{"id":10744,"date":"2026-01-09T06:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2026-01-09T06:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:52:22","slug":"archive-terry-yorath-recalls-tragedies-and-their-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10744","title":{"rendered":"Archive: Terry Yorath recalls tragedies and their impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2013, the late Terry Yorath spoke to BBC Wales Sport before the League Cup final between Swansea City and Bradford City, teams he had managed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorath talked about the shocking experience of being player-coach at Bradford on the day of the Valley Parade stadium fire in 1985, when 56 fans died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also spoke about the grief suffered by his family seven years later when his son Daniel collapsed and died because of a genetic heart condition, aged 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8e5rg2dyxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">died in January 2026 after a short illness.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz44z4gw711o\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">A warrior touched by tragedy &#8211; Terry Yorath obituary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/cvgp5vwn99eo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, the late Terry Yorath&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}