Steve Tucker RIP

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09-04-19, 19:01
Michael Morris

Steve Tucker RIP

Former Echo reporter and long time Cardiff City reporter.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sad to mention that Steve Tucker has passed away suddenly. Covered <a href="https://twitter.com/CardiffCityFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CardiffCityFC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cardiffcitymad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cardiffcityma d</a> for many years until last season for The Echo and leaves a young family behind. I have known Steve for almost 20 years and even been working with him recently. Always fun, RIP mate.</p>— Nigel Harris (@NigelBlues) <a href="https://twitter.com/NigelBlues/status/1115689408169218048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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09-04-19, 19:12
Father Dougal

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

Former Echo reporter and long time Cardiff City reporter.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sad to mention that Steve Tucker has passed away suddenly. Covered <a href="https://twitter.com/CardiffCityFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CardiffCityFC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cardiffcitymad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cardiffcityma d</a> for many years until last season for The Echo and leaves a young family behind. I have known Steve for almost 20 years and even been working with him recently. Always fun, RIP mate.</p>— Nigel Harris (@NigelBlues) <a href="https://twitter.com/NigelBlues/status/1115689408169218048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Aw really sad news that.
09-04-19, 19:19
BLUETIT

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Very sad news, great fella

R I P
09-04-19, 19:19
Auntie Andy

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Sad news RIP Steve
09-04-19, 19:21
G rangetown Blue

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

How?
That’s shocking news.
RIP Steve.
09-04-19, 19:32
Armitage Shanks

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Very sad. I wouldn't know who the echo correspondent for Cardiff city is now
09-04-19, 20:04
Arfur Europe

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Really sad news. Really liked Steve. Was a top bloke, with a great sense of humour.

RIP Steve
09-04-19, 20:08
The Bob Banker Spanker

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RIP Steve
09-04-19, 20:09
NYCBlue

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Jesus. What happened?
09-04-19, 20:10
splott parker

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Can’t have been that old, RIP
09-04-19, 20:15
Tuerto

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

That's bad news, i liked him, he used to piss a few people off on here when he was critical of the club, that's why i liked him! Condolences to his family.
09-04-19, 20:18
The Bob Banker Spanker

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuerto

That's bad news, i liked him, he used to piss a few people off on here when he was critical of the club, that's why i liked him! Condolences to his family.

Yes, don’t think Dave Jones liked him.
Wasn’t he banned from press conferences at one point?
09-04-19, 20:36
mrbluejay

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Fecking hell, that’s a shock, what a top man, always happy to engage with City fans.

RIP Steve.
09-04-19, 21:34
MacAdder

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Bless him.
Really sad to hear this news.
Condolences to his family.
09-04-19, 21:44
jon1959

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Very sad news. He can't have been very old. Link to some of his recent (last year, post WOL) stuff here:

https://the-eye.wales/author/stevet/
09-04-19, 21:56
Zenith

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

RIP Steve. Did a good job over the years covering City.
09-04-19, 22:27
Former Labour leader

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Really shocked. Exchanged twitter banter with Steve only a couple of weeks ago. Condolences to his family.
09-04-19, 23:30
life on mars

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker

Yes, don’t think Dave Jones liked him.
Wasn’t he banned from press conferences at one point?

Must have been a good lad ,as DJ was a miserable bugger .

Thanks for the reads ,RIP.
10-04-19, 06:55
TheMightyBluebirds

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RIP Steve, terrible news.

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Bob Banker Spanker

Yes, don’t think Dave Jones liked him.
Wasn’t he banned from press conferences at one point?

Yep, think he was. Wasn't it Steve that written the "Cardiff Blues were gutted, Cardiff City were gutless" article when City missed out on the playoffs after only needing 4 points from 24 (or whatever it was)? Then Dave Jones proper went off on him at the start of the next season?
10-04-19, 07:40
the other bob wilson

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

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Originally Posted by jon1959

Very sad news. He can't have been very old. Link to some of his recent (last year, post WOL) stuff here:

https://the-eye.wales/author/stevet/

His music taste suggests he couldn't have been much older than fifty - I'm really shocked by this news.

Thanks for posting that link because I think it goes a long way to support my view that Steve Tucker was a better, and very funny, writer on the world in general than he was on football. That's not to say he was poor when it came to writing about the game in general and Cardiff City in particular by any means (what came over when he was writing about City was the fact that he was such a fan), but I used to love his columns before he became a football writer first and foremost at Wales Online and his articles in that link brought back memories of his earlier stuff.

One thing is for sure, if I was asked to name all of the people who have written on Cardiff City for the Western Mail and Echo since I first saw us play, Steve Tucker would be one of the first names I'd come up with because bland he most definitely was not!

RIP.

Condolences to his friends and family.
10-04-19, 07:48
the other bob wilson

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Just to say that I've just read that he would have been 53 tomorrow - no age at all.
10-04-19, 08:00
thehumblegringo

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Terrible news.

Seemed like a top bloke. Always enjoyed listening to him on Blakey's boot room and he never took himself too seriously.

Condolences to the family
10-04-19, 08:20
ccfcwelshlad

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Really sad news.

A top guy who I had the pleasure of spending a bit of time with out in Canada for our pre-season tour a good 10 years or so ago, not sure Dave Jones was keen on him travelling with the squad like Terry Phillips ( :hehe: ); so he had managed to have a flight sponsored by Visit Vancouver or something similar.

He also tried to help me out when we were banned from Molineux.

RIP Steve.
10-04-19, 08:32
NottinghamBlue

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RIP Steve, forever a Bluebird. Sincere condolences to his family and friends.
10-04-19, 11:31
SABlue

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Shocking news ..... RIP fella
10-04-19, 12:21
Trigger

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Sad news, name I instantly recognised from columns and reports about city. Condolences to his family and friends.
10-04-19, 12:26
NYCBlue

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Quote:

Originally Posted by life on mars

Must have been a good lad ,as DJ was a miserable bugger .

He was really into the Smiths. Might explain that.
10-04-19, 16:45
MOZZER2

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

sad news indeed

met him a few times over the years and loved talking about the city , doing an article on one of my junior footie players in the echo and at a Morrissey concert in Cardiff

there is a light that never goes out

RIP
10-04-19, 17:12
xsnaggle

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

Drank in my local, he was in last weekend with a rather nice girl. mind he always woman of some kind with him.:-) I can't believe he won't be there any more.
10-04-19, 17:29
Chris Pontprennau Blues

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

So sad - really enjoyed Steve's sense of humour and passion for Cardiff City - RIP Steve
11-04-19, 16:31
LeningradCowboy

Re: Steve Tucker RIP

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...-city-16112354

The inimitable writing of Steve Tucker, who has passed away aged 52