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  1. Spells at Sunderland, in the Netherlands (not for one of the big three teams there), in Turkey (for one of the big teams there), comes back to England for an abortive career restart at QPR, goes to the US to play seven games for Columbus Crew, dies in a car accident aged 43.

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  2. On 06/12/2023 at 09:50, The Old Crem said:

    Three former Premier League stars are among 25 ex-players suing the FA for damages on the grounds they failed to protect them from suffering brain injuries.
     

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12828695/Former-Premier-League-stars-25-players-suing-FA-brain-injuries-dementia.html
     

    Three former Pl players in their early 50’s with a Brain injury. Two former EFL players in their 40’s with dementia. Names might be revealed on January 16th. 

     

    Dean Windass named as one of the PL players in the 50s suing football authorities over brain damage. Insert your own very obvious joke.

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  3. Billy Reil dead at 44. Very much one of the "oh that guy" types who never got a shot at the big dance but did journeyman work on the indies in the post-ECW/pre-ROH era. Was Trent Acid's original tag-team partner before he went on to form the Backseat Boyz with Johnny Kashmere.


  4. 1 hour ago, drol said:

    Is Jean McAlevey's father John McAlevey still alive at 101? At first glance I could find no obits.


    Wait a couple of weeks for her obits and see if they end with a "is survived by..."

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  5. 12 minutes ago, TheKeysOfMarinus said:

    Anyone know what happened to British film and TV actor Fred Evans? Appeared in a lot of bit parts (The Avengers, Minder, Bergerac, Jeeves and Wooster); he’s a scene stealer as a policeman in Mr. Horatio Knibbles. I imagine he’s long dead but can’t find a date anywhere. 

     

    Was still alive 11 months ago at the age of 93, according to this YouTube comment (he was also a dancer who worked on the 1969 TV show Cribbins)

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    From Byron "Cowboy" Wolford's 2005 autobiography. Cannon, on the right, could definitely be the guy whose photo is on the FindAGrave mentioned upthread 25 years on...

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  7. Which leaves Carl Cannon (if he is still alive, which I'm not 100% convinced of) as the only person definitively known to have competed at the first World Series of Poker still living (the first WSOP is very poorly recorded, some say it was just a seven-man table game, some say it was a mini-tournament of 30 people). 


  8. Anyone foolish enough to try and find out if Samuel Ajak, an "artist and brigadier general of the Sudan People's Liberation Army" who, in the mid-90s, designed what would later become the flag of South Sudan is still alive? Close to zero information about him online.


  9. Wonder if this burgeoning trend for "oldies" media websites might turn out to be an essential area for deadpool research in coming years. Will serious DDP competitors have to get themselves a subscription to Best of British magazine?


  10. He's been working more in recent years than he has for decades though - Megalopolis is due to hit the festivals circuit next month, a project that he's been tinkering with since the late 70s and had to sell his winefields to finance because it ballooned in production costs a la Apocalypse Now.

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