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Author Topic: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP  (Read 33876 times)

Offline Hillbilly

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #120 on: April 21, 2017, 10:55:14 AM »
I'm 6'1" and often players who look big on the field are surprisingly small in 'real' life. I once stood next to Ugo on New St and he towered above me. Genuinely huge. And a top player. It was so disappointing when he went to boro.

Offline Jon Crofts

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #121 on: April 21, 2017, 10:57:24 AM »
Truly tragic that a seemingly fit 44 year old man can die following a cardiac arrest. RIP Ugo, a fine player.

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #122 on: April 21, 2017, 10:59:49 AM »
Shocking news. Yesterday's news was bad enough but I just it for granted he'd pull through.
Loved him as a player. Condolences to his family.

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #123 on: April 21, 2017, 11:00:57 AM »
RIP Ugo, shocking news great, memories of his Villa days, a rock!
« Last Edit: April 21, 2017, 11:11:37 AM by Wes Derby Villan »

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #124 on: April 21, 2017, 11:01:58 AM »
I think it's a sad fact that the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest are virtually non-existent. I used to work in cardiac rehabilitation and thought it was interchangeable with a heart attack to start off with. But the former is electrics and the latter is plumbing, as the nurses used to say. One ward I was working on, I was sat at the desk when this guy walked past me to go to the loo. We said hi, he walked into the bathroom and dropped down dead. The worst bit was that his wife was visiting him at the time.

Offline bob

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #125 on: April 21, 2017, 11:02:35 AM »
Bumped into him at the Cheltenham Festival in 2012.

Not sure I've been on the receiving end of a firmer hand shake in all my life.

Uuuuuugo!
Uuuuuugo!
Uuuuuugo!

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #126 on: April 21, 2017, 11:10:55 AM »
very sad news RIP Ugo my thoughts are with his family
 

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #127 on: April 21, 2017, 11:12:44 AM »
Awful, awful news. What a desperately sad season this has been.

Had a shocking debut but matured into a really terrific defender. His partnership with Southgate was up there alongside McGrath/ Teale and Evans/McNaught Imo.

RIP big man.

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #128 on: April 21, 2017, 11:25:33 AM »
RIP UGO.  Excellent player for us.

Do I remember an H&V cover with Ugo on?  Something along the lines 'just when you thought it was safe here comes Ugo' (in reference to him replacing Teale or McGrath).

I'm sure I didn't imagine it - can someone post it (if I'm not going mad)


Excellent - thanks!

Offline postal

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #129 on: April 21, 2017, 11:28:43 AM »
Shocked.

RIP big man

Offline dorsetvillian

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #130 on: April 21, 2017, 11:31:47 AM »
I remember talking to Ugo outside the Trinity the week before the Norwich game when we could have got relegated under Brian Little. I said to him 'please don't let us down'. In a softly spoken reply, he made it very clear that Villa would not be going down! I was at the Norwich game and although the fate of relegation hung over us, I felt particularly calm. I can really understand why he was so highly thought of as a coach of young players. Lets hope we can give him a proper send off on Sunday. RIP

Offline Holte132

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #131 on: April 21, 2017, 11:34:32 AM »
Rest in peace, Ugo. You will never be forgotten at Villa.

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #132 on: April 21, 2017, 11:34:48 AM »
Extremely sad and very shocking. RIP Ehiogu and condolences to your family.

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #133 on: April 21, 2017, 11:42:56 AM »
Part of the last successful Villa team and a player who always seemed to have made it through his own efforts rather than by virtue of natural talent. I wonder if there was ever a better three man central defence than McGrath-Southgate-Ugo? 

There was a story in the programme or another official publication that some rugby internationals were at a match one afternoon. Afterwards they were a bit dismissive of the physique of the players - until Ugo walked by.

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Re: Ugo Ehiogu - RIP
« Reply #134 on: April 21, 2017, 12:01:45 PM »
From a woman's perspective, Mrs S said he had kind eyes.
I know what she is saying Dave but many a forwards would totally disagree with that.

 


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