Geoff Capes

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  1. kir

    kirky boy Well-Known Member

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    Sadly passed away today, always a hero.
     
    kirky boy, Oct 23, 2024
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    RIP sir. Loved watching his sporting achievements and worlds strongest man.
     
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    RIP Geoff he knew my Uncle Reg who was big in the budgie breeding world , really nice bloke apparently
     
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    Forgot about his Budgie breeding. I suppose the epitome of a gentle giant.
     
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    RIP Geoff.
     
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    Another one gone from childhood days, RIP Geoff.
     
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    I was too young to see him shot putting at the Olympics but I remember him winning World's Strongest Man and Europe's Strongest Man competitions when I was a young 'un in the early 80s. R.I.P. Big Fella.
     
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    So so sad … he was a household name all those years ago … a super star in deed
     
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    A lej of the Strongest Man comps from the 70s and 80s when I was growing up. Like Daley, he had his own computer game (not quite as successful as DTs Decathlon mind).

    RIP Geoff.
     
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    Reight lad was Geoff.. there was a bobby at Oakwell that we used to call by the same name. He wasn't as big, but seemed to love a tear up on the Spion Kop.
    Once saw him haul out two fans at the same time lol
     
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    Aww wow, big Geoff ehh!. :oops:
    He was the original and best wasn't he, when it came to the worlds best and strongest.
    Wasn't there even a video game about him, called Geoff Capes Strongman (similar to Daley Thompson's Decathlon, which meant a lot of fierce joystick thrashing!).
     
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    RIP Geoff. Keep finding myself saying this, but another piece of my childhood gone.

    Geoff was a proper TV celebrity back in the day wasn’t he? Very popular bloke.
     
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    Think his name was Eddy used to live in Staincross Wuz
     
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    Was one of my boyhood heroes, R,I,P, Condolences to all involved.
     
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