Kevin Campbell was the all-action, hard-grafting centre-forward who delighted football fans with great goals across a 19-year career at the top of the game.
Affectionately known as Super Kev at Arsenal, Nottingham Forest and Everton, he developed a reputation as one of the hardest-to-handle forwards in the country, while his beaming smile and joyous celebrations made him one of English football's most popular characters.
"I think if you ask anyone who's ever been in the presence of him, they'll always him and speak about how good a person he was," says Campbell's son Tyrese, 25, who plays as a striker for Sheffield United. "He carried the whole room - you knew when he was in there because you could probably hear him.
"He was a respectful, happy, positive person. You could even say almost too good for this Earth. A proper angel sent from heaven."
In 2024 Kevin Campbell's life was tragically cut short after he suffered a serious illness, and an investigation was launched into concerns over his care.
After his inquest concluded on Monday, this is the story of Campbell's life, loss and legacy, told by those who knew him best.
Brixton, south London, 1970-80s
Campbell will eventually raise his own family in the north-west, but is born in south London in 1970, the second youngest of seven children in a family with Jamaican roots.
"We were brought up by a single mother so resources were extremely tight," Campbell's younger sister Lorna says. "We used to play tennis against a back wall because we couldn't afford to hire a court. Kevin wanted to be in different football teams and it was a struggle for my mother to pay all the subs.
"We had three big brothers and he was never afraid to play football with them and their friends - he would just take them on. And this was on the mean streets of Brixton. That's when he came alive."
Kevin and his sister Lorna grew up playing sport together on the streets of Brixton
Manchester, January-March 2024
Campbell begins to feel unwell. His symptoms are generic – tiredness, loss of appetite, a decrease in weight.
Despite insisting that family and friends need not worry, in the following months he has multiple stays in hospitals in Greater Manchester. His appearance changes as he becomes visibly weaker. Doctors are unsure what is causing Campbell's symptoms.
According to an eventual inquest, he is discharged in March 2024 after "responding well to treatment".
'He carried a whole room' - Family & friends pay tribute to Campbell
Highbury, north London, 1985-95
Campbell's natural talent means he is scouted by multiple professional clubs in London, and he chooses to sign a youth deal at Arsenal.
"When I ed Arsenal at 16, he was a young kid, about nine," says Paul Davis, a midfielder with the Gunners between 1980 and 1995. "That's when I started to hear his name – people saying 'this guy is scoring plenty of goals'.
"Then he came up to train with the first team. We see this big guy - six foot one, 17, wide, his legs are so thick and chunky. And everyone's thinking, 'Wow, no wonder he's scoring goals'. He was just knocking everybody over. We had people like Kenny Sansom, Viv Anderson - senior internationals - and when they saw Kevin coming over they would be like 'oh no' because they knew he would embarrass them in training.
"When I first came through I was the only black player at Arsenal. You've got to the culture of the country meant it was OK to tell off-colour jokes. So if you had somebody that was in the struggle with you, then it made it easier.
"Kevin would always challenge things in a way that didn't end up with a fight. He was able to do it and they thought, 'actually, should I be saying this, or should I be doing this">