Tributes have been paid to a former regional daily sports editor who has died aged 57.
Kevin Nash left the Bournemouth Echo in 2010 after many years at the paper as sports editor and later features editor.
He was taken ill with pancreatitis earlier this month and died in Bournemouth Hospital last Wednesday.
AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe has led the tributes to Kevin whom he described as “a really good guy who cared passionately about this football club.”
Said Eddie: “It was great dealing with him – he was just a gentleman. He will be greatly missed by everyone here.”
Former sports editor Kevin, who leaves a wife and three children, also worked closely with Stoke City manager Tony Pulis when he was at Bournemouth.
Said Tony: “My thoughts are with his family. They are the ones who will be suffering.”
And Poole Town manager Tom Killick added: “He was just a really nice guy. He had a really wide knowledge in all levels of sport and football locally.”
Kevin, who lived in Southbourne, leaves a wife Michele and three children, Amy, 22, Harry, 19, and 12-year-old Phoebe.
Since leaving the Echo in 2010 he had written articles for a number of different publications, mainly about football and golf.
Earlier in his career he worked as a sub-editor at the China Daily in Beijing and he has also written books about football.
Said Michele: “His family were his greatest pleasure, along with his golf. It is a shock for the whole family because it was so sudden.”
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I was Nashy’s news editor when he came to the Eastern Daily Press as a news reporter back in the 80s. He was smashing lad, a real gentle giant with a wicked sense of humour, and he knew a story when he saw one too. He wasn’t a bad cricketer either and we played for the same club for a number of years.
I haven’t seen him for years, but my condolences to his family.
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I hit a golf ball around Northern France with Kevin – and not always in the right direction! He was a lovely lad, instantly likeable and a one-man party waiting to happen. Difficult to take in this news, condolences all round.
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Shared a rented flat with Kevin and two other local reporters for a while in the late 1980s when a Bournemouth Echo photographer and well remember the mischevious sense of humor; also that he was another that didn’t meekly accept the nonsense that sometimes goes with these jobs. We never did have enough like him.
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