Chelsea FC Honorary VP in helicopter crash

[61_OTU]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6614347.stm

Doesn't sound good.....

[expat]

Whilst I do feel for the people involved, I can't help to think that if there was no football connection, just like every other GA crash, it would have made a news footnote and not dominated the news all day.

Matt

[Tweek]

Whilst I do feel for the people involved, I can't help to think that if there was no football connection, just like every other GA crash, it would have made a news footnote and not dominated the news all day.

Well that's the nature of the media. If someone famous or important is involved, it's going to be a bigger story.

If your favourite band were involved in a crash, you'd want to know about it, as would a lot of other people. But I can't see the need to know that "Mr S. from Birmingham" has just crash landed in his Cessna.

[C]

Whilst I do feel for the people involved, I can't help to think that if there was no football connection, just like every other GA crash, it would have made a news footnote and not dominated the news all day.

Matt

More noteworthy due to the fact he is the second very rich Chelsea supporter/benefactor to be killed in a Squirrel returning from evening match - the previous being Matthew Harding in 1996.

Very sad indeed.