Former Ipswich Mayor Roger Fern has died.
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Former Ipswich mayor Roger Fern - who had a huge impact on life in the town over four decades - has died after suffering from cancer for many years.
Mr Fern, who was approaching his 78th birthday, was a headteacher of four primary schools in the Ipswich area and an education advisor for Suffolk County Council before he was elected to the borough council in 2002.
Mr Fern s professional life was devoted to education and he led the transformation of further education in the Ipswich area.
He was also a dedicated campaigner against homelessness - and worked hard to make life easier for those caught up in the spiral of street-drinking and drugs.
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George Sharples Remembered
Goerge Sharples at Goodison Park circa 1961
George Sharples, who passed away on 14 December 2020, aged 77, had been one of nine surviving players to have played a part in Everton’s title-winning season of 1962-63 (the others being Jimmy Gabriel, Mick Meagan, John Morrissey, Derek Temple, Tony Kay, Billy Bingham, Ray Veall and Frank Wignall).
A son of Ellesmere Port, he was born on 20 September 1943 to parents James and Florence who ran a large and successful newsagent business in Overpool. A student at Wirral Grammar School – a rugby-playing establishment – George always had soccer as his first sporting love. He represented Wirral and Cheshire Schoolboys (along with Roy Parnell, who would become a close pal at Everton).
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New Delhi: Facing the Japanese side who came to Bangkok at the back of winning the bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City the first-ever Asian country to win an Olympic medal in football was a herculean task for the Indian football team at the sixth Asian Games in 1970.
But the 20-men India contingent had something else in their mind. Right from goalkeeper Sampath to forward Amar Bahadur, everyone played the game of their lives to earn the title of “best technical side of Asia” from none other than the-then FIFA President Sir Stanley Rous, as recalled by Subhash Bhowmick, and Shyam Thapa. India rode on an Bahadur strike to beat Japan by a solitary goal to garner the bronze.