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Adam Virgo



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From Today's Western Daily Press

Being released by Bristol Rovers on 31 July due to persistent knee problems. Hope you get something sorted out for next season Adam. Gave great value to the Albion in many ways.
 








SULLY COULDNT SHOOT

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Sep 28, 2004
11,283
Izmir, Southern Turkey
Whitehawk will need him... Matt Lawrence has retired I believe.

Take that back..... contract verbally agreed... still a back two of Virgo and Lawrence woudl be slow but effective at this level and Branco has supposedly been on fire as right back if they can get him back.
 
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dougdeep

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May 9, 2004
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Cue play-off goal. :smile:
 




Munkfish

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May 1, 2006
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I saw him in the station pub in Hove last Wednesday. Looked like he had been training or working out.

Hope he finds a new deal, great piece on him on here a couple of weeks back, hadnt realised what the bloke had been through.
 




hans kraay fan club

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I saw him in the station pub in Hove last Wednesday. Looked like he had been training or working out.

Hope he finds a new deal, great piece on him on here a couple of weeks back, hadnt realised what the bloke had been through.

Same here. I knew some of it, but not quite to the extent to which the poor guy has had it tough.

I remember a few years back, when I was organising the REMF / NSC 6-a-side football tournament (RIP), I wrote speculatively to about 20 people begging for raffle prizes - either at the club, or former players. Virgo's letter was sent to 'Adam Virgo, c/o Celtic Football Club...' I didn't expect it to ever reach him.

Three days later I got a phone call from him on my mobile, and two days after that, one of his Celtic shirts, signed, in the post. Reading that article the other week, I realised that at that time, when he went to the trouble of bothering to repsond to my begging letter, was when he was actually going through all manner of shit in his own life.

Then, on the day of the 5-a-side itself, he turned up in Preston Park to watch for a bit, with his scary little dog.

Top bloke. Wish him absolutely all the best luck in the world.
 




Mo Gosfield

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Didn't see the previous detail re Adam......without wishing to go over old ground, could someone give me a very brief resume of his problems.
 




Munkfish

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Same here. I knew some of it, but not quite to the extent to which the poor guy has had it tough.

I remember a few years back, when I was organising the REMF / NSC 6-a-side football tournament (RIP), I wrote speculatively to about 20 people begging for raffle prizes - either at the club, or former players. Virgo's letter was sent to 'Adam Virgo, c/o Celtic Football Club...' I didn't expect it to ever reach him.

Three days later I got a phone call from him on my mobile, and two days after that, one of his Celtic shirts, signed, in the post. Reading that article the other week, I realised that at that time, when he went to the trouble of bothering to repsond to my begging letter, was when he was actually going through all manner of shit in his own life.

Then, on the day of the 5-a-side itself, he turned up in Preston Park to watch for a bit, with his scary little dog.

Top bloke. Wish him absolutely all the best luck in the world.

What a decent guy...

Wish him all the best, he would be another ex player id like to see back at the AMEX, do they still get old players back at half time?
 


hans kraay fan club

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Didn't see the previous detail re Adam......without wishing to go over old ground, could someone give me a very brief resume of his problems.

He lost both his parents in a short space of time, in pretty horrible circumstances.
 


Oscar

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Nov 10, 2003
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Same here. I knew some of it, but not quite to the extent to which the poor guy has had it tough.

I remember a few years back, when I was organising the REMF / NSC 6-a-side football tournament (RIP), I wrote speculatively to about 20 people begging for raffle prizes - either at the club, or former players. Virgo's letter was sent to 'Adam Virgo, c/o Celtic Football Club...' I didn't expect it to ever reach him.

Three days later I got a phone call from him on my mobile, and two days after that, one of his Celtic shirts, signed, in the post. Reading that article the other week, I realised that at that time, when he went to the trouble of bothering to repsond to my begging letter, was when he was actually going through all manner of shit in his own life.

Then, on the day of the 5-a-side itself, he turned up in Preston Park to watch for a bit, with his scary little dog.

Top bloke. Wish him absolutely all the best luck in the world.

That's so nice to hear.

I really hope he gets himself sorted for the new season.
 






dejavuatbtn

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Aug 4, 2010
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Henfield
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Virgs really is a top bloke - the sort our community club used to be all about.
 


Rodney Thomas

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Same here. I knew some of it, but not quite to the extent to which the poor guy has had it tough.

I remember a few years back, when I was organising the REMF / NSC 6-a-side football tournament (RIP), I wrote speculatively to about 20 people begging for raffle prizes - either at the club, or former players. Virgo's letter was sent to 'Adam Virgo, c/o Celtic Football Club...' I didn't expect it to ever reach him.

Three days later I got a phone call from him on my mobile, and two days after that, one of his Celtic shirts, signed, in the post. Reading that article the other week, I realised that at that time, when he went to the trouble of bothering to repsond to my begging letter, was when he was actually going through all manner of shit in his own life.

Then, on the day of the 5-a-side itself, he turned up in Preston Park to watch for a bit, with his scary little dog.

Top bloke. Wish him absolutely all the best luck in the world.

What article was that? Could you post the link?
 








Bald Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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London
What a decent guy...

Wish him all the best, he would be another ex player id like to see back at the AMEX, do they still get old players back at half time?

He was going to come on at half-time of the play-off second leg but was out of the country
 



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