retired_Rosangela carv

Not really an "event" as such but Antonio Puerta's death affected me for some reason

retired_paeng2000

In January, standing on a beach in Phuket reading a memorial plaque for those who died in the spot I was standing was a rather sombre thought, other than that I tend to feel nothing as anything I see on the tv just doesn't seen real to me perhaps

retired_butterflyporsha

The only one that I felt emotionally attached to there is rhys jones I think. Only after reading the poem his dad wrote, was very touching.

retired_paeng2000

I was at the petrol station when I read that. I was filling up

Sammy_Koelle

bradford fire at the valley got me big time had only started playing football & it reminded me of things like the ibrox disaster terrible waste of life for sport people love

alidog

9/11 hit me quite hard. I'd been shopping with the Mrs and we popped into a pub in Newcastle for a pint and Neighbours was on the giant projector TV for some reason. That finished, and it cut to the news which was of course the attacks in NY.

So I watched the whole thing on a massive 10 foot projector, we didn't move from there for hours. It was just crazy.

pugsly13

9/11 affected me personally because not only was in the WTC a month before it but my Dad was in America at the time.Tsunami was the same because my Dad and some relations were due to fly out there on New Years Eve.Sort of lucky in a way....

Sporting moments get me going,like Darren Clarke in the Ryder Cup etc.I'll never forget swelling up with tears when I won my very firsy county final after years of heart-break.

pugsly13

Oh yeah I remember watching George Bests funeral when they were removing the coffin from the church and 'You Raise me up' was been played,I was actually overcome with emotion...bit of a wussy

cbhoyhern

The Boxing Day Tsunami did it for me, just sitting at home lounging around then the news hits about what's happened the people just didn't seem to stand a chance.

Also one of my best friends was traveling around Asia at the time, had no clue where he was as no one head heard anything from him for a while.
He was in Sri Lanka at the the time it hit and took it really bad, had all his belongings stolen and said he just didn't have a clue what to do and if he would get home.
He wasn't the same person after he returned home for a long while, but he did set up a few fund raisers etc.

retired_bec8643

Paul Hunter dying would be the main one really, particularly with it being someone in a sport i like dying of Cancer and my uncle who i'm quite close to had just had cancer. Otherwise Ayrton Senna dying after crashing in that race.

Natural disasters and stuff don't seem to affect me really, seems a bit unreal when watching the coverage.