July 10, 20214 yr Author former Everton midfielder Jimmy Gabriel, has died aged 80. Gabriel played 303 times for the Toffees, winning a league title and the FA Cup with the club in the 1960s. The Scotland international started his career with hometown club Dundee and played more than 220 games for Southampton after leaving Everton.
July 15, 20214 yr Author Former BDO World Champion, Andy Fordham has sadly passed away at the age of 59. @1415693866959839238
July 28, 20213 yr Sad to hear that Mike Hendrick has died aged 72. He played 30 test matches for the England cricket team from 1974 to 1981 and was part of three Ashes winning teams.
August 1, 20213 yr Former Leeds and England defender Terry Cooper has died, aged 77. That's another of the Don Revie-era team gone in the last couple years.
August 24, 20213 yr Author Darts player Kyle Anderson has passed away aged 33, he threw a nine-dart finish at the PDC World Darts Championship in 2014. Anderson's biggest tournament win was the Auckland Darts Masters in 2017. He made his World Championship debut in 2012-13 and relocated to Nottingham in the UK after becoming a regular on the tour, winning a Players Championship ranking event in 2017.
August 26, 20213 yr The former England cricket captain and later chairman of selectors Ted Dexter has died aged 86. He also did some commentary for the BBC.
August 28, 20213 yr Author Former Birmingham City defender Sam Oji has died at the age of 35. Oji started his career as a youth player with Arsenal in 2000 but joined the Blues in 2004 in search of first-team football. He also featured for Doncaster Rovers, Bristol Rovers and Leyton Orient and in July became assistant manager of Highgate United.
September 19, 20213 yr Author Former England striker and Tottenham's record goalscorer Jimmy Greaves has died at the age of 81. Greaves began his career with Chelsea before spells at AC Milan, Spurs and West Ham. He scored 44 goals in 57 games for England and was a member of the 1966 World Cup-winning squad. Greaves scored 266 goals in 379 matches for Tottenham and holds the record for the most goals in a season for Spurs with 37 in 1962-63. He also presented Saint & Greavsie alongside Ian St John from 1985 to 1992.
September 19, 20213 yr Sad to see Jimmy Greaves passing away, think he was ill for a while. Saints and Greavsie was the 80s version of Soccer AM!
September 19, 20213 yr Author Danish former professional cyclist Chris Anker Sorensen has died at the age of 37 after being hit by a vehicle during a ride in Belgium, the International Cycling Union (UCI) says. Sorensen was due to commentate on the Road World Championships, which begin in Flanders on Sunday. A stage winner in the 2010 Giro d'Italia, Sorensen retired from professional cycling in 2018.
September 28, 20213 yr Author Former Liverpool and England striker Roger Hunt has died at the age of 83. Known as 'Sir Roger' to Liverpool fans, Hunt was part of England's 1966 World Cup-winning side and is the club's record league scorer with 244 goals. The forward won 34 England caps, scoring 18 international goals after making his debut in 1962 when Liverpool were in English football's second tier. Hunt played in every game of the 1966 World Cup and scored three times to help England out of their group.
September 28, 20213 yr Sad to hear another member of the team has gone. There are just three of them still alive now.
September 30, 20213 yr Author Heiko Salzwedel, who held coaching roles with British Cycling from 2002 to 2017 across three separate spells, has died at the age of 64. Salzwedel had most recently worked for OSP Brandenburg, in his native Germany's Olympic training centre. With British Cycling, he was involved in three Olympics, including helping a men's team pursuit squad that included Bradley Wiggins win gold in 2016. He also helped Wiggins break the world hour record in 2015. News of his death was confirmed on Thursday by Lothar Heine, head of Germany's federal cycling base in Cottbus.
October 26, 20213 yr Author Former Rangers, Everton and Scotland manager Walter Smith has died at the age of 73. Smith achieved legendary status at Ibrox, with 21 trophies in two spells making him the second most successful Rangers boss ever behind Bill Struth. He won the latter seven titles of Rangers' nine-in-a-row run in the 1990s and returned to Ibrox in 2007. Between those stints, he had four years at Everton and two with Scotland before being enticed back to the Glasgow club.
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