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‘Grand National jockey’ is overegging it a touch. He had one ride, in 2014, on a 66/1 shot, which fell at the 8th fence. But yes, he was more of a Grand National jockey than me, and I’m sorry he died so young.

I dunno if there’s a thread for this, but I thought we should document yet another way we’re heading down the path to oblivion. I still think the world will probably just outlive me, though. I hope these scientists at least have a modicum of Oppenheimer guilt. Who’s that guy who got fired from his own company today? Did a board of robots fire him? On the other hand, it’ll be a relief when AI takes over the running of VAR.

So he'll be less remembered for reciting "Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep: the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast" than for "Gizza job. Go on. Gizzit". Such is life. There's that other bit of Yosser dialogue that sticks in the mind, in the confession box: "I'm desperate, Father" "Call me Dan" "I'm Desperate Dan"

You're not too old to go over my knee, Willz Young!

Are Kendrick Lamar and Drake (or their entourages) going to shoot each other, or is it just major label posturing? It's like Blur v Oasis all over again, phew. For younger viewers… Oasis: “Hope you get aids and die” Blur: “You look like monkeys”

Influential on both Faldo (hairstyle/Pringle sweaters) and Monty (multiple Order of Merit wins/choking in majors).

Sounded okay on commentary today and didn’t look at death’s left middle pocket on Countdown either (though perhaps that was filmed a while ago?).

Debbie Harry has really let herself go.

I picture Bessie Banks waking up every morning still cursing the damn Moody Blues. “I’d a been the next Aretha if it weren’t for them pesky thievin Brummies…”

You obviously know different fans to each other.

Good luck to Coventry this afternoon in the FA Cup semi. They should be the DL’s honorary team (okok, along with Fort William) as that’s where we invented the DL a mere 6 months before Cov won the 1987 FA Cup. Several of us, including Grim, went to both the qf and semi, the latter a raucous day in Sheffield. This qualified us for tickets to the final, which was scuppered by the local constabulary, who ordered the club to sell tickets early to avoid people camping out at Highfield Road for 48 hours. So we didn’t go to Wembley, but we did do the stagger into town to celebrate with complete strangers, which is a great, blurry memory. Ah nostalgia, beer mats for goalposts isn’t it …

Bassist/founding member Gavin Webb ditto. https://7news.com.au/entertainment/music/masters-apprentices-founding-member-and-bass-player-gavin-webb-dead-at-77-c-14346515.amp Some called them the ‘Aussie Stones’, apparently. They had a good track on the second Nuggets box set, and they have a ridiculously mahoosive Wikipedia page. And that’s all I have to divulge on the matter.

What about Dave Dee, he must have been in there somewhere?

Ah, I remember him from the glory day(s) of Channel 4 sports, when sumo was easily equal in popularity to, um, kabbadi and that. My favourite was Matoizumi aka The Salt Shaker. He wasn’t fat enough to be a great like Akebono, but no one threw half as much salt as him, or with such panache. I see he’s still alive, yay Salty!

Maybe he made an Actually I Did It video to be released in the event of his death.

I don't know why I feel sad, but I do. (Feel sad, that is, not know why I feel sad. You see?)

Horrible looking crash in the Basque Tour that’s taken out three of the pre TDF favourites, Vingegaard, Roglic and Evenepoel. Hopefully no one is too badly hurt, they all seem conscious at least.

I just hope that when it arrives on BBC3, Michaela Strachan and Bill Oddie are still allowed to present, and they don’t parachute in Eni Aluko and Piers Morgan. Hmmm, that might actually be an interesting choice…

I’m thinking of reading Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring, but strangely it’s had some really bad reviews by online conspiracy theorists. Anyone here read it? Honest answers now, please.

Funnily enough, my reactions would been the other way around. I sang Fool (if you think it’s over) with an RIP to Elkie Brooks and elicited sadness and then anger from some sappy snowflake with mental health issues. Maybe he’d have preferred an RIP to Chris dire Rea instead.

It’s only a crypto-sentence. As soon as he’s able to convince enough gullible fools that he won’t serve any time at all, he’ll be free as a bird.

I think it was something to do with their US label, Sire, not wanting them to use it when they quickly reformed in the late 70s. So they changed one letter.

A pedant writes: technically, he was only ever in the Revillos.

BHB is rumoured to be long dead, irl as well as his DL self. But if you happen to see him tonight, say hello. Sadowitz may not be ill or old, but there’ll likely be news stories of interest relating to him in these cancel-culture times that we can all argue about. So, please don’t lock it, says I.

TX date confirmed as 26th March for Kate Garraway : Derek's Story