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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Villan For Life on January 20, 2011, 11:38:46 AM

Title: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Villan For Life on January 20, 2011, 11:38:46 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-12236977

Hit rock bottom and seems to be getting back on track.

Good luck to him. He was never a player I particularly liked or admired but with what he's been through in losing his wife, who knows how any of us would react when faced with a similar set of circumstances?
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: BILL DE VALL on January 20, 2011, 11:57:50 AM
Yes you've got to feel for the chap
4 kids to feed with no mother,gambling and alchoholism as his crutches

I hope he makes good decisions in the future and stays off the nags and the booze
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: WikiVilla on January 20, 2011, 11:58:24 AM
Tragic, hope he pulls through this
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Greg N'Ash on January 20, 2011, 12:08:31 PM
Hardly alcoholism is it? His wife died, he was in bits so he drunk a bit. Think a lot of people would have done the same. Hopefully someone will give him a chance if he wants to get back into football on the coaching side.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: BILL DE VALL on January 20, 2011, 12:16:26 PM
alright then not alchoholism
just standard 'Scottish level of drinking as your wifes died'
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Chris Smith on January 20, 2011, 12:18:00 PM
Hardly alcoholism is it? His wife died, he was in bits so he drunk a bit. Think a lot of people would have done the same.

Dunn, the story doesn't say one way or the other.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Greg N'Ash on January 20, 2011, 12:22:37 PM
they mention alcoholism. A bit sensationalised i think, but nowadays if you go for a drink after work you're verging on ending up drinking meths in a shop doorway according to the media
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: WikiVilla on January 20, 2011, 12:28:46 PM
Arguably the most Scottish looking person on the planet
Sounds like the surgeon was a butcher by trade
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: not3bad on January 20, 2011, 12:31:28 PM
nowadays if you go for a drink after work you're verging on ending up drinking meths in a shop doorway according to the media

Rehab centres drumming up business I think.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Chris Smith on January 20, 2011, 12:38:21 PM
they mention alcoholism. A bit sensationalised i think, but nowadays if you go for a drink after work you're verging on ending up drinking meths in a shop doorway according to the media

True, but that doesn't mean that alcoholism isn't a serious problem that ruins the lives of sufferers and their families.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: willywombat on January 20, 2011, 12:40:56 PM
Poor bugger, I cant even imagine what he's been through. God bless him and his kids
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Small Rodent on January 20, 2011, 12:43:44 PM
they mention alcoholism. A bit sensationalised i think, but nowadays if you go for a drink after work you're verging on ending up drinking meths in a shop doorway according to the media

True, but that doesn't mean that alcoholism isn't a serious problem that ruins the lives of sufferers and their families.


Mel Gibson for one. It turned him into an anti-semite.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: damon loves JT on January 20, 2011, 04:12:08 PM
Bereavement, alcohol and spread betting. That's a bad combination.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: WikiVilla on January 20, 2011, 05:08:03 PM
Bereavement, alcohol and spread betting. That's a bad combination.

And ginger
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: The Left Side on January 20, 2011, 05:14:23 PM
Best of luck with that tricky road... was he more of a strawberry blonde?
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: villajk on January 20, 2011, 05:30:38 PM
Best of luck Colin.  I hope the future turns out better than the last few years.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Lizz on January 20, 2011, 08:33:15 PM
Best of luck Colin.  I hope the future turns out better than the last few years.

Seconded.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Exeter 77 on January 20, 2011, 08:55:48 PM
Couldn't stand Hendry as a player but nobody deserves the personal problems he has had in the last few years.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: Salsa Party Animal on January 20, 2011, 08:56:03 PM
For the young fans he is like Scottish version of Martin Laursen. Good player.
Title: Re: 0% Villa - Colin Hendry
Post by: TopDeck113 on January 20, 2011, 10:26:33 PM
If you trace this story back to its root cause, it should serve as a wake up call to women of a certain age who think that going under the knife is the answer to the remorseless march of time.  And indeed to the wealthy male partners who fund it.

I'm genuinely sorry for Hendry and his children and don't want to trivialise their loss, but I'm sure if he could turn back time, on reflection his wife's middle-age spread wasn't that bad.
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