He had a way with words, I could do nothing but laugh as William cracked open another tin of coke.Įven then, it was obvious that William was suffering with illness, but he would never let it get on top of him or slow him down. Up and at them early and they don’t like it”. His reply was classic William Frazer “the tramps are on their drugs half the night and lie in their beds all day. Wondering why my cell was filled with William’s voice at such an hour, I asked- filled with expletives- what he was doing. However not to be deterred, William was up at 6:30am “giving them a bit back”. He would simply laugh and say goodnight, drifting off to sleep with the late-night howls of those throwing all kinds of threats and abuse in his direction.
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Often late into the night vile abuse would be shouted out the windows at both Willie and me. He also enjoyed returning the cross-community ‘banter’ across the wing early in the morning. I also discovered William knew very little about football- I convinced him to pay attention and watch Manchester United v Real Madrid in the European Cup, we argued long into the night over a red card shown to Nani and William’s failure to understand why I was “so worked up”. We knew a lot about each other, good and bad. In our period in prison we shared many private conversations that will forever remain between us. It is perhaps due to the strong nature of our friendship that we at times fought bitterly over political issues we always laughed about it afterwards, knowing that our friendship could always survive such genuine disagreements. We were friends long before that, but we became even closer during that period of time. This came after we had lived in each-others pockets for 3 months during the height of the protests. For two weeks we shared a small cell, locked up 23 hours a day. In 2013 we found ourselves locked up in HMP Maghberry following our role in the union flag protests. I am privileged to be the only person to have shared a prison cell with William Frazer. If I had done so, he would likely have said to me “awk such a lot of auld nonsense”. I could write a fluffy piece, but Willie would not have appreciated that. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only.This short piece is little more than a basic attempt to pay tribute to one of the finest Ulstermen that ever lived, William Fredrick Frazer. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2021.
Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.įull-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports.
Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.
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