Remember when your team wining was all that mattered? : Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:52 am  

So Monday morning my lad woke up. The first thing he wanted to know was the Trinity score. He is 9 now and death and the like are just really entering his consciousnes, we talked about Toppo and Adam when they died etc.... so explaining to him why the game didn't go ahead and the tragedy surrounding Leon felt relitively okay.

I explained as frankly as I was able, given what little I knew / know. I answered what questions I could .....How, where, who etc...........

and then the killer question.......

Were Wakey winning at the time dad?

Now he wasn't intending to be rude or insensitive, and neither am I in posting this, I apologies if my post has offended or upset anyone. I just felt my anecdote might bring a smile to peoples faces at a sad time.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:56 am  

I had never met Leon but reading about his love of the game then he would probably appreciate the sentiment.

Re: Remember when your team wining was all that mattered? : Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:13 pm  

owiepob wrote:

So Monday morning my lad woke up. The first thing he wanted to know was the Trinity score. He is 9 now and death and the like are just really entering his consciousnes, we talked about Toppo and Adam when they died etc.... so explaining to him why the game didn't go ahead and the tragedy surrounding Leon felt relitively okay.

I explained as frankly as I was able, given what little I knew / know. I answered what questions I could .....How, where, who etc...........

and then the killer question.......

Were Wakey winning at the time dad?

Now he wasn't intending to be rude or insensitive, and neither am I in posting this, I apologies if my post has offended or upset anyone. I just felt my anecdote might bring a smile to peoples faces at a sad time.

I doubt we could find reason to be offended by the words of a young lad, he should not need to understand these things.

Give him a big hug from the Wildcats family.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:17 pm  

It brought a slight grin to my face, remembering a few things my lad would say when around that age.
Impossible to be offended by an honest comment from a youngster.
As Al says, give him a hug.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:24 pm  

God bless the boy and give him a hug. I was at the game and yes they were winning. Awful thing to happen to such a young man playing a sport he loved and played so well.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:43 pm  

Put a smile on my face.

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:56 pm  

pure innocence at that age, they say what they see,and repeat what they hear,
put an arm around him for me too

: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:42 pm  

May his innocence remain for many years to come. Bless him!