RIP Bill Lyons (@Bill, previously @de niro) update re funeral pg 51/JustGiving link p52

[NantwichBlue]

RIP blue

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Sad news. A proper Bluemoon legend. My thoughts are with his family and all his pals.RIP Bill. CTWD X

 

[Scottyboi]

Life can be so cruel, awful illness. But he faced up to it as best he could, he loved city and will be missed. RIP Bill.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Devastated by this sad news, did a few Euro away days with him and many others in the PL..
I remember a Bayern trip where I was supposed to meet him at a bar, he gave me the name of a chain of bars and said the name of the street it was on was Strasse…. :-)

Bill is a legend and the master wind up merchant.. He will be sadly missed by so many
:-( …. RIP Bill …

 

[levets]

Sat next to Bill in SE Corner wheelchair bays quite often. We both became ill around the same time. Very sad news indeed. Thoughts with his family and friends. RIP Bill. X

 

[Wheelsy]

Reactivated a decades-old photobucket account to find these - cannot remember the context. But of course, the Faroe Islands trawler is City folklore

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Very sad news. Met Bill a couple of times at meet ups. First one I went to I approached the group as I recognised his likeness to de Niro. As a joke I said Al Pacino instead. He told me to fuck off. What a guy!

 

[super_city_si]

Very sad. RIP Bill. Remember following along on the Faroe Isles trip he went on. BM Legend.

 

[One Fan Clapping]

I know we're not really supposed to mention it on here anymore because the circumstances of it ended up being all mysterious, but my clearest, most resonant memory of Bill came from the night The Fixer incident happened. While the rest of us were beside ourselves and trying to figure out what was going on, Bill immediately jumped in the car with his daughter and drove through the night to be with a man he thought was in desperate need of company. I don't really know what happened after that, but Bill jumping in his car without a second thought to drive miles to comfort a complete stranger spoke volumes about the guy he was.

I met him a few times on Bluemoon meet-ups down the years, mainly between 2010 and 2012. I think the last time I saw him was the day the photo below was taken in the Waldorf in 2012. Very happy times to be a Blue, they were, but also very sad times with Sam (GSC) and Sue (Bluebird) going in the same summer. Was so sorry to see that he'd been diagnosed with MND. Even more sorry to find this out. At least he's seen us win the fucking lot, so I'll repeat now what he said the day of Sam's funeral 12 years ago, about a week before this photo was taken: "One of the last things Sam witnessed was us winning the league, he died a champion."

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He looks really well on this photo.

Never met him but reading a lot of good things about him and know how well regarded he is on here.

RIP Bill x

 

[BringBackSwales]

I never met him but used to love his posts in here. RIP fella, Top Blue