Rushden and Diamonds Keeper

[TheWestwayWonder]

Rushden and Diamonds keeper Dale Roberts has passed away at age 24.

Details are scant on the web and R&D have cancelled their next game out of respect. RIP to him and condolences to his family :( Just so tragic to hear about someone so young passing.

Edited December 15, 2010 by TheWestwayWonder

[BLUENUT]

Rushden and Diamonds keeper Dale Roberts has passed away at age 24.

Details are scant on the web and R&D have cancelled their next game out of respect. RIP to him and condolences to his family :( Just so tragic to hear about someone so young passing.

RIP

Apparently suicide after his fiance had an affair with JT's brother - oh dear!

[bluegraham]

hope thats not true about jts brother. very sad news a young man to take hes own life very sad indeed rip

[TheWestwayWonder]

I didnt wanna say that, because there was also speculation it was related to an auto accident. But I have seen it written around the web.

Dear and merciful god, how i hope its not true. Hearing about this news, and specifically that theory, really shook me to my core last night. Its the kind of thing that, though you dont know them, you can stop thinking about it.

[TheWestwayWonder]

Losing a life before its time is tragic no matter which way it happens. But to hear about someone taking their own life when so much of it was left to be lived is just..............

Just please god i hope it wasnt over that.

[ethicalstrategy]

RIP

Apparently suicide after his fiance had an affair with JT's brother - oh dear!

Yep. Someone who works for me is a Darlington fan and he just told me the same thing off the Darlington forums. Expecting a big press backlash along the lines of "Terry responsible for death"

I can hear the tabloid typewriters warming up as we speak.

Edit:

Darlington is relevant because Paul Terry plays for them (well, he would if wasn't injured for the season). Just in case anyone didn't know that. (which was me until about 30 mins ago!)

Edit again:

It's started. Daily Mail

[PloKoon13]

RIP - absolutely horrible situation. I at least hope the lad has found some peace.

Look at the Mail doing everything they can to associate JT with this. Pictures of them together, pictures of Wayne Bridge, "His fling mirrors that of John's alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel, ex-girlfriend of the star's England colleague Wayne Bridge". They're an absolute abomination to our species, using an event as tragic as this to try and publicly tag an unrelated person who they happen not to like. A young man is dead. Is this situation not horrible enough already?

[Mod]

Totally Agree Plokoon! Truly disgusting from the media!

RIP Dale Roberts

[Mod]

Is there any idea who wrote that article on The Fail? Others will now follow suit. Just watch!

[gojo_ed]

Tragic story. But the Daily Mail is f**king outrageous. They're making it seem like the Terrys are the only ever people who have ever committed adultery.

RIP to Roberts

[Arq]

Tragic. RIP Dale Roberts.

[geezer]

I live just three miles away from the R&D football ground. People round here are in shock at what has happened especially as many of them have strong links with the club (many of them funded the club to keep it going by re-mortgaging their own houses after Max Griggs left the club). A truly tragic event and despite the pleas by Dale's own family to be allowed to grieve in private the media feel the need to sensationalise the whole event. Scum of the lowest order.

[mad_mac]

Shocking news, I really hope that the press will allow the family come privacy, but there are two chances of that happening.

24 is such a young age, and such a tradgedy that heartbreak lead to this. The lad had so much to live for!

[TheWestwayWonder]

Sickening sickening stuff. But I have given up saying "they have hit a new low" long ago, because there are apparently no depths too low. Absolute human filth to sell their miserable paper off the back of this poor lad's struggle.

Just do the decent thing and leave his family alone.

Maybe its my past experiences, the holiday time of year, or me just being dramatic, but its a story that just eats away at you inside.

[Zola]

Really sickening stuff

[dkw]

Is there any idea who wrote that article on The Fail? Others will now follow suit. Just watch!

The Star today has a picture of both John and his brother laughing and joking above the headline "Terry bro drives pal to suicide". This really is a new low for the sickening w**kers in the media. Especially as I would put good money on that at least half the people writing about it will have had an affair or have a mate who has.

[Gilvorak]

Roberts' family 'devastated'

(UKPA) – 10 hours ago

The fiancee and parents of a non-League footballer found dead at his home issued statements on Wednesday night speaking of their devastation.

Lindsey Cowan, the fiancee of Rushden and Diamonds goalkeeper Dale Roberts, described the 24-year-old as "my childhood sweetheart and the love of my life". In a separate statement, the footballer's parents, Isabelle and George Roberts, said Lindsey and their son had been very happy together.

In her statement, Miss Cowan said: "We had been together since a young age and I will never get over his death. I can only ask the media to allow me to grieve peacefully and leave me alone at this very, very difficult time."

Mr and Mrs Roberts added: "We are grieving for our wonderful son Dale. We are devastated by his death and we would ask the media to allow us to grieve in private."

Roberts, whose death is not being treated as suspicious by Northamptonshire Police, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Higham Ferrers, near Rushden.

Rushden and Diamonds' FA Trophy replay against Eastwood Town was postponed in the wake of the tragedy and Saturday's Blue Square Premier clash against Eastbourne has also been called off.

It has not yet been revealed how Roberts died, but Northamptonshire Police said it had been notified of his sudden death.

A police spokesman said: "There are no suspicious circumstances in relation to his death and a report is being prepared for the coroner."

In a statement, Rushden and Diamonds chairman Gary Calder said: "It is with great sadness that this afternoon our England-C goalkeeper Dale Roberts passed away, our thoughts and prayers at this time go to his parents, family and friends."

Copyright © 2010 The Press Association. All rights reserved.

If his cause of death hasn't been revealed yet how come all the tabloids are reporting it as a suicide then?

[Zola]

Word gets around?

I'm sure some details will be revealed in a day or two.

Very sad

[BlueNose]

Saw him play quite a few times and he really was good.I hope paul terry's affair had nothing to do with it.

R.I.P

[Scooby Blue]

A truly sad story of a young man with his whole life in front of him. RIP Dale Roberts.

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/217877/John-Terry-s-family-A-Terry-ble-mess

A rather strange article that is purely an attempt to attack JT and his family, however it does include this quote.

This week the parents of Dale Roberts were keen to keep Paul Terry’s name out of the tragedy. “Today we are grieving for our wonderful son Dale,†they said yesterday. “We are devastated by his death.†They insisted that their son and Lindsey Cowan had been very happy together, and said of the alleged affair that it was a “rumour which had no foundationâ€.

I don't want to turn this thread into a 'lets see what rubbish the media are printing', so I'm going to give the article a thread of its own.

[Scooby Blue]

http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/217877/John-Terry-s-family-A-Terry-ble-mess

A rather strange article that is purely an attempt to attack JT and his family.

Friday December 17,2010

By Simon Edge

SECURITY staff at Brooklands Shopping Centre in Surrey, next to the historic motor- racing track, could not believe their eyes. Two middle-aged blonde women were each wheeling a trolley into the car park.

The trolleys were crammed with watches, pet food, flip-flops, ­tracksuits and various other items of food and clothing from Marks & ­Spencer and the adjacent Tesco superstore, to the value of £800. What astonished staff was that the goods clearly hadn’t been paid for but the women were making no attempt to conceal them. They simply wheeled the trolleys to their car and started unloading them.

One of the women was Sue Terry, mother of then England football captain John Terry. Her companion was Sue Poole, whose daughter Toni is better known as long-suffering Mrs John Terry.

The pair of them hailed originally from Essex but had both upshifted to live in neighbouring houses in the heart of Surrey’s footballer belt thanks to the generosity of their £150,000-a-week son and son-in-law.

In other words they were women who wanted for nothing and as they later accepted a police caution for shoplifting on that March afternoon in 2009, they said that they were at a loss to explain what they had done. One of them was reported as saying that she had no idea why she had taken sports gear as she didn’t even like wearing the stuff.

But as news breaks of the latest scandal involving a member of the Terry family – goalkeeper Dale ­Roberts hanged himself after his fiancée had an affair with John’s elder brother Paul – an acquaintance of the Chelsea captain has an explanation of his own. “The Terrys are a bad lot,†he says grimly.

Roberts, 24, who once played in goal for Nottingham Forest and latterly played with non-league ­Rushden and Diamonds, was found dead on Tuesday at the home he shared with his girlfriend Lindsey Cowan.

The pair had split up earlier this year after she had a fling with 31-year-old Paul Terry, Dale’s Rushden teammate who was staying with the couple. The club was plunged into a ­crisis and fellow players called for Terry, a father of two, to be sacked. Dale Roberts refused to play with him and Paul Terry was event­ually released by the club. He now plays for ­Darlington.

Lindsey moved back in with Roberts and they were trying to pick up their relationship again but he is said never to have got over the betrayal.

The story has eerie echoes of John Terry’s alleged affair with Vanessa Perroncel, the former partner of his England teammate Wayne Bridge. That ­scandal, which the younger and more successful Terry had tried to keep out of the media spotlight by taking out a controversial “super-injunctionâ€, cost him the England captaincy after he was seen to have crossed a ­behavioural line by his fellow players, so ­undermining the team spirit.

And just to add to the sense of Shameless-style dysfunction surrounding the family, this summer the footballers’ father Ted Terry received a six-month suspended sentence, plus 100 hours’ community service, after being caught facilitating a cocaine deal in a wine bar toilet. He only avoided being sent to prison after the judge noted that he had been entrapped by a tabloid journalist.

The Terrys were living on a rough estate in Barking, East London, when 14-year-old John joined the Chelsea youth system in 1994. He made his first-team debut before his 18th birthday and by 21 he was being tipped as England material. However, there were early signs of how hard he would find it to ­moderate his behaviour once money was no longer an object.

On September 12, 2001, he was one of four young Chelsea players who went on a drinking spree in various bars, including a Heathrow airport hotel where US travellers were watching TV coverage of the previous day’s attacks on the World Trade Center. Their behaviour and swearing ­disgusted patrons and managers alike and they were each fined two weeks’ wages.

Four months later, Terry was involved in a drunken fight with doormen at a club in London’s Knightsbridge and he and two other young players were charged with assault. He admitted throwing a punch but insisted that it was in self-defence and was cleared of all charges.

On his own admission he was badly shaken by the experience - which included spending a night in the cells - but it did not improve his behaviour.

He was thrown out of an Essex nightclub for relieving himself into a beer glass which he then dropped on to the floor. His reluctance to bother with toilet queues was a persistent theme: even when he was England captain, he urinated publicly on the floor of a London club.

He was equally incontinent sexually. He married Toni, mother of his twins, in 2007, but he was strikingly unfaithful even by footballer standards. After one stream of kiss-and-tells he admitted: “I really regret what I’ve done to Toni. I’ve mis­behaved and slept with girls behind her back and that’s not right.â€

H e vowed he wouldn’t do it again but then came a sleazy encounter in the back of his Bentley with a 17-year-old autograph hunter, as well as his alleged dalliance with Perroncel, a French lingerie model.

Even worse for his reputation was his cash deal with a ticket tout, while he was still captain of ­England, to sell tours of Chelsea’s training facility. He demanded £10,000 in £50 notes for behind-the-scenes access not realising that he was the victim of a newspaper sting. His claim that his 80 per cent cut was going to a children’s charity did little to dignify his behaviour.

“On the surface John Terry is smiling and cheerful but underneath there’s an edge to the fella,†says the acquaintance quoted previously. “He’s got a bit of charm but you wouldn’t want to get too close. He gets a look in his eye as if to admit: ‘I’m a bit of a rogue.’ His background is part of it – draw your own conclusions from his mum and dad’s brushes with the law. And if you grow up without much money, you get very anxious about losing it, even if you do earn close to £200,000 a week, what with all his appearance fees and sponsorship deals. He also likes a bet so he knows he could blow it all.â€

Paul Terry, who has had more of a journeyman professional career, earns a fraction of his younger brother’s salary – counted in the hundreds of pounds a week not hundreds of thousands. But his behaviour, starting an affair with his teammate’s fiancée while staying under their roof, seems to be of a kind with the Chelsea captain’s.

As tragic goalkeeper Dale’s father was quoted as saying when the affair first came to light: “They say every family has a black sheep. The Terrys must have a whole flock.â€

This week the parents of Dale Roberts were keen to keep Paul Terry’s name out of the tragedy. “Today we are grieving for our wonderful son Dale,†they said yesterday. “We are devastated by his death.†They insisted that their son and Lindsey Cowan had been very happy together, and said of the alleged affair that it was a “rumour which had no foundationâ€.

In her own carefully worded statement Lindsey said: “Dale was my childhood sweetheart and the love of my life. Recent rumours and allegations about our relationship are without foundation. We had been together since a young age and I will never get over his death.â€

Perhaps the behaviour of Paul Terry really did have nothing to do with this tragic suicide. But his brother’s acquaintance says: “The thing about the Terrys is that when stories like this emerge, no one is surprised. You think: ‘Oh God, here they go again.’ They just can’t keep themselves out of the news. â€

Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/features/view/217877/John-Terry-s-family-A-Terry-ble-messJohn-Terry-s-family-A-Terry-ble-mess#ixzz18LFjbkQJ

Any reason to rake up the past it seems. The reason this article has been written is truly disgusting, surely an all time low by the English media.

[dkw]

It really is sickening seeing the press using this as a stick to beat the Terrys, shows just how low they will go for a story.

[Hutch]

These kind of stories say as much about the people who buy the rags in question as the actual so-called newspapers. Look at the comments on the Mail article, the highest rated are the most condemnatory of JT and his family, the worst rated the ones that try to add a little common sense to the "debate". And you can bet your life that it'll be a similar pattern in all the other rags. Sad waste of a life but to blame Paul Terry for the bloke's suicide, and to use the tragedy as an excuse to rake up the past is simply malicious.

[Backbiter]

This week the parents of Dale Roberts were keen to keep Paul Terry’s name out of the tragedy. “Today we are grieving for our wonderful son Dale,†they said yesterday. “We are devastated by his death.†They insisted that their son and Lindsey Cowan had been very happy together, and said of the alleged affair that it was a “rumour which had no foundationâ€.

Maybe it's just me, but the parents of Dale Roberts seem to be saying that the affair didn't happen.

It could be me, but the Express appear to be reporting it as fact and blaming Paul Terry for causing their son's suicide.

Or maybe I've got this wrong.

[TheWestwayWonder]

These are the same people that shamelessly chased Diana Spencer and then shamelessly eulogized her when their actions led to her death. These papers will never change until the people buying them are disgusted enough to stop.