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Former Wolverhampton Wanderers captain Mike Bailey has died at the age of 84 after a long illness.
The midfielder, who was capped twice by England, started his career at Charlton Athletic before moving to Molineux in 1966.
He made 436 appearances and scored 25 goals for Wolves, lifting the League Cup in 1974, after helping the West Midlands club reach the Uefa Cup final two years earlier.
In his final
Watford legend and former Wales international Kenny Jackett has died at the age of 64.
Watford-born Jackett made 428 appearances for his hometown side during a one-club playing career that also saw him win 31 caps.
Forced to retire at the age of 28, following persistent knee injuries, he began a long coaching career which included spells in charge at Watford, Swansea City, Millwall, Wolves, Rotherham, Portsmouth and Leyton Orient.
Parkes joined Rovers from non-league Buxton in May 1970 and helped the team to the third-tier title in 1974-75.
In an obituary, Blackburn wrote of Parkes:, external “A tough-tackling and tireless midfield grafter, who was prepared to do the unspectacular leg work in the middle of the park, he also liked to run with the ball and was a difficult man to stop in full flight.
“Furthermore, he possessed
A Charlton Athletic fan has died after their Championship game against Portsmouth was abandoned.
The players initially waited on the pitch while emergency staff dealt with a medical emergency in the lower tier of the Covered End in the 12th minute, before referee Matthew Donohue told them to return to the dressing rooms.
The game, which was goalless, was eventually called off nearly an hour after the incident occurred.
Charlton
Former Liverpool co-owner Hicks dies aged 79
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Despite his success at club level, Young never made a senior appearance for Scotland due to a lifetime ban incurred following an altercation at a Danish nightclub.
The “Copenhagen five,” Young, Joe Harper, Arthur Graham, Billy Bremner and Pat McCluskey, were all excommunicated from the national set-up over the incident.
Harper and Graham were later reinstated after being cleared of any wrongdoing but Young was never allowed to pull on
Former Ipswich Town captain Mick McNeil has died at the age of 85.
The full-back, who won nine England caps, played 173 games for the club between 1964 and 1972, and was part of the side that won the Second Division title in the 1967-68 season.
Ipswich paid tribute on social media, saying: “The club is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former captain Mick McNeil. Once a
Mandaric took control of his father’s engineering business in the Serbian city of Novi Sad at the age of 21.
Five years later it was one of the largest firms in Yugoslavia and on a collision course with Marshal Tito, country’s communist dictator.
Tito denounced Mandaric as a “capitalist traitor” when the entrepreneur took his family to Switzerland.
Mandaric spent a year there, desperately trying to get his cash out
Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has died in a car crash, aged 28.
The Portugal forward’s brother Andre Silva also died in the accident, which took place in the Spanish province of Zamora.
The 25-year-old was also a professional footballer, with Portuguese second-tier club Penafiel.
The Guardia Civil has told BBC Sport that Jota and his brother died at about 00:30 local time on Thursday.
They said that their car, a
Uriah Rennie, the Premier League’s first black referee, has died aged 65.
Rennie officiated more than 300 games between 1997 and 2008, including 175 Premier League matches.
“We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former chair and trailblazing referee, Uriah Rennie,” said a Sheffield & Hallamshire County Football Association statement., external
“Uriah made history as the Premier League’s first Black referee, officiating over 300 top-flight
