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That 'expert' seems quiet, though, maybe it was just his own personal rapture.

"I'm not really talking Olympians here and the ideas and possibilities thread for 2018 is closed but..." Just a hunch, but maybe because the ideas and possibilities thread for 2018 is closed.

Barrie Williams, former manager of Sutton United, including their FA Cup giant-killing of Coventry City in 1989, has died in Spain.

"The people of this country have had enough of experts." Michael Gove, 2016

Well fuck. London Marathon: MasterChef semi-finalist Matt Campbell dies. Not exactly a middle-aged chubster in a costume, but from your neck of the woods!

Its good enough for George Foreman..

FFS its a boy. A BOY!!

I'm either too pissed or not pissed enough to figure out what's going on here. Anyway, as you were, carry on.

Five years ago, boxer, doorman, minder, actor & stuntman Nosher Powell picked up his final credit.

News for those of you who were surprised to find David Edgerton still alive, he isn't any more. A whopper of a death.

400 years since the death of Reverend Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammist. He was expelled from his fellowship of New College, Oxford for libelling the clergy & academics of Oxford. Married three time, he died in a debtor's prison (though it's not clear if that's cause & effect or not), aged 52ish.

Sensible.

Perhaps he's been shafted.

The queen mum died in 2002.

Not necessarily, I worked with a René for a time - she definitely spelt her name that way (and was very purty pretty (but married)).