Danny Fullbrook died of cancer in the early hours of Monday morning, he was just forty years old and had been battling cancer for eighteen months, he leaves behind his ten year old son.As I write that sentence it barely seems true anddespite the flood of tributes that have poured in for Danny this week I cant believewere not going to see, or hear, from him again.There are a group of us Willie Gay Jersey who have been close friends for more than 20 years since we met as undergraduates at Hull University in the Autumn of 1990 and in all that time we have jointlyshared lifes ups& downs, but weve experiencednothing like what the last 18 months and certainly not the last few weeks have brought.If you take the time to search youll find a huge volume of tributes in his memory that have been posted over the last days and they all share the same core me sage, Danny was one of lifes good guys, Danny had an energy and enthusiasm for life that was rarely if ever surpa sed, Danny loved football and more than anything he loved being a football journalist.The first time I met Danny was in the University bar, which is unsurprising because we both spent a lot of time there, andduring the course of that first conversation he told me that he was going to be a football journalist, note that he didnt say that was what he wanted to do but rather it was what he was going to do. How many people do you know who at the age of 18 have a dream that Clyde Edwards-Helaire Jersey big that they go on to fulfill?Ten years later Danny became the chief football reporter for the Daily Star, the youngest reporter ever to reachthat position on a national newspaper and we were all incredibly proud of him. In the years that followed we read his columns, watched him on the TV,texted him ince santly for the latest go sip but most of all we admired this kid, our friend, who had turned his teenage dreams into a profe sional reality.Im so proud that Danny was my friend, Im proud that he achieved so much in such a tragically short amount of time, Im proud that so many people felt moved to pay tribute to him this week not least the manager & captain of the England team about whom he was so pa sionate but most of all Im proud that he was such a genuine & lovely guy. He had a Tommy Townsend Jersey kind word for everyone and, whilst hed argue the last ounce out of any football debate, he didnt have a bad bone in his body which is why the tributes to him this week have been so remarkably consistent.His profe sional colleagues called him Fearle s which couldnt be more apt because he wasnt afraid of anything. He wasnt afraid to dream big, he wasnt afraid to live his life to the full, he wasnt afraid tocommit himself to everything he Jarran Reed Jersey did with an enthusiasm that had to be seen to be believed and he wasnt afraid to stand firm behind his own beliefs.Danny and I spent a lot of time texting each other, it was the staple means of communicationin our relationship, and Ive been reading back over those texts a lot in the last few weeks. Even as he was starting to lose his battle he was still hitting me with some incredibly accurate insights, on the morning of May 19th he texted me that he expected West Ham to win the play off final and Chelsea to win the champions league final right on both counts. Perhaps most tellingly he texted a few days later in response to a le s than flatteringnote I sent him about Roy Hodgson, youre wrong about Hodgy, he said, hell do a lot better than you think. That was the last text I got from him before he Le'Veon Bell Jersey became too ill to write his own texts and his sister Jo had to take over but so far, as usual, hes been right and Ive been wrong which is why he was one of fleet streets finest and why its so tragic that we have all been robbed of the pleasure of reading his views for many years to come.Like all of his friends and colleagues Im struggling to accept that weve lost him but our lo s is small compared to the hole hell leave in the lives of his Mum, Dad, Sister & son and its with them that I rest my thoughts & prayers.Well say our goodbyes to him on Monday but hell be in our hearts forever love ya Danny boy.