Hey Foz!

Meant to come and write to you yesterday to say Happy Christmas but I ended up gettin a bit drunk...you would have been proud of me! Hope you had a good one up there! I'm still missing you loads, but I'm getting on with things...you would have wanted us all to!

Love ya
Anonymous

Hey Foz,

Its been just over a month now, and i want to say that i have never in my life seen one person touch on so many lifes, as you clearly have. You have made me cherish my life so much more and not take for grantid all the things i have, especialy my family, and i would just like to thank you for that.
Although so many people so close to you have been so badly hurt by what has happened, they still remember you for all the good times they had with you and have tried to keep on smiling, like you would.
I wish you a happy Christmas Foz and hope you enjoy yourself.
Anonymous

Hey Danny!

Its only Leanne again, i just wanted to say happy christmas! I hope you will be enjoying yourself up there, i will be thinking of you on christmas day, thinking of what you should really be doing! Waking up sunday morning and opening your presents from your family and stuffing into a nice big turkey with your family and generaly having a good time.

I cant believe your gonna miss my birthday! i kept remindin you all year and tellin you, you had to get me a pressie! But i will still be thinkin of ya n wonderin what the present was gonna be! I dread to think! lol! I still think of you everyday and will do until i see you again! Well hope your havin a good time wherever you are, thinking of you always Danny!

Love and miss you
Leanne P

Foz,

I never met you, Foz, but I know your Dad.

A whole bunch of us went to the Church that day to be there for your Mum and Dad. I don’t know how many of us knew you although I did know you had a very close encounter will Al on the Football pitch one day! Al was there too – even though he is in the middle of his own tragedy.

Standing there in the Church, I was touched by how the people just kept on coming. It was standing room only when I arrived and still they came. All were there for you, Foz. And I think, for your Mum and Dad too. Your Dad did you proud that day….

With Christmas on the doorstep, I am sure everyone of us who were there on that sunny day will be thinking of you and your family.

I know I will be…
Take care..
Steve

"Hatred ever kills, love never dies; such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time" - Mahatma Gandhi.

Anon

friends are like balloons, once you let them go you can never get them back. thats why ive tied you thight to my heart.
love you always for and will miss you so much.
take care and ill see you one day.
Anonymous

hey fozzy its afroe just gotta tel ya your a legend you gonna miss a huge part of wat could have been your life but ull b missed more then you miss evry1 liked ya mate a lot more ppl then you thought lol i guess il catch up wit ya again 1 day see ya soon buddy
Afroe

Dannykins,

I know i've taken a while to write to you on here but i've written a letter to you, which you've probably read already. I don't really know what to say, i usually can't shut up when i'm talking to you!

I do really miss you, it gets more real every morning i have to get up without you. I know you don't want me to keep crying but i can't help it, i feel really lost without you. You were always there, but i know you still are. there's no point me boring you with that though because we can't make it better.

I'm sitting in our masterpiece of a front room. We really did choose good styling for it, lol! Mums put all the washing in here again though, you're probably a bit annoyed about that cos it looked well smart when we finished decorating. I downloaded limewire on the computor, it was well hard i weren't too sure what to do, but i had some help from James, so i got the free one! I've started downloading loads of tunarge!! Wag has just been round and started downloading loads of Blink, we've been listening to it loads lately! We know you loved it, eventhough you had to hide it from scotty,flatty and ellis cos they would bully you, lol!

I was really looking forward to this christmas with you, we were going to bully Omer and mum, lol! I was going to get you a black ipod nano, to match your black look, and you was gonna get me one too, had it all planned, well at least I did!! Now your not here, well you are but you know wghat i mean, i don't really want to celebrate it without you. I know you loved christmas, i loved it when you had some champagne and would go bright red!!! But it's not right without you, and it's only right to know my last proper christmas was with you. It int right not having you wake me up in the morning!!! Can you remember when would try and get up before each other when we were little on a saturday morning and race downstairs to get the remote, eventhough we both just wanted to watch Diggit!!! Oh yerr! I hope you don't mind that we aren't celebrating, let me know if you do!!

I'm so happy we had such a good morning that monday, had a little fight on the way in to school and you tripped me up through the doors! Then i saw you about ten or eleven and you beat me up at my table in social forum, that was the last time i spoke to you, i saw you as i walked to go to the computor rooms talking to hannah, in history i think, i know you had history together cos she did your notes for you when you broke your leg, i tried to get ur attention but you were talkin, thats the last time i saw you. You were really happy that day, but then you always was! I'm so glad we got on so well and always had a laugh, you were even nice to me at school, you didnt get embarassed that i was your little sister, atleast once everyday you'd come have a chat or fight, or atleast just stick your fingers up at me!lol.

Ar, i just looked at some pictures of Nans wedding!! I know how much fun you had that day, not!! You were so bored, i remember i kept looking at you during the service and you were almost falling asleep, i just kept laughing at you. And you were laughing at me as i walked down the aisle lol!! That was well funny!Rememba woman who pissed you off when we was eating, you said you didnt like the cream and she was like ooh you don't like the cream. you was like if she even looks at me again I'm gonna snap! I don't think you liked her very much lol!
There's so much I can talk about with you!! Basically my whole life with you! Mum's birthday this year when i drank a bottle of wine and keep embarassing you, that was fun, and then you decided to come with me to leannes party and trash the place, as you laways did at parties!! lol.

I really can't believe your gone. I never thought this would happen, i just have to keep thinking it's wat you wanted, you wouldn't have wanted to be in a wheelchair, you hated being in a cast for six weeks never mind a wheelchair for a lifetime. The boys really miss you, i been with Wag, Ben and Pete quite a bit and Goody came down too but i guess you know all this! I;ve been to see Scotty and Ellis, they're doing well, they moan a lot but they'll get over it!! lol. Poor Scottnald has to put up with me a lot but I'm quite nice to him lol! Flatty is ok too, he moans a lot too but he really is just ok, he always moans, you know that!!! He's quite quiet, we chat on the net alot, all of them have been really good though, we still try and have a laugh as you would. I slapped Goody with pitta breads the other night round wags lol. He loved it, and i squished his face in the onion bajis lol!! I'm trying to have fun but i feel so bad when i'm having a laugh with all your friends, because you should be here with them. I know I've known them a long time, but they're your boys, and i know they always will be. You know that too. They all adore you, but who didn't, but we'll stick together and remember you always, keep talking to you and you keep talking to us. Wagga said to stop moving his pens in his bedroom lol!! It's the ball soon and i wasn't going to go because really wanted you to be there, but you will be and Wag got me a ticket so i am. There's a seat left for you so you better sit in it, you're at the main table lol!!

Just so you know, you really were the best brother ever, you looked after to all the time and we always had a laugh,I do anything for anothermacky d's drive thru or cruise to dads to bully him or just a little row over me watching something crap on tele. I miss you soo much, and it may seem selfish but i don't feel anyone is missing you as much as me, i saw you almost every day, you were normality. I know i will see you again but i hope it's not too long, if I could I would be with you now but I can't. I'm trying to help mum and dad but there's nothing i can do, they'll get happier cos they know it's what you want! I miss you more every day, waking up without you, not hearing your bed creak when you roll over, and not hearing you come home at 3 in the morning, it's really quiet now. But your great, you lived life to the fullest, ther was so much you wanted to do but you've gone for a reason no matter how much i say i don't care and i want you back, you have and you wouldn't have wanted to be trapped in a chair eventhough i'd of done everything to look after you, take you cruising when i can drive. Thanks for letting me have your baby by the way, I'll look after her i promise, I'll ask the boys for cleaning tips, well I think I'll ask Scotty, he has the cleanest car! I won't change a thing, and I'll keep her going as long as i can and she'll stay with me forever.

Well I had better go cos otherwise I'll never shut up!! If poeple piss me off I'll just merrr them away lol! I just remembered us doing that. Sorry this message is a bit jumpy, i just talk crap, but you're used to it, cos you do too lol!!! I've just realised I'm going to have to buy mum and dad's birthday presents now, I can't scrounge off you!! But they'll always be from both of us. I just keep thinking of so many things we did, just remembered our messing about bitch fights, always call each other skanks and stuff and couldn't use the same word twice, and goolie fights in the car on long journeys to wales and France, remember that, we found a spot in a lorry car park to have a kip and mum and dad fell asleep and we were awake then u laid all over me and fell asleep on my lap, i hope you were comfy, i had to sleep with my face squished against the window!!! Our latest holiday was just us tanning and listening to the streets together with an ear phone each, I'd have a timer so we would turn over in time and have same amount of time on our backs as we did our fronts and then we'd go for a swim in that well cold pool. After we'd play some cards and boom the music through that place we stayed at, pretty tacky weren't it, pissing people off. I loved how you got pissed off that mum and that wouldn't wake us up in the mornig to get breakfast so you'd wake me up and say we're going to get loads of food and charge it to mum and her friends cos they went without us all the time lol!! We had some quality holidays, we still played crocodiles when we were like 15 and 16, maybe I shouldn't have told people that! lol.

I don't know how to end it, cos i don't really want to all i want to do is write to you forever. You are the best brother ever, you're my best friend and I couldn't have asked for anything more, I'd of done anything for it not to have been you, I'd rather be there than you, you had so much going for you. But keep looking after yourself, keep watching me, the family and the boys, who are basically our little family too. I'll talk to you again soon but until then hit heaven haarrd and keep on smiling! Just to say I'm so proud to say you were my big brother, and only mine, can't wait to see you again, but i hope i aint old and you're looking all trendy. I keep worrying about so many things. Also, last friday went really well, i hope you liked the music.

I've put in some pictures of you and the boys and me and you and mum, I hope it works.

Love you forever Danny, miss you.
Mo

hey foz

jess again! i think this poem jus is u all over. hope u like it.

God looked around his garden and found an empty place,
he then looked down upon his earth and saw your loving face.

 he put his arms around you and lifted you to rest,
his garden must be beautiful, he always takes the best,

you left us precious memories, your football will be our guide,
we live through your football legacy, you're always by our side.

 it broke our hearts to lose you, but you did not go alone
for a part of us went with you when god called you home.

Jess

I'm not sure what to write on this page. I have been reading the website everyday since i heard about it's existance and reading about how highly regarded you were by people who knew you, knew of you, were your friends and family.

You clearly had an amazing talent to touch people and make them smile, not everyone is able to do it in such a way and you clearly managed it successfully.

I knew you through many different channels, my sister being the main person, being in your year, trying to find bed bolts in B&Q, getting some strange looks from you & the funny looks you appeared from the kitchen with whilst you worked at the pub, my aunt and mum were a fountain of gossip for me, and the stories I was told did make me giggle...especially the whole carpet senario when you saved Hannah from that almost huge napkin fire! makes me giggle everytime i walk into the potting shed, and Iam sure that it will continue to do so in the future, not just me, but all who are aware of the story surrounding a huge burnt footprint in the carpet!

You obviously had the personality which held the key to making people happy and you had a heart of gold. You made such an impact in so many peoples lives, i can't imagine you ever being forgotten. I am sure that you have provided you family, friends, and all who knew you with many of these unforgetable, life long, fantastic memories which will never leave them.

It is a pleasure to be able to say you worked with me, you were my sisters friend, and to say i knew you. Bye foz.

Love
Gemma Sutton

alright mate not 2 sure what 2 say but 1 thing i can say is i remember the good times we had in the last 2,3 months i feel i got alot closer im realy missing u alot and so is every 1 else i remember when we went 2 holand and u and me got in that fight with those german kids thanks 4 that but u must admit it was quite funny and they did start it but u save me from getting my ass kick lol thanks but what can i say u r a great mate and i proud to call u my mate.

u and me had a lot of good memorys

we wil never 4get ya mate

miss ya so much

love ya x

p.s i stil got ya jumper
Connor

foz you were a great mate to everyone and you can tell that by this web page. you will always be in everyones herat and will always be loved.
R.I.P foz
Love always
Anonymous

fozzy its me!

i cant believe it, never thought i'd be saying goodbye.

we had some great times together, and i will not forgot any of them, they're now so precious to me. i really miss you fozzy, i know your watching over everyone, i cant wait until i see you again.

love you fozzy
Anonymous

hey foz

You had one of the best life a boy could have ever wished for, with all the girls, cars and friends. People are still saying that it shouldn't have ended and there right. I just wanted to say thanks for all the memorys that you have given me. Sorry to tell you that ipswich aren't doing that well but that will improve mate. i hope to see you again foz.
Liam (bigbird)

Hi Foz,
Im not sure where to start...

Firstly with your beautiful family and friends. Who at this time, all shine. Your family who must miss you so much but continue to be strong and continue to smile because they know that you can see them.

Your astounding friends. So strong and who have come on such a journey in the last two weeks. I speak mostly of your friends because ive watched them grow into adults in these 14 days. Incredible individuals, amasing and brave. Boys and Girls, now Men and Women. Truely inspirational people who I couldnt be more proud of. My brother has shown me what it is to be a true friend, to give love unconditionally and to take every opportunity to surprise people. Whether the ones you care for are present or not. I do not doubt that if I could hear your words they would repeat much the same. I have never been more proud of my brother, through this test of his and his friends strength and courage. They have succeded. I know you must be proud and honoured to call them friends. And everytime you greet one, you will tell them and they will tell you.

Thank you for the good you brought to this world. The good you bring out in people. The good times you gave my brother and his friends. The good memories you have given your family. And the good that is yet to come from you blessing each and every life you have touched.

Foz, it takes someone truely phenomenal to affect a life the way you have altered mine.
I have so many words for you.. but I will save them for when I chat to you. And for the conversation I will have when I meet you next, well that, I will look forward too. Soon but not yet.

I can only image what you must be like. Because unfortunatly I never had the pleasure of meeting you. What a person you are. To touch the lives of people you never even met.
Much love to you Foz. Your Family. And your friends.
Anonymous

Foz,

Its Liam again.

Just wanted to say how proud you would be of all your family. How strong they are all being. We all know now where your great qualities as a person came from.

Your send off on friday was the most moving thing i have ever experienced. It says alot about you that people had to stand in the church for the ceremony! I think it will be remembered not only for the geat, universally loved lad whose send off it was but also due to the fact that girls allowed was played!

Jokes aside mate, enjoy whatever it is that your getting up to up there- dont do anything i wouldnt! Until we meet again- we will!

Love ya and miss ya.
Liam

Fozzy,

what can i say mate, i cant believe you have gone! words cant express how much me an the ova lads miss u, things dont feel the same wivout u!! I know your probably up there looking down at us laughin ur head off an calling us spastics, just like you use 2! but the sayin is true, u neva know how much u miss some1 until there gone.

You dnt need to worry about ur Mum, Dad or Mo cos if they eva need anything me or 1 of the ova lads will be there an look after them an help them in anyway possible. You wood do anything for ur family, no matter how much me or the ova lads wood bully u about not comin out, u wood still stay an do what eva ur mum dad or mo asked before comin wiv us. An for tht i respect you, u always considered your family before ur m8s something i havent in the pass an i will try and follow by the example u have set in the future.

Your funeral friday was perfect, it was the perfect send off for a great mate like you. Im sure it is the for 1st time girls allowed love machine been played in church lol, but it was perfect an felt right to have it playin. We all no u had a soft spot for the girlies from the band. I was so honured to be given the chance to carry ur coffin along wiv Pete, Coleman, Goody, Wag an Llyod. I felt proud and priveleged to carry u in an was the perfect way for us 6 to say gd bye to such a well loved a thought about friend.

After your funeral we celebrated your life and drank in memory of u, i no its what u wood of wanted, having a beer on the boy we all loved, respected and tlkin about all the good times we shared. I no u was up there watchin an kickin bak wiv a beer of ya own.

Foz u lived everyday to its best an even wen u was a mumpy lil bear u still had a smile on ya face an wood soon be bak to fun lovin bear. Ever since i met u all them yrs ago uve made my life so much fun, u was always 1 to get up and do somethin instead of sittin about. Over the last 5 yrs at thurston u have become a truly great mate and at times i looked at u as a brother to me, u was always there 4 me no matter wht the problem n i could tlk to u bout anything.

Now u have gone dont forget about our fifa tournaments, cos as soon as we meet again we will be bak on the PS2 an fightin ova who is the best player an who scored the best goals

I no u will be lookin dwn on me and the ova boys taking care of us an looking out for us, until we meet again an this is just a farewell msg until tht time!

An wen we meet again u provide tea an biscuits an ill bring fifa. Thank you foz for being a great mate an providin me wiv thousands of great memories, always thinking about u, until we meet again, Rest In Peace young foznald, love ya mate
Flatty

Foz,

What can i say,i think everyone else on this site has said pretty much everything tht i cud. But il just say i dnt think you realised over the las couple of months wat a tru friend you were to me. We kind of drifted apart through the past half year or so, but tht never ment tht i stil didnt consider you as a great friend.one of the strongest memories i have of u foz, is tht wen we used to be really close, we always sed tht it would be me and you and then nat and wagga, and we always used to say tht if nat n wagga ever had kids they wud be lil midgets, cos they are both so small, n their kids wud be really sporty aswel! lol!
I went to ur funeral yesterday, it was so perfect, just wat you wud have wanted, there was so many people there, friends and family al ther to pay their last and final repacts to you.
Iv got a picture of you on my wall so i can see you from the minute i wake up to the minute i go to sleep
you will neva be forgotten, but youl always be missed.
love you forever and always
Charlotte Melvin

Hi Foz,

Like so many other people that have written to you, I did not know you. I think I met you, you were friends with my brother, but I only said 'hi'. When I think about all the amazing things people say about you I get annoyed with myself. I had a chance to speak to someone that has obviously touched so many lives, including my brothers, and I didnt take it. It makes me think how you should treasure every moment and if you get to say hi to someone then take the opportunity to have a conversation with them. Everyday I will regret not taking that opportunity as it stopped me from knowing someone like you. But I look forward to the day when I can have that conversation with you.

I can't begin to imagine what your family and freinds are going through but I know for definate that they are all being looked after. I'm sure you are so proud of your friends. I am. They are all being amazing, so mature and remembering you how you would have wanted- by loving life and making the most of every day. Today, Friday, will have been so hard for them so I hope that you were watching over them! If you are, then right now, 7pm, you are probably watching them getting drunk!

I think about you everyday. Although I cant actually think about you as a person, its the pictures Ive seen, the words I heard that are always in my mind. I feel upset that I will never be able to remember you as someone I knew, but still, I will never forget you or how you have affected so many lives.

It wasn't fair how you were taken at such a young age. You didn't get the chance to do so many things. But at least you were happy and enjoyed everyday of the life you had. That is so important and you have made me realise that. You will live on in so many ways, in your friends, in your family and in all our thoughts.

I thank you for giving my brother good times and for bringing happiness to him and his friends.

I will always look forward to finally meeting you one day
Anonymous

Foz...
Im not sure wether to say i knew you or not! I never really spoke to you so much as a close friend but as pupils that attended the same school! And now that your gone i regret not getting to know you more, as from peoples reactions from your loss i can clearly see that i was missing out on a friendship with a great guy! you must be so happy to be lookin over and seeing how many people loved and cared for you! From what i did know of you, you always had a smile apon ur face and always made sure others did too. u were decent guy and still are! as even tho u no longer walk the earth with us your still here in all our hearts! my love goes to you and all your family who must be so strong! u must be so proud! we all miss you! take care!
Hannah Peters

hi foz,

I never knew you so i felt as if it wasn't my place to leave you a message but you've changed my life forever and i wanted to pay my respects to you and your family.About half an hour before the crash you were looking at cars with my brother, Sam, on the internet and he was showing you his dream car.

Everyones missing you and wishing you were still here, but we know you can't be, Sam will be on here as soon as he finds the courage to, he'll be there tomorow saying goodbye to you properly. I keep on thinking about you and your family, your mum, dad and sister must be so strong, if you were still here you'd be so proud of them.

I hope that there's some coke up there for you! The first time i saw you in the newspaper, i cried and cried i'll never forget your face, so innocent and happy. When i look at the stars i imagine you looking down on all of us and wishing you could tell everyone that you love them just once more so this isn't goodbye it's see you later
Jessie W

i didnt really no foz that well but frm wot i can member bot im he always had a lovely smile on his face and always ad a gd fin 2 say bot evry1. i jst wish now that i got 2 no him mre. he was a gr8 guy. he didn deserve 2 go at the age of 17 no1 really deserves 2. il always remember him n his smile. it stil wnt sink in that he as gone. i h8 2 fink wot his family is lyk at the min.
il always remember u foz.
luv ya
Anonymous

We can shed tears that he is gone
or we can smile because he has lived.

We can close our eyes and pray that he'll come back
or we can open our eyes and see all he's left.

Our hearts can be empty because we can't see him
or we can be full of the love he shared.

We can turn our backs on tomorrow and live yesterday
or we can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

We can remember him and only that he's gone
or we can cherish his memory and let it live on.

We can cry and close our minds, be empty and turn our backs
or we can do what he'd want: smile, open our eyes, love and go on.

Anonymous

To Foz

Hi Mate. It seems like only yesterday that you were round mine getting beat on Fifa or some other football game! Though you hardly ever won you still tried your best all the time until you did. That’s how you were with everything you ever did. You weren’t happy until you had completed it. I remember one day when me and Scott came round and you had just finished completing a war game. You were so proud.

I can remember your last weekend. You spent the Saturday here at my house watching the footy and clowning around. But most of all I remember you when me and you were in the chip shop and you were dancing around waiting for your food. You had such a big smile on your face and we couldn’t help but burst out laughing! That man must have wondered what the hell was going on. We both just didn’t have a care in the world and life seemed so simple that evening.

The following Sunday when me and Scott were trying to get you to come to the pub with us and you couldn’t. You had to help fit a washing machine for your mum. That’s the kind of chap you were. You loved your mates but your family always came first no matter how small or how big the problem was.

I always felt that I wasn’t as close to you as the others but this year I have had the pleasure of spending so much time with you that you felt like my brother. I’m gonna miss not playing football with you or going and getting a kebab at midnight or even the cup of tea nights we all had.

I devote everyday I am alive to you foz, Physical pain will heal but the Mental pain will never leave me. I feel so privileged to have had the chance to know you so well. I will never forget that tragic accident that took you from us so prematurely and for everyday I wear this neck brace the memory of you will give me strength to conquer my fears and doubts.

When we all meet again remember the tea is on you and we will bring the biscuits.


I’ll be seeing ya mate


Robert Ellis (Ellis)