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Gary Shaw
Sept 15, 2024 19:54:40 GMT
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Post by Su on Sept 15, 2024 19:54:40 GMT
According to social media has passed away after a fall a week ago but I can’t find anything on any news channel.
How awful if he has but even worse if he hasn’t!
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Post by tom on Sept 15, 2024 20:32:52 GMT
Met him in the Garden House on the Hagley Road...late 70's/early 80's, I think, seemed a nice guy. he was with John (big bolux) Gidface...not a nice guy.
Seemed it was an injury to his head after a fall, that led to his demise...only 63.
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Post by will on Sept 16, 2024 8:11:27 GMT
Various sources are now claiming that he's not dead. Here's one of them ... www.football-addict.com/en/article/walsall-fc/gary-shaw-an-apology/66e7c013524327be68081a86Let's hope he pulls through. By the by, I would have put good money on him having spent a short time on loan to us in the late 70s/early 80s. At that time we were picking up Villa's cast-offs on a regular basis: Bremner, Rioch, Mortimer and Morley for example. But it appears that I would have lost that particular wager. Maybe we were rumoured to be interested in signing him, but it fell through like it did with Brian Little.
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Post by tom on Sept 16, 2024 8:44:14 GMT
Various sources are now claiming that he's not dead. Here's one of them ... www.football-addict.com/en/article/walsall-fc/gary-shaw-an-apology/66e7c013524327be68081a86Let's hope he pulls through. By the by, I would have put good money on him having spent a short time on loan to us in the late 70s/early 80s. At that time we were picking up Villa's cast-offs on a regular basis: Bremner, Rioch, Mortimer and Morley for example. But it appears that I would have lost that particular wager. Maybe we were rumoured to be interested in signing him, but it fell through like it did with Brian Little. We were going to sign the man who he replaced, Brian Little, but he failed the medical. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Little
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Post by will on Sept 16, 2024 12:01:34 GMT
Various sources are now claiming that he's not dead. Here's one of them ... www.football-addict.com/en/article/walsall-fc/gary-shaw-an-apology/66e7c013524327be68081a86Let's hope he pulls through. By the by, I would have put good money on him having spent a short time on loan to us in the late 70s/early 80s. At that time we were picking up Villa's cast-offs on a regular basis: Bremner, Rioch, Mortimer and Morley for example. But it appears that I would have lost that particular wager. Maybe we were rumoured to be interested in signing him, but it fell through like it did with Brian Little. We were going to sign the man who he replaced, Brian Little, but he failed the medical. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_LittleYeah I remember the Little fiasco - £600,000 if I remember correctly. But he had a heart problem of some sort.
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Post by Su on Sept 16, 2024 12:58:13 GMT
Ok so just announced on Midlands Today, that AV have realsed a statement saying that he has passed away. They didn't give a date so it may well have been yesterday
RIP
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Post by tom on Sept 16, 2024 14:59:27 GMT
Yeah I remember the Little fiasco - £600,000 if I remember correctly. But he had a heart problem of some sort. According to Wiki, it was a knee injury that curtailed his career...thats not to say that Blues wriggled out of £600,000 bill and his wages, knowing the financial straights the Blues were in at that time.
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Post by will on Sept 16, 2024 16:59:15 GMT
Yeah I remember the Little fiasco - £600,000 if I remember correctly. But he had a heart problem of some sort. According to Wiki, it was a knee injury that curtailed his career...thats not to say that Blues wriggled out of £600,000 bill and his wages, knowing the financial straights the Blues were in at that time. Oh yeah, you're right. Struggling with my memory at the moment. As Su says, the news has now become official, which is very sad. RIP Gary. You might remember me mentioning a couple of years back that an old school chum of mine had passed away suddenly. Well, it was a huge shock for his wife, obviously, but after a while she decided she needed to move from the south of England to live nearer one of her kids in Glasgow. It was a huge move, but she appeared to be making a decent new life for herself in Scotland. Then a few weeks ago she, like Gary Shaw, had a fall and died, aged 67 (same as me). I shall be taking a lot more care with keeping vertical from now on.
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