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The burnt-out Phoenix cat, which was found under rubble in Andreevka near Kiev in April. The cat was picked up by the staff of a pet supply shop in Kiev. Phoenix has been treated and is now feeling well!

Former football player ( Sampdoria, Juventus , Chelsea) and coach ( Chelsea) thread. In November 2018, Vialli revealed that he had successfully overcome a year-long battle with cancer. In October 2019, Vialli confirmed he was still suffering from pancreatic cancer.

If he survives the year. Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota could be one to put on the list

It fills up their senses...

Shigeru Miyamoto is 70.

I will say, now Elizabeth II/Queen Elizabeth II/ The Queen/Queen/Queen Elizabeth is dead, 20% of the work involved in this task no longer exists.

Here are my selections for Monday, November 14th: 82 The Sweet - Blockbuster 80 Alice Cooper - School`s Out 57 Nilsson – Without You 56 Suzi Quatro - Can the Can 41 Don McLean - Vincent +4 40 Wizzard - See My Baby Jive -6 14 10CC - Rubber Bullets

Not yet 90 but Haim Drukman, one of Israel's most influential religious leaders celebrated his 90th birthday four days ago. What's the thing that seems to be attached to him? Can't see properly as the pictures are shite. I've added a few people to the list. Fat old guy Yissachar Dov Rokeach and his group selling his car. The car is described as pampering, used modestly, very carefully maintained and it has "benefits attributed only to him due to his miraculous holiness".

Some screenshots from the obit.

Lou Reed is recovering after a "life saving" liver transplant...

Gets a BBC breaking news notification which suprised me as he doesn’t seem famous enough to get that - he hasn’t had a Sky or Mirror one who Give more celebrity death notifications

The papers never revealed what sort of cancer Sandra Weir had, but looking up the Scottish government records, I can reveal that she has Stage IV esophageal cancer with advanced spread to the lungs.

Old (85+)/ill celeb birthdays for form spotting etc pt. 4. 28 October: Elinor Otto, 103, Cleo Laine, 95, William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, 94, Joan Plowright, 93, Bernie Ecclestone, 92, Lenny Wilkens, 85, Howard Blake and Kenneth Best, 84 29 October: Frank Sedgman, 95, Omara Portuondo, 92, Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton, 90, Michael Jayston, 85 30 October: Senovio Saavedra Muela, 110, Jean Chapman, 93, Christopher Foster, 92, David M. Wilson, 91, Robert Caro and Jim Perry, 87, Dick Vermeil, 86, Claude Lelouch and Brian Price, 85 31 October: Dan Rather, 91, Phil Goyette, 89, Dale Brown and David Harvey, 87, Tom Paxton, 85 1 November: Shi Ping, 110, Frances Hesselbein, 107, Marcel Ophuls, 95, A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury and Francis Arinze, 90, Gillian Knight, 88, Gary Player, 87, Shizuka Kamei, 86, Bill Anderson, 85 2 November: William A. Jenkins, 105, Mai Raud-Pähn, 102, Wanda Półtawska, 101, Michael Loewe, 100, Paul Johnson, 94, Ken Rosewall, 88, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, 87, Pat Buchanan, 84, Kabosu (Doge), 17 3 November: Valdas Adamkus, 96, Brian Robinson, Tsutomu Seki and Lois Smith, 92, Michael Dukakis and Amartya Sen, 89, Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, 88, Roy Emerson, 86 4 November: Guillermo "Bombita" Rodriguez, 98, Anastasios of Albania, 93, Dick Groat, 92, Barry Crocker and Elgar Howarth, 87, Loretta Swit, 85 5 November: John F. Gonge, 101, Sydney Kentridge and María Isabel Rodríguez, 100, Chan Sek Keong and Harris Yulin, 85, Cesar Luis Menotti, 84 6 November: Ronald Blythe and Uriel García Cáceres, 100, François Englert, 90, Bas de Gaay Fortman, 85 7 November: Maria Aulenbacher, 113, Mihai Șora, 106, Eric Kandel, 93, Rudy Boschwitz, 92, G. Edward Griffin, 91, Gwyneth Jones and Al Attles, 86 8 November: Bessie Hendricks, 115, Eileen Kramer, 108, Silvana Lattmann, 104, Walter Mirisch, 101, Victorinus Youn Kong-hi, 98, Darleane C. Hoffman, 96, L. K. Advani, 95, Jim Redman and Paolo Taviani, 91, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, 90, Alain Delon, 87, Joseph James DeAngelo, 77, 9 November: Whitey Herzog, 91, Ingvar Carlsson, 88, David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, 87, Bob Graham, 86, Roger McGough and Donald Trelford, 85 10 November: Honor McKellar, 102, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, 87 11 November: Louise Tobin, 104, Paul Ignatius, 102, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, 93, Mabandla Dlamini, 92, Stephen Lewis and Alicia Ostriker, 85 12 November: Denis DeJordy, 84, Neil Young, 77 13 November: Pete Arnett and Kamahl, 88, George Carey, 87 14 November: Huang Decheng, 109, Kathleen Hughes, 93, Fred Haise, 89, Catherine McGuinness, 88, Lefteris Papadopoulos, 87, Alan J. W. Bell, 85 15 November: Gombojavyn Ochirbat, 93, Petula Clark and Alvin Plantinga, 90, Peter Dickinson, 88 16 November: Josef Schuetz, 102, Garnet Mimms, 89, Elizabeth Drew and Magdi Yacoub, 87, John Moore, 86, Alan Budd, 85 17 November: Ángeles Flórez Peón, 104, Jean Faut, 97, Orlando Peña, 89, Jim Inhofe, 88, Bobby Joe Conrad, 87, Crispian Hollis, 86, Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, 84 18 November: George Nagobads, 101, Gyanashree Mahathero, 97, Sheila Jordan, 94, Vassilis Vassilikos, 88, Rodney Hall, 87, Ennio Antonelli, 86 19 November: William Russell, 98, Kurt Hamrin, 88, Ted Turner, 84 20 November: Sylvia Fein, 103, Estelle Parsons, 95, Jerry Hardin, 93, Choe Yong-rim, 92, Colville Young and Kim Suk-soo, 90, Paco Ibáñez, 88, Don DeLillo, 86, Rene Kollo and Viktoriya Tokareva, 85 21 November: Zhang Lixiong, 109, Eleanor Collins, 103, Dieter Gruen and James M. Houston, 100, Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, 91, Laurence Luckinbill, 88, Marlo Thomas, 85 22 November: Staughton Lynd and Keith Rayner, 93, John Bird, 86, George Alagiah, 57 23 November: Gloria Whelan, 99, Jack McKeon, 92, Robert Towne, 88, Ken Eastwood, 87 24 November: Tsung-Dao Lee, 96, Willy Claes, 84, Billy Connolly, 80 25 November: Yasue Okai, 114, Johnny Johnson, 101, Henri Simon, 100, Takayo Fischer, 90, Kathryn Crosby, 89 26 November: Françoise Gilot, 101, Betta St. John, 93, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, 91, Richard Holloway, 89, Jerry Jameson, 88 27 November: Jacqueline White, 100, Dick Poole, 92, Jacques Godbout and Gordon S. Wood, 89, Gilbert Strang, 88 November but exact birthdate not known: Pietro Barucci, 100 Yan Mingfu, 91

1. Frank Field 2. Nigel Starmer-Smith 3. George Perez 4. Pope Benedict XVI 5. Soeur Andre 6. Susie Steiner 7. Jean-Louis Trintignant 8. Jacques Delors 9. Pele 10. Bob Barker 11. James Whale 12. Dick Cheney 13. Avalon Young 14. Sasheen Littlefeather 15. Rob Burrow 16. Kat Bjelland 17. Gudrun Ure 18. Clare Marx 19. Eva Marie Saint 20. Shannen Doherty 21. Queen Elizabeth II Thanks for running this again!

Bloody Showoff.

Thanks for the entry WhoamI. Two things I have learned this morning: 1. You can ski in Australia - who knew? 2. After 2 years of doing this pool, I have just realised that the last letter of your name is an I and it spells Who am I. For two years I thought it was a lower case L and couldn't figure out what the name meant! I have 2 degrees you know, one at Masters level. And yet I am still as thick as pigshit at times

It's not my thread, so I'm not making a judgement one way or the other, but is the purpose of the thread not being muddied if we start throwing in NFL players and rugby players? This was specifically about the increasing numbers of footballers coming forward with forms of dementia, to see just how widespread an issue it is. I don't deny there are issues in other sports (the NFL's has been widely publicised in recent years) but does it not threaten to become 'just another thread about degenerative diseases'? Maybe we extend it to 'Dementia in Sport' in which case, do we lump the boxers who inevitably end up in this situation too? Octopus hasn't waded in to dispute the widening of his original intention, so maybe I'm in the minority and I totally agree there are issues in many different sports (I came here to see if anyone had reported Steve Thompson et al's suing plans) but it felt like this started off like the 'Oldest Living Footballers' thread and is now losing it's focus. Just my opinion. EDIT: I guess what I'm asking is whether making this an all-encompassing thread is the lesser of two evils when compared to two further threads for "NFL concussion-related issues' and 'Rugby concussion-related issues' or whether that would be a better plan?

"I used to go to New York University a long time ago, which is in Greenwich Village, that's where I started, and I was, ah, in love in my freshman year, but I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic, y'know. We didn't know which religion not to bring the children up in. And I bummed around for a long time, and I met my wife, and we got married against my parents' wishes, we were married in Long Island, in New York, we were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island... a very reformed rabbi... a Nazi." - Woody Allen

Now he's gonna walk on the wild side?

I'm going to copy and paste the Dead of the Recent World Cups in here, but aside from Benitez, 1982 also lost a World Cup player recently. Like Benitez, he only made one substitute appearance, but Santiago Santamaria was still part of the Argentine 1982 squad - http://www.europapress.es/latam/argentina/noticia-argentina-fallece-60-anos-santiago-cucurucho-santamaria-simbolo-newells-20130728185000.html

League Table makes it obvious that miracles are likely to be in short supply this month. Huntly - Cove - Forres and Turriff on the schedule. It's those six pointers between the bottom three we need to get worked up about.

As TAFKAG mentioned, Crowe was a Welsh international & he was part of the legendary 1958 World Cup squad that achieved heroics. However, one man who did his best to put a stop to all this enjoyment was Jaime Belmonte. By scoring in the last minute of the game between Mexico & Wales, he created history by becoming the 1st Mexican player to score in a World Cup game, only a mere 28 years after they first entered the competition... He also meant that Wales 1-0 potential win became a 1-1 draw & was part of the reason Wales ended up playing Brazil in the quarter-finals. Anyway, Belmonte died yesterday (Link in Spanish)

'Looks' healthy? Could you post a recent picture Hoggie?

She got a gold medal for beating women? Jesus, you get arrested for it round here.

Pardon me, sorry to interrupt the bickering... I've been away for a while. Windsor, you're a moderator?