The funeral cortege for Albion fan Mark Townsend passes the Hawthorns on the way to Rowley Regis crematorium. Mark tragically died in the stands during an away match at Sheffield Wednesday.
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00:00Paul Jenkins Express and Star.com. We're outside the Hawthorns where the funeral
00:06cortege of Mark Townsend is going to be driving past and staff are going to come
00:12out and pay their respect at around half twelve on the way to Rowley Regis
00:16crematorium. Mark Townsend of course died tragically at Sheffield Wednesday in
00:22September on an Albion away game. There was a medical emergency and he
00:28unfortunately died on the day. Friends, family, Albion supporters are going to
00:33pay tribute to him after the crematorium at a pub and of course
00:38Albion got a game tomorrow against Cardiff City. They'll be hoping for a
00:42win in his memory. We're just outside the Hawthorns here with two people Richard
00:47Sant and Ali Jones, lifelong Star Wars Baggies fans and Richard you did a no
00:55Mark didn't you? Yeah, yeah I did yeah. How did you know him through the football? I knew him through Steve, his brother, yeah and then obviously coming up the
01:04Albion and that like, we used to meet in the pub for a drink and that, so yeah.
01:11You're obviously here to pay your respects today on the day of the funeral
01:15there's going to be a drive past the Hawthorns, a place he loved really. Yeah.
01:20Yeah and are you going to the wake afterwards? Yeah, I believe there's going to be a lot of
01:28Albion fans there, it's an Albion themed pub as well at least for the day.
01:34And Ali you were there on the on the day weren't you at Sheffield
01:38Wednesday, the tragic day a few weeks ago but you know his brother Steve.
01:43Yeah I mean so obviously I know Steve through what happened with Mark and
01:49Steve reached out to me because I used to do action for Albion and I was
01:55probably well known in the fan base and he reached out as he knew that I was at
02:00the game and asked me through my account what happened and we just got
02:05closer and closer the last few weeks and if in any way I can to try to help
02:09the family take any strain off to try to establish what went on then I offer my
02:15services to do that and just felt it was the right thing to do to pay our
02:18respects today. I think a legend of our journalism around here Tom Ross said
02:24once you kick one of us and we all limp and that's I think what we
02:28feel today, it's a sad day and we just want to pay our respects for one of our own.
02:32Yeah and the big Albion family as well obviously Mark, Steve, Mark was there
02:38with his nephew I believe at the game. Yeah Matty, I mean it's just as I
02:44say it resonates with me because I'm a generational fan as well and my dad
02:50came and my sons go with me now and it's part of you know so I mean as I
02:55say he's one of our own and we just wish his family all the very best in this sad time.