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Chris Mainwaring died
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R.I.P Chris. He was a terrific footballer, one of the best wingman i have seen play in the afl. When we played the West Coast he was always a very hard player to stopped. Truely a very sad day.
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Definately true. So sad.Chris Mainwaring, 41, dies in Perth
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Karen Collier and Michael Warner
October 01, 2007 11:23am
FORMER West Coast Eagles premiership player Chris Mainwaring died suddenly in Perth today. Mainwaring, 41, was rushed to hospital by ambulance at midnight after collapsing at home.
Paramedics later took him from his upmarket house in the coastal Perth suburb Cottesloe to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
The former champion wingman was among the original Eagles 1987 team.
He played in two premierships in 1992 and 1994.
The 201-game veteran helped propel the Eagles into a league powerhouse.
He quit West Coast in 1999 after a comeback from a debilitating knee injury.
Mainwaring joined other former AFL greats Gerard Healy, Kevin Bartlett, Rod Austin, Robert Walls and Mark Bickley on this years all-Australian team selection panel.
He has worked as a Channel 7 newsreader and sports reporter and on Perth radio since ending his footy career.
Mainwaring is survived by wife, Rani and two children.
The shock death follows a tumultuous season for the Eagles including drug scandals and the sudden loss of star skipper Chris Judd.
Judd recently quit to move back to family and friends in Melbourne.
Wayward champ Ben Cousins was banished from the team after confessing to substance abuse and spending time in an exclusive rehabilitation clinic in Malibu.
Fellow midfielder Daniel Kerr was fined $2000 in August after pleading guilty to a serious assault charge over a fracas at a Perth party.
He was also fined $10,000 by his club in February after pleading guilty to assaulting a taxi driver.
The Eagles issued Kerr with a suspended fine of $20,000 and warned he would be banned from senior games if he re-offended.
Kerr was named in a police investigation in which phone taps in 2003 captured him talking to a convicted drug trafficker.
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how did he die?
any website links????
any website links????
A very sad day for football, one of the true tough & honest footballers of the last 20 years.
Number 3 must be a curse at West Coast - time to hang it up
condolences to his family, friends & the Eagles
what are the alleged reports?RIP Chris!
WAY too young to die
I hope the alleged reports about the cause of his death are not true.
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- #12
he was found lying in the street, rushed to hospital and died of a Supposed Drug Overdose
Still can't believe it 41, wife, 2 kids and he's gone!
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- #13
He died of a heart attack. Too young
I heard it was a 'drug related hear condition', it doesn't make it any better but I only hope it was due to previous younger days drug abuse and not recent.
I don't mean to spread malicious rumours during a tough time but I heard this on the radio.
Chris, a true champion this is such a tragedy whichever way it came about.
I don't mean to spread malicious rumours during a tough time but I heard this on the radio.
Chris, a true champion this is such a tragedy whichever way it came about.