29-11-2021, 11:10 AM
Steve Williams post_id=55845 time= user_id=1326 Wrote:I would have listened to him on the day Gary Speed died, I remember it vividly. This was before I lived in London but I'd actually been to London that weekend and was on my way home, and when I turned on the radio to listen to the football they were talking about Speed and I eventually worked out they were doing it in the past tense and that he'd died, and I thought "Oh God, it must be a car crash or something", and then my sister texted me to say "Have you heard Gary Speed has killed himself?". I'd actually recorded that episode of Football Focus, but I deleted it as soon as I got home.
I know this is slightly off topic but I remember watching that Football Focus that Saturday and Speed & McAllister on it and him coming across really well and seeing how Wales were progressing at the time under him. At the time I didn't have Sky Sports so on Sunday I would have put on BBC Radio 5 Live or Talksport in the background to hear the Sunday football and watch MOTD2 at night and I remember feeling numb when it was announced he had died. I didn't know the man or follow a team he played for but it really hit me hard. Goes to show anyone can have mental health problems and hopefully his death has helped others to go out and look for help.