Smashing bloke and a big loss to the groundhopping fraternity. It was in that very same room that Derek passed away suddenly of a heart attack. A Londoner who in his later years retired to Oban, Jen and I visited him there a few years back on our way to Skye when he showed me his beloved chess club (it A professor of mathematics, highly intelligent and a correspondence chess champion, but also the same man I warned three times to his face to be careful of the low doorway to his room at Dolforwyn Hall but was spotted minutes later rubbing his head. Those of you that will have known Derek will have liked him very much. Many, many discussions have followed between myself and various Leagues, FAs, hotels, and coach companies and now I feel inĪ position to at last make some tentative plans for the rest of this year and into 2021.īefore that, I want to pause and talk about the sad passing of Derek Coope. NWCL Hop) changed the landscape completely. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken over all our lives, and the cancellation of all games in Scotland one week before we were due to go (and just one week after a highly successful
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