The Moment: Troy Townsend on the death of his son Kurtis and learning to deal with grief
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Troy Townsend, head of development at Kick It Out, sits down with Kelly Cates and Geoff Thomas to discuss the death of his son Kurtis in a car accident in 2001 and how he and his family coped with the tragedy.
Troy is father to six children, including Kurtis and current Everton midfielder Andros, and in this conversation he speaks honestly and emotionally about his relationships with them, and how over twenty years later he is still learning to deal with grief.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Kitty, time to eat your profits. Good kitty, look how fat you've gotten. That's the sound of some |
| 0:07.8 | workplace pension providers paying their shareholders instead of you. At people's pension, |
| 0:12.8 | we don't have shareholders to pamper. That's why over the last five years, we've given |
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| 0:25.9 | You've broken the cat flap again. People's Pension. Now that's a pension with purpose. |
| 0:29.7 | Visit people'spension.com.uk forward slash pays you. |
| 0:36.3 | Hello, this is the final instalment of the moment with Kelly Kate's and Jeff Thomas that we're dropping down the athletic football podcast feed ahead of that show's return on Monday the 13th of June. |
| 0:42.6 | What you're about to hear is a conversation with Troy Townsend, the head of development |
| 0:46.2 | at Kickett out and the father of six children, including the Everton winger, Andross Townsend. |
| 0:51.1 | Here, Troy reflects on the death of his son Curtis in a car accident in 2001 and how he |
| 0:56.3 | and his family coped with the tragedy. |
| 0:59.6 | The Athletic |
| 1:00.7 | Can you remember the one moment that changed your life forever? |
| 1:07.6 | The moment that put everything in perspective. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Kelly Cates.. I'm Kelly Kate. |
| 1:13.2 | And I'm Jeff Thomas. |
| 1:15.1 | And in this series, we're sharing the stories of sports people who've experienced and |
| 1:20.2 | overcome moments of adversity. |
| 1:22.8 | This is the moment. |
| 1:25.9 | In 2003, after a 20-year career in football, |
| 1:30.5 | playing for the likes of Crystal Palace, Bulls and England, |
| 1:34.2 | I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. |
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