'A man of principle who engendered huge affection'

Death

Gary Speed ??at 42 joined the football world in a state of shock, amazement and disbelief

One by one, left the microphone or the phone, speaking from their homes or in the form of a game, to talk about Gary Speed. Voice reinforced with shock, amazement, disbelief.

voices of men in football.

The men who had played with him, men who had played for him. Men with nothing but good to say about a player whose career was a great honor and affection generated enormous interrupted by what appears now, in light of reports Sunday that the rate had committed suicide, being the lesser of disappointments. Men who, like the rest of the football nation, had heard on Saturday at noon to chat about football orientation Gary McAllister, Leeds United teammate old, seems quite content with life, work and the world.

the most sound of all the tributes from Howard Wilkinson, the former Leeds manager, who had been in the United first team to 19. "He had to wait for a successful life," Wilkinson told Radio 5 Live, his voice dull with pain and misunderstanding.

was not only to other professionals in the game that has come to pay their taxes. There was a real pain in the words of young women who use social media to see how, as the girls, who had put their poster on the wall of his room. For him, it was like a football player attractive in every sense, as the game has produced modern English, and one of the most effective and admirable.

There will be no doubt that Gary Speed ??was a man of football excellence. A 22-year career in professional football, with five more floors of clubs in England. About 700 appearances - 535 of them in the Premier League - Leeds, Everton, Newcastle United, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield United in the league, each has earned the respect and reverence. Eighty-five selections in Wales, usually working against all odds. Medal league championship. Two FA Cup finals. The decision to retire last year to 40. An MBE for services to football, followed by the manager's job at Sheffield United and Wales.

• In the old days was called the left half. In the modern world was a midfielder capable of covering a variety of functions, with a special gift for turning up, as a Welshman Martin Peters, in space and without notice to end a decisive action with shot or a header seemed almost too powerful to build one of his films.
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• midfielder Leeds in 1991-1992, of all British - two Scottish, one English and one Welsh - that feeds on the team that won the First Division Championship the last year before the Premier League is the unit that is identified more clearly, play hard wing of Gordon Strachan, football radar McAllister, David Batty Ball winner youth and high speed integrated dynamic champion who came to the age of 22. They met last week in a 20th anniversary dinner.

Speculation on the cause of death rate on the morning of Sunday seemed intrusive. Knowledge speaks of his wife Louise and their two young children. Michael Owen, a close neighbor and former rival of Merseyside, Twitter: "We are excited to another, one day leave our children to school." Here, apparently, was an absolute proof that the public image of someone, no matter how famous or obscure, is just the tip of his real life. The rest of the iceberg is still unknown to the outside world.

The implication was, could not be for football. Speed ??record established a proof of his natural aptitude for the game, on the one hand and professionalism on the other, the latter is confirmed by a dedication that made him, at the same time, the first player to have scored goals in every season since the inception of the Premier League, and the owner of record for the number of appearances in the competition (the two brands exceeded two later Ryan Giggs and the second by David James). His career as director offered any reasonable hope of similar distinction.

When he accepted the offer of the Football Association of Wales to take over from John Toshack last year, driven by his compatriots Mark Hughes and Robbie Savage, the team was in a terrible state . Over the past 10 months, its lowest level against the back of FIFA, 117th in the top 50, with victories in four of their last five games.
His most recent success, earlier this month was a resounding 4-1 defeat of Norway confidence in Cardiff, opening goals from Gareth Bale and Craig Bellamy, players who seemed to symbolize rate success in the promise of youth mixed with the best experienced players available. On the basis of a core of young players who had worked together in an excellent Brian Flynn under 21 side, had laid the groundwork for a future in which a team led by Aaron Ramsey of Arsenal - who made the captain 20 - can look forward to upcoming games in 2014 World Cup rankings with a more justified optimism that the whole team for Wales had dared to take decades.

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