View Full Version : Mark Ward jailed for 8 years
TheresaWHUFC
04 Oct 2005, 08:32 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4308414.stm
northbankbar
04 Oct 2005, 08:44 AM
Something I never expected to see.
8 years. That's a lot of coke though.
Kent_Hammer
04 Oct 2005, 08:46 AM
This is very sad. I went to quite a few of the home and away games in '86 and he was such a livewire, very exciting with as hard a shot as any top-class player. Why did he have to get into such depths?
However, after this sad news - there is some better news. Gabbidon and Collins have won 2005 welsh player of the year and young player of the year respectively. Well done lads.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4307482.stm
TheresaWHUFC
04 Oct 2005, 08:52 AM
However, after this sad news - there is some better news. Gabbidon and Collins have won 2005 welsh player of the year and young player of the year respectively. Well done lads.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4307482.stm
Great news, and very well deserved, particularly Gab.
northbankbar
04 Oct 2005, 08:53 AM
I enjoyed watching him play in that team very much too. It is, as you say, a very sad story.
blainehammer
04 Oct 2005, 10:20 AM
I enjoyed watching him play in that team very much too. It is, as you say, a very sad story.
I don't find it a sad story at all. If he was supplying kids with coke then he deserves more than 8 years. Bloody jerk. There is a lot of misery tied up in that amount of coke.
blainehammer
04 Oct 2005, 10:57 AM
If you want sad it is Ronnie Barker dying. After all he did his porridge without complaining.
Kent_Hammer
04 Oct 2005, 11:18 AM
I don't find it a sad story at all. If he was supplying kids with coke then he deserves more than 8 years. Bloody jerk. There is a lot of misery tied up in that amount of coke.
I am not condoning it blaine....the sadness lies in the fact that he allowed himself to be drawn into these circles. I agree that he deserves everything he gets for the crime, and maybe should have got more. And I certainly echo your sentiments regarding Ronnie Barker - he will be missed greatly.
Mike
TheMobyDick
04 Oct 2005, 12:11 PM
If you want sad it is Ronnie Barker dying. After all he did his porridge without complaining.
Yes,it's a final goodbye from him.
Footstomper
04 Oct 2005, 12:46 PM
Yes,it's a final goodbye from him.
Not sad though. He bought too much happiness to too many people for that. A question for the anally retentive. Does anyone know how to access the sketch where he plays a vicar telling a parable in rhyming slang about the good samaritan saving an abandoned Richard from the pavement?
TheMobyDick
04 Oct 2005, 03:08 PM
Not sad though. He bought too much happiness to too many people for that. A question for the anally retentive. Does anyone know how to access the sketch where he plays a vicar telling a parable in rhyming slang about the good samaritan saving an abandoned Richard from the pavement?
No,sorry.But I remember the sketch.When he said Richard the Third people didn't realize he was using the slang for bird and not Turd.
west_ham
05 Oct 2005, 03:55 AM
This is very sad. I went to quite a few of the home and away games in '86 and he was such a livewire, very exciting with as hard a shot as any top-class player.
I remember Mark Ward too. I went to see him play for the Hammers in about '88-89ish. It was a home match against Derby and still remains the only match I have wayched from the UP stands.
It ended 1-1 but, as usual, there was an incident with Mark Ward.
He chased a ball rolling towards the keeper, even though it was about 70/30 in Peter Shilton's favour to get it. Shilton gathered the ball and Ward crunched into him.
Naturally the ref blew and Shilton just lay still for a few seconds. By this time everyone in the terraces were saying 'He's dead!!'.
He didn't die, of course, and Ward got booked.
I suppose this is just typical of the sort of bloke he is.
northbankbar
05 Oct 2005, 06:07 AM
I don't find it a sad story at all. If he was supplying kids with coke then he deserves more than 8 years. Bloody jerk.
I'm sorry, but I find it incredibly sad that a profesional sportsman who many kids looked up to when he was playing, turned into someone as desperate as this. If his demise doesn't touch you at all then fair enough - it does me.
And please don't get me wrong - I think he deserves everything he gets as well.
We won't ever see another comic like Ronnie Barker. His BAFTA acceptance speech after Richard Beckinsale's death gets me every time I see it.
He meant more to my life than Mark Ward or pretty much any West Ham player. I feel for his family.
(And I always thought he was talking about turds).