Last time I felt this gutted at losing someone I’ve never met personally was when I heard Dimebag Darrell of Pantera got shot and killed on stage. I had just seen him live with Damageplan and he tossed me a pick.
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I’m going to Anfield on the 15th of Aug. I’m getting the new shirt with his name and number. For sure!
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This is just awful and I can’t believe it. I thought it was a sick joke for a bit. I happened to be at Anfield in April when Jota scored his last goal for the club. It happened right in front of us and was the match winner in the derby. What a moment. Jota is a class player and human being.
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Yeah. I’d just gotten to listening to Pantera some months before the dimebag incident.
My gutted feeling was at Senna’s death. I was young enough then that I didn’t see the news of the Ratzenberger’s death previously. But I saw that happen in live TV. Was much later that I got to know someone else died too.
The Owen Hart incident too. Fuck Vince.
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That beautiful wedding photo with his wife and kids just killed me. Feel so very gutted for them.
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Oh god that was bad. I was a big Senna fan. Couldn’t believe it!
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Just saw this on the news, sort of lost for words. I don’t, in my supporting history of 30+ years, remember any of our players dying.
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Just got into F1 in the 93 season. Never a Schumacher fan. Always gravitated to McLaren and Williams.
Bianchi’s death was even more painful I’m sure. Considering how much he suffered in the hospital. But I divested myself from f1 quite a while before that.
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Just shouldn’t be happening. Entirely gutted.
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I would totally support, and hope, that we at least consider retiring his number.
EDIT: Just checked, there seems to be a lot written about retiring it in the past few hours.
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For the Aussies in here, for me this draws parallels to Ben Alexander of Penrith Panthers fame back in the 90’s, though tbf Ben was well over the blood alcohol limit so maybe not that similar.
If the new kit hasn’t been announced yet. I hope we rework that into a tribute to our no 20 Jota there.
And a portion of any kit sales to his family.
It’s only right.
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I assume we will honour the contract and probably a tribute match. Potentially those two in August will be renamed and repurposed into something.
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Wouldn’t mind matches against sporting and porto.
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I’m rather sick of myself.
Only the week before or so , I was in the opinion that we should be shifting Jota in the transfer market.
Fuck me. Just brings this into perspective.
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Come on mate, go easy on yourself. Nobody knew something so shocking would happen
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Was one of my favorites these passed years. Always stirred things up and brought great energy. Deep condolences to his family
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We forget there are people there. All this haggling about transfer fees and fuck all.
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I think we just need to reflect a bit more on here in the tone we use and that is all of us me included.
We often see players as commodities to fund other talent and players.
My feelings was to keep him for what he brought to the team. Yes you may want some players gone for whatever reason but perhaps more respect in how we speak about them.
I think we will certainly miss him just on a playing perspective alone.
I remember the lad who was heading to Cardiff and his plane crashed and my pessimistic brain did often wonder. Well sadly now this has happened.
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