Leaderboard

Welcome to Derby, where you'll never leave... Somehow its December, which means it is now time to start drawing up your teams for the 26th edition of one of the oldest running deadpools in the world. That's right, the Derby Dead Pool, or DDP as its also known. As with 2020, the 2021 DDP will be co-hosted by the team of msc, @Grim Up North and @gcreptile. The emails are going out (apologies again for any gremlins), and so its only now to say the DDP is open for entries! RULES For the hard of reading, a reminder of the four rule changes 1. DONT PICK FFBI PEOPLE. Those who ignore this will be mocked mercilessly. 2. UNIQUE PICKS are now worth 4 points instead of the old 3, to reward those who score with knowledge or punts on notables everyone else ignores. 3. THEME TEAMS need to be a theme team ie they cant be "all men" or "all DDP survivors from last years top ten". Esoteric is OK, taking the piss is not. 4. QUALIFYING OBITS - All from 2020 plus Last Word, Daily Record, Scottish and Sunday papers, STV, UTV, Economist, UK Yahoo, Radio Times, Economist, City AM and The Independent. Otherwise, good luck one and all!

Okay my DDP 2021 Team is now with YoungWillz - hopefully the emails will go out some time today. Here we go again...

Then people don’t know who’s got who. It might just be easier to pick one name and shut the fuck up?

Who else is playing Whamageddon this year? I enjoy taking part in this every year, not least because I fucking despise the song.

Finally DDP banned people "famous" for being ill. Next year should be a better competition.

Never trust statistics (is what my old statistics professor used to say).

American actress Abby Dalton, who had a recurring role as Julia Cumson in the television series Falcon Crest, died at 88 years: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/abby-dalton-dead-actress-falcon-crest-joey-bishop-show-was-88-1305960 In addition, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role as a nurse on CBS's Hennesey.

But will he be a cadaver?

tbh I forgot about a team name right till the sending email bit and just came up with Pan Breed (ie "deid"!) on the spur. 9 years later... Enjoy. It will only be damaging if you pick 20 DQ'd Mirror sob stories, I promise. Please don't pick 20 DQ'd Mirror sob stories...

legendary French singer Anne Sylvestre dead at 86. https://www.bfmtv.com/people/musique/mort-de-la-chanteuse-anne-sylvestre_AD-202012010201.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9004941/Prince-Harrys-godmother-Lady-Vestey-died-aged-71.html Lady Vestey - friend of the Queen and the Duke of Sussex has died aged 71.

John Savident who played Fred Elliott in Corrie. 82 now though has always looked about that age, no news about him since 2012. If he is still that obese he could be a good pick.

Clapping not good enough for them?

SF author Ben Bova dead at 88 from COVID

Lets hope the fucker doesn't fall through them, what with his weight and all that.

Belated update Congratulations to @gcreptile and @banana who both scored a hit with Croatian Eurovision Singer Kico Slabinac a fourth and fifth hit respectively but most importantly it moves them both into the winning zone. The both just need an Astronaut. Full winning list is now 1. Frank Borman (ba) 2. Anatomy Filipchenko (ba)* 3. Ken Mattingly (ba) 4. James McDivitt (ba) 5. Marcos Pontes (gr) 6. Leonid Popov (gr) 7. Vladimir Shatalov (gr) 8. Tom Stafford (ba) 9. Aleksei Yeliseyev (gr) * gr loses out on number of hits however that could change. I also got a unique for Diego Maradona which at least got me off the mark. Leader board and Masterlist updated

Also notable in that along with Terry Duerod (basketball) he was the second major name from the University of Detroit Titans to die in the past week or so. SC

https://www.thewrap.com/dena-dietrich-dies-at-91-mother-nature-margarine-ads/?fbclid=IwAR3i_OLVWidBvqWUbg6D5O1sXRlB8oFxMMhszAlLoOFDC9f0Bgj1gXvAbsc It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature - but you REALLY shouldn’t screw with The Reaper! Certainly a blip on American radar. However - she was an comedic actress, NOT a comedian or comedy writer. This entire thread on her is misplaced. But there’s an obit for ya. SC

Kissinger will kiss this world goodbye.

Very nearly a theme team there.

Bloody hell - he's lost some weight!

Turns out jazz musician Bill Graham (wiki), b. 8th September 1918, died on 29th December 1975. Somebody added a FindAGrave memorial for him just two months ago. It checks out. Here is the official death record on Ancestry. Mentioning because he's been picked in the DDP in the past and was recently discussed on @chilean way's centenarian deadpool.

Hope the cunt dies roaring