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Old 10-13-2006, 12:11 PM   #5392
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Originally Posted by ukhotstove View Post
Worst I have ever felt when someone from the sporting world has died was the night Jock Stein died, I'd listened to the game on the radio on the school field me and my friends used to meet up on and get drunk at the weekends. It was a rollercoaster of a night as Scotland played Wales and needed a point to gain qualification to the 1986 World Cup and got the point, was in a great mood then all of a sudden their saying Jock Steins dead and it's turning into a nightmare because as a Celtic fan your brought up to look at him as a living legend then all of a sudden he's dead.
As I said in the Cory Lidle thread, the only sportsman I can remember dying in a plane crash was disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje.
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