kippaxkid74
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Thank you so much.
And thank you again everyone about my post on page 1. If anyone wants to read mums "obituary" in the programme she's on page 63 with a lovely photo from right after the 2011 fa cup final, as well as on page 15 in the "in memoriam" list. Valerie Taylor. My brilliant mum.
If anyone does find her name on the screens in any photos or videos, please let me know. Was it shown on city plus or whatever its' called?
Re the screens - up to and including 2018, they would put peoples names on the mid layer screens but each name would scroll all the way around a full lap, so you had plenty of time to find it and follow your loved ones name.
In 2019, my dad died in the May, and his name was on the memoriam screen list Dec 2019 (also against Sheff Utd).
My panic at seeing that instead of scrolling all the way round the names just flashed up in a small group on a quarter of the ground, scanning my eyes around desperately looking for him. In the end it was my mum who saw his name and nudged me in time for me to see him.
It's brilliant city do this for fans, but when your family loved on is on the screen you spend the whole minute frantically searching for them rather than feeling emotionally in the moment! :(
Still proud mum was on - always told her over the years that she would be, she'd laugh and say "i'm not dead yet"! We had such fun at games.... up til maybe the covid break. I know it was never the same since then, as i had so much worry over her and her frailness and her mind. But we were a team. We still used to wet ourselves with laughter about the time at wembley travelodge she's busy putting her cream on her legs before bed, only to realise after coating them that she'd used the toothpaste! My sister just didn't get whey we found it so funny when i retold the tale at home, but we were in hysterics, we barely slept as kept sniggering and starting off again! Sounds daft and i guess you had to be there (!), but i treasure every moment of those memories. We loved making a break of our Wembley trips, just as we loved being at the auto windscreen shield game, we loved it all, from top to bottom and back to top again. Oh mum... i miss you.
I won't start off my emotion again, sorry. I miss her so so much.
But if anyone finds mums name, please let me know.
And although i'm a private person and it gives away all of our names, i'm proud of my little write up for her in the programme, so have a read if you have it. Raise a smile for a brilliant woman.
Thank you x