Cheers, interesting. Not natural causes though. How can you die in a Range Rover in Cheshire? Presumably doing a tad more than the speed limit?
There were tributes from across football for the former Aston Villa and Bolton Wanderers defender Jlloyd Samuel who was killed in a car crash in Cheshire on Tuesday at the age of 37.
The former Trinidad and Tobago international, who retired after a period playing professionally in the Iranian Pro League, was killed in an accident in High Legh near Lymm where he lived with his wife Emma and his three children Javarne, Lakyle and Amara. His Range Rover was in a collision with a van and Samuel was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Cheshire Police said that the van driver, a 54-year-old man, was taken to hospital for treatment to serious injuries. Samuel had been player and coach at the local non-league side Egerton FC in League One of the Cheshire Football League along with his friend Nathan Ellington, formerly of Wigan Athletic among others.
Samuel said last year that he was enjoying just playing and coaching after a long and successful professional career in which he made 219 Premier League appearances and was capped by Trinidad and Tobago, the country of his birth. His son Lakyle is understood to be at the Emirates Marketing Project academy, also attended by the son of Samuel’s friend Emile Heskey.
The pundit Robbie Savage is the Under-12s coach at Egerton and Samuel used his contacts to persuade other famous former professionals to play, including Danny Webber, once of Manchester United and Watford, and Emmerson Boyce with whom he played at Wigan.