By Simon Wright – Follow me on Twitter @Siwri88
Recently, I wrote a couple of pieces for a new website called Football's Fallen - a site dedicated to those footballers who sadly get taken away on the football field. Set-up by my former colleague at Total Football Magazine and fellow football fan, Laura Jones, I have written pieces on one of Scotland's brightest hopes, Phil O'Donnell and this one about the ex-York striker David Longhurst.
Christmas is
a period where families come together and celebrate a special time. It is often
the period for goodwill, giving and joy but not in all instances.
For the
O’Donnell family, their world was feeling good as the end of 2007 dawned.
Married with four children, Phil O’Donnell (pictured below) was skipper of SPL side Motherwell
and was enjoying one of the best spells of his injury-hit career. Sadly their
hearts were about to be ripped out by a tragedy that is among one of the worst
to have hit the game in Scotland.
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| Phil O'Donnell had found form and fitness again before his shock death in 2007 |
Full of
promise as a youngster, O’Donnell had won the Scottish Cup twice and
experienced the big time as a Celtic player in the mid-1990s before injuries
ruined his stint in England with Sheffield Wednesday.
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