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Cardiff record signing Sala on missing plane

Col_M

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Why shouldn't there be an investigation into what happened in the run up to the crash? If clubs are cutting corners and risking players safety then don't we want to make sure that the same mistakes aren't made again?

I domino think there is anything here about Risking player safety, this is all Cardiff trying to weasel out of paying the transfer fee. if it is Safety related then its a police matter
 

Monkey boy

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Not sure where else to put this but ex Cardiff City player PeterWhittingham has reportedly passed away.

*Edit - in intensive care rather than dead. Fell down a flight of stairs at a pub in Cardiff
 
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Been an update on this today

Sounds like he was 'deeply unconscious' before the plan crashed, so wouldn't have known much about it, which I guess is a blessing.

I probably shouldn't be surprised, but rather crazy that footballers - especially young ones - still smoke.

The hearing was also told Sala smoked between one and five cigarettes a day, with four packets of cigarettes found in his South Wales hotel room after his death.

Detective Sergeant Sarah Gedge, of Dorset Police, said: "Mr Sala had some property in the room and there was a request from Mr Sala's agent regarding the cigarettes in his room and he was keen for that not to be disclosed to his family as he had not told them he smoked."

She said the cigarettes were found in a Christian Louboutin cloth shoe bag.

"We made contact with (Sala's agent) Meissa N'diaye today to confirm about Mr Sala and his smoking and he was able to tell us that Mr Sala smoked one to five cigarettes a day," she said.

"He had been smoking for a couple of years and his preferred brand was Lucky Strike Lights. He said he didn't have actual information himself and had spoken to someone else."
 

beats1

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Been an update on this today

Sounds like he was 'deeply unconscious' before the plan crashed, so wouldn't have known much about it, which I guess is a blessing.

I probably shouldn't be surprised, but rather crazy that footballers - especially young ones - still smoke.
young people from countries that don’t have tobacco regulations and laws, still smoke. Regulations really do make a difference
 

chinaman

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Been an update on this today

Sounds like he was 'deeply unconscious' before the plan crashed, so wouldn't have known much about it, which I guess is a blessing.

I probably shouldn't be surprised, but rather crazy that footballers - especially young ones - still smoke.

Thought his dad said he received a phone call from him and was told he was scared as the plane was going down.
 

mightyspur

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Thought his dad said he received a phone call from him and was told he was scared as the plane was going down.
Not quite. He left a WhatsApp voice message saying:

"I'm on a plane that looks like it's going to fall apart, and I'm leaving for Cardiff," Sala said in a WhatsApp audio message carried by Argentine media.

"If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don't know if they will send people to look for me, because they will not find me, you know. Dad, I'm so scared," he added.
 

nailsy

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Am I missing something about him smoking? I know it's not great for an athlete to smoke, but it seems a bit odd to be talking about it so much in connection to his death.
 
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Am I missing something about him smoking? I know it's not great for an athlete to smoke, but it seems a bit odd to be talking about it so much in connection to his death.

Carbon monoxide levels would be high in a smoker's blood, I guess, so I think they needed to figure out his "normal" levels to determine how high they were
 
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young people from countries that don’t have tobacco regulations and laws, still smoke. Regulations really do make a difference

I guess so. It's like a frog boiling in water kind of effect. I used to smoke, and I lived in wales, on the border, when the ban came in and we had to go outdoors. Going over the border was a weird experience, as England took a year or so to catch up IIRC.
By now, I'm shocked if I see anyone smoking - some 20 years later.

(It was similar with carrier bags - I moved over the border by then, and a local supermarket was just in wales, and it was confusing to flit between the extremities)
 
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