Paul Weaver – Charlton North Downs RIP

As other bloggers have posted, many of us received an email from Paul’s sister Carol over the weekend saying that Paul passed away on February 5th after suffering a heart attack whilst playing the sport that he loved, tennis.

I had met Paul a couple times mostly in the Rose of Denmark. He had normally darted up from a morning tennis game and enjoyed a pre-match beer, although he did once drop a pint all over me in the RoD and I used to continue to give him stick about it.

Paul started to blog in 2007, the season we were relegated from the Premiership, but I know that work stresses in the past year or so had prevented him from writing as much as he’d liked. As NYA said, his final post was sadly very poignant.

I loved Paul’s writing, it was lucid and always from the heart, and I loved that he blogged about his travels. He was a lovely and genuine man and my heart goes out to his wife Jill and their two children.