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This is a bloody shock. Didn’t know he had been unwell. Remember seeing him at the Ashes at Sophia Gardens in 2009, underneath the stand with ear phones in to stop being stopped by everyone.
RIP Mr Willis
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Sad news, I spent a lot of time down st Helen's in the mid to late seventies watching glamorgan as a youngster, I was an avid autograph hunter and i have to say 2 cricketers stand out to me, Derek Randall who came out after stumps sat on the terrace in front of the pavilion and signed autographs for everyone who had qued which was pretty amazing I had never seen anyone do that before and he spoke to all of us, a genuinely nice bloke, and then there is Bob Willis we used to stand in the stairwell in the pavillion if we could get in, and one particular match I was in the stairwell with a few others after stumps and Bob came past I had a no2 crew cut and as he passed me I asked for his autograph he stopped to oblige and then ran his hand over the top of my head he found this very amusing and called over a few of his Warwickshire team mates to do the same, i loved it, he then took my autograph book and took it in the bar and got it signed by all the Warwickshire players who were in there, you can imagine how buzzing I was, when he returned the book he brought a tray over with him loaded with crisps and glasses of lemonade for us, another genuinely nice bloke, memories I've never forgotten. RIP BOB.
RIP like OSJ I remember him having time to chat to us schoolboys, we had a funny discussion about how to get the Chappell Bros out with us insisting that he bowled short at Greg Chappell and Bob pretending that he did not understand what we were talking about.
He kept us going for about 10 minutes saying he could not understand our accents. He then signed all our autographs and shook us all by the hand in turn and thanked us for the fun.
Hadn’t seen any images of him since the seventies. Sad to see Sky clips of him on the news tonight. Wish I hadn’t. It’s nicer to remember people how they were.
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