GAME MOURNS LOSS OF GEORGE

By Chris Dunlavy

GOOD TIMES: George Baldock in his Sheffield United days
PICTURE: Alamy

A HOST of tributes have been paid to former Sheffield United defender George Baldock, who has died at the age of 31.
Baldock, who joined Panathinaikos in the summer after seven years at Bramall Lane, drowned in the swimming pool of his home in Athens on Wednesday evening.
“Numbing to hear of George Baldock’s passing, a man with so much still ahead of him in life as a husband, father, brother and son,” said Paul Heckingbottom, his manager at Sheffield United during the 202...

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