I echo your words 999.To everyone who knows someone with this
truly awful disease.My thoughts and prayers are with you all.
I’ve just seen this in my local paper
One of England’s 1966 World Cup winning stars from Tameside has
revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer for the second time.
Jimmy Armfield, who earned 43 caps, was part of the Three Lions
squad who were crowned world champions for the first and only
time on home soil 50 years ago.
A statue of Jimmy and Tameside’s two other World Cup winners stands
in Ashton-under-Lyne, where fellow 1966 hero Sir Geoff Hurst and
Italy star Simone Perrotta were born.
Armfield, 81, from Denton , is also a legend at Blackpool and
became a successful BBC commentator following his retirement.
However, he revealed on Friday he is battling cancer for the
second time.
A one-club man who made 627 appearances at Bloomfield Road during
a 17-year spell, Jimmy previously received successful
treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2007.
He has not given precise details about his latest illness,
though he says he is undergoing a course of daily
radiotherapy.
And he remains positive about the outcome.
“I think I am now through a lot of the difficult part and it
is nowhere near as evasive as last time,” he told the
Blackpool Gazette.
“I finish the treatment this weekend and the consultant
who I am seeing again seems confident.
“I have had these health issues since the beginning of
September but I am better now than I have been for over a month.
“It is amazing how quickly medicine has moved on and I am thankful for
that. I don’t feel poorly – I can get out and about, go shopping
and go for a walk.”
In June, Jimmy, along with a number of former teammates, helped unveil
a special exhibition at the National Football Museum commemorating
half a century since England’s World Cup win.
Then he said: “Every year all the 66 players have a reunion, and
although every year the worst part is one dropping off, we’ve
all remained friends and that’s so important.”