Govindan Raghuraman, acting medical director at the QEH, said:

that exact spot all night, wishing to wake up from what felt like a living nightmare.

Colin’s brothers also travelled from Liverpool and Sussex to join us.

I couldn’t cry and every day after that merged into one.

It was like I was waiting for Colin to come home after a day at the footie.

But he never did. Because Colin died at home, he had to have an autopsy before we could arrange his funeral.

The coroner revealed that Colin’s cause of death was a pulmonary embolism – a blood clot that stops blood flow to an artery in the lung. Something that wasn’t linked to the stomach bug after all.

But a month later, an inquest found that the hospital was at fault.

When treating the stomach bug, a junior doctor had prescribed half the usual dose of medication that they should have to reduce the risk of a blood clot. Over the course of his hospital stay, Colin’s prescription was not checked by a senior clinician, consultant or pharmacist.

Colin’s death was caused by a chain of events that occurred after he had initially fallen ill.

Even though the hospital admitted fault, it didn’t make anything better.

Yet, as a family, we knew we had to honour Colin.

Arranging for him to be cremated in his referee kit, holding a red card in his hand, everything was footie themed.

Holding his funeral at the end of November 2022, the crematorium was full.

After that day, Ellen, Matthew and I were invited to a match at the local ground.

Wined and dined, we went out to watch the match and at 3pm the game stopped.

People of all ages stood in a line and held a minute silence in honour of Colin.

He would have been so humbled by it all.

The Norfolk F.A have been brilliant and even wanted to rename an award after Colin.

The Assistant Referee of the Year is now called the Colin Greenway Referee Award.

I will never get over losing Colin after 38 years together.

I never got to say goodbye.

Ellen is a mum now, too.

I know that Colin would have loved to be a grandad.

Turning the office into a bedroom, it really is Colin’s now. His footie bits are everywhere – a reminder of the incredible man that he was.

My world ended the day that my husband died.

So, if you’re reading this, you need to live and love each day as if it’s your last.

Colin was not only my entire world, but he touched so many other peoples’ lives, too.

However, his legacy lives on, in stories, memories and in the spirit of the blues – always.

My world ended the day that he died

‘On behalf of the Trust, I reiterate our sincere condolences to Mr Greenway’s family. We have reviewed Mr Greenway’s care in great detail and have carried out an internal investigation. ‘The trust is developing an individualised action plan as a result of Mr Greenway’s inquest.’