Please dig deep and donate now to my attempt to complete The Great Birmingham Run that we may, in Roger’s name, make a useful contribution to St Giles Hospice and help to ease someone else’s suffering.

At around 2am on Wednesday August 17th my dear friend and father in law to be Roger William Brown passed away unexpectedly at St Giles Hospice, Lichfield from complications associated with bowel cancer. He was only 58. I had the privilege of knowing him for six years.

Roger had been ill for approximately three years and underwent some fairly horrific “treatments” as he valiantly battled this awful disease. Aside from when at home the only other place Roger really felt safe and well looked after was at St Giles. As a tribute to Roger and a sign of my appreciation of the great work St Giles do I have decided to attempt the Great Birmingham Run. It’s no understatement to say this may turn out to be a foolhardy decision. I'm certainly not an athlete and I've only ten weeks to prepare. My objective is to run some of the course, crawl the rest and hopefully make it to the end!!!

Roger was a kind and caring man, one of the best I have known. He hated to see people suffer unnecessarily. Please dig deep and donate now that we may, in Roger’s name, make a useful contribution to St Giles Hospice and help to ease someone else’s suffering.

*For those of you that are interested - Roger spent many years as a professional footballer playing for Fullham (scoring 12 goals in one year as a center half!!), Norwich and Bournemouth. You can read the offical tribute to Roger from Fullham F.C at:

http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2011/August/RogerBrownTribute.aspx

The picture I have chosen is of Roger in the dressing room after he scored the goal against Lincoln that secured Fullham promotion in 1982. You can check out this goal on youtube and in my videos section (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5V-S-di3iEs).

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