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... just die of cancer? Why do the media always have to say people lose a (usually brave) battle/fight with cancer? People never seem to have a fight with, say, heart disease or liver failure. It doesn't bother me that much, it's just a permanent niggle. It's already knowing what the headlines about Jade Goody will say. (Hint - they won't use the phrases "carked it" or "turned up her toes".) Why is the whole "lost a brave battle against cancer" thing perfectly acceptable, but if you printed a story that someone had lost a fight with a speeding lorry that would be seen as tasteless? Maybe all the hacks in the Street of Shame are secret poetry professors:- "For in the battle Life & they did wage She remained conqueror--I was overcome By my own heart alone, which neither age Nor tears nor infamy nor now the tomb Could temper to its object." "Let them pass" I cried--"the world & its mysterious doom Is not so much more glorious than it was That I desire to worship those who drew New figures on its false & fragile glass As the old faded." "Figures ever new Rise on the bubble, paint them how you may; We have but thrown, as those before us threw, Our shadows on it as it passed away...." OK. Rant over. Free reps for the first person to name the poem I've just quoted.

Credit to the little fella, gave it his all and never looked out of place. Hopefully the start of more minutes on the pitch.