Football striker, 27 croaks after suffering a fatal stroke caused by too many headers

[Meatpie]

A football club captain died aged 27 after he suffered a fatal stroke triggered by heading the ball too often.

'Talented' striker Bryan Herbert was a hero among his teammates for his prolific scoresheet and 'man of the match awards'.

But he collapsed just hours after setting up a match-winning goal for his team - Bacup Borough Football Club in Bacup, Lancashire - and died in hospital eight weeks later.

An inquest was told a blood clot on his brain had been caused by footballs regularly clashing with his skull as he went in for headers, which in turn caused the fatal stroke.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-suffering-fatal-stroke-caused-headers.html

 

[ukon]

Handsome guy, very unlucky though. Thanks

 

[laserdude]

Sad to see this kind of thing happen to ppl with such talent and drive!! However would love to have seen the autopsy! Decent looking guy!

 

[Mattai]

Jeez, he was HAWT. Whatta waste. Hope he was a good scorer, though... give one (big) one up for the team, as they say.

 

[badjohnny25]

pretty good looking dude!

 

[Doc]

Too bad that we can't get legislation that all athletes under 50 must have filmed and photographed autopsies which would be reviewed by this site

 

[djbear]

Bacup is a town where some of my ancestors came from. Wonder if he is related in any way as it is not a large place.