Ricky Hatton RIP

bluestevei said:
I was just asking a question, and seen as apparently they was big fans of him, why wouldn't they go.
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I did think the same, Pep, Noel and Kompany stood out as people who knew him, spoke highly of him so you'd think they would have been there. Especially Pep, considering it is less than a two minute walk from where he lives. He was in some golf tournament though was he not? Maybe he couldn't get away.

There was still Buzzer, Morrison and Lake there. Possibly more.
 
AK45 said:
I did think the same, Pep, Noel and Kompany stood out as people who knew him, spoke highly of him so you'd think they would have been there. Especially Pep, considering it is less than a two minute walk from where he lives. He was in some golf tournament though was he not? Maybe he couldn't get away.

There was still Buzzer, Morrison and Lake there. Possibly more.
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Dickov & Corrigan.
 
bluestevei said:
I was just asking a question, and seen as apparently they was big fans of him, why wouldn't they go.
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Maybe they weren't invited? I've no idea how these things work, having never been to an invite only funeral. Would people who move in certain circles be invited to apply for an invitation? Would the family just sit down and draw up a list? Be quite easy to overlook someone obvious if that was the case, with everything else going on.

The whole thing is probably a bit of a logistical nightmare to organise, when you're talking about someone as popular as Ricky was.
 
bakerdave76 said:
Perhaps they wanted to pay respect in their own way.
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This. People don't always want/ need to attend a funeral to pay their respects.
I've missed loads over the years for one reason or another.
Also in Peps case ,it's not really about him. and Pep might have thought he'd be taking the spotlight away a bit...no idea ...but I doubt it's a disrespectful thing

In any event ,nowadays,if folk went to every funeral they could they'd be off work every two days

A sign of the times....
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
This. People don't always want/ need to attend a funeral to pay their respects.
I've missed loads over the years for one reason or another.
Also in Peps case ,it's not really about them,and Pep might have thought he'd be taking the spotlight away a bit...no idea ...but I doubt it's a disrespectful thing

In any event ,nowadays,if folk went to every funeral they could they'd be off work every two days

A sign of the times....
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My brother got it right after my mum died.
Some family couldn't make it cos they live thousands of miles away.

He said: "It's what you did for her when she was alive, that was important, not being here for her funeral."

I was gutted I missed a cricket club's stalwarts funeral, but I know that I always sat and had a chat with him every Saturday/Sunday through the season.
So I thought about what my brother said and it made realise the most important part was when he was there every weekend.
I wanted to be there for his son, who I know, but he knew how well I got on with his dad.
 
Sad it has been confirmed that he hanged himself which was the rumour at the ground on the day it happened, although how anybody actually knew that is strange.
 
paulchapo said:
Sad it has been confirmed that he hanged himself which was the rumour at the ground on the day it happened, although how anybody actually knew that is strange.
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Someone posted that on here within minutes of it coming out he’d passed.

For the families sake I wish things like this were kept out of the public. Should be for them to know only.
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
Someone posted that on here within minutes of it coming out he’d passed.

For the families sake I wish things like this were kept out of the public. Should be for them to know only.
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It never is. I guess such has to be common knowledge legally in any death, especially suicide. With a well known public figure the media print it, for Joe Bloggs I guess the majority don't get a mention.
 
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LangleyBlue1970 said:
Someone posted that on here within minutes of it coming out he’d passed.

For the families sake I wish things like this were kept out of the public. Should be for them to know only.
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I'm probably being naive, but I'd like to think some good can come of it being public knowledge. Perhaps someone who is struggling with their mental health who looked up to Ricky, may see it as, if depression can get him, it can get me and may push a few more to seek help.

At least id like to think that
 
Gray said:
I just wish he had had people with him who could have helped him, bloody sad.
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The thing is he appeared to have plenty of people around him who were all aware he suffered mentally. He had a tight group of childhood friends, his family, people in boxing and the media he had got to know. He also knew that almost all the public thought highly of him too. Sadly it's not always enough when the darkness descends. I think it was Phil Collins who sang the line " My friends all come round, but I'm in a crowd and on my own" in the song if leaving me is easy. That's it.
 
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