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Would imagine most on here will have had their lives affected by this horrible condition and will know how harrowing it can be. Times like this require football rivalries to be put aside and wish him and his family nothing but the best.
Crap news that, a cracking player in his day and always seems good lad whose game for a laugh when been on telly, all the best going forward Deano pal.
Awful news . Gutted for Dean and Josh and family. Rivalry aside its horrible. My dad was diagnosed with alzheimers 6 years ago at 65. Some say its down to lifestyle but he was fit as a fiddle a chef and always ate pretty healthily (Used to cook breakfast the reds squad in Ardsley House back in the day) Never smoked or did drugs and had a beer every now and again. He is in a care home at 72, bed bound and doesnt know whp we are. To be fair im used to it now but i still get upset everytime i leave the care home. Wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy. He was a top dad who took me to oakwell for 1st time in 1980 wen i were 5. He loved the reds. Love ya dad.
Very worrying news but I feel it only right to state that he has been ‘diagnosed’ with stage two dementia - this is the stage with minor memory loss and too early to actually make a proper dementia diagnosis, is defined as very mild cognitive decline and not clinically discernible from ‘normal’ age related memory loss. It isn’t promising that he’s been told this in his mid-fifties. But he hasn’t been told he has vascular dementia, early onset Alzheimer’s etc. Here’s hoping he never does.
Really sad news, loved Windass one of those players you'd want at your club, remember him playing for Bradford at Oakwell in their promotion season he got some right stick from the Ponty but took it all in the right way for what it was. Best wishes Deano
Felt quite sad reading it. Unfortunately I was on the train back to Hull (via Sheffield) when they beat us at Wembley. Full of Wednesday fans and three of us were sat in one carriage full of their fans. I actually believe we were the only ones. He was stood at the front of the carriage singing a song loud and proud, the same one he was singing today on Twitter. Livened it all up as weirdly the Wednesday fans were alright but quiet. I’m not a massive fan of the fella at all but his goal at Wembley for Hull and that time he scored with his first touch at Oakwell on a Monday night for Hull when they all but got promoted is what I remember him for. Dementia is an awful disease.
Used to love playing the panto villan playing up to the you fat ******* chant putting the ball up his shirt. Awful disease. Thankfully medical Science seems to be getting better at dealing with it.
The day after Hull played at Man U when they were in the PL, his youngest (Jordan) played for Menston U12s against my lads Bingley U12s. Dean was there in his tracksuit and wellies and was great with all the parents and was SO enthusiastic it was unreal. Especially given the comparison of the surroundings he had been in the day before. He literally never shut up from start to finish, pointing, running the line, gesturing. He ribbed me mercilessly for getting stuck getting over a fence to get the ball. A proper football man. Tom scored one of Bingley s 2 goals that day, Jordan scored about 7 of Menston's. Different class. About 12 months or so later, my best mate was going through a divorce and commuting back from Otley called in for a sneaky pint at the Fox in Menston. A large pub, Paul ordered a pint and took a table thinking he was the only client,when out popped Windass from the bogs, walked over to Paul and said shift, that's my table. And my other chuckle story of Windass (could nearly have been a sad one) was when he described trying to end it all on his darker times. Cut the rope to hang himself from his bannister, but cut the rope 2ft to long instead of 2ft too short. Jumped and broke his ankle. Sorry if this post is a Windass.
A terrible shame. His under the coach episode was fantastic as well as the stories others tell about him.
A good lad is Dean. I have had the pleasure of playing football with him. He rolled up vaguely apologetic at half time after (arguably still on) a heavy night out post one of his ‘soccer Saturdays’ and asked us what the score was: ‘er we’re 5 nil down Dean’ . He then bowled over to the keeper and had a £20 bet with him that he’d score a Hatrick, which he did…and we won 6-5. He was ridiculously good. Best wishes to him and all his family.
I remember that game well because of him continually talking to the crowd lower east stand. None of it was negative just funny made me and my lads day. I wish him nothing but the best.
