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Willie Sinclair Wiki, former Falkirk, Halifax, Huddersfield, Tranmere and Stirling winger, died last year.

 

Initially, I thought he was still in Australia (due to the Wiki profile), but this article - from the Dundee Sunday Post confirmed he was now living in Fife (as of 2017)

 

Scotland's People has this entry. Right age, right middle name and Dunfermline is in Fife. Bingo.

SINCLAIR
WILLIAM MEARNS
89
WRIGHT
M
2023
433 / 451
Dunfermline
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Laurie Adams   Wiki is being shown as having died on this website Watford's where are they now?. As they are pretty thorough and specialist, I'm inclined to believe one of the family would've contacted them direct. I can't find an obit notice but maybe someone can.

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9 hours ago, Octopus of Odstock said:

Laurie Adams   Wiki is being shown as having died on this website Watford's where are they now?. As they are pretty thorough and specialist, I'm inclined to believe one of the family would've contacted them direct. I can't find an obit notice but maybe someone can.

 

Hi all...I'm a Watford fan and confirm that the information on wfc.net is correct.

Laurie passed in April and I visited his widow recently. His son confirmed the date and where he passed. He was the oldest living Watford player at time of death.

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On 10/10/2024 at 01:17, Ulitzer95 said:

@Octopus of Odstock, someone edited the Wiki page of Man Utd's oldest player Joe Lancaster (wiki) this evening to say that he died on 8th October, aged 98.

The IP address looks credible but I'll leave it to you and Hugman's to make enquiries.

Am I really right in thinking he was the 2nd oldest player we had a confirmed living status for, after Graham Bailey (born 1920)? That gap is huge!


Going to call total bullshit on this one OoO to save us searching. The editor in question later reverted his own edit (looks like it was what is known on Wiki as a "test edit"). That and Man Utd would definitely not let 3 weeks pass without knowing that their oldest living player had died.

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Yes, unfortunately Graham passed away on Friday at the age of 104. He was Huddersfield Town's oldest living player and presumably the Football League's as well.

 

I had many chats with Graham over the last three and a half years and was lucky to meet him on a few occasions. It was thanks to this thread that I realised he was still with us and it set me on the path to tracking him down. 

 

RIP Graham.

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36 minutes ago, lsm said:

Yes, unfortunately Graham passed away on Friday at the age of 104. He was Huddersfield Town's oldest living player and presumably the Football League's as well.

 

I had many chats with Graham over the last three and a half years and was lucky to meet him on a few occasions. It was thanks to this thread that I realised he was still with us and it set me on the path to tracking him down. 

 

RIP Graham.

 

Thanks for all your efforts Lee. I'm glad this thread has had benefits to historians or fans, because I guess that was secretly one ambitious aim in that historians of clubs would chip in.

RIP Graham, a long life lived well.

 

Whether this now brings into attention about some of the question marks, the likes of Syd Ward, Eric Hampson, Ted Harding, Eugeniusz Kubicki and Co, as to clubs saying "Our former player is now THE oldest", we shall see.

The oldest that I'm pretty confident still alive is Joe Lancaster. The oldest DEFINITELY alive is Trevor Hitchen.

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