Danny Bradley RIP

King_Ralph_Blumer said:
I don't know if any of you saw the local news or read the MEN last week but sadly my very dear friend Danny Bradley has died aged 53. Dan was on a trip to Belfast on the ferry from Liverpool on the night of May 18th. He never made it to Belfast and was reported missing by his family. his body was discovered washed up on the coast this past weekend in Barrow in Furness.

I've known Dan about eight or nine years. When my wife gave up her season card after we had a couple of kids, Dan moved into her seat in block 123. We very quickly became good friends. I went to loads of away matches with Dan. He always organised the tickets for the away games as I was working overseas I couldn't sort it so easily.

When we got to the cup final against Stoke, I left my card with Dan to sort the tickets for the game. It was apparent that his points were a day shy of getting a ticket for himself but I said we should wait to get both together. He knew he wasn't going to get one on his own card but he went and queued 6 hours for my ticket rather than me miss out. He only told me he did that after he got me a ticket. The next day the game was sold out. I felt awful when I met him at Piccadilly station the following Friday to collect my ticket from him. It transpired that I managed to get some club Wembley tickets the night before the game so Dan could have my ticket after all. I was amazed that he would take the day off work to go get my cup final ticket.

I bought a season card for my kids to share the season we played Sunderland in the league cup final. I told Dan that I couldn't choose between my kids who to take to the final. He said take both then, have my ticket. He was serious that if I wanted it I could have it. I didn't take him up on his offer but Dan was like a lot of us blue to the core , starved of success all these years but I could have his cup final ticket if I wanted it.

He was a funny ,intelligent man with a lovely manner about him. He was well liked by all the people who sat around him. He was a real gentleman. He had a real social conscience.
I really cannot believe I won't see him again.
The cause of his death is still being investigated and it's too early to speculate what happened to him.
Dan was a member of this forum, I don't know his username as we always discussed City in person.

Good bye Dan, R.I.P. I Will never ever forget you mate.
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Nice words K_R_B. I have forwarded that to a colleague of mine that knew Danny and she has sent it to his ex flat-mate. PM me if you need any details of the funeral, none know as yet.
 
My name is Jackie and I am Danny Bradley's sister - Danny was a man in a million and loved Manchester City and his City friends Paul Alan Geraldine and Aiden andtheir families and are the names I remember clearly you were all special and important to him. The funeral arrangements haven't been finalised yet because of the circumstances he is not back with us yet. I did see him yesterday and he looked at peace. We will be having bluemoon at the service for danny and will be scattering his ashes in the garden of remembrance at the Ethiad I can post the date of his funeral and when we will be coming to the garden of remembrance if any of his friends would want to come to remember Danny.
 
Jackie - I am sorry for your loss, and ours... Whilst it is lovely to get a mention in your message, I was hoping that all I had read on the MEN was a bad dream, or a case of mistaken identity, but your painful post makes it reality, sadly... I am not sure how to break the news to my three lads, they will be gutted, they all stopped to have a little chat with Danny on their way to their seats, or he would bob across the row to have a chat at half time. He would always extend his arm out for a hand shake, on the way in and on the way out, rare these days, he was a true Gent.

I too have had the benefit of his generosity, when queuing for cup tickets (I think it was the FA Cup semi final, before we beat Stoke in the final). Danny saw me and my lads in the queue, left his position, ahead of us, to join us, and after being in the queue for a few hours, he insisted I took the boys home, and he stayed in the queue to buy our tickets. It was an act of friendship and true understanding. No problem with his moral compass.

I often read papers, and watch the TV, and hear about people with varying life stories of so called greatness, but Danny was a true great, a real man of the people, honestly giving his time to other generously, and without favour, except for those who shared his passion - the Blues! The photo in the NEM was just how I will remember him. It is true, from today forward, that the Etihad, and in particular block 123, will never be the same again. Danny, you will be sadly missed....

Rest in peace Danny.
 
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