YoungWillz

Stuff the blind luck! Egypt -0 v Uruguay - 2 Morocco - 6 v Iran - 1 Portugal - 2 v Spain - 2

Just need the Saudis to score in the second half. Ref really needs to rule on the Russians' illegal occupation of the other team's half....

Wow! What a long life!

Ah, checked and realised I am not alone in that pick!

@Bibliogryphon My Kevin Bacon co-star pick Georgann Johnson has died aged 91. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=georgann-johnson-prager-tenner&pid=189290517 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425133/ They appeared together in the 1986 film Quicksilver.

I'm sorry, anyone who isn't diabetic is pre-diabetic, perhaps? Meantime, here's my death clock for them: Hunniford: Dead within three years - cause of death: overdosing on smugness. Solomon: Dead in 20 years - she will have what will be called the "Solomon Stroke", which is what happens to a healthy person who giggles incessantly. Vardy: Who the hell is this no-mark? Who cares?

My condolences drol, thoughts are with you and yours at this time.

Gadabout. Mischievous. Antonym. Edit: Before anyone says "I thought homonym was more your style" I got there first.

Ah, what you have to remember about Saudi Arabia is that they have been sold English players' arms....which they shall use relentlessly to defeat any opposition....

*Gentle tease follows* Wow! The next Thursday 13 June is 2019, what great forecasters you have over there! *Tease ends"

I'll go with a blind technique. This result will go with the number of letters in the country in the first half of the alphabet. Russia (A, I) - 2 Saudi Arabia (A, B, D, I) - 4.

Mystic Marcus the Psychic Pig takes over the mantle: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5838417/Psychic-pig-Mystic-Marcus-sniffs-World-Cup-winner.html New thread for his eventual decline into gammon steaks?

Gets the right to appeal his 30 year jail sentence: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5839805/Paedophile-football-coach-Bennell-given-ahead-appeal-against-sentence.html

Dennis Lawson's niece had a crush on me once. For some reason she became rather upset when she discovered I had never caught heterosexuality....

Well, no. Jennifer Hudson has got the biopic gig it seems: https://www.star2.com/entertainment/2018/06/05/jennifer-hudson-play-aretha-franklin/

This is all becoming very unclear. If we are to submit teams by the end of the month, I do think we need clarity on a definitive set of rules.

Here we go, here we go, here we go..... No, not a chant in support, but rather a mournful cry as here we go again....Engerland are packing to go to Russia; Engerland arrive at airport; Engerland are on the plane; Engerland have arrived at the airport; Engerland have checked into their accommodation; Engerland hold training camp..... You know, the only thing I don't seem to know about the squad is their bowel movements. But then I don't watch Kay Burley...

Interesting to find this from back in the day. Here's how it panned out so far: Richard Widmark - d. 24 March 2008 Karl Malden - d. 1 July 2009 Ernest Borgnine - d. 8 July 2012 Eli Wallach - d. 24 June 2014 Kirk Douglas - not dead.

Unless I'm wrong, there is already a thread for Harry Reid here: Perhaps this calls for a merge, if I'm correct in this?

While researching "Uncle" Norman Tebbit's obitability, I came across this little nugget which has probably been posted but not on his thread: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/14/former-tory-chair-lord-tebbit-calls-gay-pastor-a-sodomite-in-shocking-rant/ Yes, he called a local Dean a "sodomite" after he found out the clergyman was gay. Which, as the paper reports, came after a rant in which he claimed air pollution was making people transgender. What a card he is......

Remember letters? You know, the things you got through letterboxes with stamps, not franks, on? Yes, stamps...still used for cards, especially at Christmas. Anyway, getting to the point, there's to be a new set of stamps issued with some of the cast of Dad's Army with their catchphrases: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/973078/dads-army-platoon-new-posting-stamp-royal-bbc-tv Talking of which, form watchers may wish to huckle themselves down to The Bell Inn, Thetford, Norfolk on July 21, when Frank Williams (Rev Timothy Farthing) will unveil a blue plaque there. It was the hotel used by the cast and crew while filming on location. http://www.chortle.co.uk/other-news/2018/06/12/40217/dads_army_gets_a_blue_plaque

Here he is back in good old 1978, presenting BBC's Young Scientists of the Year (a programme I have no memory of at all!). Look out for former DP favourite, Heinz Wolff.

Death Notice for Lady Jean Loveridge, widow of former Tory MP Sir John Loveridge, aged 86: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/224971/loveridge Wiki (mention): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Loveridge#Family

Death Notice for Paddy Feeny, longtime presenter of the BBC World Service's Saturday Special, later Sportsworld, aged 87. http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/224927/feeny

Neil Jones, guitarist with Amen Corner, 70, cancer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-44460354