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Gloucester Saint

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2 minutes ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

Killed alongside his brother and 2 weeks after he got married. You just never know what's in store, do you. Make the most of each day. Their poor families. RIP.

Three kids. Terrible. 

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goodymatt

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12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Fuck Off mate, is that really all you've got to say? Apart from anything else it is spelt right anyway, prick

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/07/03/diogo-jota-dies-car-crash-liverpool/

 

I had already posted my response to this tragic news in one of the other threads before you even made this thread, so don’t try and paint me as something I am not. The thread title was originally ‘Diego’, I thought it is only respectful to spell his name right, that is all.

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Turkish

Turkish

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2 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

I had already posted my response to this tragic news in one of the other threads before you even made this thread, so don’t try and paint me as something I am not. 

why even say anything then? I didn't paint you as anything you did that yourself. 

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goodymatt

goodymatt

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Just now, Turkish said:

why even say anything then? 

I just think it is respectful to spell his name right. I do apologise if it came across as insensitive, perhaps I could have gone about requesting that better, so I’ll take that on board.

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Sir Ralph

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This is incredibly sad - young kid with the world at his feet, just married and three kids. Bang then it’s gone.

It certainly should put our day to day woes and quarrels into perspective. Life is precious and so is family. We are lucky.

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Sarnia Cherie

Sarnia Cherie

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17 minutes ago, Turkish said:

reports saying tyre had a blow out and caught fire, bloody hell, you never know whats round the corner do you. 

No you don't and that's a fact. One of my daughters lost a young colleague in the Air India crash. These sudden accidents make you appreciate every day.

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trousers

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Sheesh, that hits hard in the heart. I know it's a cliché but it really does put our day-to-day grumbles into perspective. RIP ❤️

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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9 minutes ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

No you don't and that's a fact. One of my daughters lost a young colleague in the Air India crash. These sudden accidents make you appreciate every day.

Life is transient and fragile and gone before you know it.

Waste not one day!

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JCBSaint

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How terribly sad, thoughts go out to his young family and his brothers next of kin. It’s so true you don’t know what’s around the corner. Put lots into perspective. 

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suewhistle

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I wondered why people were mentioning the word Jota on the P&O thread, and didn't understand.

Now I do and wish I didn't. 28 and three kids, that's so sad.

 

Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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2 hours ago, Turkish said:

reports saying tyre had a blow out and caught fire, bloody hell, you never know whats round the corner do you. 

Me and the missus were in the Brecon Beacons a couple of weeks ago for the day. I had about 100 miles of fuel left and 30 or so left to home.

Normally I’d have carried on and got fuel the next day. This time, I decided to stop at the Shell in Symonds Yat. Whilst filling up I noticed an egg had suddenly appeared on my front offside tyre that wasn’t there when we popped into Abergavenny on the way home. I diverted to the Forest of Dean away from the M50 and by luck found a garage just closing up.

Very kind owner changed to my spare and said to me ‘that’s potentially lethal, you’ve hit a pothole recently and it’s popped the inner in the heat. There’s only the tyre surface between you and the road - that won’t last 30 miles and likely to blow out any moment’. Went onto say at 70mph it would be very difficult to control if it did. Bearing in mind the M50 doesn’t consistently have a hard shoulder….

Wouldn't take payment either - what a gent - but if I hadn’t stopped for fuel I’d never have known I was driving with a lethal fault as the car wasn’t handling any differently. 

 

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goodymatt

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29 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Me and the missus were in the Brecon Beacons a couple of weeks ago for the day. I had about 100 miles of fuel left and 30 or so left to home.

Normally I’d have carried on and got fuel the next day. This time, I decided to stop at the Shell in Symonds Yat. Whilst filling up I noticed an egg had suddenly appeared on my front offside tyre that wasn’t there when we popped into Abergavenny on the way home. I diverted to the Forest of Dean away from the M50 and by luck found a garage just closing up.

Very kind owner changed to my spare and said to me ‘that’s potentially lethal, you’ve hit a pothole recently and it’s popped the inner in the heat. There’s only the tyre surface between you and the road - that won’t last 30 miles and likely to blow out any moment’. Went onto say at 70mph it would be very difficult to control if it did. Bearing in mind the M50 doesn’t consistently have a hard shoulder….

Wouldn't take payment either - what a gent - but if I hadn’t stopped for fuel I’d never have known I was driving with a lethal fault as the car wasn’t handling any differently. 

 

That’s a scary story, thankfully you decided to stop and noticed it! 

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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10 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

That’s a scary story, thankfully you decided to stop and noticed it! 

That’s not to say it would’ve had the tragic outcome as this, but it was a distinct possibility. If anyone sees similar changes in their own tyres on a journey, I’d strongly advise stopping and at least coming off higher speed roads and finding the nearest garage or outlet.

If at night and not confident changing to the spare yourself (we wouldn’t have been tbh) then your breakdown provider should normally be able do it depending on your policy type.

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Marsdinho

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Slightly of topic. I had a blown rear right tyre at about 80mph on the way to the league cup final in 2017, I was in the outside lane when it went, and trying to control the car across 3 lanes of traffic was scary. As there was no hard shoulder on the M3, we had to try and change the tyre whilst HGV's were about a foot away from me as I was trying to get the wheel off. Mate of mine was 100m down the road waving a high vis to try and get vehicles to move over.

Eventually, we realised that someone must have stopped the traffic as both sides of the motorway were completely free of any vehicles. About 5 mins after noticing this, a police rolling road block came over the hill with a load of traffic behind it (loads of saints fans in minibuses etc)

Police gave us an escort to the next recovery area where we waited for the recovery vehicle. 

So if you were held up in traffic that day, it was because of my blown tyre. 

Drove the rest of the way there, and all the way back on one of those temp tyres you are only supposed to do minimum miles on at 30mph.

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Gloucester Saint

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6 minutes ago, Marsdinho said:

Slightly of topic. I had a blown rear right tyre at about 80mph on the way to the league cup final in 2017, I was in the outside lane when it went, and trying to control the car across 3 lanes of traffic was scary. As there was no hard shoulder on the M3, we had to try and change the tyre whilst HGV's were about a foot away from me as I was trying to get the wheel off. Mate of mine was 100m down the road waving a high vis to try and get vehicles to move over.

Eventually, we realised that someone must have stopped the traffic as both sides of the motorway were completely free of any vehicles. About 5 mins after noticing this, a police rolling road block came over the hill with a load of traffic behind it (loads of saints fans in minibuses etc)

Police gave us an escort to the next recovery area where we waited for the recovery vehicle. 

So if you were held up in traffic that day, it was because of my blown tyre. 

Drove the rest of the way there, and all the way back on one of those temp tyres you are only supposed to do minimum miles on at 30mph.

Very glad to hear it ended safely but petrifying at the time I bet.

On a related note I’m always surprised to see drivers sometimes doing 65-70mph on their spare, the garage owner asked me to do no more than 40mph, 45mph at the most. Took the Gloucestershire backroads home but realise not always possible on some journeys. 

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Whitey Grandad

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38 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

That’s not to say it would’ve had the tragic outcome as this, but it was a distinct possibility. If anyone sees similar changes in their own tyres on a journey, I’d strongly advise stopping and at least coming off higher speed roads and finding the nearest garage or outlet.

If at night and not confident changing to the spare yourself (we wouldn’t have been tbh) then your breakdown provider should normally be able do it depending on your policy type.

No time spent on checking is ever wasted. 

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tdmickey3

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11 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

I regularly check my tyre pressures but when I mentioned it to my fellow engineers most of them said they get checked when it's serviced so don't bother!

Lot of cars have tyre monitoring systems now

 

Saint Scott

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Such sad news. He'd had a fantastic summer too winning the PL, winning the nations league and getting married only a couple of weeks ago.

Thoughts are with his young family and friends. RIP Diogo and Andre

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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45 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Lot of cars have tyre monitoring systems now

 

Not good enough. They only check pressures and not condition. 

Typically they come free with the ABS and compare the rotational speed of wheels on the same axis. Any significant difference is due to a different rolling radius.

Tyres, brakes and suspension.  Don't take risks with any of them. 

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Sunglasses Ron

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4 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Me and the missus were in the Brecon Beacons a couple of weeks ago for the day. I had about 100 miles of fuel left and 30 or so left to home.

Normally I’d have carried on and got fuel the next day. This time, I decided to stop at the Shell in Symonds Yat. Whilst filling up I noticed an egg had suddenly appeared on my front offside tyre that wasn’t there when we popped into Abergavenny on the way home. I diverted to the Forest of Dean away from the M50 and by luck found a garage just closing up.

Very kind owner changed to my spare and said to me ‘that’s potentially lethal, you’ve hit a pothole recently and it’s popped the inner in the heat. There’s only the tyre surface between you and the road - that won’t last 30 miles and likely to blow out any moment’. Went onto say at 70mph it would be very difficult to control if it did. Bearing in mind the M50 doesn’t consistently have a hard shoulder….

Wouldn't take payment either - what a gent - but if I hadn’t stopped for fuel I’d never have known I was driving with a lethal fault as the car wasn’t handling any differently. 

 

Nice story.

Absolutely hate it when tragic things like this happen, but it's always good if it helps shine a light on an important topic.

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S-Clarke

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2 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Lot of cars have tyre monitoring systems now

 

And that has created a very lazy generation of motorists I think, sitting and waiting for their car to tell them if something is wrong.

I think everyone should do at least a visual check every few weeks, maybe check pressures every month. Tech is great and all, but use it as a guide and not an absolute - it's a bit complacent to sit and rely on it (it's like waiting for the oil light to come on until you top up).

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S-Clarke

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Saw this on Twitter, felt poignant and shows how quickly life can take you from a high, to the worst of lows.

May - Won the PL with Liverpool

1st Half of June - Won the Nations League with Portugal

2nd Half of June - Got Married

July - Passed away.

Life is just fragile, take every day as it comes and make the absolute most of it. You just never know.

 

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Golac's Cunning Stunts

Golac's Cunning Stunts

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5 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Apparently he was advised not to fly after surgery so they were off to catch the ferry but as we know a dodgy pilot and plane ...

 

Fate. It never ceases to make me wonder. A niggling injury leads to a small op which leads to him driving to England rather than flying which leads to the car crash. 

you can only connect the dots looking back. 

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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11 minutes ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

Fate. It never ceases to make me wonder. A niggling injury leads to a small op which leads to him driving to England rather than flying which leads to the car crash. 

you can only connect the dots looking back. 

He was overtaking at the time apparently. 

Crab Lungs

Crab Lungs

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8 hours ago, goodymatt said:

I had already posted my response to this tragic news in one of the other threads before you even made this thread, so don’t try and paint me as something I am not. The thread title was originally ‘Diego’, I thought it is only respectful to spell his name right, that is all.

Yes, right now is definitely time for pedantry and semantics over spelling or typo.

My word.

Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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3 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Not good enough. They only check pressures and not condition. 

Typically they come free with the ABS and compare the rotational speed of wheels on the same axis. Any significant difference is due to a different rolling radius.

Tyres, brakes and suspension.  Don't take risks with any of them. 

I only had all 4 changed a few months ago and done average mileage, recent service. The state of the roads is a real issue in rural areas some A roads, even the M5 has a stretch in South Worcestershire which is quite pitted and the M50 although that gets less volume.

The mobile tyre firm around here came out on the Sunday to fit my new one, checked the other three which are in very good shape, but said they’re incredibly busy because of people hitting potholes as hard as you try to avoid, you can’t all of the time. Also, a HGV had shed a tyre this week on the M5 which I managed to swerve but could have caused something like this tragic situation in N Spain. 

Ironically, minor surgery caused Jota to drive as they advised against flying so as not to set back healing time…he normally flies back for pre-season.

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