avoidconfusion
Well-Known Member
Last night 5 minutes before midnight my dad passed away after being in an artificial coma since Wednesday last week.
I do not want to go into the details of his illness because my post is not supposed to be about that.
As some of you might or might not know, I am German, born in Germany and I lived nearly all my life there until I met my wife about 7 years ago.
She is a proper Blue through and through and so is her familiy so it didn't take long until she turned me into one as well.
My father and my mother welcomed my wife into our family with open arms, especially to my father she was as close to being his daughter as it could have ever been without her actually being his daughter. I know he loved her from all his heart as if she was his own blood.
His love for her turned him into a fanatic Blue as well, which I always thought was quite a feat because he was from Munich and a Bayern Munich fan through and through. Yet these past few years he started watching City play whenever he could on the telly together with my mom and he would always send me a text message with his comments on the game.
I still remember the one he sent me when we beat Chelsea. He asked me "Are City Barca now or something?"
These last few days have been very hard, me and my wife have been visiting him every day at least twice and were talking to him.
He hardly spoke any english at all and did not understand English well either but that did not stop my wife from talking to him when we were there. To her he was like a father as well. She told him about all the things we still wanted to plan with him. Like her taking him to a City match, because he had never been and in turn she always wanted him to take her to a Bayern Munich match as well.
She even told him that she wanted him to see City win the Champions League. I must admit, despite all the grief I felt and still feel, that one made me laugh and I only said he would have to wait a few more years to see that I am afraid.
I guess what I was trying to say is that my dad, in the last years of his life was turned into a Blue and I already miss his text messages after each game.
It still amazes me how he became so passionate about this Club and I thought this is something I could share with other fans.
Rest in Peace, dad...
I do not want to go into the details of his illness because my post is not supposed to be about that.
As some of you might or might not know, I am German, born in Germany and I lived nearly all my life there until I met my wife about 7 years ago.
She is a proper Blue through and through and so is her familiy so it didn't take long until she turned me into one as well.
My father and my mother welcomed my wife into our family with open arms, especially to my father she was as close to being his daughter as it could have ever been without her actually being his daughter. I know he loved her from all his heart as if she was his own blood.
His love for her turned him into a fanatic Blue as well, which I always thought was quite a feat because he was from Munich and a Bayern Munich fan through and through. Yet these past few years he started watching City play whenever he could on the telly together with my mom and he would always send me a text message with his comments on the game.
I still remember the one he sent me when we beat Chelsea. He asked me "Are City Barca now or something?"
These last few days have been very hard, me and my wife have been visiting him every day at least twice and were talking to him.
He hardly spoke any english at all and did not understand English well either but that did not stop my wife from talking to him when we were there. To her he was like a father as well. She told him about all the things we still wanted to plan with him. Like her taking him to a City match, because he had never been and in turn she always wanted him to take her to a Bayern Munich match as well.
She even told him that she wanted him to see City win the Champions League. I must admit, despite all the grief I felt and still feel, that one made me laugh and I only said he would have to wait a few more years to see that I am afraid.
I guess what I was trying to say is that my dad, in the last years of his life was turned into a Blue and I already miss his text messages after each game.
It still amazes me how he became so passionate about this Club and I thought this is something I could share with other fans.
Rest in Peace, dad...