Paramedics responding to ice hockey player’s fatal injury found “chaotic scene”, says coroner

A pre-inquest review into the death of an ice hockey player was heard today in Sheffield marking the beginning of an extensive process to establish the circumstances of his death.

Paramedics responding to ice hockey player’s fatal injury found “chaotic scene”, says coroner

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Coming back swinging: Sheffield Bladerunners’ “one big family” reunion

On a cold spring evening, as the sun began to fall behind the bank at the end of a large playing field, people began to gather around a freshly-laid baseball diamond. They dropped off kit bags and picked up metal bats, battered leather gloves and worn-out baseballs. They smiled at each other, resisted the natural urge to hug one another and opted for fist-bumps and elbow bashes, happy to be reunited with the second family they hadn’t seen for months.

Football for Foodbanks: The social enterprise using football as a force for good

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“Seriously, you have got to stamp on this. It’s a criminal act against football fans in this country. Punish them. They will probably hide in a few weeks, and say it was nothing to do with them, they were only talking about it. Seriously, in the midst of a pandemic, an economic crisis and these lot are having Zoom calls about breaking away and basically creating more greed? Joke.”