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Lovely post that mind.I'm a Blackpool fan who has been living in and around Tees Valley for about the last 25 years and I just wanted to pass on my condolences to all who knew and loved Louise and to share my abiding memory her.
I met Louise whilst working at Teesside Hospice from 1998; we were MFC's charity of the year during my time there, and so I spent quite a lot of time arranging player visits, signed shirts and so on. Nothing was ever too much trouble and she really helped us maximise the opportunity and was simply a lovely, deeply caring person to work with.
My most memorable occasion was her helping to organise a couple of players to come to the Day Hospital as it was one of the guy's 80th birthday. The day was a bit of a mess truth be told. She told me the players had been given extra training, had been rollocked because of a previous game and were a little reluctant to come as they were running quite late and it was a hospice and so on. But, being the caring and professional woman she was, she encouraged (insisted) they turn up and to be fair to them, they were brilliant with him.
At the end of the day as he was leaving, he apologised to his wife, then turned to us and said "that was the best day of my life." He died less than two weeks later.
If Louise had taken the easier option of postponing, that day, for that man, wouldn't have happened.
Sometimes, life can be so cruel, and when reading the news of her passing at such a young age, it caught me.
Having read the tributes here, it is so obvious that she was special and was what she always appeared to be. Her death is such a loss to the area and especially Sunderland and I share your hurt.
R. I. P. Louise, you made the North East that bit better.
Thank you for that lovely memory.I'm a Blackpool fan who has been living in and around Tees Valley for about the last 25 years and I just wanted to pass on my condolences to all who knew and loved Louise and to share my abiding memory her.
I met Louise whilst working at Teesside Hospice from 1998; we were MFC's charity of the year during my time there, and so I spent quite a lot of time arranging player visits, signed shirts and so on. Nothing was ever too much trouble and she really helped us maximise the opportunity and was simply a lovely, deeply caring person to work with.
My most memorable occasion was her helping to organise a couple of players to come to the Day Hospital as it was one of the guy's 80th birthday. The day was a bit of a mess truth be told. She told me the players had been given extra training, had been rollocked because of a previous game and were a little reluctant to come as they were running quite late and it was a hospice and so on. But, being the caring and professional woman she was, she encouraged (insisted) they turn up and to be fair to them, they were brilliant with him.
At the end of the day as he was leaving, he apologised to his wife, then turned to us and said "that was the best day of my life." He died less than two weeks later.
If Louise had taken the easier option of postponing, that day, for that man, wouldn't have happened.
Sometimes, life can be so cruel, and when reading the news of her passing at such a young age, it caught me.
Having read the tributes here, it is so obvious that she was special and was what she always appeared to be. Her death is such a loss to the area and especially Sunderland and I share your hurt.
R. I. P. Louise, you made the North East that bit better.
I'm a Blackpool fan who has been living in and around Tees Valley for about the last 25 years and I just wanted to pass on my condolences to all who knew and loved Louise and to share my abiding memory her.
I met Louise whilst working at Teesside Hospice from 1998; we were MFC's charity of the year during my time there, and so I spent quite a lot of time arranging player visits, signed shirts and so on. Nothing was ever too much trouble and she really helped us maximise the opportunity and was simply a lovely, deeply caring person to work with.
My most memorable occasion was her helping to organise a couple of players to come to the Day Hospital as it was one of the guy's 80th birthday. The day was a bit of a mess truth be told. She told me the players had been given extra training, had been rollocked because of a previous game and were a little reluctant to come as they were running quite late and it was a hospice and so on. But, being the caring and professional woman she was, she encouraged (insisted) they turn up and to be fair to them, they were brilliant with him.
At the end of the day as he was leaving, he apologised to his wife, then turned to us and said "that was the best day of my life." He died less than two weeks later.
If Louise had taken the easier option of postponing, that day, for that man, wouldn't have happened.
Sometimes, life can be so cruel, and when reading the news of her passing at such a young age, it caught me.
Having read the tributes here, it is so obvious that she was special and was what she always appeared to be. Her death is such a loss to the area and especially Sunderland and I share your hurt.
R. I. P. Louise, you made the North East that bit better.
RIP.
RIP.
Dusty in here isn’t it?
Hay fever.RIP.
Dusty in here isn’t it?
Brilliant. And the video.
Louise Wanless RIP – Football Writers' Association
It is with great sadness that we at the FWA learned this week that Louise Wanless had passed away at the age of 52. Louise was press officer at Middlesbrough and then Sunderland, but much more than that she was a much-loved friend and colleague for so many of our members, and a larger-than-life...footballwriters.co.uk