Great Uncle Bulgaria

There's a bit of an enema (to borrow one of Gooseberry's turns of phrase) sweeping the opera world at the moment - Edita Gruberova. Maria Ewing, Jennifer Toye and Josephine Veasey all gone in the last couple of months, the first two at just 72 If you want to know 20 old opera singers who won't die, I can refer you to my opera theme team....

Congrats Predictor. Upside, I can now ignore this thread for the next several months....

Of my remaining 5, all of them are involved in promotion pushes and are not going to be sacked. Warne has done an amazing job IMO, about to get promoted from L1 ( a league which includes Sunderland, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich, Portsmouth, etc) for the 3rd time in 5 years with a club that probaly belongs by size at the wrong end of L1 or in L2. Mowbray has probably exceeded expectations (including mine) at Blackburn although with Brereton Diaz injured in recent weeks it's looking more like the playoffs than automatic promotion. Doswell, Bloor and Heyrettin are all doing reasonably well in NLS and wont be going anywhere before the end of the season. Doswell has turned down approaches from elsewhere and has a local business that is now doing well so unlikely he will be leaving the area.

Hasenhuttl is Austrian, not German.

Seemingly Aveda Kedavra would have been a more appropriate name...

Opera singer Maria Ewing died last month, had forgotten I had her here. Takes me up to er....2. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/12/maria-ewing-obituary https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59952356

Time for a lib/lab pact. They've been fighting each other on the same ground and letting the tories in for too long.. Sitting MPs to be unopposed by the other lot. Whoever came 2nd to a Tory last time gets the nod - no exceptions. Another 'moral victory' like 2017 when labour made reasonable gains but still lost does no one any good.

I wuold be surprised too! Napolitano will be 97 this June and he had a couple of strokes after he left the presidency. I am really impressed that he is sill alive... No doubt true, but Berlusconi is internationally famous, Napolitano isn't.

Will be for my team. 3 of them (Blackburn, Rotherham and Maidstone) are chasing automatic promotion and all 3 are outperforming expectations as it stands, such that failure to go up would not bring the sack. Eastbourne and H & W have drifted from playoff places into mid table but both are still close enough to get back in the playoffs with a decent run. RAO is surely the favourite. Neither will be sacked, but can see both Bielsa and Dyche walking at the end of the season, both have performed miracles with poor squads but have taken their clubs as far as they can. Burnley will surely drop this year.

Well, it can't finish in a 5-way tie now...

1. Alain Delon 2 Amy Pieters 3 Alan Brownjohn 4 Bam Margera 5 Barbara Walters 6 benjamin Ferencz 7 Bernard Cribbins 8 Bill Turnbull 9 Boris Pahor Wildcard 10 Buzz Aldrin 11 Christina Applegate 12 David McCallum 13 Derek Draper 14 Eva Marie Saint 15 Franciose Hardy 16 Frank Field Wildcard 17 George Perez 18 Gordon McQueen 19 Glynis Johns 20 Harry Belafonte 21 Henry Kissinger 22 James Earl Jones 23 James Whale 24 Jan Svankmajer 25 J-L Trintignant 26 Jerry Lee lewis 27 Jimmy Carter 28 John Williams 29 June Brown 30 Kane Tanaka 31 Ken Bates 32 Lata Mangeshkar 33 Lech Walesa 34 Leslie Phillips (reserve Wildcard if one of the 5 dies) 35 Linda Nolan 36 Marsha Hunt 37 Milos Zeman 38 Nehemiah Persoff 39 Nigel Starmer-Smith Wildcard 40 Pope Benedict 41 Rene Clemencic - dead 42 Rob Burrow 43 Shintaro Tsuji 44 Stanley Baxter 45 Susie Steiner Wildcard 46 Vicky Phelan Wildcard 47 Violeta Chamorro 48 Willy T Ribbs 49 Ysanne Churchman 50 Zhu Rongji Subs Sacheen Littlefeather Ted Kaczinski Rolf Harris Micky Dolenz Larry Storch Thanks for running

well done banana. apart from the 2 who unhelpfully died before kick off, all my team are still doing very nicely thank you.

2 ghosts in his house now...

Is she really famous in the US? Looking at Wikipedia, most of her albums struggled to scrape into the top 100 (or even 200). She's had no success at all in the UK afaik, although her little sister (Crystal Gayle) had some hit singles going back 40 years or so. Doesn't appear to be any news that would justify her being on the list, let alone so high.

metoo

1 Paul Gascoigne 2 Donald trump 3 Ghislaine Maxwell 4 Phil Collins 5 Queen Elizabeth II 6 Billy Connolly 7 Olivia Newton-John 8 Tom Parker 9 Prunella Scales 10 Bobby Charlton 11 Clint Eastwood 12 Shane McGowan 13 Rupert Murdoch 14 Joe Exotic 15 Yoko Ono 16 David Attenborough 17 Prunella Scales 18 Pope Benedict 19 Shannen Doherty 20 Tim Bilton 21 Rolf Harris 22 Willie Nelson 23 Angela Lansbury 24 Mikhail Gorbachev 25 Dick van Dyke sub June Brown Thans for running.

Rosie Jones. She may be a lovely woman and I know we are supposed to be be supportive of the disabled, but...she's not funny and on the rare occasions that she does try to say something amusing by the time she's succeeded in saying it we have all got the joke several seconds previously.

House of fun by Madness, about buying contraceptives?

Confess had no idea who he was 10 days ago - seems I needn't have wasted time finding out.

I'll play. See if I can get a 20-point squonking at the hands of Banana three years running.

Well done CC and thanks YW for running. V happy with an uncharacteristically high 3rd quartile finish (albeit bottom thereof)

Buzz Buzz will diddle it.

jane Berbie again

I (and I would guess most UK-based people) would disagree with that and I have no interest in rugby, though I would concede that most non Uk or US people probably haven't heard of either of them.

Jane Berbie