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Hazey: here’s to you, my rambling boy*
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
From the Ready to Go site, familiar territory to most Sunderland fans, comes two pieces of unrelated news.
The first is that the SMB (Sunderland Message Board) and Speakeasy Chatroom, sources of good lively debate but also outbursts of offensive drivel, have been shut down.
The explanatory message read simply: “Closed due to libellous posts. Hopefully back later but don’t hold your breath.”
The people responsible for depriving hundreds if not thousands of SAFC supporters of access to these forums know who they are, and how they forced the hands of Roger and his colleagues at RTG. The sheer effort put into running the site deserved better**.
But the other piece of news put the first (a minor inconvenience when all is said and done) in the shade. Hazey, well known to RTG subscribers as the man behind the spectacularly misnamed Dull Ramblings blog, had lost his spirited but unevenly matched battle with cancer.
