#bob willis

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Bob Willis

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[yallmeansall]

all the good country under the sun ☀️

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Bob Willis RIP [30 May 1949 – 3 December 2019]

[gregorygalloway]

James Robert Wills (6 March 1905 – 13 May 1975)

[shannybasar]

Sport is personal

From Daniel Harris’ lovely tribute to cricketer Bob Willis in The Guardian:

Willis’s sad passing reminds us of sport’s true nature. Though we are drawn to it by others, we stay with it because it is us, so entwined with our lives as to be inseparable, a never-ending story that roots us in the past and flings us into the future. Sport is personal and sport is immortal, its song always sung, its deeds forever young.

As a consequence, we build profound relationships with those who bestow it upon us. Over hours, sessions, days, series and seasons, we watch cricketers and broadcasters developing, maturing and ageing. We become familiar with their stylistic quirks and verbal tics, see them in elation and desolation, introduce them to our families. We know them.

Except we don’t know them at all. Anyone who’s lost someone close to them and anyone who’s experienced the awful process of death, of waiting for the breath that doesn’t come, understands the unfathomable finality of it all and how quickly the world moves on. Which is to say that Bob Willis the cricketer and Bob Willis the broadcaster does not constitute Bob Willis the father and Bob Willis the husband, which is to say that when we have feelings thinking about Bob Willis we are having feelings about ourselves: about the passage of time, about how we’ve spent our time, about running out of time. He not busy being born is busy dying.

[gregorygalloway]

James Robert Wills (6 March 1905 – 13 May 1975)

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