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England 2-0 Germany Sweden 1-0 Ukraine

Michael Jayston will be 86 in October, cross fingers, and is not only still with us, and still acting, but well enough to do several fan meet and greets this week. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Nicholas and Alexandra, Only Fools and Horses (and yes some quaint kids SF show) among many other big bits of TV on his CV, imo, a future DL top 50 name.

Croatia 0-1 Spain France 1-0 Switzerland

Dumped her while she was looking after his kids while recovering from covid issues he passed onto her. Fucking hell, the man's a complete cunt.

Long time Herald columnist Fidelma Cook, who some of you were no doubt tracking for the DDP, has died of a heart attack while receiving cancer treatment, aged 71.

Netherlands 2-1 Czechs Belgium 0-1 Portugal

Positive update for her, (And not only is the tweet imbed issue still fucked here, the forum wouldn't even let that tweet post at all except as above....)

Died on Thursday, according to Michael Crick. Founder of the Young Fabian Society as well as a Labour MP.

My team is in with a proper "blimey, they're still alive" blast from the past name too.

Lists all those politicians, forgets to list Ned Beatty who was properly famous. I accept he might have been slightly better known worldwide than Damaris Hayman. McAfee is behind the "popular" antivirus computer software, which, like everything else in his life, is complete shit and useless.

@Octopus of Odstock (and others) - Mea culpa, apparently a lot of people (including folk who knew the actor) were taken in by a tweet by a chap with a Iain like reputation.

Chris Chapman on Twitter: "Tony Selby! Glitz was SUCH a great fun character and we were admiring Selby in The Good Life just the other week. Always great value. RIP" / Twitter Chris Chapman, who directs the DVD extras and is very in the know, is tweeting about it, so its probably true. That's one 60s Who star and one 80s Who recurring guest gone in 24 hours. Worrisome rule of three - I hope Louise Jameson's been having her medicals...

Now there's an actor who has been quietly great as small but important characters in shitloads going 40 years now and gets very little attention for it. I remember him well as Rory in Hamish MacBeth and it's always nice to see him show up in things.

FAKE NEWS, apparently.

They're so desperate I'm 12th on their current shortlist. I wasn't too worried about that until I saw Iain was in 11th spot...

Italy 2-0 Austria Wales 0-1 Denmark

Slovakia 0-1 Spain Sweden 1-0 Poland Germany 2-0 Hungary Portugal 0-0 France

Even some of the notable ones at the time become hard to remember. Who was that Japanese lady who did a de facto interview (or at least we got a faked Q and A) a few years ago? My memory only retains so many people these days. I can't even remember some of my own DDP hits - apparently in 2013 I had Jack Vance on my team. Who knew? Not me anymore!

Croatia 2-0 Scotland (meh) Czechs 0-3 England

N Macedonia 1-2 Holland Ukraine 1-0 Austria Finland 0-2 Belgium Russia 0-1 Denmark

Italy 3-0 Wales Switzerland 1-0 Turkey

They had medals. Winter medals.

I can confirm Biblio looked at every entry carefully. He turned down one of my Olympians on the spurious reason that they had never won an Olympic medal and I'd misread their bio!

I'm just happy for it to be in our own hands. Beat Croatia and we're through, that's more than I thought we'd have at kickoff.

Life lost a lot when Rik died if you ask me!