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[gemma | andor evangelist @pocketfulofgems]

I FINISHED HER AND SHE'S STUNNIN'

[Danny Kelly @dannykellywords]

Hello all, it's Danny's wife Alex here. I am overwhelmed and immensely moved by the outpouring of love for him, and want to thank you all.

For anyone who would like to join his Funeral Mass tomorrow at 11am Fri 13 November, please follow the link below.

https://t.co/EB1aHXUCMl

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

How I Remember Danny Kelly thx Man 👊🏿✌🏾@NME

[John Pitchford🌹💙 @Johnnypapa64]

For Remembrance Day (by Siegfried Sassoon)

[Up The Villa @KingGary1234]

😂😂😂

[The_Proclaimers @The_Proclaimers]

Danny Kelly R.I.P.

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

So heartening to seen all the love for Danny K.
We were genuinely like brothers with a shorthand understanding and in-jokes that now is lost forever to me.
Music, Football, Life - we shared an absurd private universe of turmoil.
We feared change...and now here it is.

-

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

Danny Kelly and I tried to forge another path for football punditry. One based in hoopla, voodoo and toasters.
Sadly a more sober way won out. 10,000 gruff podcasts.
But at least we tried.

[David Smith @digidavey]

From Dennis Skinner.
This is lovely from Dennis Skinner on Jeremy Corbyn. It just hits the spot exactly, I think.

Dennis Skinner on Jeremy Corbyn:
"I don't think Corbyn's the best leader ever. I appreciate that he's not the best at appealing to a lot of demographics. he's crap with soundbites; not good at speaking straight to camera. Better in real situations with real people. I appreciate that he's not got a great deal of, what would you call it, zing. I don't agree with him on everything by any means.
Still, you know something I know? If Labour lose the election, Jeremy Corbyn will probably go back to being a local MP. He'll carry on holding speakers up for people at meetings, and helping people with their chairs, and thanking people for making the sandwiches.
He'll carry on having talks and doing constituency surgeries and attending debates and asking questions and campaigning on various issues and staying behind to carry on talking about stuff with ordinary people after the event's finished. If he weren't the leader now, he'd be campaigning on behalf of the party. He'd be standing at the back helping.
He's not going to swan off to a career of after-dinner speaking and corporate events and non-executive directorships and consultancies. He's not going to edit the Evening Standard. It's not his personal ambition that's brought him here.
He wasn't ever that keen on being a leader. The only reason he stood when he did was that, to paraphrase another Labour front-bencher, every other remaining left-wing MP in the party had already stood as the token socialist candidate in a previous leadership election, and it was basically his turn.
And here's the thing: his apparent lack of charisma notwithstanding (and what is this charisma that apparently Tim Farron and Theresa May possess? It's like nothing I've ever seen described using that term before), he's the exact opposite of what everyone seems to agree they're sick of in politicians.
The meaningless soundbites and stock phrases and glib dog-whistle oversimplifications don't sit naturally with him. He's better at sitting down calmly and talking about things like a grown-up. He's visibly irritated when interviewers push him to answer stupid, meaningless or leading questions, and, to me, that irritation seems remarkably restrained considering that I'd probably be unable to put up with such bollocks without flying into an expletive-laden rant.
He reminds me of a Scandinavian politician, and that's nothing but a compliment. Politicians aren't supposed to be evangelists or salespeople; they're supposed to be people of substance, not just a mass of superficially appealing tics, right? Right?
In short, he's a real human person, like you get in real life, not whatever kind of thing most politicians are where you just cannot imagine them existing in any normal situation alongside real people without getting punched in the face.
I've seen people like him, working in various capacities, usually doing something socially responsible, sometimes voluntary. They help. They support. They sympathise. They don't usually get to the top of organisations because they're not naturally competitive.
And here he is, in a position he probably never expected to be in, and his expression is, for me, the right one: he's grim; a touch uncertain; perhaps somewhat daunted. Quite right too. Anyone who's not daunted by the prospect of being Prime Minister shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the job.
I want whoever leads the country to feel the responsibility as keenly as possible. The Prime Minister is the servant of millions of masters, not the master of millions of servants, as Theresa May seems to think she is. It's a horrible job, but if nobody else is going to do it, he'll have to.
Because someone's got to. You can't just stand there and do nothing. You have to try to help; to do what you can. That's what he's like. And if the election's lost as the last two were, he'll go back to helping in whatever other ways are available. And if he loses his seat (which he won't), he'll go and try to help somewhere else.
The fact that this man is considered unelectable when the alternatives are as they are is itself an indictment of our society. The UK needs to be careful who they shake hands with."
[Jonathan Connell]

[Max Rushden 💛🖤 @maxrushden]

One of the best. Hope we did him justice on the radio today ❤️

[TheFarm/PeterHooton @TheFarm_Peter]

RIP Danny Kelly - we got to know him when he was the editor of @NME - very funny and a brilliant writer & broadcaster 🙏🙏

[Rolling Stone UK @RollingStoneUK]

RIP to Danny Kelly, one of music journalism and football's most important voices https://t.co/fJ2PWhIVyt

[The View From The Lane Podcast @VFTLpodcast]

We are absolutely devastated at the death of our host, our leader, the great Danny Kelly.

We all loved him as much as he loved Spurs.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

This morning I was told of the passing of my good friend and colleague, Danny Kelly. The tributes to him in the coming days from those who knew him and worked with him will give you an idea of how much he was loved.

I loved him too. Very much so. A man who I called "Dad" on air because I wished he was. I hope you give me a few minutes to read my thoughts, and I hope they do you justice, Dan.

By 2008 I was a mess. I would sleep 18 hours a day, the other 6 mostly wanting to die. Once or twice a week I would open my laptop, organise football tabs, gossip and news as prep for jobs in broadcasting that I knew would never come, "just in case". When hope dies, we die, after all.

Then Danny Kelly came into my life.

I was driving out of London having been to see a psychiatrist about the state I was in and had BBC London on the radio. Danny was presenting with a guest, reviewing books. My name came up in the conversation, so I called in.

We hit it off straight away, talked about football for what seemed like forever but was probably a standard 10-12 minute section. But for me it sparked a temporary respite from sleep and chronic mental health issues and even for that I was grateful.

A couple of years later Danny joined talkSPORT to do the 7-10pm slot through the week. He told me he was offered a few co-presenters but he remembered that conversation we had and he wanted me to do it.

A lifeline of work, passionately talking about our sport, having fun and feeling a value as a human again. Something lost for 7 long years.

Danny gifted me that. Without that I know I wouldn't be writing this today.

"Always fresh, never frozen" was the tagline in a Domino's read we had to do in the show, something we'd instinctively greet each other with until our last meeting, in a pub, broadcasting for talkSPORT around 3 years ago. I didn't know that time would be the last, but perhaps fittingly we hugged as I left, I'm glad I did.

The shows were loved. They were funny, honest, insightful and I hope, along with Saggers after that, proof that Danny's belief in me was worthy. But to say my love for him was only thanks for a job doesn't even scratch the surface.

His kindness, his phone calls late at night ( Dan was a notorious night owl) of support, his man hugs, his indomitable spirit, his big brain on anything from football to music to geopolitics, his love, as I know many others will testify, came from the biggest of hearts and the biggest of souls housed in a giant of a man in every sense.

Dan, thank you, thank you for the kindness, the fun, the hope, the support and for being someone to look up to and aspire to be.

I love you very much, I know I'll hug you again some day. Thank you for everything.

"I love football Stan, I love it ".

[Danny Baker @prodnose]

My great friend, supreme broadcaster and funniest man I ever knew, Danny Kelly, died yesterday afternoon.
I cannot believe I will never hear his voice again.

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

I’ve had my white brothers back since day one 🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇵🇰

I feel bad for those of you who live in hate. Come and try happiness and balance.

West Mids for life 🤲🏽🩵☝🏽

[Ahmed Moor @AhmedMoor]

My name is Ahmed Moor and I’m running for US Senate here in PA (election 2028). I’m running to end the war in Iran and to promote the dignity agenda: free healthcare, free childcare, and affordable housing.

I’m calling for accountability for genocide, for ICE and for corruption. And finally, for the protection of our civil liberties in America. Join the fight at https://t.co/gM0uBwST6b

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

This guy is being talked about as a future president, possibly running in 2028. Look who funds him: