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Entries are now.... CLOSED. Teams to come. One player needs to send me one correction but I'll give him a few hours.

Midnight tonight GMT, 16 entries so far. I'll probably shoot them all up asap after the deadline, haven't been sleeping well recently, letting you all know how popular a pick Harry Morgan is might help.

The only reason I'd ever want to be Australian is so I could understand more than 5% of back catalogue. Big tune.

And if the lovely Debbie McGee goes, "Let sleeping dogs lie"

13 entries in so far, plus one that needs rework. This means I'm gonna have to keep this thread updated throughout the year, rather than just casually forget about it after two weeks. Damn. Fed the entries so far into the spreadsheet, four celebs remain unpicked, while two have been picked on every entry so far.

This reminded me of Baddiel & Skinner's Fantasy Football show from 19whatever; one or t'other showed a 1960's Villa program showing a line-up consisting of Brown, Arce and Hole. So I googled it (them). Sadly, according to the BBC, they never actually played together (right at the end of the article). If a deal to get a young Irish defender on loan in the late 80s had gone through, Oldham would have had a centre-back partnership of Donachie Babb.

I'd take 10 of those nice chappies who are just trying to make an honest living peddling generic SPAM to us.

Would be ironic if he died of the flu.

Was she named by Beatrix Potter?

Seven entries so far, quite pleased with that. Remember you gotta be in it to win it.

Has there been any controversy in Dunns life? Did he look for 'friendship' in toilets? Did his wife take in a 'lodger'? Pretty sure it's legally impossible to libel the dead, so they could go to town. Alternatively, maybe it could be the story of a man's quest to battle his own mortality despite the second Google result for him being a bunch of people talking about when he's gonna exeunt.

Wonder if we'll get a BBC4 "Tears Behind The Laughter" docudrama in the style of the ones about Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams and Wilfrid Brambell when Dunn carks it.

Also carking it today, everything 15-year-old boy's favourite viral video star, R Budd Dwyer

In tribute of the strip "Fat Larry's Gastric Band" in Viz this month, here's my boy going the fuck in on . Grab someone close to y'all.

Two years ago, a German pornstar by the name of "Sexy Cora" attempted to break the world fellatio record. She was 75 men deep when she had to stop, due to breathing problems. And now she's dead.

With regard to the theme team "Dead 80s", dedicated to all things of that decade. One of their picks is Vanilla Ice. "Ice Ice Baby" wasn't released until August 1990. Should they be kicked out of the competition for this?

Also, for anyone who hasn't read Simon Garfield's oral history of the WoS era, "The Wrestling", do so. It's only a quid on Amazon, and contains dope anecdotes like this: Adrian Street: Do you know the story of when Les got his hand bit? He was talking to a friend of his on the farm, feeding the hogs, and this big old boar bit him on the hand. He got an infection and his hand swelled up like a boxing glove. Instead of going to the doctor’s like a normal person, he was wrestling that night so he went to the show. In the dressing room, the guy he’s wrestling with says “Don’t go in the ring and wrestle like that”. Les goes “Yes… yes, I think you’re onto something there. I can’t go in the ring and wrestle like that. So what I’m gonna do to get rid of the poison is put my hand here, on the ground, and I want you to stamp on it.” “Oh, I can’t do that Les” “But you’ve told me, and I agreed, that I can’t go in the ring like this. So stamp on it, or I’ll stamp on you.” So this other wrestler stamps down, hard, on his hand, and all this blood and poison and pus comes shooting out of it. This is in full view of the other wrestlers. He had to be the centre of attention did Les”

Have a look a few threads down...

That's the kind of devil-may-care optimism this site was built on.

By request... He's already dead, but did you know Kent Walton was the producer of a bunch of sexploitation films in the 70s? Kinda weird to think the same guy that commentated on so many brave performances by Johnny Kwango is the same man who produced 1972's "Lesbian Twins". Anyway, Kent Walton's dead. So is Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, my personal favourite farming nutcase Les Kellett, Bomber Roach, "Judo"/"Lord" Alfred Hayes, "Dr Death" Paul Lincoln, Mike Marino, King Kong Kirk, Brian Glover, Gorgeous George, Jackie Pallo (my mum used to think he was arrogant).... the list goes on. Mick McManus turns 83 this year and I believe he still attends wrestler conventions as well as working in the world of antiques. "Exotic" Adrian Street has had both a heart attack and a run-in with cancer in the past few years, and lives in Florida. "Crybaby" Jim Breaks has retired with all the old British crooks to Gran Canaria, "Dynamite Kid" Tom Billington, as mentioned in the WWF/E thread, is an embittered cripple living off disability benefit in a Manchester council house, and Kendo Nagasaki is still absolutely fucking batshit insane, best illustrated by this story about him trying to tear a tree down a decade ago. That's off the top of my head, anyway.

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Could have sworn we had some sort of "curse of the Eurovision" thread. Anyway Sigurjón Brink, an Icelandic candidate in 2005 and 2010 and who was preparing to represent them again in 2011, has died suddenly aged 36, no doubt really annoying that guy on the DDP who picked an all-Icelandic team.

John Surtees looks a little more suntanned than I remember him...

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