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Tragic death of young Wakefield player

Started By splus, Mar 22 2009 09:55 PM

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#1 OFFLINE   splus

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Posted 22 March 2009 - 09:55 PM

Today's game at Celtic Crusaders was called off following the death of 21 year old Leon Walker in th e63rd minute of th ereserve team game.

http://news.bbc.co.u...gue/7928334.stm

The Sydney Morning Hearald have said it was an horrific injury but I can't find any more news yet.

What an awful tragedy.

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Posted 22 March 2009 - 10:17 PM

Terrible news and horrible for his poor parents.
According to the Yorkshire press, his death was caused by having his neck broken.

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Posted 22 March 2009 - 10:27 PM

Rumours are just rife at the moment. This link has the cause as a heart attack.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/spor...gedy.5097303.jp

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Posted 22 March 2009 - 10:41 PM

I hope the decision is made that our game against them on Friday should go ahead.
I also hope that there are lots of collection buckets about.

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Posted 22 March 2009 - 11:05 PM

What a sad thing to happen....seems like a case of SDS to me, just collapsing like that.

Edited by kes, 22 March 2009 - 11:05 PM.

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