Back in May my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, and we named him Elliot.
His life was, sadly, a short one. Elliot lived for just thirteen days, having suffered a pre-birth brain hemorrhage that didn’t reveal itself until he was a couple of days old. Our lives won’t ever be the same but he did leave us with some gifts...
One of them was the 4-2 win at OT, which turned out to be the only match we’d ever get to watch together. I held him in my arms for the entire game - his mom had stepped out of the hospital briefly - and cheered with him as the goals tumbled in. What a memory.
Here’s to hoping they can do it again. This fixture will forevermore have a different shine to it for me.
Aw mate, my heart goes out to you and your wife, happy you had those special moments with little Elliot as brief as they were, no one of course will understand your pain but I hope through time that will ease so you can treasure those memories,
I’m sure if Jürgen and the boys had heard of this they would put extra effort in for you, I’m confident though that they won’t need extra motivation to get the job done, we will win today I have absolute no doubts about it at all, and 2-4 will do for me .
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