Terry Yorath - who has died aged 75 - will long be remembered as a tough and combative footballer, but two off-field tragedies would rock him to the core.

The Leeds and Wales midfielder lost his teenage son Daniel to an undiagnosed heart condition during a back garden kickabout in May 1992. 

It was a moment that, by Yorath's own admission, would put him on a severe downward spiral, with the star turning to drink to cope with his grief. 

This would end in the breakdown of his 33-year marriage to his childhood sweetheart Christine, as well as a long battle to curb his drinking. 

Yorath was also player-coach of Bradford in 1985 when a fire at the team's ground, Valley Parade, killed 56 people.

Inevitably, it was his son Daniel's death that hit him the hardest. 

Yorath recalled that horrific day in 1992 in a memoir, Hard Man Hard Knocks, where he described seeing the 15-year-old fall 'flat on his face'. 

'I was convinced he was mucking around so I kept shouting: ''Come on! Get up!'' the footballer wrote. 

'Eventually, when he didn't move, I went across to him and could tell something was wrong.

'I picked him up and saw the blood running from his nose. He let out a groan as I held him in my arms and the next moment he had gone.'

Terry Yorath with his ex wife, Christine, who he separated from in the aftermath of Daniel's death 

Daniel died of an undiagnosed heart condition during a back garden kickabout in May 1992

A young Gabby Logan, pictured with her father Terry, who she described as a 'kind-hearted and generous man'

Daniel's was later found to have been suffering from a genetic heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 

Yorath - who is survived by a second son, Jordan and two daughters, Louise and the broadcaster Gabby Logan - was open about his struggles to come to terms with his loss. 

His pain was compounded when, 18 months after Daniel's death, he  was sacked as the manager of the Welsh national side. 

Speaking to Wales on Sunday in 2004, he admitted the experience left him feeling bitter - and led to difficulties in his marriage to his property developer wife Christine.

He said at the time: 'The more she became successful in her work, the less I was in mine and my self-esteem dropped. The drinking I was doing to dull my feelings didn't help and she works very hard and was spending less and less time at home.

'We would occasionally go out for a meal together but did nothing else. We never spent any quality time together. The split had been coming for a while and I'd been looking at various flats. Then something hit me one day and that was that.'

Yorath moved out of the family home five days before Christmas. Then, the following April, his mother, Mary, died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke.