Egg
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I've just got back from the cathedral and thought I'd post a few words for those who would have liked to have been there but, for whatever reason, couldn't be.
Firstly, the turn-out was fantastic - all the more do when you consider the filthy weather in Exeter today - with at least 300 or 400 people, including myself, forced to look on from outside.
I missed the first few minutes of the service on account of the city centre being even more gridlocked than I'd envisaged and parking spaces all but impossible to find. That aside, it was, as you'd expect a moving occasion which concluded with the hymn Jerusalem and then a song by the Foo Fighters as Adam's flower-ladden coffin was placed into the hearse - the cue for two or three minutes of spontaneous applause.
As you might imagine, virtually all the current playing squad seemed to be in attendance but it was also good to see so many of Adam's former teammates - many of who must have travelled a considerable distance - and demonstrated the affection in which so many people, clearly, held him.
Among those I spotted where James Bittner, Jon Challinor, Jake Edwards, Alex Inglethorpe, Gary Johnson, Jamie Mackie, Bary McConnell, George Friend, Dean Moxey, Manny Panther, Danny Potter (not sure he ever played in the same team as Stanno but he was definitely there), Neil Saunders, Terry Skiverton and Danny Woodards, as well as lots of Yeovil players whose faces I recognised but couldn't put a name to.
Firstly, the turn-out was fantastic - all the more do when you consider the filthy weather in Exeter today - with at least 300 or 400 people, including myself, forced to look on from outside.
I missed the first few minutes of the service on account of the city centre being even more gridlocked than I'd envisaged and parking spaces all but impossible to find. That aside, it was, as you'd expect a moving occasion which concluded with the hymn Jerusalem and then a song by the Foo Fighters as Adam's flower-ladden coffin was placed into the hearse - the cue for two or three minutes of spontaneous applause.
As you might imagine, virtually all the current playing squad seemed to be in attendance but it was also good to see so many of Adam's former teammates - many of who must have travelled a considerable distance - and demonstrated the affection in which so many people, clearly, held him.
Among those I spotted where James Bittner, Jon Challinor, Jake Edwards, Alex Inglethorpe, Gary Johnson, Jamie Mackie, Bary McConnell, George Friend, Dean Moxey, Manny Panther, Danny Potter (not sure he ever played in the same team as Stanno but he was definitely there), Neil Saunders, Terry Skiverton and Danny Woodards, as well as lots of Yeovil players whose faces I recognised but couldn't put a name to.
