No idea how it happened at the moment :/
FAW have apparently said that he hung himself.
Only 42
Ah jeeze poor bloke. 🙁
That is crap, RIP and condolances to family and friends
Jeez. That's awful.
Blimey 🙁
Sure I saw him jogging through Chester just the other day looking a picture of health. Great footballer and seemed to be doing the right things with the Welsh team. RIP Gary.
Tragic.. 🙁
Shocking, he was only on Footy Focus yesterday.
Surely the pressure of being Wales manager can't be that bad?
One of the few modern day footballers I had a lot of respect for. Very sad.
Blimey 😯
RIP
Awful news. It's desperate that someone feels that way and can't see an alternative.
RIP Speedo
Thats awful, to an outsider he seemed to have everything to live for.
Sad sad news
Shocking news.
Sad news.
Terrible news. Great guy.
really feel for his family,news just saying he's left two young boys and his wife, also he was very close to his father, can't comprehend it all when he seemed the guy who had everything. Tragic.
I am not into footy but he was doing wonders with the Welsh team and it is just so sad that a man with a family gets into the situation where he sees the only way out is to end it all.
RIP thoughts go out to his family and friends.
A sad end to a nice bloke.
R.I.P
terrible news. Leeds Legend. RIP & MOT
RIP.
What is the reason?
RIP
He always seemed a consumate professional and a decent guy. Well respected at every club he played for. Tragic.
Sparkle BWFC
TBH not fussed about today's game now. Football pales into insignificance when put into perspective with someone's suffering and personal struggles.
That's just so sad. Always had a lot of respect for Gary.
YNWA.
RIP. he was one of my heroes at Leeds.
Tragic sad news. Wales are on the verge of good things and he leaves a wife and young family. So sad. Something awful must have happnned in his life to trigger this. Condolences to his family. Hopefully the young welsh team can achieve great things in his memory. Rip speedo.
Shocking stuff, hanged apparently 🙁
Very tragic and difficult to understand given the normality of his TV appearance yesterday.
My parents neighbour, whom they'd known for 40 years, took his life a few years ago having spent a very normal evening with them.
I can only assume that once you are in that dark place a clarity mind is achieved that allows you to work to schedule.
God bless and rest in peace, you will be sadly missed, Leeds has lost a son.
RIP. Great footballer, great pro and more importantly a very genuine bloke.
RIP - he was a key member of the last great Leeds United team. So sad especially when he was appearing live on yesterday's Football Focus. A great servant of football. "Marching on Together"
gutted! such a shock
used to see him quite regularly running in huntington and down the grosvenor arms in aldford
one of my fav's at elland road
Terrible shame and completely out of the blue. My SIL knows his wife very well and is in pieces today. Apparently he was out last night so maybe something happened.
I've only bumped into him once at school and he seemed a very nice bloke. Certainly seemed to be doing a good job for Wales as well.
Bestbwishes can't help him now but I wish his wife and kids all the very best.
Obviuosly something very traumatic was happening in his life or was about to happen, so sad for his family and freinds, who had no idea of his problems, and have lost a freind or relative.
Thought I was mistaken when I heard it first on the news whilst driving earlier. Very sad news.
Sad news, always liked him as a player and always came across like a good guy too.
Gary Speed RIP so sad
When the mrs told me earlier I was like who? No dont be silly you've got the wrong name!! So so shocked, very very sad. No matter who you are, what you do or how bad things are, to leave two young boys fatherless is a very very sad thing!
RIP, one of the gentleman of the game, both on field and off field.
Once a Blade, always a Blade...
Ran rings round younger players just a couple of years ago.
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I'm not in the slightest bit a football fan, but that is shocking news.
Horrible for the family he leaves behind.
I'm more upset about this than I would have imagined.
What a terrible way to go.
Can't imagine how dark a mind must be to do that when you have a wife and kids and all the respect you could possibly want...poor bloke (and family)
RIP
Really terrible news, how will his poor kids get over this.
found out after a ride this afternoon stunned 🙁
Sad. A great talent and a properly nice bloke.
Thinking of his family at this most difficult time.
He was a very genuine guy. I was walking my punctured bike home a few months ago. A runner stopped and offered to assist me fixing it, or did I want a drink as it was his field I was walking through. It's ok I said I only live a few houses down, I shook his hand and he introduced himself as Gary. I saw him a few times since and he always waved or said hello. I'm not a football fan and didn't realise who he was till I saw his photo on the news last night and it showed his home. Really sad news, he always seemed so happy and was a proper nice bloke from the kind gesture he made.
it's effing unbelievable and upsetting, on saturday I was watching a footie program which he was on, then that on sunday.
I really feel for his family, but if I'm honest more so for his mind.
That's a nice story catflees! The BBC News website is asking for comments "Did you ever meet Gary Speed? Send us your memories using the form below."
You should add your encounter in there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15916756
Blinkin ek.
Not a footy fan at all (not that that makes any diffo in this) It was the fact that he's got a familiy, all the respect of his peers and masses of friends and that he is only 42.
Both MrsBouy and I looked at each other simultaneously when we were in the car and heard this come on the radio.
Yeek.
i thought the spontaneous applause at the swansea v villa game yesterday was very touching and very fitting
Very sadly its now being reported elsewhere that certain papers where lining up an exclusive on him, and he possibly couldnt cope with the news.
Lets hope that those responsible will be heavily fined or closed down and suffer a serious boycott of their titles.
Its just so sad his family have to read the same reports/rumours and will forever have to live with the consequences of what was ongoing.
Very sadly its now being reported elsewhere that certain papers where lining up an exclusive on him, and he possibly couldnt cope with the news.
That was the rumour on Twitter etc yesterday. Others thought it might be speculation, so for now, let's leave that part alone.