r/sportsgossips • u/Outside-Weakness9660 • 1d ago
News Micah Richards learned that his father, Lincoln, had unexpectedly passed away shortly before going live on the BBC for England vs Argentina.
Richards still completed the broadcast, saying his father would have wanted “the show to go on”.
“He was my greatest fan. He barely missed a game my entire life.
He would take me wherever I needed to go as a kid, and he was the proudest parent possible during my professional career.
Dad would’ve wanted the show to go on this evening. And so it did.
My father Lincoln, my hero and inspiration.”
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u/Background-Hope-88 1d ago
condolences to him and the family, hope greater memories of him out weight the grief of his passing.
Big-up Richards Snr and RIP.
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u/Ov3r-_-K1LL 1d ago
Absolute professional. My head would have been all over the place.
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u/kran0503 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe it was somewhat expected. It makes it easier.
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u/reginaphalangejunior 1d ago
Do you mean somewhat expected?
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u/kran0503 1d ago
I did sorry I was using the voice chat thank you
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u/Mikedaddy69 1d ago
Using voice chat to comment on Reddit is amusing to me for some reason
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u/RobertJ93 23h ago
Tbf some people don’t have full use of their hands, finger mobility, or eyesight, so may use voice control to comment and interact with threads.
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u/SpiritualFish8522 20h ago
Fuck profession. If your father dies, you should be back home not doing broadcasts ffs
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u/DemocraticRepOfCongo 19h ago
Thats his choice to make
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u/Desperate_Algae_40 5h ago
Maybe he felt obligated to. But also, I imagine the person was commenting that about the original comment saying what a professional he is by doing the show. It sort of implies that someone else in his shoes would have been less professional/ unprofessional if they didn't do the show.
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u/Section1ne0h4our 1d ago
Micah does a lot too for player morale within the England camp, hopefully those boys, despite losing one of their toughest matches, can rally around Micah as well. What a terrible thing to hear before going on air, and to still be himself as much as he could
But now I recognize why he was a bit stoic than normal, I thought it was the nerves, but damn
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm sorry but I can't understand this obsessive mentality of putting work above everything else to show you're "professional". Your own father died, nobody sensible would blame you for leaving.
This just shines a bad light on people that decide not to be "professional" and take leave due to the same reason.
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u/SporkFanClub 1d ago
People deal with grief differently. His words about his dad aside, I wouldn’t be surprised if he stayed on as a distraction in the immediate moment.
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago
By doing this he is putting pressure on his own colleagues to do the same when that happens to them, this isn't a virtue and it shouldn't be publicly applauded. Take your time, leave, come back when you're ready.
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u/hiphoppsychology 1d ago
He's literally just learned that his father has died. Why should he be considering the impact his response to that news may have on hypothetical future scenarios where a colleagues family member dies and they find out shortly before a broadcast... Lol. He should do whatever he feels appropriate, comfortable with, and will help him through the moment
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u/Hare__Krishna 1d ago
So... you're saying he's not allowed to work his job because of how it might affect others? Ok, so you're the controlling one here, just know that.
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago
Alright buddy, the capitalist world applauds your shilling lmao
You people are the worse.
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u/Hare__Krishna 1d ago
I couldn't care less about capitalism. I'm just calling you out for making this one guy's choice your damn business. He doesn't owe you a damned thing.
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago
He wouldn't own us a damn thing if he did it in private, he is doing it publicly as if it something to be applauded.
My work colleagues decided to be jackasses, starting earlier than we're contractually obligated now management wants everyone to follow suit. This is what happens when people set UNHEALTHY work standards, Big Meeks just did that. I do not care about how he wants to handle this, just don't make it seem a virtue. You're not a bigger man for doing it.
You people are wrong, I won't back down from this, specially when corporations are getting richer and richer off our backs while demanding more and more from us. Fucking slave like mentality.
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u/DukeSunday 19h ago edited 19h ago
just don't make it seem a virtue.
Nobodies doing that? That seems to exist only in your head.
Honestly when my dad died I buried myself in work as a way to cope. Long since left that job now - shitty ass company - and it wasn't about "making it a virtue" it was about keeping my mind occupied so I didn't break down. I didn't give two fucks about that company. I just needed something to do.
His dad died and he decided to cope with it in the immediate term by doing something he and his dad both loved. Lecturing someone on how to cope with losing their parent and acting like everybody else is in the wrong is wild.
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u/Reggaeton_Historian 23h ago
Do you always argue like a petulant child when people don't agree with you? You might need some help though. Too much black and white reasoning with you, mate.
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u/Hare__Krishna 12h ago
"You people?" Go touch grass, my friend. You're shadow-boxing with your keyboard and it's really enough.
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u/Redylittle 1d ago
He should be able to make his own choice without being criticized. Saying this puts pressure on other people is absurd. It shouldn't be celebrated either
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u/Eborcurean 1d ago
No, he isn't.
When my dog died last year I told the company I was contracted to that I was not doing any fucking work until I wanted to.
Because of my position (much like his) they said 'yep. whenever you want to come back'
Your uneducated criticism is no different than people saying no one can take time off. You're trying to dictate what anyone should do with grief. And you have absolutely fuck all decision about what other people get to do with their grief.
He's not putting pressure on anyone, what some random ex-international footballer being paid 10k to talk for 20 minutes is 'being pressured' you really are spouting bullshit.
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u/EXSource 23h ago
I don't know that we should be in the business of telling people how to deal with their grief the way they feel like they need to, and that goes both ways.
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u/Reggaeton_Historian 23h ago
You're projecting so hard here, you might as well use up an entire wall of the Empire State Building to show it.
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u/Long_Palpitation_822 23h ago
Yeah, he really ought to spare a thought for others in these trying times
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u/Spectagout 22h ago
This stuff happens all the time in live broadcasting. Some decide to take time away and others decide to carry on. He was thousands of miles away from home and why you see them as his work colleagues, they are actually good friends of his. Joe Hart in particular.
As he was constantly flying between the UK and US through out the tournament it's likely his family stayed at home and didn't travel with him. To get to his family he would need to get on a plane and would not have got home until this morning. That's a long time to be largely by yourself at a horrible moment. His other alternatives would have also been lonely moments.
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u/Redletter312 8h ago
He should be allowed to deal with it however he wants to- people grieve differently. However, people shouldn't be praising it, or call it being proffesional. A simple condolence is much more impactful.
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u/bslawjen 6h ago
"Let me tell you what you have to do when your parent dies". Stfu, just please stfu.
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u/Steve_the_Samurai 1d ago
So in his time of personal grieving he should be thinking about his coworkers?
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u/Pugasaurus_Tex 1d ago
Idk why you’re being downvoted.
Yes, it probably helped him in the moment. But it also puts more pressure on other people in that field to “push through” grief in service of the network
Condolences to Big Meeks and the family. I hope he wasn’t pressured to perform at a time like this in his life
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago
Exactly!!! Reddit is just a weird place filled with insufferable people, they may collectively agree that the current capitalist world is horrible yet when a worker puts work over his own personal life, something that these corporate giants would love if their workers did, then it's treated as a fucking virtue.
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u/Reggaeton_Historian 23h ago
Exactly!!! Reddit is just a weird place filled with insufferable people
Like you?
You're virtue signaling in a vacuum and trying to tell others how they should live their lives according to you. How is that not insufferable? And everyone who disagrees with you? You throw a worded tantrum.
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u/Aetheriusman 23h ago
We're not talking about trivial things like hobbies, were talking about something that affects the lives of every worker.
We agree to disagree my friend, we're in two opposite ends, while you think I'm throwing a tantrum I see as fighting back against corporate shilling, against this corporate world.
I'm not going to continue this discussion with you, have a good day.
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u/Eborcurean 1d ago
So its extra pressure on multi-millionaires who get to pick and choose what they want to do for a few thousand dollars an appearance.
You didn't think this through, did you?
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u/Few_Attention_8855 1d ago
Completely agree. My family always says it’s something about Western culture because it’s literally unheard of to see people in our African culture going to work after a close family member dies. Tried to explain this to friends here and didn’t necessarily get the same reaction but I think it’s because they haven’t lost someone close like I have.
On that note, it also baffled me how Gakpo went and played a game after hearing his wife had a miscarriage rather than taking the flight home and being with her, no matter the World Cup. And on the other hand, how much backlash Doku got for going home for his wife’s childbirth. Frankly really weird and inhumane to be honest.
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u/StopandCurse 19h ago
The Norway player who facetimed his partner as she gave birth, and had the audacity to say, "it was really tough". The guy wasn't even in the first 11 😂😂😂
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u/blueberries 1d ago
He's doing what he loves and talking football at the world cup, not putting in a shift at the mines. And he said its what his father would have wanted. People are allowed to be different than you.
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u/ecw324 1d ago
Nobody would blame him for missing, but the way you have this worded is beyond weird
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago
Maybe it's a translation thing, but it sounded OK in my native language
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u/ecw324 1d ago
Ahh, you changed your wording. You said something about being “horny”
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u/Aetheriusman 1d ago
Yes I did, but like I said, something totally acceptable in my work language, having "tesão" for something in portuguese either goes for horniness or unexplained obsession
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u/ElephantParticular10 1d ago
I'd be honest as a typical bloke who wish he wasn't this way, it's too big to not immediately compartmentalise it,.stay focused on something else and let the feelings come through.
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u/Temporary_Physics_48 1d ago
Sometimes it’s nice dealing with loss your own way and not listening to anyone else’s advice. Don’t think it has anything to do with work or being professional
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u/ponkie_guy 1d ago
I get what you’re saying but everybody is different. If he was in Atlanta he might not have been able to get a flight back until today so covering the game would have been a way to occupy yourself. My father does suddenly on a Sunday morning and I couldn’t get a flight back until the Sunday night. That day was a long day with just my thoughts and I really could have done with something to occupy myself instead of just sitting around in a daze.
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u/Typical2sday 1d ago
At the very beginning of unexpected news, you’re in shock. Your loved one has already passed, there are no funeral/details yet, you may not be the one dealing with the funeral home. So there’s a “fuck, do I need a suit, where are my shoes, what am I supposed to be doing” - finishing out the next three hours of a major event can be a comfort while the shock settles out.
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u/bearwithbearwith 21h ago
It doesn't shed a bad light on people who need to take time away from work at all!!
When my Grandma died, my dad wanted to go to work immediately because he wanted to be busy, it didn't take away his pain but it helped numb it a little bit. Alternatively, when my grandpa died, my grandma didn't want to have any visitors and retired shortly after aged 55. Both are equally valid ways to grieve someone you love, there's no perfect way and we shouldn't shame anyone for wanting to stay with others or alone.
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u/Midnight7000 20h ago
I don't like people like you.
It is more important for you grind your axe than it is to actually think about how others might feel.
Speaking from experience, there is a fear that if you stop, you won't start again.
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u/ThatAdamsGuy 15h ago
My dad died out of the blue while I was working support over an event weekend on the Saturday morning. There was nothing I could do on the day; I could drive home, and I'll just be in the way, while people were in and out sorting the body etc.
I worked. It was good to just have a distraction, if nothing else, not sit and stew in my own thoughts when there's nothing I can do about it. It probably helped knowing I could take the time the following week when things had calmed down and that work would support what I chose to do, and I obviously wouldn't give anybody shit if they took time off immediately. Just different people handle these things in the moment in different ways.
This comes with the obvious fuck off to anybody that gives people shit for not working, however.
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u/hashbrowns_14 23h ago
Who the fuck are you to judge how someone grieves? Maybe let people live their own lives and do whatever they feel is right for them in the moment.
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u/East_Stick_1964 1d ago
I have to say, there's no way I'd be in work if my Dad died. If that doesn't make me a professional then fuck you
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u/Redylittle 1d ago
No one made him or expected him to work. But if he wanted to work he should be allowed to without being judged
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u/mindpainters 1d ago
Agreed. Some people get some relief from having responsibilities or something else to focus on. Some people can’t even work if they wanted to.
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u/robster9090 23h ago
Micah gets on my nerves at times with his style on panels but he did great last night considering this happened. Would never have known and he did a great job .
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u/Digit00l 20h ago
Second BBC sports presenter whose father unexpectedly died shortly before or during a broadcast this year, wild
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u/Competitive_Host_432 19h ago
Jesus. A level of professionalism most of us could barely dream of! Further proof he should be in a prominent pundit role for years to come.
Many condolences to the big man and his family.
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u/RevolutionaryOne5905 17h ago
Rest in Peace Lincoln ❤️. And my condolences to Micah and his family.
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u/Bloboeggy 5h ago
Thats so sad, half time the energy was dead on the desk and he was the one who brought it back proper hyping up what was realistically a shit game to watch trying to get an angle and injecting life back into the desk. Poor guy
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u/FearlessAntelope768 1d ago
People that love you say things just for you to be happy but deep down i bet he would love you to be there for him in his last moments.
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u/HVAC_instructor 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ok, so what's the big deal about this? I don't get it thousands of people every day go to work knowing that they might not ever see their parent(s) again.
People act like he did some great thing, he made a decision that he felt was right for him. It only matters to him because he's got to process his loss on his own way using the skills that his parents taught him
I love the downvotes like what this guy did deserves some kind of medal or perhaps a ticket tape parade.
He went to work. Nothing more nothing less.
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u/tasha568 1d ago
Agreed! I think there are lots of folks, similar to yourself in the story you shared below, that had no choice and had to go into work, no one may have known, and they may empathize with him and how he is feeling so praising him may be form of validation for folks, “I had to do that. That takes strength. I know. I had to.”
That being said, as you put it, he went to work. Nothing more, nothing less.
He made the choice he needed to and he is grieving. Everyone process their grief differently. He needs to just focus on him and his loved ones and if for him, he needs yo go into work, then that is the right choice for him.
Folks who are praising him are the ones who need to self-reflect, “why am I impressed by this? Does this line up with my values? Would I want my loved ones, my children, to work on the day I die? Do I feel i need to go to work if someone dies? If so why? Is it for me, is that a way of coping for me or am I trying to live up to an expectation”.
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u/filthynines 19h ago
When you go out to work, you’re not performing to 24 million people. He was, at the very beginning of grief. Nobody said ticker tape parade, lots said the dedication is to be respected.
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u/HVAC_instructor 19h ago
Don't that I'm getting downvoted for that same dedication. Didn't you find it interesting that people value his work and dedication but loathe mine.
I guess his grief was much greater than mine according to you, because he had to do it on front of more people.
I just had to do it and remain quiet so at not upset my students.
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u/mayanrelic 1d ago
Stick to the air conditioners, homie.
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u/HVAC_instructor 1d ago
So you tell me what great things did he do? He went to work after finding out that a parent died. We should celebrate this, omg, it's amazing.
My sister called me when my mom died, I visited Mom the day before, I went to with the morning that she died because people at work needed me there. Maybe I should have put in for a gold medal or some special recognition.
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u/giraffeboy77 1d ago
Your family probably needed you more that day than a bunch of AC trainees did, or maybe not
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u/HVAC_instructor 19h ago
My parents raised me to be a good worker, my students needed me more than my mother did, there was nothing I could do to help her, I had said my goodbye. But I do want to thank you for telling me how I should grieve for my mother, that's so kind of you to know recently what my family needed at that time.
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