he got a liver transplant and then swiftly went back on the booze, hence he drank his new liver away, wasted that chance. Thirty years ago he kicked good football, that doesn't make him fantastic and it doesn't excuse the hell he'd have put his family through by *not fighting hard enough* against his illness of alcoholism. His family were his main victims, as they are of any alcoholic. Dealing with the debt he ran up, dealing with his behaviour, dealing with whatever things he may have said or done behind closed doors, and always constantly dealing with knowing that as far as he was concerned, the booze came first. Kicking a football thirty years ago doesn't excuse that.