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Mel Tottoh

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Sadly our Dad Bill Seddon died earlier this week. He'd been a season ticket holder since 1949 and introduced my brother Dave ( of LEP "fame") to the holy ground in 1976 . He always displayed the classic North Ender's combination of optimism and realism . I'm sure his highlights will have been the 64 final and watching Tom Finney play every week. But somehow appropriately for such a long-term fan his last game before illness stopped him going was the crap 4-1 defeat to Hull last season , no going out in a blaze of glory ! We'll miss him
 
Mel Tottoh said:
Sadly our Dad Bill Seddon died earlier this week. He'd been a season ticket holder since 1949 and introduced my brother Dave ( of LEP "fame") to the holy ground in 1976 . He always displayed the classic North Ender's combination of optimism and realism . I'm sure his highlights will have been the 64 final and watching Tom Finney play every week. But somehow appropriately for such a long-term fan his last game before illness stopped him going was the crap 4-1 defeat to Hull last season , no going out in a blaze of glory ! We'll miss him
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Sincere condolences to you and your family.
 
Mel Tottoh said:
Sadly our Dad Bill Seddon died earlier this week. He'd been a season ticket holder since 1949 and introduced my brother Dave ( of LEP "fame") to the holy ground in 1976 . He always displayed the classic North Ender's combination of optimism and realism . I'm sure his highlights will have been the 64 final and watching Tom Finney play every week. But somehow appropriately for such a long-term fan his last game before illness stopped him going was the crap 4-1 defeat to Hull last season , no going out in a blaze of glory ! We'll miss him
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Sincere condolences. My dad watched the North End from I suppose the 1930s possibly even the 1920s. He went to the 64 Cup Final - perhaps if your dad did they went on the same train. Like your dad also my dad's last match was a downbeat affair - that 3-0 home defeat to Colchester at the fag end of the Simmo era. My dad left that match at half-time not because he had given up on the team but because he literally no longer had the strength to continue. I suspect that as he made his way by himself from the STFS round the back of the Kop to get a bus back through Holme Slack and Ronaldsway to Brookfield he may well have realised it was the last time he would be at a North End match. But as I said he supported this team in person until he literally no longer had the strength left to do so. He passed from this life a couple of months later at the RPI in the early hours of the Thursday that was the day before the first match of the new AI era. That is why when I made a donation to help create that big banner with loads of names on it during the lockdown the name I chose was not my pseudonym 'ernest' but 'ernest's dad'. If that banner makes an appearance again then that is just a bit of the story behind that particular inscription. But as I said condolences - when you attend matches you will feel that you are somehow keeping your dad alive and that is a consolation.
 
What a wonderful tribute to your father; we are all aware of the hazards of being life long PNE fans, it’s not all rosy but we love it.
God bless you and your family and treasure your wonderful memories.
 
ernest said:
Sincere condolences. My dad watched the North End from I suppose the 1930s possibly even the 1920s. He went to the 64 Cup Final - perhaps if your dad did they went on the same train. Like your dad also my dad's last match was a downbeat affair - that 3-0 home defeat to Colchester at the fag end of the Simmo era. My dad left that match at half-time not because he had given up on the team but because he literally no longer had the strength to continue. I suspect that as he made his way by himself from the STFS round the back of the Kop to get a bus back through Holme Slack and Ronaldsway to Brookfield he may well have realised it was the last time he would be at a North End match. But as I said he supported this team in person until he literally no longer had the strength left to do so. He passed from this life a couple of months later at the RPI in the early hours of the Thursday that was the day before the first match of the new AI era. That is why when I made a donation to help create that big banner with loads of names on it during the lockdown the name I chose was not my pseudonym 'ernest' but 'ernest's dad'. If that banner makes an appearance again then that is just a bit of the story behind that particular inscription. But as I said condolences - when you attend matches you will feel that you are somehow keeping your dad alive and that is a consolation.
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Thank you for your reply to this post it touched me deeply bless you Earnest.
 
Mel Tottoh said:
Sadly our Dad Bill Seddon died earlier this week. He'd been a season ticket holder since 1949 and introduced my brother Dave ( of LEP "fame") to the holy ground in 1976 . He always displayed the classic North Ender's combination of optimism and realism . I'm sure his highlights will have been the 64 final and watching Tom Finney play every week. But somehow appropriately for such a long-term fan his last game before illness stopped him going was the crap 4-1 defeat to Hull last season , no going out in a blaze of glory ! We'll miss him
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Sincere Condolences. RIP
 
Sincere condolences to you and all the family he sounded like a great bloke proper Gentry another one joins the great supporters gone but never forgotten …may he RIP
 
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