autographs and that was back in the day before digital cameras and that. Plenty of Everton lids ignored us that day in praticular on the way to their coach, it was a freezing day in Feb.

*Glares at fallen idol Amokachi.
 
davek said:
I have to say that when I heard we signed him I was fuming at the time. I thought he was a pretty limited player and HKII could do better. He came in and served us well though.
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He did mate, he had his work cut out coming from them, but turned a lot of blue's on his side.
 

I remember 94/95 when we had the sort of start that gave us kittens - something like 3 points from the first 8 games - something mad like that.

We won our first game of the season 1-0. It was live on SKY and I watched in it the pub. Gary Ablett scored the only goal and it got our season on track to the extent where we ended up winning the FA Cup.

R.I.P. Gary.
 
such a great servant to both merseyside clubs. Tragic news to be taken at such a young age. Sympathies to his family. R.I.P. GARY ABLETT
 

Remember making the thread a few months ago saying he only had a few months left, asked for it to be deleted out of respect for him and his family.

My condolences go out to his family, RIP.
 

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