Freddie Flintoff has revealed the “guilt” he feels over the death of Ricky Hatton. The former England cricket team captain paid an emotional tribute to the boxing legend during a recent instalment of Piers Morgan’s Uncensored show.
He said: “I sat with him a while ago on a train. I got on a train and he’d been somewhere. We sat together all the way back up to Manchester, quite unexpected.
“I think it’s like all these things, when something like that happens. You speak and everyone says, ‘He seemed fine, he seemed all right, he was looking forward to fighting in the next few weeks out in Dubai.’
“There’s almost a guilt…How people didn’t know? The one thing I found cover the past few years, it’s happened to more and more people.
“With Graham Thorpe in cricket…absolute great man, someone who is thought of so dearly by everyone who he played with and coached. You just feel like, if only we would have known. But you know, it’s terrible.”
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