{"id":5450,"date":"2026-01-09T03:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5450"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:01:56","slug":"archive-terry-yorath-recalls-tragedies-and-their-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=5450","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 died in January 2026 after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">READ MORE:<\/b> A warrior touched by tragedy &#8211; Terry Yorath obituary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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. He also spoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}