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Guess who just had their Google Alert emails come through.

DDT has just joined the Job Squad: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2018-05-07/morgan-job-loses-battle-cancer

Not picking the co-producer of Frasier in the 2001 "Second Week of September" deadpool.

Ermanno Olmi has popped his (tree of the wooden) clogs aged 86.

MMMDP Form Guide #32: Bob Cook You gotta follow the form in these kinda games. 50% of winning MMMDP picks have been the reigning US Cintas Janitor of the Year at the time of their death. So following the numbers, the odds-on favourite has to be the head custodian at Sands Montessori School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dying to take the spotlight away from Wenger one final time, what a showman.

"Seriously ill" in hospital. Entering Fergie time?

Little update on DDP prospect Cocksy Cocks here. Didn't realise he was following in the footsteps of countryman Colin Meads by glugging Te Kiri Gold.

Bob Dorough the most interesting person to die this year so far, I'd say, based on obit research for frontpage updates. Never knew Sugar Ray Robinson quit boxing for three years to tap dance.

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This was Rotten Ali, wasn't it?

Worth noting that both MMMDP winners so far have been black males in their 50s. OptaDeath.

Israel will win this at a canter unless there's some BDS/Turkish diaspora block vote against them. Also, research today revealed that one of the 2012 Russian Eurovision Grannies is no longer baking bread. Elizaveta Zarbatova died in 2014.

MMMDP Form Guide #26: DJ Casper Stage 4 this time, stage 4 this time, he's gonna smell... funky. One hit is all it takes to win the MMMDP, wonder if it'll be Casper turning into a friendly ghost.

As of 5.45pm Wikipedia is still not recording any celeb cadavers for May 3. Surely this can't last another six hours?

(C)Rappers for the hip-hop community. Keep meaning to set up a "Sick Drops" one for DJs and dance music but I never get round to it.

And just like that A Good Innings becomes a serious contender for the 2018 crown.

MMMDP Form Guide #16: Ben Dover From one jazz superstar to another. It's been a bit quiet from Mr Simon Drew recently since he announced he was suffering from bladder cancer last February, and who better to win this tournament than a man who has undoubtedly said "Mmm, DP" a number of times in his life. Fun fact: before turning to grumble he was a session drummer who once played with Edison Lighthouse.

Pavel Pergl, Czech midfielder who had a cup of coffee at Preston North End in the 2006/2007 season, also played for Dynamo Dresden and Sparta Prague, dead at 40.

Trans Caribbean writer Gabrielle Bellot, who's written for New York Times, Vice, and the usual other places, posted this to Twitter last night:

Creep's been having a mare the past few days.

Can't believe we all missed Professor Steven Marcus, the world's foremost expert on Victorian pornography. Thankfully the Telegraph come in with a late obit.