[Football] Gianluca Vialli - RIP

[southstandandy]

Very sad news. A great player in his day with a great attitude and seemingly a real gent off the pitch too. R.I.P Gianluca

 

[banjo]

Far too young. RIP

 

[vegster]

Bloody hell ! That's terrible news. He was one of footballs real gentlemen in the way that he played the game and spoke about it. RIP Gianluca, you will be missed.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Quality player, very sad news. May you R-i-P.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Great footballer and always came over as a real gentleman, one of the games nice guys.
RIP Gianluca

 

[Beach Hut]

RIP

Really sad news

 

[studio150]

Going so young and from cancer is a hard way to go.

RIP

 

[Questions]

RIP Luca.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Bloody hell. No age at all. RIP

 

[GT49er]

I seem to remember seeing the highlights of a Chelsea match in a European competition up in the far, far north - possibly Finland(?) - played in a raging blizzard. Vialli bursting through the snowstorm to score a goal is an iconic image which has somehow stuck in my mind.

RIP Gianluca - an Italian who could not only do it on a wet Tuesday night in Stoke, but could also do it in a freezing blizzard somewhere up near the Arctic circle!

 

[Normal Rob]

Shocked, and saddened to hear this.

 

[WATFORD zero]

His name always Takes me back to channel 4 Football Italia, Sunday afternoons preparing dinner with a few glasses of wine, whilst the missus entertained the kids.

RIP to a fine gentleman and great player taken far too soon.

 

[SuperFurrySeagull]

Terrible news. Far too young, RIP

 

[Frutos]

Very sad news, far too young.

RIP

 

[Hugo Rune]

He always came across in the media as a really nice guy who was also very smart but a lot of fun too. What a tradgey at that age. RIP

I’m finding that it’s very easy to fall in love with Italian managers so I do feel for the Chelsea mob on this occasion.

 

[Klaas]

One of the odd things about that scuzzy club Chelsea was that they had a big group of very likeable foreign players back in the 90s.
I especially liked Vialli. Very sad to hear this news.

 

[Blue3]

58 far to young RIP thoughts and prayers to family and friends

 

[luge]

I had the pleasure of working with him a handful of times through the years. He is what you would have imagined him to be, and more. A real loss, and I feel desperately sad for his wife and two young daughters.

It is worth listening to the James Richardson podcast about him - and James Horncastle wrote a lovely story about his band of brother relationship with Roberto Mancini.

 

[kojak]

Such sad news this
I seem to recall him getting every player to drink a glass of champagne before his first match in charge at Chelsea
He oozed class
RIP

 

[zefarelly]

A Class act in every respect. RIP.