ernie cooksie memorial thread

[The Mighty Dale]

ernie cooksie memorisl thread the title is supposed to say



i know im a few days late in doing this thread but on the 2nd of july a former rochdale afc player died after a long battle with cancer in the night.
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At the age of 28 he was still very young man who enjoyed playing fooltbal with;
grays athletic,boston united,aldershot town,oldham athletic were he made a name for himself and my beloved rochdale

ernie rest in peace

may you play football up in heaven and play the game you loved and play with a smile


farewell legend of the football league of england.


i know its off topic but i want to get this point out about lower league football as it gets shoved aside most of the time rochdale are one of the only few teams to play at the new wembley at competition leveleven though they lost to local rivals stockport 3-2 they are cleary the team to watch next season

after reading chez thread i beg football fans to go their local club and watch a game to see even lower league football is just as enjoyable as the prem exept if you live in bury(only joking)

[Chez Daja]

I'm not a football fan, but my boyfriend is and he hasn't even heard of that guy.

He mentioned that Rochdale isn't a very good team though, so maybe that's why.

[Martin]

Ernie Cooksey. Yeah I heard about him, I live as TMD would know fairly close to Rochdale. Rochdale are a decent team, but for those who don't know they play in League Two of the Footballing League (The old Div 3) so they won't be that well heard of except locally.

Ernie was a bit of a nomadic player as pointed out, but it was never claimed he was a bad one. He was a player akin to the lower leagues, and spent three years at Rochdale where I believe he was always well-liked. Dying at 28 is too young for anyone though. Cancer is an unrelenting and unforgiving disease, and I still hold out hope for a cure one day.

His first-born child is due to be born in a month. Kind of... well puts things into perspective doesn't it.