Hello.
I've never been on here before but same as you, was one of Benny's friends from a non-football walk of life and knew he spent a lot of time on here.
I just wanted to thank all of you for the fantastic messages of support on here. It's amazing to see how many people loved him and will miss him. People that knew him so well even thought they'd never met him.
I think it helps to write about how your feeling at time like this. Same as most people on here I've been going through phases of anger and just questioning why... asking why the hell he didn't talk to us, why he didn't mention something in the pub on Friday afternoon, when we were drinking and laughing. Why didn't he just say something one of the times when I hugged him and WHY...
I'm sure anyone who knew him would have dropped everything and rushed to do anything for a man that everyone agrees was probably one of the nicest people you could ever meet. An intelligent, funny, thoughtful, selfless person. And one who was great to be around
I love the posts - the old pictures he posted, the cowboy boots and especially the graph of bennylove ratio
it makes me smile to see he had so many friends that loved him so much.
We were in the process of making him a leaving book for his move to the isle of man. Various pictures of him in hilarious situations and some great ones of his birthday / GlastonBenny round at his house. This leaving book seems even more apt now and we're going to continue with it. I love the tribute ideas of something at Man City as well and I know he would have loved that.
I'm glad that my last memory of Dave is him laughing and joking and generally being dave in the 4 in hand on Friday. That memory will stay with me forever.
I had probably known him for only 12 months but spent many weekends at his house or him round at ours. I'll miss him a lot. I hope he's happy and smiling and peaceful and I hope one day I'll see him again.
Mark