Edwin van der Sar

[Strummer]

Reports that the former Netherlands, Ajax and Man U legend is in intensive care after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

He’s 52.

Hang in there, Edwin!

 

[Rockabilly]

Fingers and toes crossed for you Edwin.

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

 

[Statto]

All the best to him. One of the all time great keepers, whom Utd wanted initially to replace Schmeichel, but couldn't get for a few years. Imagine how much better they would have been with him instead of Taibi, Bosnich, Howard and Barthez.

Sadly, it's an injury few recover from at all and even fewer fully. Though Alex Ferguson did, as did VDS"s wife a few years back. A Dutch organist in his early 60s, at the peak of his powers (one of the leading players of his generation and still teaching as a professor in a conservatory) about 10 years ago was not so lucky, which is sadly a more typical outcome.

I was quite mixed when he joined Utd because he was a player I liked and of course I don't like Utd...

 

[BryanRoy22]

It happened to a work colleague of mine, who was such a lovely woman. Unassuming, quietly spoken, no drama, just got on with her job.

I saw her the day before and she seemed fine and the next day we were all told of what had happened. She had sadly passed away suddenly.

Shocking and I still think of her sometimes. I wish Edwin well and hope he manages to find a way through this.

 

[Statto]

It happened to a work colleague of mine, who was such a lovely woman. Unassuming, quietly spoken, no drama, just got on with her job.

I saw her the day before and she seemed fine and the next day we were all told of what had happened. She had sadly passed away suddenly.

Shocking and I still think of her sometimes. I wish Edwin well and hope he manages to find a way through this.

It's a very sudden onset and if it isn't detected quickly has a very high chance of death.

Basically it's a stroke, where the brain loses blood supply, but because it's bleeding not because there's a clot or because it can't get there in the first place.

But stopping a brain bleed is clearly difficult and gets much harder to recover from the longer it goes on.

As far as quick deaths go, it's quite high on the list, perhaps only sudden heart attacks are quicker.

 

[Viktor]

All the best to him. One of the all time great keepers, whom Utd wanted initially to replace Schmeichel, but couldn't get for a few years. Imagine how much better they would have been with him instead of Taibi, Bosnich, Howard and Barthez.

Sadly, it's an injury few recover from at all and even fewer fully. Though Alex Ferguson did, as did VDS"s wife a few years back. A Dutch organist in his early 60s, at the peak of his powers (one of the leading players of his generation and still teaching as a professor in a conservatory) about 10 years ago was not so lucky, which is sadly a more typical outcome.

I was quite mixed when he joined Utd because he was a player I liked and of course I don't like Utd...

Where was Lefkasman?!

 

[Statto]

Where was Lefkasman?!

It wasn't him... lol

 

[Strummer]

He kept goal for that frankly brilliant Ajax side of the mid-90s, who - after they had won the European Cup (as you do) came over to play Forest in that preseason Umbro Tournament - Edwin in goal, Michael Rieziger, the de Boer brothers, Danny Blind, Marc Overmars, Clarence Seedorf, Edgar Davids, Nwankwo Kanu, Jari Litmanen, Patrick Kluivert…. What a team that was.

 

[PynchonForest]

What always amazed me about him was how well placed he was for shots on goal---his ability to anticipate and position himself was phenomenal. Let's hope all goes well for him.